Crane Prairie Campground

Our site was facing the wrong way on a one way road, ran the road backwards, was not able to fit into the site even know registration said 60 foot driveway.. I have a 26 foot trailer.

The host was amazing! She moved us to a site that was way better, and was informative and helpful.

Great place to relax close to many adventures

There was a mixup in our campspot due to a couple of extra days we booked....and someone else did too apparently? This seemed to be happening alot thru the campground. First time ever. Hosts seemed to let people "get away" with some things. Parking as much as would fit in a campsite.....filling a campsite that said not available. A little too lenient. Glad glad glad to see the pyramid ants were being addressed finally. We've been going there over 40 yeasrs and they've gotten worse and worse to the point you don't want to go anymore. We had an extra car in our site that wasn't collected for until the day after the extra car left. Hosts weren't around much. The fishing here is always wonderful and the campground is the best! We'd never miss a year!

Usually we would have been camping several times here by now but because of the reservations only, we haven't been able to find sites with more than a couple of days open at a time. Also, getting charged not only the $8 registration fee, which we lose if we cancel a reservation, they are charging a $10 fee.

This place is incredible! We would come back in a heartbeat. We stayed in the blue loop and walked to a little cove with calm water sheltered from the wind. A great place for fishing, swimming, paddleboarding, and kayaking. We stayed in spot 78 and 80 and enjoyed amazing views of the lake. Lots of bugs, but we didn't care because it was so beautiful.

Camp host was very lovely and helpful, although charged a lot for our extra car which hasn’t happened at other campgrounds we’ve been to. Campground is very large but doesn’t feel super large, our site was very spacious, bathrooms were clean for the most part and cleaned regularly. Water from campground was not potable and looked to be directly from the reservoir with algae, dirt, etc. Crane prairie has great fishing but lots of old fallen trees in the water make it difficult to navigate by boat. LOTS of fire ants literally everywhere -giant mounds of them- was EXTREMELY unpleasant, they are all around the campsites and on the beaches of the reservoir which makes it impossible to truly enjoy the water. Forestry has tried to keep them localized so they were not on our camp site directly and were taped off with caution tape but they are all over the shore at the campsite beach. View from the campsite of the local mountain peaks was gorgeous.

Enjoyed Crane Prairie Campground Blue Loop. This loop is near one of the boat docks and shore line. Site was clean and near restroom. Camp, kayak, paddleboard and hike in the area.

We had our wedding at Crane and yellow loop was an amazing setting for a weekend with family and friends! We camp at Crane every possible chance.

I wish the weather had been better for my stay. Having the small store next door was great as I forgot to bring a couple of items for my camp. The people at the store were great and very helpful. Unfortunately, it rained most of my time there, and the rain churned up the floating weeds, so trollling a fly was impossible. Next time, I will reserve a site closer to the launch. I hope to come back soon when the weather is better. I want to hook up with one of those monster trout I hear are in there.

Crane Prairie Campground is one of the nicest campgrounds we stayed at over our 8 week trip. The campsites are quite large and we found ours to be very private. We only wished we could have stayed longer.