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Lake Compounce Campground offers a friendly atmosphere with clean, well-maintained sites and good utilities, making it a great option for families, especially those with season passes. While the campground lacks unique natural features and could improve bathroom cleanliness and accessibility, the staff's helpfulness and the enjoyable views contribute positively to the experience. Some visitors noted issues with overcrowded tent sites and limited restroom facilities, but overall, many expressed a desire to return.

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Ed Rice

Ed Rice

October 16, 2025 Google Maps

Great place for an overnight friendly staff, great utilities and level clean sites. If not going to amusement park not much else to do but easy access and near services.

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Hibiki Ganaha

Hibiki Ganaha

July 8, 2025 Google Maps

Nothing very special about this campground. No interesting natural features, it’s sort of like a natural parking lot.

The tent sites are close together, and quiet hours are not enforced. The staff is very friendly. There are entirely too many tent sites for the amount of bathroom amenities available. We went on a holiday weekend and there was no toilet paper left by Friday afternoon.
There are 44 tent sites, which allow a max of 6 people (264), and nobody is counting the amount of people. There are 5 toilets per gender and two showers..
my suggestion would be to have less tent sites, further apart and more water accessibility.

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Jennifer McLeod

Jennifer McLeod

July 6, 2025 Google Maps

We love the RV park. We bring our grandchildren on short weekend trips. Coupled with our season passes makes for a great weekend. Campground is clean and well kept, staff is friendly and security is present all the time. Only negative is trash cans no longer on end of isles.

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Zoe Wambolt

Zoe Wambolt

August 30, 2024 Google Maps

Lake Compounds campground has been so kind to us! Everyone here is so friendly and nice and they are very understanding and helpful with everything we need. It is a very quaint and quiet place for being located at lake compounds! I honestly can’t rave enough about how much we love it here, i would recommend this place to anyone traveling in the area! It has been amazing! There are beautiful views of the stars at night and the sky in the morning also! Thank you so much Bear Creek staff for making this in my opinion one of the best places to camp in the area!!

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Jenny Love

Jenny Love

July 8, 2024 Google Maps

We had a great family memory here!! We would return! Fireworks can be seen at campground however it is way better at the park. You can also view them in the parking lot! All staff were friendly we connected with and you also get VIP parking to the park. It was great to leave and come back to lake as you wished. If you are a season pass holder, you get a discount so I felt the price was great! They allow you to have dogs which I love!! I believe this is for certain sites. We did the RV. Passing by the cabins, I do like the step up they have here.

Only thing I would recommend is cleanliness of the bathrooms and showers. We were there for 5 days. I am unsure if the bathrooms were ever cleaned.

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Location & Directions for Lake Compounce Campground

822 Lake Avenue, Bristol, CT 06010 United States

Elevation: 63 ft

Nearest town

Bristol, CT - 4.2 mi

About 11 min to downtown

Highway access

The campground is near Interstate 84. Connecticut Route 10 is near and U.S. Route 6 is near.

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Last updated: October 7, 2026

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