This is a rustic camping area located on the Wading River. Excellent location for canoing in Wharton State Forest. This is not for motorhomes or travel trailers. Perfect for tents and popups. There is drinking water available as well as a usable bath house. Nothing fancy. Lots of Scout groups camping in here. Watch out for loose sand spots, you can get your vehicle stuck. Patrolled by NJ Park rangers who do enforce posted regulations. This location for those that enjoy and are equipped for rustic camping only. We camped here in a Tent.
Good park, clean and quiet (although the start of the season and during the week). They do have almost 75% seasonals all located towards the rear of the campground...all weekenders are placed towards the front of the campground. OUTSTANDING water pressure and easy hook-ups all located together making it easy to hook up. Office staff was very friendly and helpful in all aspects! There was an issue with a duck with a 6-pack plastic wrapper wrapped around it's beak that we notified maintenance staff and they did not do anything about it. The following day we notified the office staff and they stated they would call NJ Fish & Game. Would camp here again! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This is a good campground to base your trip to the Jersey Pine Barrens and even Atlantic City. Spacious pull thru sites made things real easy. You can take a canoe ride on the Wading River right from the campground. There are a lot of seasonals but plenty of room for transient traffic. We didn't use campground facilities so no comment there.The only negative is lack of any enforcement of the "quiet time" rules particularly at seasonal party sites. I would recommend this campground and we will return for another canoe trip! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
A large campground with many seasonal tenants... by that I mean live-ins. If you are looking for a quiet weekend get away this isn't the place. It is bustling with activity. From the large group style rental sites to the rental cabins.. this place was packed. The "wilderness" sites are your best bets if you are looking for privacy. Although we had to ask our neighbors to move the many extra cars on too many occasions just so we could get back into our site. They have a catch and release pond for fishing. The playground and pool were nice and kept the kids happy. Saturday night featured live music at the rec hall. Sunday was a nice Father's Day breakfast... Dad's eat free. Overall an ok weekend but we won't be returning.. Too much going on and too pricey. We camped here in a Motorhome.
When we first pulled up to the campground, I noticed a fence with barb wire surrounded the campground. Strange. The site we had was nice and roomy...but located at a corner with a busy intersection of golf carts flying by and people walking. A WARNING: GOLFCARTS SPEED IN THIS CAMPGROUND!! This place caters more to their seasonals then anything. Bathrooms were ok...the one by the office was really clean. I wonder why? We were awoken one morning (2:30AM) by a bunch of fireworks going off in front of our trailer (and down the road). I guess they were welcoming all us weekenders. I think this place was way too pricey (we paid $66 a night). It is nice that you can go tubing and canoeing there...at a extra fee, which I thought was crazy since we paid so much to camp. Nothing at all special about this place...Same as other campdgrounds. Just way OVERPRICED! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.