Moraine View State Park — Attraction in Bloomington

Spent the whole day here exploring and hiking and fishing. The primitive tent sites are awesome. About a 1.5 mile trail with 8 camp sites scattered along the way. I will definitely be coming here through the summer to camp and fish. There’s a public 2 lane boat launch with an awesome concession stand with burgers and hot dogs and ice cream sundaes. There is a few playgrounds for the kids. They have canoe, kayak and Jon boat rentals. Would definitely recommend to anybody looking for a place to spend the day. There was an RV camping area and a separate class D camping area with sites at the waters edge. We hiked the tall timber trail and it was well kept. The trail crosses a small creek with a bridge. We found a couple morel mushrooms during our small hike. Not a ton of wildlife other than birds and a few water snakes swimming in the lake. We tried calling turkeys but got no response. I’m sure there’s more animals than we saw but with a ton of people they were probably all in hiding. There’s outhouse style bathrooms throughout the park. Nothing fancy tho, expect the usual bugs and spiders to accompany you while using the facilities. UPDATE: finally spent the weekend here. Got here late and had to camp by the RV area, immediately moved to the tall timber trial Saturday morning. Fishing was tough. We spent most of the weekend trolling...

We reserved ahead for a one weeknight stop in September, and our site was ready for us with a card showing our name when we arrived. We were there quite late, and were pleased that there was no gate locking us out. Google maps got us right to the campground with no trouble from the interstate eastbound, and out westbound to a different exit the next morning. Our only issue was that we found no water close to our site, but that was resolved when one of us found water near the bathhouse (this was 10PM, so perhaps there was something closer that we didn't see, and we had no campground map).

The site was wide, level, well-marked, with easy to access electric. All of the roads appeared to have been recently redone. Bathrooms were well-stocked and clean.

The only negative was that I was in the lady's room at 7:30AM the following morning, and despite the 8AM quiet hours ending time, a male staff person drove up in a noisy Gator or something like it, then opened the main door to that room and hollered to ask if there were any women in there. The loud vehicle must have been an unpleasant surprise to others camping there and still asleep.

Still, I'd recommend the place - the lake looked nice, and there are sites that are right at the edge...

The Illinois Pop-Ups ups group on Facebook does their fall rally here every year. We attended for the first time and this was our first time at this park. 1st I will say they keep this park very clean. The lake actually has fish in it. The campsites are decent in size. The park has many of things to do as in fishing, kayaking, a beach to swim, a restaurant, biking, collecting mushrooms, playgrounds, or just a nice walk. There is ice and firewood for sale at the host site but payable by cash only. The only issue we had was the water in the shower house is yellow and the showers are not so nice. It's a push button and it only stays on for about 10 seconds. The hot water is back and forth. If anyone flushes a toilet or washes their hands or someone else is in the shower good luck on hot water. It is camping so I don't expect all the luxuries of home but yellow water just doesn't seem right. We do look forward to coming back again though. I do highly rate this place although the campsites are mostly all out in the open with not much...