Tent camping within an hour from home and during a week night made for a nice mostly peaceful retreat for me and my wife.

We stayed in tent site 1 because it is next to a men/women's plumbed bathroom (but with curtains not actual privacy doors?) And also because it is the only tent camping site with a water spigot (bring your own hose) and an outdoor electrical outlet (bring a 50' cord or longer).

The staff is very accommodating from reservations to checkout. The park store is well stocked mainly for the kayak/boating/fishing customers. Otherwise a dollar general is 2 miles away in cave springs. Into town you'll also find an old style grocery store, diners and restaurants choices as well as Rolater (sp?) Park.

Anyways other campers we encountered seemed friendly enough yet respectful of each others privacy. No facts to base it on but we felt this is mainly an RV park and that many of the RV'ers staying at the park seemed to be long-term RV residents or maybe traveling or transitioning workers with families. Not that it mattered to us or is our concern. We never felt threatened or unsafe.

4 stars instead of 5 is due to the lack of physical roaming security and no gate at the park entrance.

The poor conditions of the bathroom and in the community showers. Spiders, flies, mosquitoes, no lockable privacy doors in the actual shower rooms or toilets and the men's bathroom near our site had no lights.

But also because our experience was less than 5 stars mainly due to the visitors in the RV site closest to T1 where the husband and wife left 3 dogs kenneled inside their 5th wheel for 10-12 hours during their workday...and AGAIN not our business and we cast no judgements but the almost non-stop barking of three dogs from about 6 am - 6 or 7 pm was not peaceful.

We we're only staying for two nights and certainly not the only ones who hear or see this going on so we did not want to cause trouble and did not report it. BUT I sense if we had the owners would have addressed it immediately.

There are a lot of dog owners here and the majority seem respectful of others.. Worth noting is that we saw so many dogs and yet never seen any animal feces because the park provides many stocked doggydoo stations and then campers seem to follow the park guidelines.

Night time (after closest site dog owners came home) the slow moving creek, many fish, turtles, deer and squirrels.. churping cicada and crickets brought us back to the surrounding nature and in the end we're thankful for our experience.