High Falls County Park

We have been camping at High Falls for 30 yrs. 3 -5 times a year. We started a family reunion 20 yrs ago that included 9 – 12 campsites for a week each year. Approx 10 yrs ago it started going down hill and has gotten worse every year. The staff is on a power trip and hunts for things to correct you or threaten you. They are very rude! They repeat themselves several times to try to intimidate you and show their authority especially to women. Every year they looked for something to yell at us about….

**Last week…..I had 2 cars on my site, the campers across the street with one car, allowed my daughter to park on their site for a few hours on Saturday. My husband dropped the boat and someone took his parking spot at the boat parking area, he had to drop the trailer in a car spot, and bring the truck to our site. Making 3 cars on my site. Late afternoon, my friend came in with jet ski’s and told them he was staying the night with us. I had already told my friend to pay the day rate and park in the public parking something should be open by then. Because 3 people came in on Saturday and told the attendant they were coming to my site, “Ranger Ed” came to tell me I had too many cars on my site and I need to rent a campsite for my Truck/boat trailer and Jet ski trailer. Yet all other campers get free boat parking and my friend paid just like any other day user and parked the jet ski in the trailer area. I told him I would gladly pay the $5 per day for the extra Jet ski parking. But he insisted I needed to rent an extra site. And told me he would “allow me to pay and park the jet ski trailer for the day but his supervisor may say differently”. Then he claimed he had trouble with me every year, referring he remembered my car. Which is a lie…We quit going to High Falls 4 years ago because of the rude staff. I have been to High Falls and driven that car once in the last 3 years, only because our family reunion was held there. I let him know several times we would not be back!!

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**5 years ago, I had a street legal golf cart picking up someone that parked outside the gate so they could leave for work early the next morning. The staff at the gate started yelling at me that I could not drive the golf cart after dusk. (For years we had been driving after dark at Garden City, and other parks) All I said was “Ok” and he kept yelling at me. I told him “I understand you don’t have to be so rude” and he screamed he was not rude and kept yelling at me. The next morning, the Park Ranger visited me just to show his authority.

** The staff told us we could not even transport our handicap persons to the bathroom after dusk on the golf cart…. After several days, the park ranger allowed my uncle to use his after dark.

** Campsites are horrible!!! Tree roots everywhere. And if you do not fall over the tree roots you slide on the red clay ground partially covered with gravel. For the past 5 years at our family reunion someone has fallen and had to go to the ER or urgent care!

**After a day of boating, my brother took the trash from the boat and set it by his car, as he was getting something from his tent to take all to the dumpster. Staff was riding by and stopped, opened his trash bag, and saw a dozen beer cans and jumped on me, (a woman) 2 sites down. They rudely threaten to kick everyone at all 12 sites out of the park because we were a group. (Families 1yr old – 75yrs old) All because 4 were drinking on the boat somewhere on the lake.

** We normally pack up and go boating until 4pm on Sunday on check out day. The first 25 years they gave us permission to us leave our packed camper on an unused site for the extra 4 – 5 hours. Three years ago they charged us for an extra day without even telling they were going to charge us.

** One year (Family Reunion) we had all campsites booked around us and on both sides of the street. About 25 of us was sitting around the camp fire and one was playing the guitar and singing Christian songs... We were told by staff that we had to break it up we were too loud!

** One year we were at a friend’s campsite, playing corn hole, I told them to finish up it was close to 10pm. As they were throwing their last couple of bags, the Park Ranger shows up at 10:02! (Staff/Host had called and complained)