While a convenient place to base many outdoor activities (whitewater, MTB, hiking), this place has a enough detractions that you best be prepared for otherwise you could be disappointed. It’s noisy, really noisy, think camping next to the interstate noisy. If you have been riding or paddling or hiking all day, you might sleep though it. Don’t expect the river to drown out the highway noise. Speaking of drowning, this is really not a good place for families with small children, the campground is on the river and all of the sites on the north side have access to it. This is not a lazy river, this is serious fast moving water. Be very careful with your kids.

The sites on the south side away from the river tend to be wet or even quite muddy, choose your site carefully if booking online.

While there is a nice clean central boathouse along with pit toilets, don’t expect much if any hot water. The pit toilets and the boathouse were clean but there was an overall slight sewage smell to the entire place during both of our visits.

Finally, don’t drink or have ANY alcohol visible at your site. We were warned by other campers and rangers patrolled the park several times everyday during our visits.