Prophetstown State Park Campground

This fairly new State Park would of merited "5 stars", but the pit (aka vault) toilet smell was just tooooooo much and we weren't even close!

PROS

Park beautifully maintained and mowed throughout
Site 109 shady
Site 109 gravel parking pad level
Moveable wooden picnic table
Metal campfire ring with cooking grate
Roadways easy to maneuver without obstacles
Quite except for train whistle close by
Partial privacy from neighbors
Toilet/shower facility in next campground (Savanna) very clean and sufficiently stocked
Very nice 12 ft wide asphalt bike trails
Night sky friendly as no street lights in campground
Firewood for sale at entrance gate
Frequent park ranger campground drive throughs
Double lane dump station
Double lane portable water fill stations

CONS

The aroma of the pit toilet between Spruce and Savanna Campgrounds could be smelled throughout both campgrounds. Disgusting!!!
No hand wash station at pit toilet
Modern toilet/shower facility only in Savanna Campground
No security gate closure overnight
All trash dumpsters near campground entrance gatehouse
5pm checkin
No interpretive programs Monday thru Thursday

Be sure to visit Tippecanoe National Historic Site Battlefield & Museum. Small fee for museum admission, but the battlefield is available at no charge.
Clean, reasonable and large laundromat on Brown Street in West Lafayette.

Reserved one night as we were making our way from NY to CO and needed a spot with FHU so we could shower and dump. When we arrived we decided we decided to stay an extra night and check out the trails, the Farm and the nearby Tippecanoe Battlefield. Large clean sites. Reserved a large FHU pull through as we were only going to stay one night and didn't want to have to unhook. Other loop is electric only and all back ins, but does have showers. We just used our own.

If we weren't on a schedule we would have stayed longer and explored the trails.

We needed a quiet spot last minute while traveling on Interstate 65. This was perfect!
It is a beautiful state park with either full hook ups or electric only. It is about 5 miles from the highway but feels a million miles away. I wish we had time to stay a few days to explore everything the park has to offer. The site was level and easy to stay connected for our overnight stay.

Be sure to tour the Sears farmhouse and the grounds. On the weekend in the summer is a blacksmith on site. Our grandsons really enjoyed learning about blacksmithing. The gentleman blacksmith was very good at answering ALL of their questions.

Water park was busy, but the boys had a great time. Bike/walking trails are nice.

The amenities section lists 30 and 20 amp. All pedestals have 50/30/20.
Price I noted includes tax and $5 on line registration fee.

We made reservations two months in advance of our trip to this state park and even then I was only able to reserve a site with electric and not full hookups. This is an extremely popular campground and it was full or close to full every night, even during the week. That said, it didn't feel crowded and our fellow campers were respectful of quiet hours. Sites are large and level, the bath house is clean with hot showers, and we enjoyed watching the birds that were nesting in the bushes behind our site. While the park has many amenities (bike trails, the aquatic center, and more) we were in the area visiting family and only explored a small bit of what Prophetstown State Park offers. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay; this was our favorite campground during our 2-week, 8-state trip!

We love Prophetstown State Park!!! There are paved roads and heavily wooded, large, private campsites- for sites 100-200. Sites after 200 are more out in the open. The shower house is clean. There are tons of paved bike paths not only in the campground, but leading all around the park. There are many playgrounds located throughout the large park. Tons of hiking trails of varying difficulty too. There is a working farm village with animals to pet, all open to the public. During the summer there is an AWESOME aquatic center with water slides and a kid zone. It is never very busy there. Love it!! It feels like the best kept secret. Can't say enough about how much we love Prophetstown State Park.