Crystal Lake Campground and RV Park

New owners and staff are condescending and rude. They use a twenty something year old security guard that bum rushed one of the members in our group when they called last call at the bar which was less than five minutes after pouring the drink. We were all standing up to leave when security pinned one of our members in his chair and then pulled out mace on him. I tried to have a conversation w the female owner & downright rude and refused to listen. Then banned our group that had been going for last 20 plus years. Great place when we dealt with other owners. These people are ignorant. Old owners used an adult for security and had never been an issue. This young guy was so angry because young kids on bicycles were calling him names and teenagers were getting undressed on the trampoline. So sad they ruined what was a wonderful tradition but we'll find a new better place that actually treats their customers with dignity and respect. Also, They love to try to keep your 100 deposit in golf cart too. When I asked why and disputed, staff made up on the spot that we drove it too much and only supposed to be used from point A to point B. When I asked to see this in their contract they gave me my deposit back.

Buyer beware... Campground is nice, access to the lake is nice, most residents are also great. Now that said the Management and Owners of the campground are a different story. Be very carful and read your contract to ensure you know what you are signing up for. Steve (owner) is narcissistic and extremely fake, will put on a show and tell you everything they do is for you. Once you sign that agreement, be ready for the bait and switch after they get you locked into a site. The lot renter is on the hook for all improvements, many people have spent $5000+ to fix up the lots because what you get is a gravel pad and that's not acceptable to them. The yearly lot rent goes up every year, over 30% in the last two years. Then they sneak in a new rule into the contracts, if you sell your unit while its on a rented lot, they take 10% off the top and you have no choice. Many of these units are NOT easily movable, so they take advantage of you being stuck and line their pockets. They also snuck in a rule that if you sell your unit mid season, the new buyer has to pay prorated lot rent for the year but the real kicker is that the $5000+ you paid at the beginning of the year is theirs to keep, you do not get a prorated portion back, true double dipping to line the pockets more. If they don't want you there or give them any sort of negative feedback, they simply choose to not renew your lease with very little notice at the end of the season because they want the lot for one of their units they sell and leave you scrambling to figure it out. They also plan to add 75-100 new lots to the campground which is already overcrowded. I can understand why he does this, the owner needs to keep his lifestyle of flying his plane into the campground, driving his multiple $100k+ cars to flaunt them to the residents and much more on top of it. You are just a number to him, he does not care about the people as long as there is more money in his pocket. Think twice about putting a unit here...

I thought crystal lake was a nice campground for an rv maybe or if you own a seasonal site. For a tent it is absolutely terrible. The ground is so hard our tent stakes wouldn't go in. Our tents collapsed with a 10 mile per hour wind. Other than that the campground is nice but very very spread out. You will want to get a golf cart unless you don't care to walk a mile to go to the office or the beach or pool or jumping pillow. If you camp in the hanger area the bathrooms are about a mile away unless you walk up a very steep hill. There were port a potties right next to the hanger. If you tent camp on the hill there is no place to park but the bathrooms are right across. The hanger is litterally right next too a very large building right when you pull up to the gate. I did not feel as though their map was super accurate as it makes it look like the bathrooms were closer than they are. They had lots of fun things for kids to do however it all cost money. Overall not terrible.

We just had our wedding here and everything went perfect. We were able to come in early to decorate and take down decorations the next day. It was beautiful, and everybody had a blast.. Once we were all set up, (about 95 people) we realized we had more room than we needed. The room layout made everything go very smooth and the kids (and adults) had a blast using the jumping pillow and swimming in the lake. We had a wonderful experience with all the staff there and especially Amanda. She made the whole experience so much better.. We will definitely be back for camping!!

Nice lake/beach. Fun to rent the golf carts. Decent bathroom facilities. The tent camping areas are awful. Two spots: 1 by main entrance and a shed- major construction going on. We asked to go to the hilltop site and was a better atmosphere with trees and such but BEES everywhere! Hundreds of bees swarmed any little thing with food or drink. We had to keep a constant fire for heavy smoke - nothing in store to help either. The people weren’t very friendly or kind either. We had a nice time at the lake and that was about it. Also, bar/restaurant are closed certain days of the week and this wasn’t disclosed to us when booking which was a huge letdown.