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Located 15 miles from the park Visitor Center on the south bank of the Green River.
Campsites are pretty close so although it's small you don't have a lot of space. #10 is pretty good. 7 & 8 have best river view. Spaces are level with picnic table and a fire pit. No wood to harvest, so recommend bringing it. Some road noise in the morning... I'd check the campground by the visitor center next time, it was pretty empty mid week.
The area is beautiful but no privacy between campsites at all. It ended up not being terrible for our stay because the campsites were not all filled. There's shade for most of the campsites and the bathrooms are permanent porta potty's....so pretty gross. These sites are right next to the river so it's neat to watch the water but it's too dirty to play in. Luckily we only booked 2 nights here before we go to the main mammoth cave campsites. Hopefully the pictures help.
While cheaper than other campsites, you tend to get what you pay for. As others mention, the sites are smaller than I expected. You can hear EVERYTHING happening in sites. There is not a camp host on site and during our stay, quiet hours were completely ignored. Be prepared to be on top of others, have people walking thru your site, and to hear people late at night. If you camp to get away from it all or are a light sleeper, this is not the place for you on a weekend in the summer. However the rest is as advertised, enough room for a tent, a picnic table, fire ring with bbq grate, and porta potties that did have toilet paper and hand sanitizer. No shade and one dumpster for garbage. About 15 minute drive to Mammoth National Park Visitor Center.
This is a primitive campground and used to be a popular picnic spot. We used to fish off the end of the ferry after it closed for the night. However, since the removal of the lock and dam downstream, the water level has fallen an average of 12 feet, leaving only a trickle that probably isn’t deep enough for a fish to swim in! The road across the river has disappeared into the wilderness with just the ramp still showing. Even the streetlights have been turned off making it pitch black at night. The tightly packed sites are okay if you don’t mind being a few feet from your neighbor. Each site had a pure pit with grill grate, a concrete picnic table, a lantern hook, and a camp stove table. There is a potable water tap on site. No host is in attendance nowadays. It’s all rather sad to see the decay. The pit toilets were filthy with excrement almost reaching the seats. I can’t understand why the fee is $20 still since the National Park Service obviously doesn’t take serious care of the place or at least not on the weekend I most recently stayed there. . That all being said, despite the close proximity of the sites, it is still a beautiful place to relax. At night, the once quiet river is now a babbling brook.
We camped for 5 days during July 4th week here.
Very peaceful.
Had a rain storm come through(we were prepared)
We plan on visiting again.
Pota Johns were cleaned while we were there. There is a water spicket, to refill the water containers.
Shower houses are about 10min away.
