Date(s) of stay:
June 2005

We stay at this park only once per year at family renunion time. It's not one of our favorites, but since the reunion is held in a nearby picnic shelter, convenience rules.

Levi Jackson State Park overall is a well maintained facility that gets many visitors throughout the year. The campground, however, is not as well maintained as the rest of the park.

There is a very nice pool about 1/2 mile from the campground. It is only four feet deep, but does have two water slides and proves to be fun for kids.

Bathhouses and restrooms have been always been excellent. Showers are always hot and there has always been plenty of toilet paper and hand soap.

The front sections of the campground are nice and kept clean of debris/trash, but when you approach the rear of the campground you start noticing the maintenance decline. I'm not trying to say there is paper and garbage laying all over the place, but that numerous small items litter the ground - plastic pop bottle tops, receipt papers, pieces of aluminum can, etc. There is enough of these items to speckle the ground and make it at the very least, untidy. Firepits at our site and others (on more than one occaision) were not cleaned out. I expect ash and wood remains to be in the firepit, but there has been aluminum foil and cans, melted plastic bottles and other items.

The grass is another area that is well-maintained in the front sections (A,B & C), but not so much in other sections. In most sites the grass is bare or very sparse. This looks to be mainly due to RVs being parked off the pavement. This also accentuates the trash problem. There is very little grass to hide it.

Campground policies request that RVs be kept on the guest's site, but don't specifically say to park on the pavement in sections other than A, B & C. The result is a mess that looks more like a carnival event than a campground. RVs were parked any way the owners could think of. What blew our minds were the people that would drive an RV onto a tent site that would barely fit the thing. Of course it wasn't parked on the pavement. How could it be when the pavent was made to fit a car or truck? We couldn't overlook this. I made a comment to the ranger that patrolled, but he said that it was out of his hands.

I have never seen a campground employee clean a site after a guest leaves, but it must be done sometime-just not enough or at the right time. At any given time I've seen at least two employees at the campground store and many times a third and fourth employee. These employees are in addition to the hosts at the campground. I don't know how many people it takes to maintain the whole campground, but I'm sure it doesn't take more than two people to run the store and check-in guests.

We will continue to stay at Levi Jackson State Park's campground simply because it's convenient to the family reunion. We'll just have to try harder to get one of the front sites (sections A,B & C) that are better maintained and less congested.