This park is one of our last due to the constraints - no dogs are allowed in the cabins, and the only non-cabin sites are walk-in primitive sites - our dogs wouldn't have appreciated that much.
We booked site #8, which is the furthest primitive site down the trail. We specifically wanted to "dry-run" bikepacking to see if we could do it on our folding bikes.
Site 8 is wide-open and large. We successfully hauled all of our gear, food, and food prep stuff to the site on our bikes (!) and really enjoyed our first night there. The stars were beautiful, the moon was bright, but eventually clouds moved in and darkened everything. The park is situated between highway 45 - loud, even at night - and a smaller county road - ear plugs might have been a good idea, but the noise didn't interfere with our sleep.
Saturday we walked the Campbell Trail from our site to the Leon Prairie Trail (the pipeline); we saw a Copperhead snake on the trail which eventually moved off into the leaves and disappeared.
After breakfast we biked the Campbell Trail to the Tunnel Trail - tunnel because of the trees arching over the trail - really lovely but boggy in parts so I chose to walk my bike. We also rode back to our site via the lake and day use facilities. We could not bike or walk the Lake Trail because it is closed due to some kind of danger.
Saturday afternoon we happened to check the weather forecast and there was a huge thunderstorm barreling down on the area, due to hit around 7 pm, so we decided that we'd properly done the park and that camping in the rain and packing out in mud didn't sound appealing, so we checked out a day early and went home.
It is a lovely park, small, with about 3 miles worth of trails. The pond seemed good for fishing, but we didn't see anybody catch anything. There are kayak rentals and fishing equipment to be borrowed as well.
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