Springbrook Family Campground

Mu husband and I are in our 60's. We have been camping for 15 years. I have to say that this was the worst experience in a campground that we have ever had. We paid for a seasonal site and we left after just 2 visits and, of course, forfeited our monies paid. They micro manage so if you want to go here and just relax and unwind, that will not happen, unless you are family. They have so many rules and they will scream at you from their knoll. We happened to be in a site that was surrounded by their family. There is a huge field right across from where our site was and I let my dog off leash for about 1 minute (she will not do her business while on the leash). It literally takes her about 30 seconds from when I release her for her to do her business. They screamed at me from their camper. Wow! Now, mind you, their daughter's dog was off leash and running around the campground and came up to my dog but she didn't react and I shooed their dog away. But, I guess that's ok. We were at the front of the campground with only 1 camper at that time (owners parents)to the right between us and the exit. We have to drive around the whole campground to get out. There were times, not many, that we forgot and just turned right instinctively. We apologized to the owner for forgetting and he was cool. A few days later, we got a nasty letter. They also accused my husband of speeding and that is so not true. Besides having a CDL, which he cannot afford to jeopardize, whenever we pulled into the campground, we dropped the jeep into 1st gear and left it there until we got to our site. We have grandchildren and there is no way we would jeopardize children's safety in any way. When I inquired about the campsite, I was told that they had wi-fi. I wasn't informed that you had to pay for it. $30/wk and half the time it didn't work. We were on site exactly 3 days, and were charged $30 for electric. Do the math. That comes out to $300 a month. I don't pay anywhere near that for my whole house!!! 30 amp service is not enough to run AC. Water pressure was next to nothing. It was impossible to take a shower or even do dishes! We left and are so glad we did. Yes, we lost money, but in the end, we are much happier.

****DO NOT STAY HERE!!!****

Please do yourself a favor and do not waste your money. Me and my kids were threatened by one of the many so called “owners”. We ended up having to call the police. We didn’t feel save so we left in the middle of the night. If you trip you would fall into your neighbors campsite. My daughter got cut while swimming. The pool has rocks sticking up that someone could easily get cut on. The whole place smelled like a dead animal and sewer. The bathrooms were FILTHY with BLACK MOLD.

These people do not deserve your money. They are the most greedy, rude, kid hating individuals I have ever encountered. They don’t offer anything for children to do but they will have an “adult” bingo.

There are so many campsites near Knobles that you will have a much better time.

*****STAY AWAY*****

This place is awful! We had a tree fall on our camper the first week and things went downhill from there. Dead trees for electric poles, horrible roads, muddy campsites, and best of all nasty owners who attack people for posting negative reviews! I actually had their daughter threaten to sue me! Yep this is the level of greedy people you will deal with here.

We stayed here for work and had no choice as all the other campgrounds were booked up, so we were stuck in this mud pit. Sunday night we had a lot of rain and we woke up Monday morning to about 5” of water on the ground. The water drained off and we cleaned up the mess which consisted mostly of putting all my tools and such inside my gazebo on top of a table. If we had been warned that this area was prone to intense flooding when the river rises, we would have done much more, like move out! But we were not, and we were not familiar enough with the area to know what to expect.

Well, what we did not expect was to be woken up at 3:30am by 2 crying teenage girls on our picnic table. Turns out the river had breached its banks and water was now 3’ on the ground with an intense current flow. A family trying to escape had their truck flood and sent their kids to run over to the “safety” of our picnic table. We immediately kicked into rescue mode and started pulling people out. I drove to the police station and reported the situation and then headed back where most of the people who were there for work were pulling the weekend campers out. Eventually the owners showed up and opened the office for 10 minutes. They stood around laughing about how this happens all the time and how there was nothing they could do until the water went down and they could start cleaning up. Well, I guess it never crossed their mind that they COULD use their backhoe and dump truck to create a water break for those trying to get out or check the campsites to make sure everyone was out and safe, or tow people out of the roads where their vehicles were stuck. They could also have started calling their summer residents and informing them that all their belongings were currently floating down the river or set up a coffee station for cold wet campers to dry off and warm up a bit while they waited for the water to recede. Instead they locked up the office and went to sit on their golf cart on a high bank and watched as people tried to save their RV’s from tipping over.

As our son started to hook his truck up to his camper to pull it out, Shawn began screaming at him to stop “making things worse” when he drove over a grass area that had turned into a lake. This turned into a screaming match between several campers who had been working for the last 5 hours to make sure all the campers were safe and the owners who had their butts parked on their golf cart watching. We lost all of our outside items but were lucky that the water didn’t make it into our underbelly or worse. We managed to get packed up and hooked up, despite a 4’ wash out in front of our RV. We managed to find a great new place that opened up mobile home slots to us for the emergency. Once we got settled in we checked our bank account and discovered these people had already charged our card for more money despite the fact that we were paid up through mid-August. AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS!!!!