Roosevelt State Park

We were on our way to another location and got a call that they were closed due to downed trees on power lines. What a lucky break to find this park. Situated on the edge on the Bienville National Forest. Lovely lake views. Roads were nice and wide, sites level and wide with full hook ups. About 4 1/2 miles of hiking trails that were well marked and crossed each other. Nice roads for biking. Facilities were fine with washer and dryer. Also there is a game room, disc golf and water park in the summer.

Making our way down to New Orleans via the Natchez Trace and this seemed like a good place for a stop over. I wish I had know how terrible the back roads were into this park. I would have spent another 45 minutes and went around to HWY 20. That's how bad MS 483 is. Usually I enjoy the county highways. Less traffic, less stress. Not the case here. Save yourself the trouble and only use the main roads.

With that behind me, the park itself was only about 10% full on the weekdays (early Nov). On the weekend it filled up to maybe 30% but certainly not crowded.

There's nothing to do around here as far as shopping and dining activities so we pretty much hung out at the park for a few days. I have read other reviews mentioning trash at the sites. The policy here is that you put your trash bag out and they do a few drives throughs every day and pick it up. This seems great until someone leaves it out overnight and the critters spread it around. And then no one apparently cleans it up....ever. So I did see some trash and it was a bummer but it wasn't as bad as some of the reviews make it.

Overall, a decent stop over with a good price. I wouldn't stay here again but I didn't hate it.

Site accessibility (easy to back in, plenty of room, but the roads in the park are crap and it's a 2 mile drive down those crappy roads to the campground) - 2
Campground location (Near the Bienville National Forest and Jackson) - 3
Nearby amenities (Walmart 20 minutes away but nothing else really) - 2
Site Privacy (Spacious sites but not much privacy) - 3
Campground amenities (Bathrooms/showers decently clean. 1 clean washer and dryer at the bath house) - 3
Dog friendly (Excellent walking loops, hiking and plenty of space) - 5
Activities (Disc Golf, hiking, tennis, swimming beach, water slide) - 3
Cost ($24/night for 50 amp full hookup premium water site) - 5
Staff friendliness (Check in lady was friendly. Didn't meet any other staff) - 3
Connectivity (Decent signal w/out a booster for both ATT and Verizon with good download speeds. Excellent OTA. All major channels) - 5
Total rating = 3.4