Mile Creek County Park

We had a great site far out at the end of the peninsula facing south with nearly 180 degrees of view down to the horizon! Beautiful sunrise and sunset!

The park is well maintained with a friendly staff. We’ll go back!

This campground gets five stars for the views but 2-3 stars for (lack of) some amenities and difficulty in making reservations. First, the views of Lake Keowee from almost every site are awesome! Some sites have cement driveways while others are gravel, seemingly at random. Most appeared level and a generous size. Some have more separation/privacy than others (for example, Sites 10-13 are very close together with virtually no separation between them). 

I had difficulty in making reservations at this campground because even though reservations are on Reserveamerica.com,  if you have ad blockers on your computer, you will NOT be able to make reservations. It took several tries before we figured this out! Also, there is a two-night minimum even during the week, and we only needed one night.

Other things that bring down my rating:

• No soap in the bathrooms! In this forever-lasting Covid environment, there should ALWAYS be soap dispensers in public bathrooms, period!

• Also, there is zero privacy in the shower stalls as hooks, benches and the dressing area are outside of the individual shower stalls and the showers are immediately to the left as soon as you enter the bathroom.

• The dumpster is not within any reasonable walking distance (more than a mile) from the campsites, and the dumpster is set up like an open pit – you throw the garbage over a fence into the open dumpster below.

• We had been looking forward to renting kayaks as the website indicated, however, the camp host informed us that they no longer did this but had neglected to change the website. While you can rent pontoon boats, we are more of the paddle sports type. 

Even though we had reserved two nights (as was required), we only stayed one. We enjoyed the views but without being able to rent kayaks, there was not much for us to do. For those who fish or own a boat (motorized or not), this might be a great place to stay!

We mainly confined our time to our site and Lake Keowee, so this review is only commenting on those observations and not other areas or accommodations within the park.

Pros

Water view

Site has water and electricity

Close to a beach area next to site

Enjoyed areas on the lake that could be easily reached with our kayaks from the beach area next to site.

Site is cement with curb. We think that helped deter a lot of ant and bug activity mentioned in other reviews; however, we had cool breeze most days also, which could have cut down on ant/bug presence.  The last day, the wind died down to nothing, making it warmer.  Ant and bug activity was definitely increasing before we left.

Cons

While bathrooms were close, there was no direct path and they were located uphill. from the site. You had to walk along the road.

This site caught the headlights of anyone traveling the road at night.

Odd shape of site reduced best use of square footage.

Lake traffic could be heavy at times, and we were not there during a weekend.