Another camping season has come and gone as the year is winding down and for the Greene County Parks, it was another steady year.

Greene County Conservation Director Tanner Scheuermann tells Raccoon Valley Radio that this year was possibly a bit better compared to the previous camping season. He shares some other insights about specifics from this past camping season, especially at Spring Lake Park.

“We had a lot more people, I think, staying over during the week this year, (and) staying through the week and stuff too. Which I think after covid we kind of lost a lot of that because everybody’s back to work. But now everybody’s built their vacations back up so they’re wanting to get out and utilize that, and you know what a better place to do it than Spring Lake.”   

Scheuermann notes that even though all of the county parks were winterized this past November, people can still enjoy camping in the winter time, especially at some areas that may not be as popular to camp at.

“If you want to go out there and try to do a little ice fishing at like say Pounds Pits or something like that, we do allow camping at those areas now. We never used to charge for those areas, but our board did put in a policy this past year. We do charge a simple $10 if you do want to camp at one of those areas. Some of them will have boxes and some will not. We’ve gotten some signage up in some places (and) we will probably have all of that installed by next summer. But yeah, most of our areas, our river access areas, they’re open for camping as well, (they are) pretty primitive but you can camp there.”     

Scheuermann adds that the other county parks do offer camping for the winter season, but campers need to be aware that there will be no access to water or open restroom facilities until next spring.