Beautiful place, would love to visit again.
The disc golf course was a beautiful, pleasant surprise. The grounds were well kempt, other campers were quiet and respectful. Always a plus when it's barefoot friendly! And thank you for the last minute site change!
J Christiansen
7/3/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great stay! Wish we stayed longer
This was a stop while passing through and we wish we stayed longer really enjoyed the location and everything around. Facilities was clean and had parks for kids and great trails.
Julie
7/1/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.8
Great..but
cabin was clean and air worked great. Have stayed here before. Only have two reccommendations. Better lights in pit toilets. If it is cloudy or evening, bring a light along, you can not see anything. Also, would like water outlets closer to cabin and campsites. This park only has 3 spots for water. Bathroom, and a hydrant by each pit toilet. Two of the cabins have a substantial walk for toilets or water. Otherwise love the park, trails and location to the city.
Camper
6/29/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.6
Big Sioux review
Loved the campground! The only downfall was the lack of hot water in the showers
Summer fun
6/26/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.8
Great spot for a weekend trip
Our toddler loves camping so we chose this park close to home for a quick weekend trip. The site was well spaced, marked and level for tenting. The bathhouse was clean and well kept. The grassy areas were well maintained. In the future, a clear place or sign on how to buy firewood would help as we ended up driving into town to purchase approved firewood as we could not find a non-invasive way to reach the camphost and the booth at the entry was unmanned this weekend.
The only things I would like to see improvement on would be the park and river access. Our camping spot was adjacent to the park. During our stay we had numerous kids walking through our site because there is no path to the park except through a campsite. A designated, paved pathway (or 2) would largely alleviate this problem. The other note pertains to the river. With the river being right next to the bike path, we chose to go down to the river to fish. As there was no direct access down, we navigated the safest way from the bank. Designating a staircase and possibly a dock to fish from would be a huge point of improvement for this park.
Eleo
6/25/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Tent Camping
Two Trails
6/20/2025
Hmmmmm
nearby racetrack went until 11 pm. Not happy we had to pay an extra fee since we were from out of state.
Elbo Macaroni
6/18/2025
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
4.0
Beauty
This is a beautiful place with a lot of great camp spots and a couple of cabins, the shower facilities are amazing and the parks hosts are wonderful people!
Homeless Gal ID
6/16/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Wonderful Weekend
Many time Camper
6/11/2025
Almost perfect
Gorgeous trees and large spaces that are mostly level. No water or sewer at the site which was disappointing for the price. Clean restrooms, only 2 shower stalls, but they're in excellent condition. 2 guys spent MANY hours power washing the restrooms. Well, one guy (redhead) did. The other employee sat on his phone. Nice trails to walk or bike. Only complaint about our stay was that a road work company came in and spent a few hours cutting into the road and filling the cuts with fresh asphalt. The noise was incredibly loud. A simple email letting campers know about the work would have been nice. We stayed in our site longer than we wanted as we were afraid to get fresh asphalt on our vehicle. Otherwise an excellent stay with friendly park workers and well mannered guests.
Toprott
6/3/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.9
Wood chips needed at sites
Site 21 had little grass, mostly dirt. Wood chips desperately needed.
Nlarsen4400
6/2/2025
Overall Experience
2.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
2.0
Great facility!
Love camping
6/2/2025
Travel
I absolutely loved the campground and the shower facilities, my only complaint is that I feel if I paid for overnight camping I shouldnt have to pay an additional 15 dollars for the days passes if I paid for nights on the campground it should be included into the nights I paid for
AK-ID Girl
5/31/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
May 25 Camping
When we arrived we did get told that the lift station had issues and that the shower house\bathrooms are not going to work. I think we maybe could get a discount or maybe a free night when booking next time. Not a deal breaker but for people that tent camp it would be a bigger deal.
Camper 74
5/26/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.0
Facilities
4.0
good as usual
jmech
5/23/2025
I like it here
Just Crusin
5/19/2025
Bid Sioux reaervation
The campground was great, I have no problems with the campground. The reservation process had me in tears however.
Rickja
5/19/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
1.0
Facilities
4.7
Big Sioux Camping Outing
R&D
5/14/2025
Mid May
Women's bathroom was not cleaned or maintained during our visit
ABOV
5/14/2025
Overall Experience
3.3
Services
4.0
Facilities
3.4
Nice campsite
Clover
5/12/2025
Maiden Voyage with new camper
HoFers
5/2/2025
Camp
The park staff is friendly & informing campers about the dump station, water & comfort station early in the season.
Dozier25
4/26/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.2
Peaceful
This is a lovely little hidden gem. Nice playground for the littles. RV sites pretty level and very tidy. Vault tpilets clean and have hand sanitizer. Camp hists cruise around on a regular basis. Nice bkie trails and a few hiking trails. If you have a pet, make sure they are protected from ticks as they ticks were active.
PattiG
4/17/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Was really great, parks very well maintained, the view is great. Will definitely be back again many times in the future. Our toddlers loved it. Rooster next door is great.
Walkers
4/13/2025
Great weekend away
Enjoyed our visit over the weekend in a cabin. The information packet provided was great! The kids enjoyed walking the paths, playing at the playground, playing by the water and getting a little muddy. The cabin was a pleasant surprise with two bunk beds and a large table to eat at inside there was also enough room to set up an extra cot so there was plenty of space for all 6 of us to sleep comfortably in the cabin. Was a little disappointed was not able to get firewood on site had to go into town to pick up at gas station, but very nice fire pit with swing away cooking grate. We were there for other activities and using the cabin as a slowly get back into camping gear preparing for every other weekend again.
AC
4/9/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Site not working for reservations
The reservation site isn't allowing me to book any reservations for any days in different sd parks in any summer months. Extremely frustrating.
LorriT
1/30/2025
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
1.0
Great Stay
Lady Hiker
11/13/2024
I Like Camping
McPattywack
11/5/2024
Nice Stay
RangerLee
11/1/2024
Overall Experience
3.8
Services
3.5
Facilities
4.5
Halloween fun
Being close to home, Big Sioux Rec is always our first and our last camping weekends of the year. It's great to go to when we have a busy weekend. Close to home so we can run into town for commitments but yet get away for the rest of the weekend. People are always respectful of quiet hours. The camp host calls us by name as he stops to check to see how we are doing and get us firewood. We make Trick or Treat Trails at Big Sioux Rec our last camping excursion of the year. It's fun to see all the campsites decorated and the kids in costumes come Trick or Treating. (We make sure to hand out dog treats too.)
Sergeant Schultz
10/30/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.8
Great weekend!
I love this campground! It's very clean and quiet. It could use more, or larger, recycle bins.
It's so close to Brandon so it's convenient if you forgot something or just don't feel like cooking.
Love camping
10/30/2024
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Halloween Blast
First time at this campground and I was impressed at every campsit was large and flat.
They had the best comfort station.I've used all year.
Jet & Blondie
10/30/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.8
Facilities
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great park!
I stayed in a camping cabin. It was very clean and comfortable. Heating and cooling were available, but the weather was perfect so I didn't need to use it. My cabin was very close to trails and the river. Such a peaceful area! The fire pit was perfect. The bathrooms were a short walk from the cabin. Beautiful, well-maintained park.
Beki
10/24/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Big Sioux review
Teresa
10/23/2024
Big Sioux Weekend Stay
Kramrats
10/23/2024
Peace at the park
Beautiful scenery, lots of space, great place to get your steps in, peaceful, easily accessible,
Sioux
10/23/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Game Lodge Campground
captjimmy
10/17/2024
Circuit breaker
The circuit breaker on campsite 40 was not working properly
Ueck
10/17/2024
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
4.4
Facilities
3.9
I love the Brandon site
Dvin
10/16/2024
Big Sioux review
This park is a hidden gem. Very secluded sites, great trails for bike riding, friendly staff and very clean facilities. I highly recommend!!
Teresa S
10/16/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.8
Wonderful
Smash
10/16/2024
BigSioux
Janeann
10/16/2024
Experience
Very nice park but only one shower has hot water and pressure
Knobs
10/13/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
1.0
Facilities
3.8
Bad experience
The online reservation system is confusing (and I’ve used many online park reservations). I tried at least 5 times to reserve a site but after putting in my RV info (which was way too detailed such as width) it kept saying the site I selected didn’t work for our vehicle. This is weird since we are a small RV that usually can fit in a tent site and I was selecting an electric back in site that was very roomy. So after my husband tried too we just figured we would settle up in the morning. Well we got a notice and a citation on our windshield the next morning. The campground volunteer who was trying to be nice told us we had “everyone up in arms” (direct quote) and we were being called “squatters!” Excuse me but I have worked at both national and state parks and this is NOT how most are run where the honor system is the usual default. It was very upsetting and the volunteer could tell and at least he took the ticket and made it go away. Even the link for this survey in my email didn’t work! Also there were no signs off the road for your park.
Moonshine
10/12/2024
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
2.0
Facilities
3.0
Kudos Deserved
We were greeted with a very friendly welcome at check-in. The restroom/shower building was incredibly clean and the best of the 10 campgrounds we stayed at in five states on our two-week vacation. We appreciated there was a stall door at each of the showers and not just a shower curtain. We also appreciated that there were completely separate entrances to the men and women sides of the building. There was an amazing amount of spacing between each camp site. The landscaping provided wonderful privacy at the rear of our campsite and the overhead tree canopy provided a generous amount of shade as well as a nice camping ambiance.
Oregon Beavers
10/12/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great trails
Happy Camper
10/10/2024
Great park
Great Park host, very clean restrooms.
john
10/9/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great place
Nice quite campground, sites are well maintained and flat/ level. The bathhouse was clean and also well maintained. I don't usually use the showers in campgrounds but these where really nice. I wished all campground showers where that good. Shower head is awesome!
G dub vic
10/6/2024
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.3
Beautiful, well run, well maintained park
Wyo1
10/5/2024
Great stay!
Loves camping
10/3/2024
Excellent RV Park
Great park for a dozen reasons, and only o e where it could improve. Not having septic is not a huge deal. Not having water at sites is a big detractor for many RVers. A community spigot helps, but at sites would be much better.
Ranger Jeff
10/2/2024
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.8
N fr Illinois
Nancy B.
9/29/2024
Very Pleased
We stayed 2 nights. Quiet campground with very clean bathrooms and great showers.
No Neck
9/27/2024
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
4.3
Facilities
4.3
Big Sioux in the Fall
Speak
9/26/2024
Very clean & accommodating
The showers had great water pressure & hot water also very clean. Not too far from falls park which had history, pretty water features, places to eat and bike trails.
Rockwood minilight
9/23/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
3.4
Facilities
5.0
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Big Sioux
9/22/2024
September 24
Oscar
9/18/2024
Peaceful Park
Butterfly
9/16/2024
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Rmccafr
7/31/2024
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0