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Lawrence, KS

Joined May 2021

Pros and Cons

I’m not a dry camping enthusiast, but the sites were nice and the price was right. My biggest negative is that when we were there the walls and floors of the pit toilet were covered with flies. With a little maintenance that could be mitigated. The sites are a fine gravel, which was fine, but the ground was so hard underneath we couldn’t drive one of our stakes in.

For those like us who are in the area primarily because of beaches, be aware that while these campgrounds are very close to 30A by the way the crow flies, it’s about 20 minutes by car to Seagrove. Forest Road 2 to the campground took us 13 minutes to drive. Also be aware that you walk a short distance from a parking lot to your campsite which worried me a bit since we were planning on airing up our mattress using an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter of our car once the mattress was already in the tent because I didn’t think it would fit thru the entrance after being inflated, but it did.

We stayed at campground 2 site 3, a stone’s throw across the lake from the Old Florida Fish House. You can definitely hear the music coming from there, so you may or may not like that. The first night it was a little loud but ended at 9:00. The second night it was soft enough my husband couldn’t even hear it. I didn’t pay attention as to how long it went.

Served us well

We needed a place in or near Buckeye and located this place. Nice bathrooms, hot showers. We were in a Class B close to the entrance so didn’t have any issues with size of sites. Didn’t try any amenities beyond our hookups which worked well, which is why I’m going with 4 rather than 5 stars. -I just can’t rate them.

Very nice

We arrived late without reservations. Available sites were posted on the office door as well as a notice that said the water wasn't working and they were trying to get it fixed. The place was lovely with several amenities we didn't use. Quiet. I'm sure most people were there for long-term stays. By morning the water was working although pressure was extremely weak.--Hard to tell if that was the norm. Very easy access off of I-40 on the west side of town, which was perfect for us.

Hookups do work, but...

This place is mostly long-term folks that allows overnight guests, and  was the right location for our travel and the only place in town.  With no bathrooms (our van was winterized and we were depending on campgrounds for water) and no wifi, and with units parked close together, it wasn't great.  The office was very dirty, but the staff was friendly.  Hookups worked.

Good Location, Crummy Place

Proximity to Big Bend National Park keeps this place in business.  It does have electric and water hookups, but overall the place is dirty and dumpy.  Poor wifi near the store only, not at the campsites.  If they had any competition, they'd fold.  The gal working the sad little store was friendly, at least.

Nice Place, good restaurant

This is a good location for visiting Capitol Reef.  The sites were nice.  Gravel with trees.  Bathrooms were good and clean.  The pool was nice.  There's a decent little camp store and the staff was very helpful.  A unique feature of this campground is having a nice restaurant --which I believe is entirely independently owned-- right in the middle.  Torrey Grill & BBQ served great food in a really pleasant, covered patio.

Nice Place

Very nice. Very clean. Well maintained and well run. Beautiful setting and will be prettier when the trees they’ve planted get some size. Lots are all gravel. A few sites have picnic tables, but most dont, for some reason, but I’m giving it 5!stars anyway. Inexpensive for what’s offered. Roughly halfway between Zion and the North Rim. Good wifi

Not perfect but nice

This place is big, but doesn’t feel that way. Roads wind around pines with sites tucked in. A bit close together, tho. Good facilities and wifi.

Too crowded

We’re packed in here. Wifi is bad. There’s a mulberry tree dropping berries in our picnic table and the ground around it. Cleaning it would involve more supplies than I’ve got and our shoes tracked berries onto our RV carpet. 😕  Theoretically they have wifi, but it's awful.

Well names

There was a lot to like here, and a few things I didn’t. The good: Small. Grassy (albeit uncut and loaded with dandelions. Very natural!). Sits on a rushing small river (Cimarron). Fresh pie every day sold in the campground store (it was very good!). Close to BCGNP. The owners own land across the river and they pasture their sheep there. So in the morning at 8 they turn them out and the sheep go running and baa-ing across the pasture. -Super cute. Fairly inexpensive. Hookups worked. The not so good: They have this mannequin of a cowboy that they sit here and there. I’m sure they find it humorous, but it’s just too weird and a little bit creepy. I didnt like the laundry/bath house. You enter thru the laundry side. It was just a mess of stuff, needed paint, and smelled a little funny. Then you go into the bathroom where the toilet and shower both work fine. Hopefully they were cleaner than the laundry room. Poor Internet and only right outside the camp store. Currently they ask you to hold onto your trash. Something happened and I guess they can no longer get a trash service. In spite of the cons we liked the pros a lot and would stay there again.

Decent but desolate

Close (15 mi.?) to Capitol Reef on the east side. Clean bathrooms. Hookups work. Nice owners. Cheap. Good wifi. But what a dry, dusty, and depressing-looking place!

Nice setting, sites

Lovely campground, nice dock, bathhouses looked fine from the outside at least! We were really hoping to get a spot, but they don’t take reservations and it was full. 😢