Whitten Park Campground

This park at one time must have been a beautiful place and can be again. It has fallen into neglect. Trails are overgrown. Boards on decks are rotten. We were scared to walk out on them. It definitely needs some TLC.
My husband said the men's showers were really low and no way to adjust them. Like made for children, short people. I had no problem in mine. They both had pressure and hot water. They were clean.
We had electric and water and there is a dump. We did have some TV reception and spotty to no internet. Our site was level.
But would have enjoyed it a bit more if we could have walked the paths without briars.
Nevertheless, we would still stay here again if in the area.
With our park pass, we were able to get the site at half price.

We are full-timers in a 36 ft Class A with a Cherokee Trailhawk tow. We were in site 049 for just one night in mid March. The CG is very clean, quiet, peaceful and well maintained. The pads are all concrete with gravel picnic table areas and most sites have reasonable separation.

AT&T coverage was quite good, with 2-3 bars of 5GE and speeds of ~12 MB/s. We were not able to get DISH coverage on any of the western satellites at our site do to the area being heavily wooded. We were able to get 15 OTA channels with our omni antenna. Our site had an open area next to it so we were able to get decent Starlink coverage, with only intermittent dropouts and speeds of 4+ MB/s, but most of the other sites wouldn’t fair so well.

The campground (CG) is easy to find. They opened the check-in gate as we arrived a little before 3:00 PM. The very friendly lady at the gate quickly checked us in, and we were off to the first and only loop that was open in early January. We paid $12.50 with America the Beautiful Pass. We proceeded to site 6 with water & electric (50/30/20 AMP) and backed in with no issues. Site 6 is a wide site, so we had no problems parking our F450 after we unhitched. The CG was not very full this time of year and middle of the week though several rigs came in around dusk. The water pressure as is the norm at most COEs, was over 60 psi, so we used a reducer. We got a fair amount of OTA channels and 4 bars on Verizon. Satellite would have been iffy in this site due to the trees. Whitten has really nice trails that weave down through little valleys to and from the river, which were really nice for walking our dogs. We’ve stayed here before, but this time was just an overnighter. This campground is a great base camp to explore the area and especially the Elvis attractions around Tupelo. In addition, Piezons Pizza in Fulton is one of the best pizza places we’ve come across in our travels.We highly recommend this CG.

It's a nice reserved area corps of engineers Park. Spaces are $14 or $15 if you're a senior with the national park senior pass. We were in the first loop a lot of empty spaces on Halloween. Sites closest to the water are the $15 sites but all sites are very nice. Has 30 and 50 amp electric and water and an easy access sanitary dump.

We will plan to stay more than one day next time.

This is a wonderful COE park of which I can’t add much to the other reviews. Turns out on Halloween weekend many campers decorate their sites and the children go from camper to camper on Saturday. Some of the decorations are impressive.

There are several fishing piers, a gazebo, and also a beach on the third loop. There is also an historical center that is only open during the week, adjacent to the first loop. The staff is in the entrance kiosk from 3-6 pm. If you book site 9 you also get site 8 which makes for a very long pull through. Our rate is the Senior America Beautiful pass.

This was our first time visiting Whitten Park. We spent five nights over the Labor Day weekend camping with family. While it was crowded as you would expect most places to be on a holiday weekend, it was a very pleasant experience.

The park attendants and hosts are very kind and professional. We had no problems with check in and they even allowed us to check in a little early when we arrived.

The sites are broken up into three different loops with some water-view sites in each loop. All of the sites are paved concrete sites. Most appeared to be somewhat level, however several are short or have a steep incline leading up to the pad, so bigger rigs should investigate before booking. All sites have water and 30/50 amp electric. There are 2 or 3 sites with sewer. I know site 19 had sewer connection if that is important to you. Each loop has a bathhouse facility with restrooms and showers. They were clean, just no a/c. A big plus is that most every site is in the shade.

The park boasts several paved trails for walking and biking. There is a long pier that extends out over the water for some good sight seeing or fishing. There is a playground at the front of the park, a adequate swimming area, a boat ramp, and the entire campground is level enough for bike riding. There is also a historical center connected to the park that is open Monday thru Friday, but we didn’t experience it.

The park is easily accessed from the interstate and there is a Walmart and several restaurants within a five minute drive. The cell reception was good as well. The only down side is the lack of more sewer sites. Would definitely stay here again in the future.