Nice and quiet

Im not very good at backing my camper in, I'd like to see more drive thru spots
 Amy
10/8/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  5.0
Facilities  5.0

Love Pickeral lake.

Beautiful state park. The bugs were horrible and not sure if they spray or not. We used tempo on our spot. Helped a bit but this summer more spraying needed to be done.
 Camper duo
10/1/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  5.0
Facilities  3.8

Fall trip

 Bigspender
9/26/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Fall visit

 bigspender
9/25/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Camping Cabin at Pickerel Lake

 Chucklesf
9/25/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Always a pleasant stay

 Gonfootin
9/17/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Manager failures

The park manager is seldom seen and prefers winter time so that there are no campers in the park. I was told be the park and regional managers that I did to much volunteer work that the managers could not find enough work for the paid staff. The manager also makes up stories which aren’t true.
 Shafted
9/12/2025
Overall Experience  3.3
Services  2.5
Facilities  3.2

Gooooooood

Comfort station was clean. There a a little “library “ there to borrow books from. Went sight seeing at Camp NE-SO-DAK to see where my family had school camps before
 Camper crazy
9/8/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  5.0
Facilities  4.8

GG

 GG
9/5/2025
Overall Experience  4.5

Great Time

Very nice campground facilities, liked having access to a sheltered harbor and fish cleaning station.
 Minnesota Family
9/4/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  5.0
Facilities  5.0

Simply beautiful, park personel were great and friendly.

 Spot
8/27/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Great Parks

 AB
8/20/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Phantom Hosts

I was there three nights and attempted to contact the hosts (who were in their trailer...I could hear them talking). They did not answer my knock nor did they attempt to contact me at my site.
 Wolfy
8/18/2025
Overall Experience  3.5
Services  2.0
Facilities  3.1

Wonderful stay

 Rose
8/14/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Pickerel Lake cabin

Cabin 5 is nice, just across from the bathroom. A/C works good. Family of 4, each got our own bed. Brought a small dorm fridge to keep food cold. A small sink would be a fantastic addition!
 SD child
8/9/2025
Overall Experience  3.5
Services  2.8
Facilities  3.5

Very Satisfied

 Darla Staples
8/6/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

I stayed in the modern cabin. It was great. The only improvement i would suggest is different beds.

 Crunch
8/5/2025
Overall Experience  4.8

julycamp

 patches
8/4/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Girls trip

 A TEAM
8/2/2025
Overall Experience  3.0

Excellent Park

The park is very clean and the campground host and hostess are very friendly and are visable if you should need anything or have questions about the area. The park was very full but it was very quite and the people camping were friendly and was enjoyable to visit with them. Also, there is a book library that our grandkids were able to pick a book out while we were at the park.
 Alice
7/30/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  5.0
Facilities  5.0

Spots

 AS2001
7/30/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Wonderful experience

The restrooms were wonderfully maintained. The park staff was present but not overbearing. The only complaint I have is directions/ determining the correct site (east or west).
 Clong
7/30/2025
Overall Experience  4.8
Services  5.0
Facilities  4.8

Pickeral lake wast camp ground

 Heaven
7/23/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Wonderful Place

 SoDak home
7/19/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Pickeral lake

 Bones75
7/17/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Pickerel Lake

Park was great- well kept, quiet, and clean Campsite was the same. Only problem was that the flush toilet became soiled fairly early one day before I had a chance to use it, and it took nearly 24 hours for it to get cleaned.
 Rschm
7/14/2025
Overall Experience  4.8
Services  4.3
Facilities  4.6

Great Stay

It would be nice if a person was able to cancel just one day instead of canceling the whole reservation in order to cancel one day.
 Happy Camper
7/10/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  4.7
Facilities  5.0

Nice stay

 Mike
7/9/2025
Overall Experience  4.5
Services  5.0
Facilities  4.1

Awesome fishing

 Bubba Williams
7/7/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Excellent

 Ringneck
6/29/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Great Stay

The only thing i would recommend is breaking the reservations down into an east and west in the title of the area. I had no idea there was an east and west, and on the reservation, it onlu says "Pickerel Lake Recreation Area." We showed up, couldnt find our cabin, then realized it was at the East side on the other end of the lake, and didnt have a walk to beach. With kids, this would have been good to know. Besides that, everything was great.
 JKONSOR
6/28/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  4.7
Facilities  5.0

Review

 SD camper
6/21/2025
Overall Experience  4.0

Good Place

 Mike
6/19/2025
Overall Experience  4.8

Good Stuff

 ThorTheDog
6/18/2025
Overall Experience  4.8

Review

 JS
6/18/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Dogs

We had a total of 5 dogs in the campsites beside us that had barking dogs which made for an unpleasant visit.
 Camper
6/13/2025
Overall Experience  4.3
Services  5.0
Facilities  4.8

Weekend camp

 Roslynite
6/11/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Great Weekend!

 CampingFamily
6/2/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Clean tity and quiet

 Ben Koehler
5/23/2025
Overall Experience  4.3

Spring camping

 Iowa fishing friend
5/21/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Weekend Trip

 Coonzer15
5/19/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Awesome cabin

Fantastic cabin. Very clean!! The only negative is the mattress es are very firm. I'd suggest bringing a mattress pad if you dislike a firm bed. Also the grill didn't have a propane tank. Not sure if the campground provides them?? But we very much enjoyed this beautiful cabin and the view is awesome!
 Hiker Gal
4/25/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  5.0
Facilities  5.0

Very Relaxing Time

 Cat
4/23/2025
Overall Experience  5.0

Positive

Nice place, return visit.
 AC
2/20/2025
Overall Experience  5.0
Services  3.4
Facilities  5.0