This resort is small with 60 sites. It is primarily a seasonal resort but they do rent by the week and the month. The resort sits on Barton Lake and each site has it's own pier. The sites are very large and are full hookup. Lots of grass and each site has a concrete pad. The resort has a very nice pool, basketball court and a playground. It sits right next door to the Jellystone Park which has water slides, mini-golf, etc that you can use by paying a daily usage fee. This resort was spotless, well maintained and quiet not to mention the seasonals are well maintained and very friendly to us during our stay. We would definitely recommend this resort if you are planning a week trip to northeast Indiana. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Very busy campground. Plenty of activities for kids to do. People constantly walk through your site. Traffic is an issue here, constant traffic flow. Price is very high for what you get. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
Great campground for kids, they have planned activities all day long. They do a poor job of policing the dog problem, dog crap all over campgound and many people did not even have dogs on leash, which was overlooked by the staff. Way over priced if you do not have kids, they should lower rates and then charge on a use basis for activities that way RVer's would not have to pay for things they do not use. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
There was no shade in the site were were located at, and the site was not level. The pools were very cold; even the indoor pool was cold. The camp store was nicely stocked, however the common area for eating snacks or watching the occasional Yogi Bear video was very dirty. The restrooms by our area were still under construction; however there was no sign up advising of this. The restrooms that were in operation were not clean and most stalls were missing toilet paper. At one point the Yogi Characters were out riding in a wagon, and when some of our children in our group approached them; the children were ignored. The price was very steep for the condition of the park. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
While the kids enjoyed the pool areas the rest of the resort was nothing special. If your site is in the 600 range you are basically in a field with cement slabs, sparse grass and sites that are about as wide as 2 cars. Some of the sites in the old area of the park looked decent however the park is very crowded. Also, right next to the highway and on Friday night apparently it's Harley Davidson drag race night. Overall not enjoyable and won't return even for the pools. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This was our second year at this park. While it is pretty crowded, the kids just love the activities. They played bingo, swam, used the water slides, played mini golf, and rode their bikes to the store. We had two sites on the lake (next to the beach) for our two families. We did not encounter any problems (other than the rain). Very close to Amish country (nice day trip). We will visit again! We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
Our site was very muddy with no gravel or grass around the concrete patio. We had to buy a "Y" in order to get water even though our site was a water/electrical site. There was no cable or WIFI available. Getting to your site is a nightmare due to adults and kids walking, riding bikes, etc down the middle of the streets. The showerhouse near our loop only had one shower for men and one for women. The water was luke warm at best both times we used them. There are lots of seasonals and some are beginning to look run down. Overall, we were very disappointed with this park and the prices charged. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
I feel as though my family has been cheated out of a good camping trip. We would have gone somewhere else had we known how much change the campground had gone through. We were there 2 years ago and had a fantastic time, thus the return visit. Our children were tall enough now to use the water slides and with the addition of the splash pool we thought we were going to be in camping nirvana. Well we could not have been more wrong. From the moment when we arrived and noticed that our site (51) was directly across the road from the bathroom. This was puzzling to us because when we made the reservation we specifically asked the booking agent about the location of the site. And we were informed that the map was not to scale and that our site was 3 or 4 sites away from the bathrooms. We then observed a constant string of people, adults and kids alike, strolling through our site to get to the bathrooms. At first we were politely asking people to not walk through our camp site. But this was met with dirty looks and complete ignorance of our request. One such person was from site 86 directly behind us from the bathrooms. She started to walk through our site and again politely asked this person to go around. This was met with the reply, “this is how we get to the bathroom.” To which we replied “No, it isn’t. There is another bathroom down the road or you can go around on the road.” Her response was “well I am a seasonal camper and this is how we always go to the bathroom.” Well if this is the “standard” attitude of your seasonal campers then there is no wonder why your campground is going down the toilet. Saturday morning about 8:30 or so we decides to have a little chat with the “management.” We went to the registration building to voice our complaint. This was met with a response that left me with a little hope that our stay would get better. The person at the counter said, “The manager is on the campgrounds and I will radio him to stop and talk to you.” So then we returned to our site awaiting the visit to rectify this issue. They NEVER showed up. We waited at our site until 1:00 PM. We decided to make the best of a bad situation and continue our endeavor to have fun despite the rudeness and uncaring “neighbors” in the campground. This was not easy either. Just trying to move from point A to point B anywhere in the campground was journey of danger at every corner. There were so many uncontrollable children running, riding, and moving about the roads that would literally take us longer to drive than to walk. After a day of activities with our kids we return to our site to be inundated by yet another barrage of campers who have no respect for anyone else walking through our site non-stop. This continued to happen right through our dinner. We had finally had enough. We went to the office again to talk to someone in charge. Which apparently there is no one willing or not to deal with us or our problem. We told the person behind the counter our ordeal of the past day and half, and how the manager never showed up and how we wanted to speak to someone NOW. This was met with a half hearted attempt at trying to contact the owner, the manager, or who ever they were trying to get in touch with to no avail. We were told that so-in-so is at a dance and probably can’t hear the radio and the owner isn’t answering the phone, and so on. This was at 8:30 PM, we pulled out of your sorry excuse for a campground at 9:10 PM. If you have rules, then are they supposed to be enforced? If they are then where were the people who enforce them? I certainly did not see anyone. And if the rules are just a token “guideline” then why post them at all? I guess this is the place for the family that wants to perpetuate the parenting pattern of the new generation. Their motto is “if someone else will watch out for my kids then why should I?” Unfortunately this attitude is spreading and I can think of no other place on earth it is more prevalent than at your place of business. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
Activities for children at this campground are great. Now the road noise! This campground does not mention that it is right on a freeway. We could not sleep at night and left 3 nights early from our cabin. When we told them that we were checking out they just said ok. Really busy. Pools were great but you would have to stay there all day to relax. We camped here in a Campground Cabin.
This is one of the best parks we have stayed at (have stayed here over 20 times) and probably the best Jellystone anywhere! They have concrete pads at most of the full hook-up sites (most of them are pull-thru) and PAVED ROADS throughout the park. Plus waterslides, a indoor pool, a outdoor pool (now they have added an expanded water-play area), putt-putt, nice playgrounds and BINGO all weekend long! They consistantly have a great staff of people and seem to always be around the park aware of what is going on. They put family-first in everything they do. Some have complained in previous reviews that they seem to have gotten too big, but I feel they have adapted well to their success and should be applauded for it! We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
The most family park we have ever been too. So much to do for everyone! Have not been there since 2002 due to are move but we sure miss it! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Park is well-maintained. If you are a single mother with 6 uncontrollable kids, this is the place for you!!!! It's like camping in a daycare center! We observed a lot seasonals walking through transient campsites. We didn't have that problem because we were in the "new" area - grass sites that back up to the interstate!!! Oy vey - talk about highway noise. There must be some type of sign or something out on the highway that advertises the campground, because every 5 minutes or so a truck would go by laying on the horn for 10 - 15 seconds as they went by! Even though it was like camping in a rest stop (a rest stop with a daycare, that is), these sites were HUGE!!! Probably 100 feet distance between the cg road and the campsite - we had tons of room to set up badminton AND croquet, and played bocce ball without venturing into neighbors' sites. The saving grace here is that there is a LOT to do for kids, including well-planned activities that even us parents participated in ("ceramics", other arts/crafts). Once was enough for us, though. We now stay at other cg's in the area when we travel up there. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
After hearing a lot of good things about this park, we decided to give it a try. While it was a nice park, it was not our style. It was just too big. We had a hard time backing into our site because there were so many people and they would not stay clear of our truck. Maybe if we were in the back of the park, we would have had a different experience. The showers were another thing, you had to stand there and push the button to keep the water running and it was mostly cold. It looks like they added sites without adding bathrooms and shower capacity. This is an example of bigger is not always better. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This campground has gone from a very nice place to stay and visit to a very poor example of a jellystone park. The prices are going up so much that you can almost afford to stay in a good motel, plus some of the service that were there before have been discontinued even as the prices went up such as cable TV and wireless internet service. There is a lot to do for the children but the sites are very small and on a weekend you cannot move around in the park; it is so crowded and dangerous with many of the services such as game room, golf, store being located right at the main entrance to the camping areas. We will not go back; have gone for years and went twice this year but it has gotten too big to be fun. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This campground has grown too fast and they have lost sight of the customer. They did have wireless service and have removed it, they did have cable tv and removed it, our experience in past years were pretty good, but since they have grown so much the people are not as friendly or helpful, they have a take it or leave it approuch now, yet the rates keep going up. We will not go back and that is after having gone there for many years. Growth has hurt them. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
They do a great job and have a bunch of activities fo the kids. We usually stay there a week so the $22 bracelet that allows unlimited water slide, paddle boat use and mini golf is well worth it. I do think that for the cost per night, they could make the train rides and hayrides free. Only a quarter or so, but still kind of anoying. They have added about 75 new sites since last summer and are building 6-8 very nice/large rental cabins. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This is a very nice park. They have three waterslides, minigolf, two pools of which one is indoor, pedal carts, paddle boats and lots of daily activities. I would guess about half of the spots are seasonal. My only real complaint this trip was our site only had one 30 amp hookup that it shared with another site. I was told this was the only site that shared and they are to be rented together. Unfortunately, we had to run our refrig on propane all weekend as the 20 amp we got did not operate it. Also, this is a very busy park with lots of kids as you would expect at at Jellystone so just be aware of it ahead of time. Overall, a great park. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.