This is an excellent state park with numerous facilities to ensure an active and fun filled escape from your everyday routine. The park staff is friendly and helpful and the maintenance personnel are out early and often to keep everything in good shape and clean.

Hiking, fishing, horseback riding, archery, bike riding, boating, paddle boarding and enjoying nature and the fresh air are all readily available. There are a variety of campsites available for RV’s and separately for tent campers both near the lake and further away for more solitude.

The campsites are fairly large and well arranged for setting up a comfortable camp. Unfortunately, there is not sufficient foliage between the sites to provide a noise buffer. So you can easily hear the activities of your nearby neighbors if they happen to be a bit noisy.

This is a well kept US Forest Service campsite located in the very scenic Big Horn Mountains adjacent to the South Fork of the Tongue River.

Each of the individual campsites was more than sufficient to easily accommodate a large RV or two large tents and two cars. You don't have total isolation from your neighbors but you are sufficiently separated so as to you not having to hear or see most of your neighbors' activities and vice versa.

That is with the exception of those people who escape to nature for a break from the city but then end up running generators so they can enjoy the creature comforts of home along with all their electronic toys. Fortunately, for my stay, generator usage by my neighbors was limited to a couple times per day for about a half hour each time.

There are two sections to the campground and each has a very well maintained set of men's and women's vault toilets. They were clean, with minimal bugs and we're kept well stocked with toilet paper. There is a fresh water well at the campground entrance. There is also a place to buy bundles of firewood for $6 each. The campground itself has been picked fairly clean of any deadfall that can be used for a campfire. However, there is ample deadfall a couple hundred yards away as you walk towards the river. With a little extra effort you can accumulate all the firewood you need for your stay.

The Tongue River is a beautiful stream and there is an easy to follow trail that allows you to follow it upstream for several miles. It has all of the characteristics of a good, mountain fishing stream. However, for our visit we found it to have an abundance of small (6 inch or less) brown trout and none of their larger daddies or granddaddies. They were fun to catch and release but we were not able to catch anything large enough to satiate our appetite for fresh fried trout.

The stream offers up itself well to both fly fishing and spin casting if you are willing to wander upstream or downstream about 500 yards to find your spots.