Sandy Lake

The sites in this area are TINY, with campers stacked one on top of each other on both sides of the road. To make things worse, the road is two-way, meaning it's not a loop like a "normal" campground and people need to go back & forth on this narrow road to get in and out of these sites. Even though it's two-way, the road is just a single lane width. To make matters worse, campers are parking right off of the road, making it quite difficult getting in and out. Look at staying in one of the other loops, or at a different campground if those sites are already full. They also did the bathroom cleaning first thing in the morning, so don't expect to use the bathrooms or showers.

On the positive side, it was quiet and peaceful once I was able to squeeze our camper into its tiny little campsite.

We love camping at Big Sandy! The campsites and restrooms/showers are clean and well maintained. Having a washer and dryer there is always appreciated! The beach is large, sandy, and it’s nice that a small area of it is in the shade later afternoon. There are 2 playground areas with one smaller one being by the beach. Many enjoy shore fishing in the Mississippi River by the dam. If you have a boat, fishing and boating are a plus on the large, beautiful Big Sandy Lake.

We loved it here. Friendly staff and very helpful. Restrooms were spotless.

Beautiful park and lake.

Great quiet little campground for the family. The beach and swimming area were awesome and the kids loved the dam and fishing down in the river.

Always clean, very friendly people

Well taken care of
Clean

We were happy to see they replaced most of the docks on the North and South side, some of them were dangerous. Thank you for upgrades.
We also noticed the weeds were attended to as well. The only negative is the hosts would pounce on you as soon as you arrived at your site to sit and give you your parking pass for vehicles. I had to move my RV several times to get it where i wanted it and they sat in golf cart and watched the entire time. Nobody likes to be micromanaged on vacation. I suggest they wait till campers are set up and come around maybe one time for passes.
thank you

We go just to relax and enjoy the outdoors. Host is always very friendly and helpful.

Beautiful campground. Our only comment is that at every other COE campground we have been to, the campground hosts check in with you at least once and drive around a couple times a day to check on things. The only time we saw these hosts is when we asked for the bathroom code and that was giving me the code and that's it. The power went out after a storm in half of the campground and no info from them. When the ranger drove thru, I asked if he knew about it, and he didn't. We were without power for 14 hours on a hot day. Power went out at a different COE campground last year and the host went around to every camper and updated them on what was going on. That should be what a host does.