Loud Thunder Forest Preserve

We have been camping here every labor day weekend for over 10 years. I have to say this place has gone down hill.. Prices have gone up, which happens, but raised prices with decreased quality. no garbage cans, the dumpsters are nasty and can smell it at your camp sites, un kept Porta pots, ridiculous weeds that draw in more bugs between camp sites, required 3 night stay on holliday weekends, absolutely no refunds, but the topping the cake that made me NOT to ever want to come back was the park ranger coming to us about having a second tent at our camp site. it was a half beach tent for shade for the kids to do games activities and crafts in. it was clearly not a tent to sleep in, but told us on our THIRD night that they let it slide on our first night (night before) and not siting us for it. really?!? They have 4 tent sites camping and our group had 3 of them… not a way to bring in business.

Only getting one star since we were harassed by the ranger each night about quiet hours… once was 11:00 pm and the other was 10:10 pm… we have never had a problem in the 10 – 15 years we have been coming here… we were playing cards and not being that noisy… Camping somewhere else next time