One of my favorite campgrounds
PL
6/24/2026
Great stay!
Nice clean, friendly campground. Nice horse trails and horse pens. Bummed to have so many campers in horse camp without horses but appreciate the nice facility and friendly staff.
Valerie
6/18/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.8
Facilities
5.0
Great stay in a quiet cabin
We stayed a week in Cabin 1 - it is right on the lake with great deck, ac in the cabin was nice, beds were surprisingly comfortable. This cabin is not really close to anything else, nice for quiet, but kind of far from bathrooms!
The main office is rarely open, hunt down a campground host if you need help. All of the hosts and staff we were in contact with were super helpful.
Ksrinlv
6/17/2026
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.5
Memorial Weekend Stay
The park was very clean and we had a great time despite one rainy day. Our spot had a great view of the lake. I do have a couple of concerns. The entire weekend I never saw that the entrance building was open. A couple of times we did see park workers driving around. We also never saw the campground hosts. Seems to be an issue at all state parks in recent years. I remember the hosts always coming around to welcome campers. Firewood bundles are pre-bundled and small. My biggest issue was the number of campers with dogs unleashed. Unfortunately, the hosts or workers do not seem to pay attention to that and enforce the leash policy.
SDCampers
6/1/2026
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
3.0
Facilities
4.2
Beautiful area, nasty bugs
BC
10/9/2025
Excellent
Missy
10/9/2025
Pelican
The camp site numbers on the website map do not match with the sites at the park
Lilac
10/2/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.6
Relaxing
IN Camper
10/2/2025
Perfect every time!
cndrella2u
9/8/2025
Fun Weekend
5th Wheel
9/7/2025
Pelican Lake State Rec Area
We love this RV park! It is clean and spacious, quiet and relaxing. Look forward to our next visit.
Mattymatt
9/1/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.7
Great park, horrible mosquitos
This park is beautiful and well kept but the mosquitoes were so bad, we couldn’t enjoy the outdoors at all.
KW
8/22/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.5
Loved the location
Beautiful Camping park on the lake! Would return in the future!
Cookie G
8/15/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
2.6
Facilities
5.0
Stay
We were in site 1E which is converted to a ADA site. I would suggested that the actual parking spot be entirely paved to help. The new pad is nicely done but in a wet year the parking site could be problematic for people with disabilities. We weren’t disable but got to use it and it was a thought I had during our stay. I actually would love all of the sites to be paved but that is likely not going to happen but would be wonderful.
TwinMom
8/13/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.0
Facilities
4.5
Excellent experience
We reserved a campsite online. When we arrived it was a bit late and someone had taken our campsite.... But there were so many nice open spaces available, we didn't make a fuss and just camped in another spot. I wish there was a way that the site staff could check the website and place a reserved sign over the site post that we're reserved online.... But the experience was great and the whole park was so well maintained and so quiet it's hard to complain about anything.
HSP
8/7/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.9
Fun weekend
I would improve your markings of where to drive in at for which campsite
Jake
8/7/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.6
Facilities
4.6
It was a relaxing weekend.
Riter's
8/7/2025
Great stay
Enjoyed our stay in our camper. Got a little exciting Sunday evening with the big storm that went through.
Couldn't find the amphitheater, so asked the staff st the welcome booth. One of the workers was very helpful, the other seemed annoyed by our questions. The signage to FIND the amphitheater was not helpful. Checked out the amphitheater they now have. The location for it is poorly chosen. In the middle of trees (no air movement) and no place to sit for programs. The stage is a nice set up but should have been planned and placed out in the open somewhere.
Retired campers
8/1/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.0
Facilities
4.0
Our Favorite Campground
We love this campground - we camp here at least twice a year. The spacious lots are a huge factor as to why this is our favorite campground. It allows the whole family space to explore and play. It would be much appreciated to have motion lights installed into the vault toilets.
SL
8/1/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Memories
Happy toad
7/27/2025
Nice park
Overall a very nice park. The main gripe is the cabin spots and the spot next to it where we stayed, get used as a shortcut to a fishing dock. This was especially annoying when large groups of teenagers walk right in through the middle of your spot and our dogs were going nuts
AJ
7/23/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Quiet Park
Overall, a nice park. We did not see the camp host at all during out stay. The hiking trails were not mowed and, in some areas, not kept in repair from past storms along the lake. The main restrooms were clean, but the shower heads need replacement as you get a stream of water instead of a shower.
maxb
7/21/2025
Overall Experience
3.7
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.4
Awesome Park with great staff.
Chris
7/17/2025
Nice site
The site was overall in great shape. However, it was really hard to level the camper due to all the recent rain. Even with using leveling pads, the camper kept wanting to sink on the side. This was compounded by the site pad actually naturally sloping too.
Area around water and sewer dump on site needs to be filled and and re-leveled due to settling. Hard to efficiently drain/dump camper when it has to climb back into the sewer drain in the last couple of feet.
Overall campground was quiet and beautiful. Lots of birds, rabbits and even a visit from a pair of deer one morning!
Fish Hunter
7/10/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.6
Awesome Park
Brewer_Bart
7/9/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.0
Facilities
4.9