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Big Foot Beach State Park entrance is located at 1550 S. Lake Shore Drive; 1 mile North of Wisconsin State Highway 120 and Highway BB, 1.5 miles South of Main Street in the city of Lake Geneva.
My first state park 1 star review. 😔 We were looking forward to the beach, but this is not a beach. It’s a relatively busy road that you have to cross, then 1 foot of weeds filled with dead rotting fish, then 5 feet of sand littered with garbage, dead fish and weeds. Our campsite (39) was very large and shaded, nice. But that was the only good part. I just want others to know that this is really just a state park with a little shoreline across the street from the state park. 🫤. Picture of the “beach” has 2 of the fish if you zoom in. I know all of this is natural. It just wasn’t at all what we were expecting.
Sites are nice and big, enough for 3 tents, picnic table, and an odd square iron fire pit. NO ELECTRICAL OUTLETS at tent camp sites.
Bathrooms are like stationary port-a-potties. Main bathroom was not close to tent camping.
Lake is accessible by crossing busy street though. Very thin strip of beach.
It was quite noisy and we ended up calling the ranger because group next to us was playing their music CRAZY LOUD! It is not as peaceful as most parks. The tent camp sites are so close to each other... you hear everything everyone is doing.
If your goal is just a place to stay while you visit the area, its fine.
Good stuff first. We camped in tent site 23 and it was amazing! Huge tree for shade and plenty of room for several tents. Definitely one of the better campsites we have seen. BUT....parking is odd because you don't have a parking space for each site, just a row of parking spaces that serves several sites. That can get irritating if you need to load/unload and all of the parking spaces are already occupied. Also, the bathroom nearby was very nice, but inadequate. Why are there like eight showers but only two toilet stalls? I would MUCH rather wait a few minutes for a shower than a toilet! And last, the beach nearby is kind of pathetic. It's about a sidewalk-width strip of sand between the road and the lake.
Not a bad park. The trails are clear and there's quite a bit of shade. Plenty of parking and benches too. We took the blue trail to the lagoon and back. It was nice that there was a bubbler that had a dog water bowl on it. Definitely needed it in this heat.
