Crow's Creek Campground

I was here in the off season and it was a beautiful park. The rangers were doing spring maintenance while I was there getting it ready for summer.

There are many asphalt trails for biking and hiking. I did see some equestrian camping so I assume that there are horse trails as well. I don't have a boat and it was too cold for paddle boarding but the lake was clear and blue.

There were 6+ showers in the shower house and the facilities were clean and well maintained.

The roads are a bit twisty to get to the campsite, but if you follow the signs it was simple to find. I worked remotely here all week and had no issues with connectivity using Verizon.

This county campground is just gorgeous. It is large with long trails that go around this park and others around it. This park has a 7 mile trail that follows the water line. Spacious sites, well maintained lawn, trees and natural water side. Deer and geese and lots of birds.

Lake is just beautiful to look at. Electric only site but there seems to be some loops that have water and electric.

Getting here was a bit windy road… the gps apps all are nutty these days. It’s off the main roads so if you are just passing through like we are it does mean taking a bit of a side detour.

Check-in was easy, station was manned, just tell the host your site # and get a tag for your car. There are some trees but most sites are in the sun. Sites are fairly close together, during the week there are few campers, weekends it fills up. The 3 sites next to us had 15 cars parked all over the grass (not permitted according to the rules), but on weekends anything goes. Sites are gravel with electric only and plug ins are fairly new. Water is available at all loops. Shower building was clean with 8 shower stalls. RT 92 was closed for repairs, the detour adds about 5 miles to the trip. Fairly easy to find with signs directing you to the campground. They don't allow any changes within 24 hours of your first reserved day. So if you reserve 30 days and get within 24 hours of your first day, you can't adjust at all.

I really struggled with whether to write this. So I'll explain the story...

The camp host was off duty when we arrived, we picked a site and went and goofed off for a few hours and decided to ride up to the gate to pay. I hand my license to the camp host. The camp host says that is place she'll never go to because of "those people". After about 5 minutes I figured out that "those people" was me and in all I was subjected to 20 minutes of political hate speech. While I was perfectly polite, I really was offended.

Regarding the campground. The place is huge. 400+ sites. Lots of lake side and Lakeview sites. There is a nice bike trail and lots more to the park. Bathrooms and showers were fine.

This whole rec area is huge an there is lots to do here.

We enjoyed camping at this lake/campground, but sites were expensive, particularly with no water supplied at individual campsites for most sites -- electricity only. There was potable water available from spigots to fill your fresh water tank, though. Sites were clean and looked level -- ours was. We were able to use the camp dump facility before leaving. My husband used the shower facility and reported the showers are both strong and hot. This is a nice close-to-Kansas City campground and because of that we were able to have family and friends "visit" us -- part of our reason for choosing to camp here. We asked the camp host and no discount is available even for county residents, for veterans, or for any other affiliation.

Great campground overall. Sites were a bit close together. Many sites are shared drive, but they don't indicate that on the web site, so you don't know when booking you may be very close to your neighbor. Had my neighbor been a big rig like us, we would likely have had a challenge.

Other than that, great campground with lake views and lots of shade. We will be back but will try and pick our site better next time.

2nd time camping in our Class C. Close to home so we came 2 weeks ago and picked out spot and prepaid. Site attendant was extremely helpful and provided us a receipt with our reserved spot number. Our first time camping at a for profit RV park a few weeks ago was a disaster and this place was night and day different. Lots of large old Oak trees so very shady. Didn’t even use awning on 2nd day. 30/50 amp and water. No sewer but they do have a sewer dump on your way out. Bath and shower houses immaculate. Site was large. Lake sites available but very packed in over there. Also have stables for people that bring horses and camp sites near your horses. Very organized and accessible! We will be back! Picnic table and fire ring at all sites and bathrooms close by. Showers were farther away. Walking trails.