Old Bates Campground

Great place, the owner was friendly and helpful. We enjoyed our stay totally recommend as this place not only provides everything you need from propain refill,Laundry room and even park for kids. Love this quiet place.

We were on our way to KC and we were pleasantly surprised at how good a value the place was! The owner Robert was very nice and accommodating! We will be back again! For the price you can't beat it. On Passport America it is only 13.50 a night. Laundry is only 1.00 for wash and . 75 to dry.

Not a place I would ever want to revisit: Dumpster almost always overflowing with trash. The "pool" shown in the photos is now a partially filled-in mosquito-infested bog. Loud music from Stringers and Moore echoing though the campground on the weekends. Power and water outages. People walking through campsites day and night with no respect for boundaries. Unattended children running loose. Piles of rusting trash and other things around some of the campers. Barking dogs day and night with the owners curbing them in other people's lots. Items disappearing or RV getting vandalized. You probably don't want to stay here unless you are desperate for a cheap place to stay, very desperate...

We were also disappointed that there was no pool. Maybe the website needs to be updated! The beach at Rend Lake was very enjoyable! (Saved the weekend!) The shower house was dreary, and no hot water in Women's shower...burrr! There seemed to be a drainage problem as there was standing stagnant water. We will not be back to this campground!

Good experience. Easy to get in and out. Small play area for the kids as well as a large pavillion if you are having visitors. Didn't check out the shower house but the laundry worked great and was close to our site. The area we were in flooded when we got a lot of rain but that isn't something the camp owners had control over and it didn't last to long. We would stay again.