“Weldon Springs State Park” in Clinton, Illinois - was rated: 2
Quoting the IDNR brochure “Named by Family Circle magazine to be one of the ‘Top Twenty Campgrounds in American’…” NOT EVEN CLOSE! Family Circle should stick to printing recipes and home decorations. Clearly, Family Circle knows nothing about campgrounds. The state of IL should be embarrassed not only for using that quote but also by the condition of this campground. Weldon Springs definitely is not one of the top 20 campgrounds in America but what we would rate as one of the 20 worst state owned campgrounds in IL. We’ve stayed at quite a few of IL’s state parks. Weldon Springs is definitely the worst we’ve stayed at. The sites are very close together. Getting into and out of the sites was a chore unless a person had a small trailer like a pop up. Longer trailers, 5ers, Class A or C could manage but one needed to watch closely when driving or backing for trees, signs, and other close by campers. Our fire ring, which are not moveable, was so close to our camper and the neighbor’s camper that to have a fire would have risked scorching both our campers. Had we located further away from our fire ring we would have been so close on the other side to the other neighbor’s fire ring that we would have risked scorching on that side. Very few sites are level enough to avoid blocking up one side of […]
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