Laura S. Walker State Park

What a beautiful surprise for my journey south this winter. Spacious sites on gravel, clean, LEVEL. Woods and water views from everywhere. Even if your site isn’t on the water, you can probably see it, and/or pull your chairs into a pretty spot of setting sun and see the sun shimmer on the lake. Power, water, cell phone signal, wi-fi—everything I needed to work remotely during my brief stopover. Had a great shower with super water pressure in a very clean bath house. Enjoyed talking to the park rangers at the office —and the little “mascot kitties” they care for— and ride my bike around. Enjoyed listening to the distant trains in the night—not loud enough to be jarring at ALL. Only 13 minutes to town (and Kroger). Beautiful kayak launch—can’t wait to come back to paddle when it’s warmer. Already made my return reservations for next year—on a lake site. ;)

Quite and peaceful. If you seek excitement, go elsewhere. Park Rangers are good friendly folks. Paved roads all around, but larger (40+) rigs can be tight in some parts. Site access is generally good, and the Host are there to help. The park, like all Georgia State Parks, now lets you choose your site when you reserve it. Lake front sites (4) go quick and we try for #12. Most every site is level and fine gravel plus some are handicap with paved pads. Two bath houses are nice and clean. Use a water filter though, as with most well water in this area, it is sulfur. They do treat it with chlorine, so showering is not so bad, but it has a strange odor and taste, it is nature, not the park that controls this and not unlike city water systems along the coast. Washers and Dryers are provided. Like other campgrounds in the south, bugs, including yellow and black flies can be seasonal, and it is near the largest swamp in the South, so expect wildlife. The lake can be busy on weekends as they allow jet skis, water skiing, and power boats during certain times of the day. Weekdays are quite. The have a bark park, otherwise dogs must be leashed. Cell service is 2 bars at best, but the camp now offers free wifi at check in which worked good. Camp host are wonderful but unfortunately camp office has very little for supplies. They do sell ice, and very basic needs, but no store. Closest Walmart and city of size is Waycross about 9 miles away. Jekyll Island is an hour away. Okefenokee Swamp Park is 15 minutes away.

Summary: Great place for weekend or longer stay.

Nice quiet campground with a beautiful lake. I really wish they had full hookups, though! The facilities were clean, which was appreciated since our tanks did get too full. There were some nice trails to explore and the biking was easy. Waycross and Blackshear are two nearby towns in case you need supplies or get back to civilization for a few hours. We got 6 TV channels and the decent internet signals. I only mention this because it did rain a lot and we were stuck inside the coach. All in all, it is a beautiful little campground with an interesting history. We will probably be back, but will definitely try to get a spot with a lake view.

When reserving, you get an inside loop or lakefront. There weren't any lakefront spots, so we were just on the other side from them. We had beautiful views of the lake. Check-in is odd because you pick your spot, other that that, the stay was perfect.

Super quiet, with birds and beautiful. sunrises. There is a small bike trail through the woods on the other side of the main road, which was fun... There is also another one that leads you to a walking bridge to cross the lake.

Cheap laundry @ .75 a load.

We were only here for one night on our way someplace else so we didn't spend much time here. I'm writing this quick take review because as of now there are no other reviews of this campground on Campendium and I'd hate to think that someone down the line did not stop here because there wasn't a review.

This is a very nice smaller Georgia State Park on a man made lake. Five or six of the sites are directly on the lake and these are the ones you want to snag if you can (although the non waterfront sites are very nice as well.)

There is W/E at each site and they work well. There is a dump station on-site which we did not use but appeared to be easily accessible even by the largest rig.

The campsites are large and well spaced out. There is not a lot of screening between sites but they are far enough apart that privacy is not an issue.

As a State Park, there is no campground wifi. Our Verizon worked well enough for web surfing and email was but was not good enough to stream video.

There are no highways or train tracks within earshot so this place is very quiet.

This campground is a good place to use as a base to visit the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. While there is a campground on the refuge proper it's location is such that the distance to the visitor center and concessionaire who rents canoes and gives boat tours is about the same as from Laura S Walker State Park. The principal advantage of this CG vs. the refuge's CG is that there is internet here and you are closer to town for supplies.