Big Ridge State Park Campground

NOT big rig friendly. Very skinny drive to the campsite with narrow turns. When we arrived at the campground, there was a car parked in our campsite that belonged 2 campsites down. Park rangers weren’t very apologetic for the inconvenience, they just laughed it off after they made her move the car. The park ranger residence and the maintenance building were right next to our campsite and it looked like both buildings hasn’t been cleaned up in years. There was stuff and garbage everywhere. We were supposed to stay for 3 nights but left a day early.

It’s a small campground with 51 sites with some closed off due to prior flooding damage. There are lots of ticks right now so beware. Also came across a European hornet.

There are beautiful trails to hike here. The sites are spacious but many are not places for best privacy with the door on the street or in angle and seeing everyone down the lane.

Lake is nice and people swim and fish.

It seems to be a hot spot for locals to come camp.

Several hairpin curves to get here.
Very quiet here.

Rate of 32.45 is an average over 6 days including taxes.

The park has plenty to do. Swim, fish, kayak, boat, hike, bike (hilly). Did not use bath house don’t know if clean or not. Decent camping spots many were better and shaded Better. Dint like fire pits behind camper, some water spigots were on the incorrect side, but you can tell this used to be mostly tent and has been adapted For Rv and trailer.
Site 16 and 17 would be great for good friends and family as they are very close with picnic tables and fire ring in the back. I would not have chose this site because of this. As it turned out our neighbors lived close to where we lived and were extremely nice. Water was extremely close very walkable. We parked our kayak on the beach below. There are sites that are better suited for having personal crafts. The campground was maintained pretty well, mowed and weed eatted (sp)? No sewer hookups.

Despite the park being practically deserted, the bathrooms were filthy. We requested they be cleaned on two occasions but there was never any evidence that happened. The only action we saw out of the ranger was a daily drive by. Were the park busy, the sites would have been way too close together. The whole place is very poorly maintained.