Sawnee

I've been camping at Sawnee for over twenty years. Even though I have moved to S. Georgia, I will still make the trip at least twice a year. Its a peaceful and scenic spot, but still close enough to "civilization" that you can easily run to the store, or to a restaurant. My only real complaint this particular trip was that we found the beach area in pretty bad shape. Debris and trash washed up on shore. Could have used a raking for sure. We had a grandchild with us this trip, so it was kind of disappointing.

We stayed at site 20. The site offers a beautiful view of the lake however that's pretty much it for this site.

The pad was barely big enough to accommodate our camper width wise.
Where the camper stairs came down the ground fell off about a foot and a half. So you had to be extremely cautious when exiting the camper.

We couldn't use our awning because of the slope. The picnicking area became its own lake when it rained.

Also the electrical went down, due to the 30amp outlet burning out.
I reported the issue to the camp host and they were extremely helpful.
They contacted their electrician, but he couldn't come out until the next day.

Luckily we live close enough that we were able to spend the night at home.
By the time we got back to our campsite the next day the electrical had been fixed.

I don't like their gate hours. The gate is locked by 10:30. There's no gate code and the gate is just locked.
If you have an emergency and need to leave we were told to call 911 and the police would unlock the gate for you. Then you wouldn't be able to get back into the campground until after 7:00am the next morning.

On a positive note the camphost were extremely nice and helpful.

The hosts at the entrance were so sweet! we enjoyed our stay!

No Hot Water in Men's shower....bathroom door latches Broken.

Too much traffic. Area is too congested. Gates lock from10-7 with no gate code. I won’t be back.

Very nice campground and very pleasant and helpful attendants!

It is a very clean quiet place, It is best if you can camp away from the busy highway so you don't hear that sound. We would stay there again, very nice.

Beautiful campground with friendly attendants.

Enjoyed our time but was very short handed to the point they were shutting down the facility early for the season.

I did my reservations online at my favorite campsite. I had no idea that I’d have to backpack in to the campsite. After driving 8 hours and getting there all excited about it just to find out I can’t drive up to camp because road had been closed for some time. No warning of that online for site #43. I tried to redo my reservation without success. So I took it upon myself to check the reservations close to my site. Chose 39 for the convenience. Seeing it was not reserved until after my check out. That was my mistake. The park attendant Trish would not work with me, much less Park Ranger. So I had to pack up camp from 39 and move to 43. I only took the tent and bedding. We had planned a birthday getaway for us girls. Trish made it very hard on us saying only two vehicles allowed in park by campers. There are visitors tags for your car, visitors check out time, etc. but they cannot park in community area and visit you. So she really threw an axe to our plans. She was extremely rude to my camper friend whom is hard of hearing and deaf. She wouldn’t let her come in to the park until my other friends left. 2 cars per campsite apparently. Typically I wouldn’t mind hiking in with my gear. But I was just recovering from Covid/Bronchitis, had traveled 8 hours to my surprise! My friends are older than myself and it made it really hard in them. The initial park attendant that checked me in that evening was extremely nice and very professional. Maybe Trish could learn something from her coworker.