This could be a nice park but the sites are not well maintained and it gets very crowded on weekends. The gas powered golf carts are out of control here. They might as well allow ATV's and off road bikes to drive in the park, it sounds about the same. It seems management does very little to enforce the rules. Lots of great facilities here but many seem to be getting run down. I don't think I would try someplace else next time through. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This was our fourth stop at the park coming into and leaving Florida, location is right on 1-75. The park was quiet this time, no major entertainment going on, people very friendly. We were happy to see they have wi-fi throughout the park from the sites and cable television as it is impossible with all the trees to get satellte reception otherwise. We have enjoyed our stays at SOSMP and will return with our ROD membership. We camped here in a Motorhome.
A very basic park. No pads, not level,No heated or air in rest rooms. Sit on front porch of office if you want wifi in your lap, no table just a rocking chair. Their main thing is country music shows. Good for a couple of nights. Friendly and clean. We camped here in a Motorhome.
We stayed at this park through Resorts of Distinction for free. Our site was a pull through and level, most sites are in the shade under huge moss covered trees. We enjoyed nightly music, and the on site restaurant had great food. I used the wireless internet that was available on the porch of the office, and the deck of the restaurant, it worked just fine and was free. The staff was very friendly and helpful. Golf carts, canoes, and bicycles are available for rent. We enjoyed the very clean swimming pool and fishing off the dock by their lake. While this campground is older and has dirt sites, and no cable television, it is still a great campground with a lot of amenities. We truly enjoyed it and have another stay already planned! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Review Rating
[ 6 / 10 ]
December 2006
$1
Heavily wooded. Almost impossible to get a satellite signal. We were lucky. Site 55 allowed us internet/tv from our satellite on top of our motor home. We were here in December and the Suwannee Lights are great. This is a Music Park with a campground with emphasis on the music. Friendly and helpful staff. Small store and a restaurant on site. Probably many activities during peak season. Relaxing time. We camped here in a Motorhome.
The park is old and run down. The bathhouse looked like it had not been cleaned in months. Paper products were full but cob webs, dirt and mold was every where. It's an R.O.D. park so we stayed for free but I doubt that we will return even at no charge. We camped here in a Motorhome.
I disagree with some of the other reviews ... we "happened" onto this park and found it to be more than acceptable and experienced no difficulty with electricity during the same time frame; we will definitely return in the future and take advantage of their music camp entertainment/activities. We camped here in a Motorhome.
We stayed at this park over the 2006 Memorial Day weekend and found the park to be a very disappointing experience. We have camped in this park an average of two times a year for the past five years and found it to be going down hill each time we visit. The biggest problem we had this time with our visit was the electric. We had to shut all items off that we could do without to keep AC operational, even then it would still cut out and have to be shut off. The out side temp was 90 plus and really needed it to sleep. All of the cable TV is now not working and the park is so wooded you cannot use a portable dish,this is bad when you really want to watch the races!! Also, during this busy weekend, they did not pickup the trash and really looked bad and smelled. The point that needs to be made here is this could be a really nice park, but until they get the proper management or owners, this place is really going down hill. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
Review Rating
[ 2 / 10 ]
May 2006
$28
Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park located outside of Live Oak, FL. What a disappointment it was to camp there over the Memorial Day weekend. We had really bad power problems. Most of the time our voltage meter in our camper was reading way below 100 volts. A/C units were contently tripping breakers. We cut all of our breakers off and only left the A/C & refrigerator breaker on to allow the A/C to run long enough to cool the camper down. Also had to run the refrigerator on gas the whole time. We would wake up 3 & 4 times a night and have to get up to reset breakers. We asked other campers in the park and everybody was having the same problem. Other campers at the park including others and us in our group would go to the office and complain and the office personal acted like they were not aware of any problems. We even called the office one time and spoke to office personal and she said that she would send the maintenance man over to check. But the maintenance man never showed up. We called another time and spoke to another office personal. This time they did send the Maintenance man to our site. He said that there are to many campers on one box and that the park needs to be re-wired. He also said during the Country Jam in April they burned up several breaker boxes do the over load. Also during our weekend stay the park lost water pressure. They said that they were having problems with their well and was hoping to have it repaired as soon as possible. There was no trash pickup in the park the whole weekend. Trash piled up around the garbage cans and really started to stink and draw flies. There was very little to no supervision by park personal. Golf carts being operated by minors and driven the wrong way on the roads causing traffic problems. Most of the personal at the park were not friendly and had no concern about problems that we were having. Got up the morning to leave and decide get things packed up and go to the SOS Café there at the park to have breakfast before we left. We walked in the front door of the SOS Café around 9:00 am and the lady at the register looked up at us and said “We’ve stopped serving breakfast for today” before we even said a word. This Park has really gone down hill in the last year since the new managers took over. Staff at the park and the SOS Café act like they really don’t care about anything. We have really enjoy this park over the past years. We've notice the pass few times that it seem the park was going down hill, but after this weekend we will not recommend this park to anyone again and our group won’t be going back. It's shame that a nice park that it was is now not worth going to. As the old saying goes. "All good things must come to an end". It's time to find something better. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Review Rating
[ 3 / 10 ]
2004
$25
We have a 35 ft. motorhome and had a reservation for this campground. We had a tow and
asked for a pull-through site. We arrived late and the guard checked us in. We tried to get to the site and had limbs and trees rubbing the top and side of our RV. It was very dark and the road was bad and we had no help at all trying to find and evaluate the site in the dark with a flashlight. The site was not a pull through and was just horrible in our opinion and we left and drove to another park. Maybe for tent campers it would be OK. It was definitely not the type of park we usually choose for our Class A rig. We like state parks and some remote type camping, but this place was a little much for our RV and tow car. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Review Rating
[ 7 / 10 ]
January 2003
$25
Very big park. Friendly staff. Nice, quiet, peaceful and relaxing. Real woodsy feel. Not many in CG in January. No problems with trees. In response to others comments, I agree the place is dead unless there are concerts except for horseback riders. Live Oak is a small town and does not have much. But that is what I prefer, when camping, quiet, relaxation, getting away from it all. This is the place for that unless concerts in play. As far as fumbling with flashlights and rubbing trees, I always arrive in the daylight eliminating those problems. I prefer to use the stove in my 5'er for breakfast. Coleman stoves and campfires work too and are more rewarding than restarants. The pads were level with a mix of grass and sand (a fact of life in FLA), no rocks, no limbs. Plenty of room to manuver. Will use again in in the area. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
We stayed at this campground this weekend 11/15-17/02, it rained so my report is a little wet, but this is not a place that you want to stay at if you want something to do. Yes, when they are having a concert I guess the place is different, but without a concert the place is dead. I asked at the office of things to do in and around Live Oak, NOTHING. It was suggested that I try Gainesville for a small mall. We went to Golden Corral for breakfast Saturday morning, they were not open, and they do not serve breakfast. The only real sit down restaurant that was open is the Dixie Cafe in Live Oak, buffet (limited choices) is $5.95 and includes coffee, not too bad. I asked them what there was to do in Live Oak they also referred me to Gainesville. In the LOOP area of the campground (the most popular) you might as well be boondocking as you are on ruff, hard, dirty, ground no pads, no grass, just leaves and branches and little tiny rocks. There was about 8 other RV's in the campground for the weekend, in the LOOP area that is, in the membership area about mile away was a lot of folks and what ever activities that they had we know nothing about. Cable TV is a joke, about 4 stations and only 2 of them came in clear. The laundry is outside (in the weather) beside the bathhouses, the bathhouses were kind of clean, but only 1 stall had a rubber mat on the floor the other 3 were concrete. The water was hot on the men's side but only warm on the ladies side. The wife and the 2 grand girls see no reason to return and I must agree. It might have been more fun if there was a concert but then according to the office there would be hundreds of people running around, so what fun is that. On a scale of 1-10 I would rate Suwannee Music Park & Campground a 4. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Review Rating
[ 10 / 10 ]
2002
$25
This campground is a blast. It is huge at 600+ acres. They have music events all year long. There is miles of trails that run along the Suwannee river. We stayed during an event last weekend, and once a couple of months ago. What a difference. There were like 8,000 people there, with concerts everywhere. In July, we felt like we had the place all to ourselves. Be sure to check ahead on the website to see what is going on. We highly recommend the horseback riding and canoe riding in the park. They have a small store, and a new restaurant is supposed to open soon. Lots of families and music jam sessions. If you must have quiet, tell them so when you check in. Otherwise explore, explore! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Fun park on a neat river. Lots of activities. There were an abundance of atvs that might be disturbing to some, but overall nice campground. We especially enjoyed the Saturday night karaoke. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Park now has paved roads, new bath house, all hookups have been redone. To date, the Reserve America site has not been updated. All sites now have 30/50 amp, and sewer hookups. Some site numbers have changed location due to a new entrance road. Sites 2,3, & 27 are ADA/Paved sites. The new bath house is now behind site #27. The big draw back is the sewer outlets are placed high above grade. We had site #25, and it was un level. We required two boards on the door side to level the trailer, and the sewer outlet was still uphill from the dump valve. Our trailer sets two steps high to the door, so many RV's may have this problem. Also be aware that the sewer outlets are placed to the front of the site, so once you are backed in, you will most likely need extra sewer hose to reach the outlet. We had to move to a different site in order to dump our tanks. We will return, but now we know the sites to avoid. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
We did not camp here because the camping area is closed until Nov 2007 for renovations. There will be a brand new bathhouse and sewer hookups when completed. There are a few PT's sites and the higher the number the longer the sites. There is canoing from the park and several hiking trails available for all levels of hikers. There is also a nice picnic area to sit in a swing and watch the river go by. The town of Live Oak is close by for all your needs (including Wal-Mart). There are 5 cabins that are available to stay in while the renovations are on going. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Wonderful state park with mostly large, shaded sites. The park is on the Suwanee and Withlocotchee Rivers, stradling both banks within the park's borders. There are many hiking trails, all but one (the Big Oak Trail 12 miles)under a mile long. Fishing, boating, canoeing, and hiking are some of the activities avaliable. The nearest Wal Mart is 15 miles away, not far enough in my book but given how Florida's open spaces are disappearing, it's pretty impressive. The only reason I did not give a 10 is because a CSX railway is close by and trains break the tranquility of the park from time to time. If you are looking for cement pads, you won't like it here, but for a week in nature this place is wonderful. We stayed the week between Christmas and New Years 2005 in a 25 foot Trail Lite, reservations were a must. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Not for big rigs. Our 35' fiver had a tough time getting to our site. Lots of tight turns and overhangs. The park itself is nice but the campground leaves a lot to be desired. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.