Fall Camping at it's Best
For my birthday weekend, I rented two cabins and an electrical camping spot for my family to join us to celebrate my big 6-7 day. The park is one of our favorites because it is clean, well kept, and close to home. The cabins were super cozy and warm. The fall colors were phenomenal! We used to come out when our children were young, and the park was only a skeleton of what it has become today. Thank you for a wonderful weekend and many memories made.
greensuits60
10/29/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Feedback
zcoffee
10/16/2026
Overall Experience
3.8
Services
2.3
Facilities
2.6
Relaxing experience
Really enjoyed our relaxing overnight stay.
The entire park was in excellent shape, including the restrooms and showers, as well as the picnic shelters and tables were impeccably clean.and well maintained
The friendly campground hosts stopped by our site and we had a very pleasant conversation.
Kudos to all caretakers on a fantastic experience, you all did a wonderful job!
Chainsmoker
10/15/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Difficult and expensive
The “fee” collector kiosk was not intuitive and very hard to understand. I wanted to camp just one night and thought I needed to purchase a pass for the night and ended up paying $30 than I should have in the process. I called the camp reservation hotline as I couldn’t buy an overnight camping reservation as the computer system kept zeroing out my information.
Jill B
10/14/2026
Overall Experience
3.8
Services
4.0
Facilities
4.3
Perfect Fall Weekend
Beautiful Campground with great views and well spaced out camp sites. Appears they continue to add additional camp sites.
Thor Camper 24KB
10/13/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Great Park!
Ktdoodle
10/12/2026
Sister Camp Out
A small park with a very nice clean inviting campground. The camp host was helpful, friendly, and kind. He took great pride in the park and it showed.... It has very clean restrooms and a fun play area for the children. There are fish in the lake and several of the visitors were catching catfish and bass the five days that we were there. I met my sister from Iowa and South Dakota and spend many hours around the campfires reminiscing; I highly recommend this park to all folks that want a very peaceful get away.
Minnesota
10/10/2026
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Trailer camping
Dawn Treader
10/1/2026
wonderful
camping fan
10/1/2026
Awesome fall stay!
Tess Party of 4
9/30/2026
SD State Parks Rock!
Emma Garvin
9/29/2026
Comfortable site with great bath house
When making the reservation, the staff put us in a requested shady spot since we have pets. The bathhouse was wonderful, except for one shower that didn’t work properly on the men’s side.
Alabama guests
9/7/2026
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.9
Excellent experience!
Quiet and peaceful
Facilities were extremely well maintained and clean.
Chainsmoker
9/1/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
weekend
elmerhaak
8/27/2026
One of our favorites
NM
8/27/2026
Nice place
Fill
8/26/2026
Lake Vermilion
Chuck
8/26/2026
Great weekend
novice camper
8/26/2026
My Favorite spot
SmashBear13913
8/26/2026
Hidden gem
This state park is a beautiful place to spend time. The trees are gorgeous, the park is clean and the host was great.
Knute
8/23/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Peaceful getaway
Very peaceful spots along the lake! Beautiful views and extremely quiet at night. The only thing I disliked was that people fully ignore the speed limit signs. Our slide almost got hit because a camper was flying in at the same time a boat was flying out. It either needs to be enforced more or I'd hate to say it...add some speed bumps. Speed sign I think says 10once you get to the camping area..people are easily going 30 while flying around with campers, boats or jet skis. Maybe some sort of markers are needed by the camping spots with people speeding around at night and there aren't ANY lights. People just need to be more cautious.
Fishing is life 247
8/20/2026
Overall Experience
3.7
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.4
Peaceful getaway
Fishingislife247
8/20/2026
Nice stay
LakeDog
8/19/2026
Clean, quiet, pretty
The bathrooms/bath house was VERY clean!
ES
8/17/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Family Trip
English Crew
8/15/2026
review
You need to update the campsite pics online. We booked this spot thinking there was shade trees...there were not. We would like to know why we can't park on the grass at Lake Vermillion. We camp in Yankton & Pierre at State Parks & they let us park on the grass. We need the extra space for boat or another car.
grandpa
8/12/2026
Overall Experience
3.3
Services
2.0
Facilities
2.1
Park needs help
G,F&P has really let the campground deteriorate. Trees have been removed and many are dead or dying and there are very few new ones planted. Grass is overun with white clover and thistles. Volleyball net was tattered and barely usable. Lake has washed away the base of the retaining wall at the beach and it is leaning out badly. No dock. Sea snot from Zebra mussels was outragious. We have been camping here for many years. It used to be maintained much better. Now G,F&P just wants to drive through and give tickets.
Maddog
8/11/2026
Overall Experience
2.7
Services
2.3
Facilities
3.0
vermillion
skipper
8/10/2026
Overall Experience
4.5
Facilities
5.0
Beautiful
Butch and Marsha
8/8/2026
Weather great
Sdfishing
8/6/2026
Late Camping
Wrestling85
8/6/2026
Late Camping
Wrestling
8/6/2026
Late Camping
Wrestler
8/6/2026
Nice Clean Stay
Very nice park. Clean and well maintained. Restrooms are cleaner than some hotels.
South Dakota Bruce
8/6/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Two day stay
MMMMRF
8/5/2026
Walker's Point
The lift station on the northeast end of the park smells awful. Is there something that can be done about this? As long as you stay away from that area, all is well but if you get anywhere close to it, plug your nose!
Camper
7/30/2026
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.4
Lake Vermillion
Camper
7/30/2026
Big wind camping day
This site is good. They did lose a tree so not as much shade as the pic shows. Still nice all around.
Troy
7/29/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
RV’ing at Lake Vermillion
SD Traveler
7/27/2026
Delightful
Happy Camper
7/22/2026
East side Lake Vermillion
CMJK
7/22/2026
Lake Vermilion camping
We had a great time in spite of the weather. We kayaked early morning so we did get some good paddle time on nice calm water.
Donna
7/20/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Easy entry and very helpful check-in
leva4657
7/18/2026
Lake Vermilion
Chuck
7/17/2026
Great weekend stay
The bathrooms were clean and updated. Liked the unisex bathroom which provided complete privacy when showering and lock on door. Campground was well kept and sites were clean. Used lake one day and dock was in good shape and easy to use. Did not get a chance to walk trails as it was very hot. Overall great weekend stay.
Camper 125
7/16/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Lake Vermillion
There were MANY motorized vehicles and e-bikes that drove above the speed limit and we saw only one UTV with a park sticker. There were several mini motorcycles that made many loops through the park - they were very loud and very much over the speed limit.
One campsite had at least six cars parked on it near the bath house and they were very loud all weekend so including playing their music too loud.
KarenSiouxFalls
7/13/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Overall - excellent
Melissa Tevere
7/12/2026
Nice Stay
Camper Girl
7/9/2026
Great Park
This is a great park. We camped on the east side to have access to that boat launch and the small "boater's beach".
Our campsites 30 amp breaker was defective when we arrived. We contacted park staff and they had it replaced and we were up and running in 20 minutes. Great service.
Matt
7/9/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.5
Facilities
5.0
4th of July
Camper
7/9/2026
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
4.3
Facilities
4.3
Amazing place
Rob
6/29/2026
Lovely Recreation Area
Flash
6/28/2026
Great Campsite
Level pads. Site long enough for truck & 35ft camper, did not have to unhook
Mark D
6/28/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Beautiful spot!
jayhawker
6/26/2026
Great Stay
We had a great camp spot right on the lake.
SJCRoughneck
6/23/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.8
Wonderful Weekend
LovetoCamp
6/19/2026
Youth Group Site
Youth group site is very spacious, close to the water with a great view. Staff is always friendly and stopped to say hi and that we have everything we need.
Trail Life
6/18/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Nice
The campground host on the east campground was very pleasant. Sites are flat. Only downside was the lack of soap in the women’s restroom
Happy camper
6/17/2026
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.4
Great Park, well maintained.
PL
6/16/2026
Great site!
Tman3366
6/13/2026
First Camping of the season
We like this campground because of the lake. The lake was very busy on Saturday and the parking lot was full. The mosquitoes were awful at sunset.
We were scheduled to camp the weekend before, but needed to move our reservation. We were glad we could do that. Our new site didn't have much shade.
S L
6/10/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.5
Bugs
Need to spray the geounds for the bugs they were preety bad
Gramps
6/10/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Lake Vermillion
Nice campground.
SD Camping
6/10/2026
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.3
Good times
popup
6/10/2026
Great spot
HappyTravelers
6/8/2026
Fantastic experience
Smith
6/6/2026
nicest park
I stayed at the Juniper loop. The bath house was the cleanest of all the other state campgrounds that i have stayed at, and the campground was very well kept.
Happy Campers
6/4/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Wonderful time
Lovepath
6/1/2026
Love Lake Vermillion
King Ranch
5/30/2026
First Time Visitor
This was our first time staying at a SDSP. We were impressed with the care given to this park. Camp hosts were friendly and the facilities were clean. Our camp spot was roomy. Loved the easy access to the lake for our kayaks. Took advantage of the hiking trails. We visited local golf courses and geocaches, visited the sculpture garden on I-90 to the north of the park, visited the Corn Palace in Mitchell and downtown Sioux Falls. We also traveled to Palisade SP to check it out-very pretty and enjoyed hiking that area.
Nebraska Neighbor
5/29/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.1
Beautiful Site
Red Star Ranch
5/29/2026
Dump Station Issues
The dump station doesn't have working water, so you have to drag hoses from the ditch to fill and rinse your tanks. Another camper told us it had been like that (broken) for 4 years. You would think that repairing that would be a priority since every camper needs to use it.
SD Mom
5/21/2026
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.6
Improvements, need new updated dump station
It’s Beautiful state park, nice quiet, Tom, the host was a great personal host. The ranger came by and asked if we were aware of the weather coming in. I thought that was so nice.
Improvement: I hear from every guest. Updated your dump station. It is Very poor , old, no room. It needs at least 75-100 ft in between each station. A lot large campers out there.. Only Half the stations worked. It needs a whole new system . How it is positioned , big campers can’t make turns. That is what I hear the most from guest . It’s very disappointing.
Jeanie
5/20/2026
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.8
Spring Camping
Very nice campground.
MaryT
5/19/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.2
Lake Vermillion
The site was sloped towards the back and made it difficult to level my camper.
Cubs2016
5/18/2026
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
4.3
Facilities
3.3
Wonderful first camping weekend of the season
Rich
5/13/2026
Review
State park is always well kept and patrolled for safety. Was surprised to have no water running at dump stations leading multiple campers to wait in line to use the one hydrant.
Jska
5/13/2026
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.6
Facilities
4.4
Camping
I knew ot might snow there and there was a shovel provided at the cabin to use if necessary. I really appreciate that. It was quiet and the cabin was warm.
Tbirdy
3/18/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0