Nice, well kept campground. Lots of space for each site and the hosts were great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnRqLIuydE read more

Great lakefront views and swimming access. Super friendly staff. Very clean. We went during the week and it was peaceful. Lovely sunrises!

Such a great place. The hosts are super nice and always cleaning the sites. We'll definitely be back. Also several people said the sites are backwards as far as hookups and they're wrong, these are back in sites! read more

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Read the reviews and reread the reviews. Camp host are a nightmare. We game in after dark and was told we couldn't hook up water because of outside temperature. Approached a few minutes later telling us not to park on grass. We were not. Approached again saying all cars had to be on the pad before we even got the camper pulled into the site. Ok, we got it. Next morning walk to bathroom for shower. Locks on one shower stall and one toilet stall do not lock. Showers have one hook and no bench for clothing or area to change. Had to bring in a camp chair to place dry items outside shower stall. Because of this your either are now trying to dress in a wet shower stall or standing out in the open for the camp host to walk in on you. Seriously, she stands there while I am dressing. No garbage cans in bathrooms. All garbage cans in the park have signs taped to them telling you not to place personal trash in them that it is to be taken to one location within the campground. The dumpster has the same sign. Guess they don't want to have to earn the $30 nightly rate by emptying trash cans. Also the website and the email sent after making a reservation provide conflicting information of park times(opening/closing/check-in/check-out). You might want to review this before making a reservation because the HOST again are a nightmare. They padlock the gates from 10:30 PM to 7AM. If you have to leave non emergency you are cited and they will not offer a refund for not telling you this when you make your paid reservation. Berated my husband, myself, and then waited till we had left our camper to post a note on the door. We got the message the first go around. This should be illegal to lock people in. They can afford to place traffic control spikes at the exit so people can leave if necessary. Campsite electrical and water hook ups are backwards. If you want a view of the lake which is part of the reason for being here, you have to run lines under your camper. Awkward uneasy layout. read more

We were so surprised to see any reviews for less than five stars. This campground is clean, beautiful, well-maintained and on a breathtaking piece of lakeside property. What more could any camper want? We will return, for sure! read more

My husband came the for the first time the 3rd weekend of may with our kids. There were Rangers always at the gate while it was unlocked. The two people who were there were polite, however the lady reminded me of more of what I know about "new.yorker" style politeness, not the softer kind we are used to down south. No biggie, it can be overlooked The older man was the softer politeness that we're accustomed to. When checking it it was explained that the gates are locked at 1030pm and reopen at 7am. No fines were mentioned to us for locked gate arrival/exit. We got a tent spot overlooking the lake and it was peaceful. I didn't like that we were also close to the main rd, but our site was so far off the cliff of the rd, it didn't matter in the end. We had no electricity (but knew that when we reserved ) but there were picnic tables, a fire pit and a spigot for water. There was also a long pole with hooks, great for drying towels or hanging a latern. My husband and plan to go back again this summer. read more

Screw this place. They LOCK ALL THE CAMPERS IN AT 10:30. If you want to arrive after that time you are out of luck. If you arrive before that time you are held captive until morning. Nowhere is this information posted, and the folks who answered the phone were sarcastic, smug and unhelpful about it. We called on our way to Atlanta to verify the late night check-in process only to realize we had been screwed with not a modicum of empathy from the staff and had to scramble around to find alternate lodging at the last minute. read more

Well this was a first for me!! Been to many campgrounds asking to look at campsites and marking favorable sites on their map as I go. But the most hateful rude woman at the gate when we returned said we only had 15 minutes and we were in the park an hour and we were not supposed to getboutbofvour car. Now, we had reservations for Memorial Day and had driven from Tuscaloosa County to check our site out beforehand which I could not cancel fast enough!! And her husband was about as bad followed us around on a scooter then in his truck yelling at us to go back to the gate like we were criminals!! We love COE campgrounds and stay at many of them but not this one as lone as those two people are there!!!! read more

This was my first stay at this campground. I would give the scenery a big thumbs up, but it goes downhill from there. I used the bathrooms, bath house, and laundry facilities. All three of these are in the same building with different doors. The bathrooms look old and rusty, but they work. There is only one stall and one urinal per location. There are two showers in the bath house. Neither one has anywhere to hang a shower bag with accessories. If you put it on the floor, or your clothes on the floor, it will be soaked. The stall was big enough where I thought putting my clothes all the way to the back would protect them, but the floor is not sufficiently slanted to drain the shower water so the floor ends up with a 16th inch water within the 10 ft long stall and soaks everything. The washroom has one coin operated washer, and one coin operated dryer. Best to get your laundry done early. I stayed in the tent area with my dog. My dog barked at people who came close to my camp (which I thought was perfectly normal) but apparently some RVers did not appreciate it and reported me. I was evicted the next day. No refund for the other days I had paid for. It seems they cater to RVers and if a lowly tent person gets a complaint, your outta there. read more

Want to camp super close to your neighbors? Like the 50/50 odds you'll have to walk around your camper or tent to use the picnic tables - opposite of the camp fire. Have a questions about.. anything.. enjoy guessing since no one is ever at the entrance. I will absolutely never stay here! But thats just me, let me explain. Never in my life have I seen such ridiculousness. Reservations can only be made online, np. No attendants at the gates - ever - um, ok. Locking campers IN and FINING them $50 if they want to leave.. excuse me? My boyfriend and I came up to visit some friends, a couple that had rented a weekend spot for their camper, and had the 8pm football game on. Game went on late, around midnight, and we said our goodbyes and tried to leave. The next 2 hours were pretty much mind blowing. The gates were down and padlocked. No number to call, no in case of emergency, nothing. Found online that there are volunteers that are "hosts" on the property and have a key. I hated to wake someone up that late, so we called several other numbers, thinking someone in one facility had to be around. Nothing. Finally decided to call the local Sheriffs department to see if they had a number we could reach someone at (vs knocking and waking up volunteers). Sheriffs told us a officer was near and would come. He came but didn't have a key, so instructed us to wake the Camp Hosts. When we tried to do that they screamed at us and said we didn't have an emergency and that we were going to be cited. Also something along the lines unless its a medical emergency we couldn't leave... are you kidding me? That's when my phone rang the Sheriffs office again saying a ranger was in rout and to make our way to the gates again. But surprise surprise, the super pissed Park Ranger didn't even have a key. He ended up making the Hosts come down and unlock the gates and then fined us $50 for "waking him up". They had no signs stating the gates would be locked at 10pm. There was a sign on the side of the building about visitors leaving at 9:30.. unfortunately for us when we drove in around 8pm it was dark and didn't see it. Our friends who had made the reservations looked all over their paperwork and it said nothing about gates closing. The way this was handled was just awful. Shame on the "Hosts" for not being at the gates all weekend and passing out paperwork with this information.. that the Ranger said was supposed to be done (but overlooked it since they all seemed to be first name basis buddies). They even added that we were yelling when it was actually the other way around, especially when we began apologizing profusely for waking them up. The Ranger and Hosts were full of assumptions and acting like we were a bunch of kids partying it up. For the record, the 5 of us are all working, law abiding citizens, in our 30s and do not deserve that kind of judgment for enjoying a campfire and football game on a Saturday night. Moving on - I understand the parks do not "bring in enough money for employees", but it would be great if you take the $50 I will be paying in fines and get some signage! read more

I arrived at the campground after 5 and no one was at the check in. In fact, the entrance was never manned the whole time I was there. The website shows parking spots on the tent sites, but all the gates on the road are locked so you have to carry gear in. Not a big deal but they should tell you. I had site 41 but there were no signs telling you how to get there. After walking around for half an hour I found the sites down a road that parallels Buford dam road. Again the gates on the road were locked and I had to carry gear in. Once we got to the site, it was dirty with dead dried fish and cigarette butts everywhere. As the site was along Buford dam road we listened to traffic all the time. People like to blow their horns all hours just to disturb the campers. The site itself was on the lake but with all the issues I will never camp here again. Don't trust the campsite diagram on recreation.gov because it doesn't show you are 50 feet from the road. If you go check out the campground 1st or you will be disappointed. Some sites are nice, but you have to be very selective. The gates are locke d at 10:30 and they don't have a key pad for you to get in. So if you want to come or go you are out of luck. read more