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garmp
Explorer II
May 22, 2020

Prophetstown SP or Patoka Lake Campground

Leaving Elkhart and heading to St. Louis and want a couple of nights on the way. Read reviews & such, but am looking for more opinions. Should we spend a couple of days at Prophetstown SP or Patoka Lake Campground. It will be our shake down trip so basically sit around the campsite and play with knobs & things to see what does what, so to speak.
Need to find a place in Indiana as IL & Kty are not open till June 1 and we must be home by then. (Of course!) Oh yeah Turkey Run is booked solid for those days.
Thanks!
  • dedmiston wrote:
    We stayed at a park down in English, IN that we absolutely loved. We wished we had time to stay longer, but we couldn't stay another day at that time.

    https://www.sycamorespringspark.com

    Stayed once. Nice place and fairly cheap. We call it the Nazi park. No alcohol, no reservation changes or refunds and there are rules for everything.
  • bolljl's avatar
    bolljl
    Explorer III
    We have stayed at Prophetstown SP a number of times highly recommend.
  • I love to fish at Patoka Lake but it is probably my least favorite park to camp at. In my opionion they only have a few sites worth camping on. Even at that you can not hook up to water. Electric only, whereas Prophetstown has full hook ups.
  • Seems like Patoka would be way out of your way. Fairly nice place but would expect it to be fairly rowdy for the next week or so.

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