Robertson Park

I had to double check to see if I was at the same campground as some of the other reviewers since I experienced something totally different. The campsites were very small and unlevel and crowded together. Most of them were taken up by ratty looking rigs that seemed to be long-timers with lots of stuff piled around their sites. It is on a lake and there is tons of shade.

We decided to move on.

Just gorgeous, hardly anyone else here, spacious and beautiful lake front sites in the woods. A dream place! Camp host was very kind and greeted us right away, and when she learned we didn't need power for the night she recommended we go to the dispersed area for an even more private experience. Paid $15 for the night, dumped our tanks and filled with water before we left. Grateful for the county providing this beautiful space to travelers. Firewood available by donation.

We are very pleased with this campground. It’s so peaceful. We came in on Sunday night and there were plenty sites available. Right when you come in there is the dump site and fish cleaning house. The campground also has a $2 discount for seniors Mon-Thur. There are 2 other parks on this lake but this one is the one with trees. There are a lot of oak trees so the acorns are dropping. Sites have water and 30/50 electric. Nice picnic tables and fire rings. Waterfront sites have 7 day maximum.
There are a lot of trails around to explore. Fun times checking out the frogs next to the water. There is an island out in the middle of the lake with a large number of pelicans around. One of the county employees told us about a historic cemetery that we will look for another day. There is an observation tower also.
For those who tent camp this is a great place for that too. Nice large sites that are secluded with grills, fire rings and picnic tables.

We needed a place to stay because we decided to delay our trip east on 90 because of storms that were brewing in Wi/Il.

For our unscheduled stop, we checked Campendium for camping suggestions and reviews for the area. We decided to stay here for the night.

Like the other reviewers, we enjoyed our night here and wished we had more time in our schedule to stay longer.

The camp host was nice. She stopped by and said hello, and made sure we knew where everything was.

My teenage girls enjoyed the trails and came across a pioneer's cemetery which they found fascinating.

If you are like me and love looking at the water then it's worth the 15 min drive off of 90.
If this park is full, there are 2 other parks close to this park that looked just as nice.

Stopped here for the night and were so happy to do so!
All that said in the previous review is still true apart from the noise level. It was close to full when we were here in July but all is quite and no road noise at all. We had a waterfront spot on the lake with beautiful view of the lake and gorgeous sunset.
$20/nite gets you a water, electric site with dump station at the entrance.
This is one of 3 County parks/campgrounds and the furthest away from I90 ( about 15 min. drive). Well maintained, clean and fire pit and picnic tables allocated for each site.
There is also a a well maintained playground for kids and all 3 campgrounds are connected through a paved bike trail that winds through and along the lake. Boat docks are close and in the middle campground there is a small sand beach. Mature trees give shelter from the sun.
Sites are large enough for big rigs and RVs but some would require effort on order to get leveled ( ours did...) though it was well worth it as our site was waterfront with no neighbors to the correct side ( passenger side where our door is)
There is a camp host in each of the 3 County campsites and firewood is supposed to be provided ( ran out when we were there). All in all, recommended.

This is a two part campground. Straight ahead and up the hill is a dispersed dry camping area with many spots in the woods great for tenting and some accessible to campers. We did find three places we could fit our forty foot fifth wheel in the woods and enjoyed that until our batteries needed us to go to the other area for electrical hookups.

As you enter the campground from the highway, if you go left there is a ‘normal’ campground with about thirty back-in sites of varying lengths all having electric hook ups. Our site (#6) had 15, 30, and 50 amp connections. Some of the sites were smaller, but many could easily fit fifty plus feet in length. If the campground were full, it might be a little crowed for us as some of the sites were close together with most of the oak and walnut trees large and tall leaving not much lower branches to hide from other sites. Each site had a fire ring and presumably picnic tables (presumably because they were all put away for the winter).

The park is on loon lake and has its own boat access and a couple docks. A well groomed and maintained place with some hiking trails and a paved biking trail leaving the park to the south and west for miles (don’t know how far, didn’t go to the end). There is a public bathroom and shower house in the main camp area and a public bathroom and picnic shelter in the upper area. Only a few miles from Lake Okoboji, IA, this would be a great place to get away from the ‘parking lot’ camping around there if you wished to partake in the tourist fun of the area.

We stayed eight days in late october and were the only people around. We had three bars for Verizon service. There is a drop box for payment which was fifteen dollars for the non-electric and twenty for the electric. There is firewood on site with a suggested donation of fifty cents per log.

The only negative was the proximity to the highway. It’s not a very well traveled road, but when someone drives by you do here them in the main campground. The upper area is far enough away that we didn’t here anything when in the woods. Of the three county parks within a couple miles of each other, this is by far the most ‘woodsy’. We liked it and would come again.