Oak Grove Campground at Sardis Lake

It's ridiculous that it has been so long since I have written in this blog.  We have been camping several times since I last wrote, mainly at South Abutment campground at Arkabutla Lake and Oak Grove Campground at Sardis Lake.

Back in the fall of 2013, we camped at the state park (John W. Kyle) at Sardis and saw the Oak Grove campground right next door.  The two campgrounds are separated by a boat launch ramp and dock.  Kyle is a MS State Park while Oak Grove is a COE.  

We found that we really like Oak Grove.  There are plenty of shady spots and most pads have plenty of room between them.  

The access to the water is great and this campground is very popular with fishermen (& women).  The first time we stayed here, I kept seeing huge fish come out from under the dock when I put my bait (worm) in.  But they wouldn't take it.  I played around with it a little and made it seem like it was jumping around.  One took it and nearly pulled me off the dock.  It snapped my line and got away :(     

All sites have water and 30/50 amp electricity.  There is a dump station at the entrance.  There are 3 bath houses that are kept pretty clean.  

This campground does not take reservations, it is strictly first come, first served.  It operates on a self-pay system with the camp host coming around and checking every evening.  Since it is first come, first served, we try to get here on a Thursday before it starts filling up.  This worked out well, but Memorial Day weekend 2016 we ran into a problem.  We checked the state park next door several weeks ahead of time and found that they were booked up.  So, we decided to head out to Oak Grove on Wednesday, May 25 to get ahead of the weekend crowd...Wrong!  There was not a single site to be had on Wednesday :(  This campground is close enough to home so we just came back and decided to spend the Memorial Day holiday at home.

If TV reception is important to you, this isn't the place for you.  We could only pick up the public tv stations out of Oxford.  My Sprint service did not work well here, but Rick's C-Spire service did.