Stayed here on a family trip for a week in June 2025. I’ll do a Good, Bad, Ugly breakdown.
Good: Overall, it’s a relatively clean campground with things for kids to do. They have a cooking shack on the property where you can buy food, and both sides have a pool. You can also walk or drive to the natural spring by the river. The spring is neat, and you can swim in it. With it being spring water, it’s very cool temperature wise. On Saturdays, they have pigeon races and a bingo game. Any young children there should be relatively entertained.
Bad: This campground is in the middle of nowhere, so the campground is pretty much all you have to stay entertained. The nearest city/town with things to do is about a 40 min drive away. I was extremely bored the whole week to the point I wish we had gone somewhere else. Most of the activities there are centered around small children, so if you’re an adult or teenager, be prepared. The pools are small, so the water will feel like bath water, and given the pool is pretty much the main park attraction, you may be huddled in a corner in the 3 ft section because all the campground kids will be there during the day. I wanted to try fishing in the Suwannee, but the only decently accessible beach area was about a 60 ft section by the boat ramp, so you’ll be dealing with canoes going in and out all day and running over your lines. The suwannee is also a long walk from the campground, and if the spots are full by the river, you’ll have little parking options. They have tow warnings around the river if you try to park in a cabin spot.
Ugly: We had a fenced in spot for our dogs, and I was warned to pick up after my dogs or a fee would be applied. I find this ironic given the state my site was in when I arrived. Before I could let my dogs run around, I had to spend 15 minutes picking up trash in my site. There was paper, plastic, and cigarette butts in the grass. A previous tenant apparently ran over his/her plastic coupler to his/her tank hose. The coupler exploded, and there were plastic shards all over the gravel. I had to pick all this up to try and ensure my dogs would not eat something they should not. The grass was also way overgrown. It appeared to have been about two weeks since it was cut, and when trying to pick up dog waste, the waste would be embedded in overgrown grass. The waste turned into mashed potatoes when I tried to pick it up because of the grass.
The bugs were atrocious. The gnats were next level. No matter where you were in the park, you were covered in and swatting at gnats. They were so bad, my dogs were dragging their faces in the grass because their eyes were completely caked with gnats. At the river, I got out of my truck, stood for 10 minutes, and said “nope.” A gnat should be the campground mascot. My son was in his stroller, and gnats were caught in his eyelashes. If you are easily annoyed by insects like this, find somewhere else.
The fire ants. Every inch of my site had fire ants. I got bit numerous times during the week. I could not stand very long before my feet were covered with stinging ants. Between these things and the gnats, I spent no time outside in my space. On day two, the fire ants made their way into the RV. They were all in my pass through storage area, so I knew it was a matter of time before they got into the living section. At home, fire ants have a simple solution: Amdro. Throw that stuff down, and say goodbye to the ants. We called the office in hopes they had some ant control products. When the guy arrived to my site, he said the ants were the responsibility of the landscaping crew which was not there. Gee. Thanks pal. He said he would check to see what they had, and he did come back and spray a small section of the site. This did not get rid of the ants. With an infant sleeping in the camper, this was unacceptable. I ended up having to put down my own ant control product. With that and me having to fix the site’s leaking water at the hookup, I should have...
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