Sardis Lake — Attraction in Clayton

Weekend of Sept 10, 2023. I am reluctant to give a good review, because if this place becomes popular it will become filled with the same loud mouth white trash drunks that swarm the parks in NE Oklahoma and ruin the experience for everyone else.

We drove 2 1/2 hours to visit Sardis, and were not disappointed at all. Potato Hills Central was the most lovely place in Oklahoma that we ever visited. It was clean, the camp sites were spacious, and best of all, it was quiet. Also, while I don't think it is designated as a Dark Sky location, it has a very dark sky!! We saw the cluster of Starlinks go by, and saw a huge yellow-orange flaming ball of something shoot across the sky as well!

Late one night we walked the nature path, that was really amazing in the pitch black of night. Looking up it was like a Christmas Tree with all the branches decorated with the sparking white twinkling lights (the stars!). The milky way was huge, and I think a lot of people have never seen, or have forgotten, what a true dark sky looks like at night. I highly recommend it, so good for the soul.

No generators were running; no RV engines running; no drunks partying all night, no loud music, nobody flaunting their stupid white trash LED lights all over their campers all night as if they are afraid of the dark, no dogs running loose causing chaos. Every site had both electric and it's own water. Our picnic table also had a roof over it for shade, but the trees gave plenty of shade too. It was our best camp out in years, myself and my two teen sons, the best having always been away from home, not in Oklahoma.

Three cheers to the people who manage this park and keep the muck out. I hope it remains this way and it's worth the long drive to return in the future. This is what camping should be. And since you're already in the neighborhood, visit the Big Foot Museum in lovely Talihina!

If you are into super bright lights all night, running generators all day and night, heavy drinking, drunk fights with your mates, loud stereos, bratty children, and loose dogs, I recommend you visit Tenkiller, Keystone, or Lake Oolahah, especially Oolagah. The camp hosts there don't give two flying flips what you do there, it's a free for...

I tried camping in a campground that was run by the army Corporate engineers and drove 9 hours to get there. When I get to my reserved paid spot it's already taken by a random tent with nobody in it. The office is nowhere to be found, they don't answer their phone number, there's no other phone number to call. The entire park is in complete disarray and not maintained. Bathrooms are closed, fire pits are falling apart, no maintenance on the entire park. The front gate has police tape all over it as if there was some kind of horrific crime as you drive in to this zombie apocalypse. I highly do not recommend...

Used to be way better but inconsiderate people threw their trash everywhere and even destroyed trash cans placed there so now several places that used to be available 24/7 are now only accessible during daylight hours with a competent dirt bike which luckily I own or on foot which makes it a hike to say the cemetery which should have been saved but Mississippi chose not to. Sad to see such a wonderful place destroyed by...