Sandy Lake

Beautiful campground

My only complaint is that there is not flush toilets and showers on the North side and the dump station is not good, so do yourself a favor and fill and dump on the Southside. Not the fault of campground, but at end of June all the bugs were horrible. Really do love this campground. Many fun things to do of you have a boat and it has a beach.

I was disappointed to see no updates after being “closed for camping 2 yrs” grass could of been planted in at least half of each of the sites, it truly was dirt camping, which makes everything dirty, including feeling dirty. I have been going there for yrs, the weeds have taken over going down the steps by the boat docks it used to be so nice they used to even cut the grass along the lower edge. Weeds taken over flower beds ect. The weeds in the lake by the docks, now just paths to get into the dock area, hard to bring boats in & to fish. I did notice less chipmunks… yea! Overall it is a nice affordable place to camp.

Enjoyed our vist. But camp site 29 should be closed. The eagles nest made it impossible to sit outside. Our trailer and our pickup were covered in eagle droppings. Disappointed in this one site. Otherwise a very nice campground.

We have been going to this campground for many years. We were unable to go thr past couple since it was closed. The only issue is Mosquitoes they are bad here with the river and lake. Otherwise the campsites, restrooms, and other facilities are immaculate.
Remember to get you firewood locally as they do not sell fireworks at the campground.

This campground is great but the mosquitos were terrible! The spring high water eliminated the power at the docks and there have not yet been any repairs.

My Husband an I had made this reservation with relatives. Our last camping experience here was not too favorable, as we had a window shot out of our camper by the people mowing the grounds. This time the same people were mowing, in a very careless way, going fast, I am sure just to get it done, with no care for the people camping. Going over rocky ground with the dust and rocks flying everywhere.
I have to say that the Ranger, and all the volunteer help are very nice and informative. We enjoyed visiting with them and the other campers.
But, please get someone else to do the mowing in this campground. In our view, and from our experiences, these people from Deer River that do it now, are not the type of people that should be mowing at this park.

Super clean campsite, excellent boat launch & nice fish-cleaning facility

Poor to fair experience this time at Sandy Lake Federal campground. The water was high, and mosquitoes were very bad, also the docks were somewhat underwater and limited to where you could put your boat on the water. All these things were sort of expected with the water being that high, however the People that are contracted to mow the park were very careless while mowing the camping sights. First of all, they were going too fast and not caring how much gravel and dust they shot up at campers. One young Guy was mowing on the slant of the road and his mower shot a rock thru our camper window, shattering it, as I sat just across the table from that window. We are currently getting the window fixed, and we were told by the mowing co. that they would pay for all repairs to the window, however we were back for our second reservation at big Sandy, and the same company came and mowed, being even more careless in how they were mowing. skidding around corners, throwing rocks and sand at campers, with no respect to campers, trucks, and even worse to the people sitting by their campers. We talked with Hunter Simonson, who was very understanding on our part. Hopefully, you will see fit to replace who will be mowing at this park, and get someone who has the sense to be careful around people, their pets, and camping rigs.

Clean comfy and out of the rain.