Chewacla was a favorite to visit for a few hours a a local college student and now it’s an excellent location to take the family on an RV trip. Many of the sites back up into the woods for shade and a hint of privacy with plenty of space to setup outside. We are staying in the second loop and really like our site. The sites near us (28-33) all look great for space. There are a few pull-through sites but none of them look as good to us as these on the back side of the second loop.

Beautiful hiking, amazing mountain bike trials, and lake swimming give you plenty to do in the park and the surrounding area has lots of shops and restaurants if you want to get out of the park for a bit.

WiFi works great in our section as well if you need that. Speed test showed 10Mbps on my device and I had no issues streaming 4K on a Roku TV.

All sites have a grill and a picnic table from what I could see. Plenty of trees for hammocks and clothes lines, and shade as mentioned.

We are still me to RV camping so not many places to compare it to, but in all this is a great spot to camp. The main area is very open a a bit tight so getting a spot in the upper part of the campground is a must if you want a little space. The upper portion has trees, but it’s not super level so be aware. The bath house and pool area are nice. There are canoe and kayaks available to rent as well. If you are looking for a nice place to stay by the lake, this is it. The staff are really great as well!

Made a weekend trip to Rickwood Caverns and it was nice. There’s not much going on other than the cavern tour which is pretty good. It’s about an hour and a half start to finish with a fair amount of walking. They give a small discount to campers but it was still $47 for a family of 4 (12 and up are “adults”, so we had 3 adults and one child). If you have $47 to burn, go for it. If you’ve been to Ruby Falls, you won’t see anything remotely as impressive. But this is about camping so moving on.

The sites are pretty small. We had site 10 and for our 30’ trailer, it was tight. Not really even able to put out our rug since the power and water were right out the door. Sites 1-5 are basically just a big open area with not much for boundaries. Sites 6 and 7 are where it’s at. 8 and 9 are not bad. 10-13 are very unlevel and again, small and one of them (#11) is taken up by the security guy who is super nice and can tell you everything about the park, especially the history as he’s been there 7 years as of this review.

I wouldn’t try to make more than a weekend of it here to be honest. There’s 2 trails but the entrance to the bigger one isn’t well marked and not kept up. It was too muddy to hike so I don’t know then contrition.

There is a pool (fed by cavern waters) but it wasn’t open yet (Memorial Day to Labor Day). It’s apparently very cold at first since the water is pumped in from underground. The pool look like it was pretty nice. There is a gift shop and the staff are all very nice folks. The bathhouse was very clean as well.

Having been there I’m not sure we would return but it’s worth a visit for sure.