Blue Bluff Campground Review

Blue Bluff Campground is a Corps of Engineers campground on the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway just north of Aberdeen, MS.  In addition to the campground,

the recreation area has a swim beach, day use picnic areas, playgrounds, boat launch and dock and there is a Lock and Dam for barge traffic.

To get to the campground, you have to go through an old section of Aberdeen, MS.  I got a picture of this great old house as we were driving by.  If you need to pick up a few groceries, there is a Piggly Wiggly close by but it appears that they roll up the sidewalks at 7pm.


The campground consists of 92 campsites, each with water and electric hookups.  The central dump station can accommodate 2 RVs at a time.  The campsites are arranged in 2 loops, each with a shower facility and laundry.  Most of the campsites are shaded.

This was our favorite campground out of the 3 we stayed at on this trip.  The other 2 campgrounds were Paul B. Johnson and Fort Pickens.  The main reason was that this was the only campground where our site was shaded.  It was a welcome relief in the hot summers we have in the south.  Our site (#84) backed up to the waterway and we were able to sit out under the shade canopy and enjoy the view.

The RV pad was level side-to-side and the picnic table area was white rock gravel.  Most of the sites looked large enough to accommodate whatever size RV you have.  Some of the sites were a little close together, but the abundance of trees made them seem a little more private than they would have with no trees.

There were plenty of fishing piers and places to dock your boat close to the campsites.  The majority of the waterway in the campground has a seawall which Sally Mae loved to peer over.

The swim beach is fairly small and not in the campground.  You have to drive a bit down the road to get to it.  When we went to look at it one morning, no one else was there but when we drove by later in the afternoon on our way to see the locks, it was packed.


This is the second campground we have stayed in along the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway (the other was Pickensville in Alabama).  These campgrounds are very 

nice and tend to be very popular with boaters and campers.  I hope we can camp at more campgrounds along this waterway in eastern MS.