Cherokee Dam Campground — Hotel in Jefferson City

Do not camp here. The camp Host Ernest is have 2 experiences with him neither one my choice his last job was a correction officer for 2 years now he is a camp host that on a weekly basis that I have spoke to the other managers that are currently leaving because of the bipolar actions of Ernest the camp Host to the campers. Last month I came to this site in camp site 12 was told to take a small vacation from my doctor because of working in a high stress job . Basically slept for 2 days in my camper on the day of check out on Monday this was my first ttrip here with my rv my family has been coming here for years. I was unplugging the water and Ernest shows up on his golf cart it was 12:05 pm he walked up and told me in a very aggressive tone I needed to be out of here by 12. I said ok. He gets off his cart and with an aggressive attitude walking around my camper like he is still working at his last job a correction officer. So hopefully you are following me when I almost feel fearful with is attitude. And remember I came here to relax because of my anxiety. So fight and flight set in. I really felt threatened. I was doing the best to hold it together. I finally got things unplugged and drove up to the dump station. Ernest followed me. Really. And stayed back stalking me I feel at this time. My parents where staying in 23 next to the bathroom they just got here. I had some wood I bought but didn't use and came from the dump to the bathroom. Though Ernest the camp Host left . No. As I pulled up and parked at the bathroom to get out and take the extra wood to my parents. There he was going stalking. I looked up at him and it was like some stare off I'm like what? I have never ever felt so uncomfortable. I walked over to leave the wood and went in stayed 20 minutes talking to my parents told my parents love you walked out the door. Again Ernest waiting on his golf cart eyeballing me. At this point. What are you planning. All of my anxiety overload my mind . I drove out of the park and called the office and spoke to Catherine sweetheart. I told her what happened she apologized over and over. I told her I have 22k followers and I feel everyone should know and not bring there family and kids to this place because of the creepy experience with the camp Host Ernest. She said please let me see what I can do. She said management would call me. A month later never happened. I swore I would never be back. That was in August 2025. Now today October 10.2025 i am posting this. Guess your probly wondering why I waited so late? My brother in law called me and wanted me to go camping with them I said ok not know where untill the day of . So guess where he booked ? CHEROKEE DAM. I didn't say no. Packed up my rv and head out came in at dark. He said he would stand out at the site with a flashlight. I pulled in so dark. Passed the site drove around the circle was pulling in forward to face his site. And here comes ERNEST on his golf cart YELLING what are you doing here?I said what? Uh pulling in my camping spot he is AGRESSIVELY YELLIN AT ME in front of my family that I was going to fast around the campsite . And I assure you remember I said it was soo dark can't see other than with your head light. He kept screaming at me in my face less than 2 feet from my face in the complete darkness. I recognize him and said you are the Jerk that was stalking me and being very aggressive to me for no reason last time. He said he didn't remember this he is still Screaming at me waking up the whole camping ground bringing attention to me. And my family's camping experience here. I told him if I was driving to fast which I was not I was sorry I said that like 5 x and he was acting in a very aggressive manner I wasn't sure if I was going to have to fight or what. My bothering law stepped in 10min later and said buddy he wasn't speeding and you need to back up you are being to aggressive. I told Ernest I should of never come back here because of my last experience here with him HE AGREED . I honestly thought he would have gotten...

Do not park on the grass!! I gave 2 stars for the nice big sites and all the beautiful walking areas. I cannot give 5 stars, due to the fact, we were hounded by the camp hosts numerous times on Saturday, because of our parking. The first time was after my husband and sil brought the fishing boat back to the site and parked in the grass. (If we knew we couldn’t park in the grass we wouldn’t have.) The lady that came up to us was rude and looked at us like we were idiots. She said “you can’t park there!” We apologized and moved. My sil didn’t want to leave his boat down at the ramp because he didn’t want to take a chance on getting things stolen. My daughter had came later and brought our 8 month old grandson. We had to rearrange the vehicles and move ours elsewhere. My daughter had parked one wheel in the grass and somebody else came, which was a little nicer and said “you can’t park there” so we moved it to the front of the site kinda in the road. Well… here comes a man, he did mention that he was a camp host, and asked if we could fix the vehicles to basically get the vehicle out of the road. Mind you, my kids were here only to enjoy the day, not to stay the evening.. By this time we were highly aggravated. My kids were leaving within an hour or two and they had all the grandson’s things to pack up. I’m a seasoned camper, but never camped here. I usually enjoy setting up first day and reading the fliers as to the rules and what they have to offer at the campground. Unfortunately , this trip, I was so busy I didn’t read the rules n regulations. We came here because my daughter’s family lives close.. She also uses the walking area several times each week. Yes, we were at fault bc we didn’t read the R&R but the first lady that came to our site could have had a better attitude and just explained. She could have said… “Hello… my name is such a such an I’m the ????for the campground. I’m sure you’re prob not aware of the R&R of the campground but we do not allow parking on the grass.” Simple as that. But instead, we get bombarded by 3 ppl, we don’t even know, telling us , “u can’t park there or can you fix your parking”?

The guy that came last said “you are regulars here arent you?” (If we were regulars we would have definitely knew the rules) Uh no, n we want ever be back. These 3 ppl that came to us were sitting with the folks next to our site. We felt like we were being harassed and talked about for something we didn’t know. We were ready to pack up n leave.

I’ve worked with the public my entire life.. they could have simply smiled, been polite, and told us who they were and “why” we couldn’t park there.

I know it’s long but if you’ve read this far please know. DO NOT PARK ON THE GRASS! And read the rules n regulations so you don’t have to deal with these ppl at all.

And first n foremost.. put a smile on your face when greeting everyone and be polite.. It’ll make your day a whole...

Let me start out by saying I have been coming in this camp ground since I was a kid, and have enjoyed it then and until here the last couple of time have enjoyed it in my 60's, We have meet some wonderful campers there that feel as I do. But there is one thing or should I say a person that they hired to be a host has taken away from it, this camp host it just a rude and strange man child, the last time we were there he was so rude and not a people person at all we came in Memorial Day for some fun festivites with family, boy was i wrong. Checked in never seen this host before so I was trying to make friendly conversation he wasn't having it, might as well been talking to myself, but I let it go thought he might been having a hard day like all of us from time to time, we seen our camp buddies that we have become to know by us going quite a bit, they said the same thing now have you this couple was elderly and just as sweet as they could be and said that he was really rude and talked mean so that made me think if someone could talk to them like that something is wrong so I kinda watched him over the course of that weekend I noticed he went to several campsites and when he left the campers didnt seem real happy, when i walked up there and ask them they confirmed what i was thinking was mean and rude they were really upset by this, the only thing I seen this man do was ride around in the golf cart so fast if a child was to walk across the street he couldn't have stopped in time this is a family campground he was going above 5 mile per hour as posted but he is the host he can do whatever right, I left a review for the GM the response was we will do better I thought ok this will be taken care of lets give it one more try(and the only way I did was because of the managers they have made our camping experince lovey and they keep the campers and the grounds beautiful they work really hard) This trip was maybe a little worse we were beside his camp spot it was almost quite time we were trying to enjoy the fire and just rest and we hear an argument I guess his wife on the phone wanting her car back, this went on for I guess until we got tired of hearing it and went inside I don't know about you guys but I love this campground and I hate the out cry of shock I hear from other campers not good, I just know I will not be back until they get this man child out of there. I do not know if he was treated like this as a child or what but we pay for the relaxation but when he goes around harrassing and thats what it is harrasment to people that doesn't do anything for this behavior then the company that runs it need to look at the issue but it looks like nothing is going to be done so I will move on from this campground and go where people appericate hard working people that want to get away from the drama not walk in to the pitts of well you know what I mean. This is my review from not such a...