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Campsite #71 at Gun Creek Campground, IL
$18
Campsite #71
| 8 people | |
| 38 ft | Back-In |
| 3 | good |
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Campsite #71 Features: Back-In parking, 30 amp hookup, 50 amp hookup, Fire ring, Picnic Table, RV Site, Tent Site, Trailer Site, Pets Allowed
Campsite Reviews (2)
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@SarahE8060821 · Camped on Sep 3, 2024 at Campsite #71
I had not been to Rend Creek before except to picnic 40 years ago when we were driving from Chicago to southern Illinois. It was lovely that day and the pheasants were memorably everywhere! At Gun Creek, the facilities are clean and nice and lake was lovely. The beach at Sandusky was beautiful! The week after Labor Day we had almost everywhere to ourselves. Our biggest problem with tenting at gun creek that the highway noise at night was almost unbearable. It kept me awake the first night. To be fair, the campground was not heavily used by other tenters. Everyone else seemed to stay inside their large RVs and probably didnt hear it. I only saw 1 other tent when we were there. I like to go to the woods to camp and relax and hear the birds and night creatures but this was nothing enjoyable like that. It got nice and quiet during the day but the trucks must use I 57 heavily at night. Our site had not been cleaned. The previous occupants selfishly left little bits of trash everywhere and allowed their children to use chalk all over the stone picnic table (everywhere excessively and aggressively to the point that we could not use it to sit or put anything on it until we finally poured water on it to wash it off). Gun Creek is not a campground I will return to because of the proximity to I57. The west side of the lake, north or south Sandusky seemed much quieter and closer to facilities we liked to use but once you bother to pitch a tent, you dont want to have to move it. Tenters, this is not likely the place for you.
@MollyC757 · Camped on Jun 11, 2021 at Campsite #71
The small bath house was a joke doors didn’t lock on a couple of them and only had hot water in one of them we had a better experience in the past at south marcum.
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