John Bryan State Park Campground
Kim A.
Reviewed Jul. 4, 2022

Beautiful park but raccoons are a nuisance

The park and facilities are beautiful. Campground has a new bathhouse with 2 family showers/bathrooms and 3 showers/3 toliets for each women and men's room. The grounds had a nice modern playground, pavilions, volleyball net and much more.
We stayed at the group site which was outside of the main park. This area had vault toliets and potable water faucet only. So you had to drive to the main park to use bathhouse and anything else. Upside was the low car traffic in that area.

Complete downside and what will keep us from returning are the sheer number and boldness of raccoons. They are lingering the edge of the woods day and night ready to grab anything. At night the main dumpsters has raccoon in/around/on top of them. One night a newb camper in our group didn't lock up his cooler and at 130 am there was a mob of fighting/growling raccoons which carried on for at least 30 min. He said there were upwards of 30 raccoons swarming his cooler while he tried to recover and lock it up. I have never in my camping experience seen/heard anything like it. It freaked the kids and new campers out. I hunkered down in my tent and advised others to do the same. The group campsite also is stated to fit 50ppl. It is not that large. I would say 20ppl would be more adequate. Our tents and cars were less than 5ft from others tent and cars. We had to park cars next to tents bc raccoons and keeping food in cars. Everything else about the park/staff/general area/activities were great.

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  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022
  • Review photo of John Bryan State Park Campground by Kim A., July 4, 2022