Lofgren Memorial Park

Called Carrie the camp host day-of and left a message. She responded quickly and said there's plenty of room. Sites are level and long. A few appear to be designed to have a pair of shorter campers back-to-back if necessary. So consider that before setting up. Carrie and her family were super-nice, helpful, and engaging. We stayed in June 2023 with minimal mosquitoes. There's a fire ring in each site. Sites are gravel lanes or grass. There's a boat launch into the river on site, a tennis/basketball court, and a frisbee golf course. There may be more that I just didn't see. Payment is cash only with an "iron ranger." The fire siren does one round at 10pm. Not sure if that's a daily occurrence. We were there Fri/Sat nights. Made me check the weather, though! I guess it's a "go to bed!" alarm for the whole town. Maybe a weekly test for the firefighters.

The allure of this place is simply that it was at the right place, at the right time for us. Otherwise, it’s like a city park–tennis courts, basketball, even a disc golf course–with camping all around.

Price was $15 for a tent site, without electric, but it wasn’t apparent if that meant you could have a normal site and just not use the electric or if you were supposed to just find a grassy patch and setup your tent. In any event, site #6’s electric box didn’t work. A fifth wheel in another area appeared to be plugged in though, and no generators were running. I docked the good folks running the place 1 Star since I paid for electric but didn’t get it, even though we never would have used it anyway.

There are two “types” of spots. Most are all RV Park style close in a large open area right up front, on the road (which sees almost no traffic save the sheriff occasionally driving by or kids on quads). Those would be full sun hot spots.

The second is three or four sites tucked away into trees, with much larger portions of the park allotted to each site, and considerably more shade.

Most sites have a fire ring and picnic table. Ours literally had four.

I would give this place a four if the electric had worked, or if I’d known ahead of time and only paid the iron ranger $15, but largely because it reminds me of a park I used to play in as a kid back home in PA.

Toilet was super nasty. Verizon was great.