Potato Creek State Park Campground

Initial entry to the park requires a one-night entrance fee if you don't have an Indiana park pass. Subsequent nights are covered by the camping fee. Check in was simple and the staff was very helpful.

We stayed 2 nights in site 70 while visiting family. The site was close to level with a gravel parking area and a large maple tree in the back corner. Forest behind the site, so rather pleasant. Generally, this campground is wide open with scattered trees. Bathrooms were all functioning. Lot's of families rolled in Friday night, so it seems to be a big weekend destination for local folks.

We didn't really experience the park, but it contains a wide variety of landscapes with the lake, wetlands, and forest. Lots of fishing and kayaking going on. We were told the hiking is good as well, particularly since it's in Indiana farm country.

Easy access and equidistant from the bypass around South Bend/Mishawaka and US30 in Plymouth.

What a nice campground! We hiked, biked and kayaked. The hiking trails were very well maintained. A paved bike path was also nice. There is also a good sized beach for warmer weather days. It opens Memorial weekend and closes Labor Day.

Our campsite was very large and also well maintained. Most of the sites are quite open to daytime sun, so we used our awning a fair amount. The gravel pad was long and level. The electric post was about 45 feet away, so we used our extension. We knew that coming in as it is well communicated in the reservation site description.

Our Verizon cell reception only worked in the morning although there was Wi-Fi at the camp store and the nature center.

All in all it is a great place to camp.

This is a very nice State Campground with nice spacing, paved roads and gravel pads. Most all sites are back in w/ just a couple of pull thrus. Weekends are packed and busy with weekdays very quite.
Just some notes on some things I’d change. More water filling and dumping stations. AND . . . Get rid of the site post markers. Makes for more jockeying back and forth to line up to back in for us longer rigs. Understand it may help to keep from tire groves in the grass at the curb but maybe something that isn’t quite so high ? (Boulders) These are at least 3 ft high. I’ve seen other parks that paint the site number on the curb side of the road. Less of a hazard. Also, because of those posts, longer rigs (30ft & longer) would be best served using the outer perimeter sites. (Still some post challenges but fewer) And, I did get into the grassy area deeper into the site because of not being able to line up my rig better at the curb.
But these things would in no way keep me from returning. This is a very nice, very well maintained State Park Campground.

We stay here about 5 times a year as they are an hours drive from us. Spacious spots with lots of room. Large lake where it's trolling motors only and great to see no vacation homes surrounding the lake. Bike friendly and they have miles of paved trails and then some for dirt trails. Sites are electric only, so there is a line to fill up on Friday nights and the line is longer on Sunday when it's time to dump. We use a portable dump tank and fill up using jugs and a 12 volt transfer pump. Place gets filled up on the weekends so make sure you reserve on line 6 months out.

We didn’t know if we would be able to get a spot while driving through Indiana during the week, and were unable to make a reservation because ReserveAmerica won’t allow a same-day reservation and we were unsure of the exact day we would arrive. Thankfully we called ahead when we were about 2 hrs away and the ranger told us that had plenty of sites available. This campground is pretty huge, so we were happy to have a place for the night with free showers and trails to walk our dogs. Everyone says the weekends are booked out weeks (even months) in advance but weekdays seem to be less crazy.

It was a good place for us to stop on our cross county move (even during the COVID-19 pandemic).

It was a green oasis is this small town in rural Indiana. We were very surprised to be honest. Didn’t expect much when we were driving into town, but the sites and facilities were great!

Plan ahead if you want to stay here on a weekend. Getting a site is quite difficult, even when booking 6-8 weeks ahead, and in the autumn it's even worse. In early September it was impossible to find a weekend site until the park becomes "walkup only" in November. Please people, if you can't make the trip, cancel your site -- there were a few empties which were obviously booked but not used.

Look at photos and read site descriptions very carefully --- look for what could be muddy conditions.and level, especially along the treelines on the western edge, the sites are not quite as level as they appear. We had to move sites during our stay because it was impossible to level our rig even after deploying every leveling blocks we had - and we have a lot. Because it was so full, we had to suffer for 2 nights before a site was free. The one we landed in (105) was the more desirable spot.

The sites are spacious most have at least some shade provided an adult tree, although some of them are dying out and replaced by seedlings.

The park itself has a wonderful paved bike trail which will take you about 1/2 way around the lake where it mysteriously stops. Why it has never been extended I can't say. It also ends mysteriously not at the main gate but just at a random road inside the park.

The lake is manmade and suffers from the Bluegreen algae that plague so many reservoirs. There is a swimming beach, canoe rentals, bike rentals, and a small camp store. The prices were typical for such places.