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Lake Thunderbird State Park offers a variety of water activities and recreation. The park features two marinas (Calypso Cove Marina and Little River Marina), nine boat ramps and two swim beaches. Accommodations include over 200 RV sites with 30 full hookup sites, restroom facilities and primitive campsites. Lake Thunderbird State Park also features playgrounds, picnic tables and an archery range. A total of ten picnic shelters for groups and eight family shelters, as well as tent and RV campgrounds, can be reserved online.
Both the Lake Thunderbird State Park Discovery Cove Nature Center and equestrian trails are located in the Clear Bay area. The trails, which are open Wednesday through Sunday, cover four miles and feature 12 obstacles. Negative Coggins papers are required, and no on-site stables are available. An array of hiking, mountain biking and nature trails are also available in Lake Thunderbird State Park. Deer archery and waterfowl hunting are available in designated areas during the applicable seasons.
Reservation was supposed to come with a tent pad and a table. Instead it’s all washed out. No table. There isn’t even a flat place to put a tent. And the office is closed. Absolutely terrible. Don’t come here. If anything is wrong with your site when you arrive there is nothing you can do.
One of our favorite spots! Cat-fishing is great. You can just about find any species you want to here, we caught everything from saugers to crappie. Close by and easy access. If you have a kayak you can get away from everyone. We will spend many more days here. 😀
The campground is dirty and they have cobwebs all over the place in their common areas.
Their toilets don't work. Their toilets are all backed up and they won't flush. Their showers have leaves and thick dirt/mud on the floors and the walls are all dirty.
I spent a long time in the shower wiping up brown stuff from off the walls with my microban. It's nasty. I couldn't reach the cobwebs in their shower.
They don't take care of their property and they need to do something more. It's obvious that they don't want anyone to stay here or they would keep their property in better shape.
Update: 3 days into this camping trip they finally fixed their toilets which were overloaded with toilet paper and human waste. Too late. Too much trauma for me.
It was a really nice hike but the signage is very poor. Luckily we had all trails up so we knew where we needed to go. When we didn't have it up we did get a little lost There were a couple of good lookout spots for the lake. It is really pretty during the fall! We had a really good time. It wasn't super busy when we went, we only passed one person the entire time.
