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October 2024 by Susan Post
Coconut Grove is probably okay for long-time seasonal campers but not great for a short pass-through visit. PROS: Cole (manager) is very friendly and helpful. There's a restaurant with decent, mostly bar food. It's very walkable - one loop around is nearly a mile. The lake looks great and we saw many kids swimming and having a good time. The upper section is nicely paved and in good repair. Our site (on the lowest road) was level enough and the hookups worked as advertised. CONS: on the west side of the park there is a bad hump in the pavement going up the hill; you're probably going to scrape and gouge the road with your overhang. It's better to travel on the east side if you can. Two train tracks are about 50' away from the lower row of sites. To Coconut's credit, the campground map does show a bit of the track down in the corner, but it's easy to miss (I sure did). The trains are frequent and loud, with horns blaring. The campground's entire lower section is a dirt/gravel road and it was VERY dusty. Not many (if any) cars and golf carts drove slowly enough to keep the dust down. Even more of a con than the trains and the dust: the golf carts. We own a golf cart so have nothing against them. But they were everywhere, some full of kids, some full of adults, a large percentage of both groups driving erraticallly and much too fast for a busy campground with pedestrians and traffic. We had to practice defensive walking to avoid them. They were still zinging around, even down into the gravel section, well after dark, making sitting by the campfire in the dust not a great experience. My final con is that, although advertised as being right on the Mississippi, you cannot see a bit of it from that lowest row of sites. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this campground for pass-through visitors.
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October 2024 by Andrew Drake
We were seasonal campers here for two years, and left after the 2024 season due to the horrific (mis)management of the campground. The cost to camp here is astronomical, and it is like camping in a parking lot with fancy pools (no trees, no wildlife, no camping activities, etc.). The campground is run by a manager who has zero experience or customer service background; but an ego that could fill up the entire park.
The cost to camp is about double what you would pay elsewhere for similar amenities. ($150+/night, or $5500+/season). But it doesn't end there; the cost of the food and bar at the restaurant (that is RARELY every open) is sky high as well ($5 for a kids slushie, $16 for a burger, $20 for a pizza, etc.), and if you are a seasonal good luck with the 'extras' you have to pay for (golf cart fee, 'miscellaneous fee' (what a joke!), electrical fees of 4x what we pay at home and can't see you own meter, etc.). Wood is another funny thing here: you buy it for $40/load (can't bring any in), and what you don't use they pick back up on Sundays and resell back to the campers - and if you try to pick up other firewood that was left by weekenders he threatens to call the sheriff and charge you with theft.
It is also severely understaffed - mostly due to the horrific management. In 2024 they had many staff walk of job or start crying mid-shift because of how they were treated; bartenders, cooks, and maintenance all report into the manager and he treats them all like dirt. This is also what led to the restaurant, and tiki bars never being open (they are not open Mon-Thurs, and very limited hours on the weekends).
the most frustrating thing about all of this is that you can't go to "management" to discuss anything. it is owned by an out-of-state company called RJourney who is never onsite, doesn't care about how it is ran, and allows the unqualified manager to run the show without oversight. I tried several times to reach out to RJourney to get answers, and they never respond. I asked the manager for contact information at RJourney and he refuses to provide.
On a positive note, the views of the Mississippi River are awesome - if you camp up on the top by the entrance (down below by the tracks you can't see the river and get awaken every night by the dozens of trains that come through).
Until this place gets out from under RJourney and the horrible manager, I would avoid this place at all costs - plenty of other options to view the river and spend your camping dollars.
Update: since we left, we still get updates apparently. Going from “free winter storage” to “$6 for maintenance” is literally the definition of nickel and diming. They do this all the time, and add tiny little fees here and there with the dumbest reasons to make any little profit they can. All this to, what, make $40 from the campers that chose to leave their rigs this winter. Sad.
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October 2024 by Don
Very nice relaxing cabin with excellent customer service. We would definitely stay again
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October 2024 by irene Gardner
This campground has many amenities and many permanent campers. The downside is there’s a train track right next to the campground and the trains ran all night. Not a peaceful sleep.
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October 2024 by Cole Ballweg
Great place! Great times! Amazing staff! They do lots of fun activities. Very family friendly!
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October 2024 by Joni Wheeler
Favorite home, away from home ❤
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October 2024 by Linda Morth
Great campground! People that hold to their word and deliver a great experience!
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October 2024 by Annette Jordan
Very family friendly, will always come back
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September 2024 by Melissa Hanson
Over all a good experience. It would be nice if it had more accessible bathrooms, especially after the clubhouse bar hours (it’s a long walk in the dark). It was also a little disheartening to see the bartender ball her eyes out and walk out in the middle of her shift bartending.
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September 2024 by Kerri Fulkerson
Stayed for the first time this weekend. We drove 7 hours. Had NO idea that trains ran through ALL the time. We were probably 50 feet or so from the tracks.. Not only did they go through but the camp ground is at a crossing so they blow there horn. Friday night trains stopped at 11:00pm and started again at 5:30am. Saturday night trains went through til 2:00am andcstarted back by 5:30. . When they went past our camper shook. We actually left a day early. Not a good place for relaxing.. When looking for a camp ground found nothing about trains.
As the time got later more and more young kids were driving around on golf carts and not paying attention.
The camp ground was clean, Staff was nice and they had a good beach..
Would not stay again. The trains are just to much..
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September 2024 by Callie O'Banion
We had a very nice spot for our 31’ motorhome. Plenty of concrete for tables, games, and chairs. Very accommodating staff, particularly Kolbe, the manager. Grandkids had a blast at the pool, beach, and on the water inflatables. Lots for them to do.
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September 2024 by Courtnea Malugen
Overall a beautiful clean place. Loved the beach, kids like the obstacle coarse. Sites were decent size. Showers were hit/miss for hot water and had to hold down the button for water to run. Yoga instructor didn’t show up, otherwise staff was nice. Only downfall is the railroad that is constant and very loud.
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September 2024 by Christine Schaefer
So....this was the weirdest camping experience I think I've ever had.
1. We were in a pull through that, on the map, appears to be b/t lake and Mississippi River. The lake is down a steep hill (but you can see it) and the river I couldn't see from our site. Perhaps that is because of the...
2. TWO rail ways, one going each direction, about 40 or 50 feet from where our RV was parked. The trains were so loud and close they shook our entire camper and it actually felt like we were in a weird vortex of some sort. They had loud horns, especially going 1 direction - 3x right where we are - and they came by no less than 1x/hour...ALL NIGHT and all day. Our dogs were terrified.
3. The adults that we saw were all partying, drunk, listening to a VERY loud band singing VERY off key, whooping it up with pineapples displayed which is just gross. In the meantime there were kids zipping around in the golf carts and on electric scooter/bikes; at times the kids would be holding baby carriers on their laps - in the golf cart - while zipping around the site. No parents anywhere - they were too drunk I guess. We know this because at around 930pm, THEY started zipping around the campground, carts side by side so they could hold hands...again - just weird - while shouting about doing shots.
4. There are little gnats or something EVERYWHERE -- I had bug spray on but it didn't do anything for these things - I have bug bites all over my legs. And the flies were awful as well. Maybe it's a location thing? We've never camped in that part of the state before. But they were terrible and our dogs were miserable with them.
5. There's a sign posted outside the office re: the trains to let people know that money won't be refunded to people for leaving early because of the trains. So clearly this is a HUGE issue. And yet when booking, the only reviews I saw on the site were 4 and 5 star. There should be major warning about those things when you reserve a site. People shouldn't have to look for information like that. It's camping for God's sake. Why would we ever think about 2 railways that close to our RV with loud horns coming that often - why would you ever put a campground there?? So dumb! Even on the map - no mention of these things - at the VERY least put the dang things on your map! Don't falsely advertise that we'll be beautifully nestled b/t a lake and the river...
6. The driveways for the RV are pretty flat/level and pull through where we were, although they are so narrow it was actually difficult to stay on the drive and be close to the hookups without running into the metal power box on the side with the slide or the stone septic thing on the other side. We were the only site that had this issue and there were easily 10 other sites on that side of the lake. Again - why not warn people? Why not just make that a grass area and call it a day? Or maybe a tent area...But when you know a big 30+ foot RV is coming, why would that site even be an option?
Other than that lol....the staff seemed friendly and we made the best of it anyway. For instance, we sang with the band, but I can sing in tune...so that was fun...
I was able to add a couple pineapple pics, but the videos that is says I can add won't add...but they're VERY telling. I have great video of the train during the day and at 1am, the party goers as they passed our site yelling "shots shots shots" and the super loud band across the lake whose music in our site was louder than what I would play on our radio
Needless to say - we won't be returning. It's disappointing because we've been to the other RV Resort locations in WI and they were ok. Yes there were party people, but it still felt like camping. This was just weird, loud, obnoxious and way too expensive for all of this crap.
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September 2024 by Jana
The staff was very nice and looks like. Nice campground to keep kids busy. For the not so good, they have everything spread out to encourage campers to rent golf carts. There are no trees in the campground area at all! I don’t understand why they wouldn’t plant trees! Last thing is the train tracks right behind the campground. The trains roll by about every half hour and honk their horns! Just wasn’t for us!
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September 2024 by Terry Nilges
So we got there on Friday night and soon after a train next to our camp site 137 came through and blew its whistle for the road crossing two hundred feet away. It was loud. Scared our dogs and startled us. So we finish setting up. An hour later the next train came through and whistle blowing. This happened all night long. I would not recommend the pull through sites 126 through 147. We pulled out Saturday morning even through we had reservations through Sunday. No sleep does not work. The campground and amenities were clean and everyone was friendly. So there was nothing mentioned about train track so close on website or when talking to campsite personnel. We may go back if we can get up by the clubhouse/office. Maybe into back in sites up on the hill. I read the reviews later and the train was mentioned. I will review before going next time. Rjouneys company represent othe campgrounds. I would review the reviews when you visit to others one. Thank you
