Walnut Woods State Park Campground

We stayed 2 nights, the park was nice and well maintained with walking trails. It is wooded so there is a lot of shade. The pad was a little small but fit our camper fine.

Walnut Woods is conveniently located 25 minutes outside of downtown Des Moines. Sites are paved and mostly level, although we did have to throw a couple of blocks under one side of our TT tires. Most sites feature 20/30/50 electric, a fire ring and a picnic table. Some also have water and sewer hookups. Sites are relatively small and close together, so get comfortable looking into your neighbors’ site/camper depending on how your site is oriented. The road around the campground is paved, but very narrow. We had to ask our neighbor across the street to temporarily move their tow vehicle so that we’d have adequate room to back into our site.

There is a bathroom, trash dumpsters, and a dump station with both potable and tank cleanout water spigots. There are trail heads near the campground that follow along the raccoon river for almost 2 miles. It was very muddy when we camped here, so we had to turn around about 1.5 miles into our hike and backtrack due to an impassible area.

3 bars of T-Mobile and 2 bars of AT&T were more than sufficient for internet browsing and streaming.

We spent two nights here. All sites have a concrete pad, but not al concrete pads are created equal. Ours was smallest which didn’t allow for a lot of room to avoid muddy areas of grass even with our tiny camper. The campground is very small, but clean and well taken care of. The bathrooms were modern and clean. Some sites have full hookups, ours had only electrical. Potable water was close by though. If we were to go back, we would try to get a site with a bigger concrete pad. Site 14 wasn’t big enough. There was a trail nearby, but it was too muddy. Overall the price was worth the nice clean two nights stay.