Hawthorn Bluff

Site descriptions on website are not accurate, especially driveway length.

Site descriptions on website are not accurate, especially driveway length.

Site descriptions on website are not accurate, especially driveway length.

Beautiful every day friendly people just wish I could stay longer.

We spent 4 days here and it was very nice place. The park was not that clean though with litter through out the park. Campsites were not cleaned between visitor either. Also most of the people were very friendly but there were some who would put a hose on the communial water spigot for their exclusive use even though there is a sign right on it saying not to or face a fine. But there was no host the whole time were there so I guess if there is no one to inforce the rules then there are no rules. Even seen one man take over a spigot to pressure wash his motorhome. We had nieghboring camps hold late night partys to wee hours of the morning with loud music and voices twice, but it was Friday and Saturday night so I can forgive that. Again, no host to enforce quiet time after 11pm. Bathrooms were reasonably clean but with only two fllush toilets in the camping area, one was out of order and the other was commandeered by someone talking on a cell phone for an hour instead of taking care of business was quite frustrating. It has a short hiking/walking trail that goes along the shore of the lake which was very pleasant. Also at the half way point there is access to a nice hiden cove that makes for a very nice people/dog beach. There was no public swimming at our end of the campground but the map showed swimming at the other side, which I didn't go to.

Beautiful every day friendly people just wish I could stay longer.

We spent 4 days here and it was very nice place. The park was not that clean though with litter through out the park. Campsites were not cleaned between visitor either. Also most of the people were very friendly but there were some who would put a hose on the communial water spigot for their exclusive use even though there is a sign right on it saying not to or face a fine. But there was no host the whole time were there so I guess if there is no one to inforce the rules then there are no rules. Even seen one man take over a spigot to pressure wash his motorhome. We had nieghboring camps hold late night partys to wee hours of the morning with loud music and voices twice, but it was Friday and Saturday night so I can forgive that. Again, no host to enforce quiet time after 11pm. Bathrooms were reasonably clean but with only two fllush toilets in the camping area, one was out of order and the other was commandeered by someone talking on a cell phone for an hour instead of taking care of business was quite frustrating. It has a short hiking/walking trail that goes along the shore of the lake which was very pleasant. Also at the half way point there is access to a nice hiden cove that makes for a very nice people/dog beach. There was no public swimming at our end of the campground but the map showed swimming at the other side, which I didn't go to.

Beautiful every day friendly people just wish I could stay longer.

We spent 4 days here and it was very nice place. The park was not that clean though with litter through out the park. Campsites were not cleaned between visitor either. Also most of the people were very friendly but there were some who would put a hose on the communial water spigot for their exclusive use even though there is a sign right on it saying not to or face a fine. But there was no host the whole time were there so I guess if there is no one to inforce the rules then there are no rules. Even seen one man take over a spigot to pressure wash his motorhome. We had nieghboring camps hold late night partys to wee hours of the morning with loud music and voices twice, but it was Friday and Saturday night so I can forgive that. Again, no host to enforce quiet time after 11pm. Bathrooms were reasonably clean but with only two fllush toilets in the camping area, one was out of order and the other was commandeered by someone talking on a cell phone for an hour instead of taking care of business was quite frustrating. It has a short hiking/walking trail that goes along the shore of the lake which was very pleasant. Also at the half way point there is access to a nice hiden cove that makes for a very nice people/dog beach. There was no public swimming at our end of the campground but the map showed swimming at the other side, which I didn't go to.

With the amount of people that stay at that campground and other state run parks there should be upgrades made to it. Please level the camper parking sites and install more water hydrants.
This is a nice place to camp but could be so much better