Hickory Grove Park

Great park for trails, camping, and shelters to rent for events. The lake is currently too low for fishing and other activities, but is starting to fill back up after all the restorations work. Our favorite!

Sparkling clean restrooms and showers, nicely spaced campsites, and close to many different towns for supplies where needed.

Family and friends have camped here for years. It's kind of like a second home. Unfortunately, my wife and I were camping here when the derecho hit this summer leaving the campground without power. I use a CPAP machine, a medical device to help me breath while I sleep which only runs on AC voltage. That night after the storm, I had no electricity to use my CPAP machine which made for a very long, sleepless night. The next day we hooked up our rv and moved to a campground that had electricity so that I could use my medically necessary device. Here's where the problem was. We had paid for two nights using one check. We stayed for just one night. I wrote a note explaining why we were leaving, wrote down our address, asked for a refund of our $20 and dropped it in the registration box. I was told by the camp host we would be lucky to see it. Well, he was right. This was two months ago and my mailbox is void of any refunds. Just a friendly bit of advice to the first come, first serve campers...pay for one night at a time.

It's a beautiful park. I like the additions that they have made. It will be wonderful once the lake is filled back up again. The campgrounds are great. The new shower house was needed and is the best. We will definitely be back to camp more!!

Nice tent area. Hopefully permanent toilets are in the future plans. The lake is currently drained. We were there mainly as a safe cheap place to sleep while visiting our students at ISU.