Prairie Flower Recreation Area

The 110 outlet at site 127 is out. Every other site I have used at Prairie Flower has been excellent.
Shower facilities are always spotless.
Looking forward to 2025!
Would also love information on how to use the first come first served sites. Website is very vague

They have the cleanest campground bathrooms I had ever seen. The campground was easy to find. The person who directed us to the campground at the entrance was kind and explained the directions well. The campsite was beautiful. The only issues were some of the other campers who were loud, and someone who sprayed weed killer everywhere and someone who left his hose to the RV hooked up to the water almost the entire time.

This was or first stay in Iowa and I had to make a new account to make the reservation. Apparently, I didn't do everything required and although I thought I had a reservation, the reality was that it had not gone through. The local park ranger came checking on us next morning and discovered we were there without a reservation. He was so professional and understanding. He helped me figure out the reservation system and get the site paid for. We very much appreciate the park employees we have met at this and all other COE and US Forest campgrounds.

Nice campsites. Was disappointed at how much noise from the highway there was.

Please pave the sites in A loop

Very nice place. Only complaint is my campsite was too close to the highway and the traffic noise kept up all night. Plenty of options if I had realized the highway was so close I would have chosen a different site.

Easy In Easy Out, nice campsites.

Come early to clean the camping area. Fish hooks , chalk and garbage. I thought they added the time between the check out and check in so they can make sure the place is campable. Nope. Covered in kids chalk. Just what I want in my camper that I spent so much money on. Tracking chalk all week in your camper. Make it so you can hose it down from the grill grease and whatever is all over the concrete.

Be ready to clean your concrete pad when you arrive. Could be cooking grease or kids chalk. There won’t be a water source near by so make sure you have a bucket to carry water to the pad. I think the kids chalk is the worse because that stuff gets tracked all over the place. Maybe a chalk pad by the playground would be better instead the camping pad. I enjoy the Bald eagles playing in the morning. The sounds of wild turkeys that live in the camping area. The beautiful view and sunsets. The sounds of coyotes at night. The sailboat races on Wednesdays. Each year it seams to get more wild and natural. Now if the humans would not make such a mess and leave it for the next camper it would be great.

Bike trail is fantastic. And hiking trail around campground was nice too