Frontier Campground

Em Leep

Not recommended. Stayed there for three months. I had no problems or issues until the end of my stay but they were big enough issues to caution other campers. During last few weeks of November I can home from my 12hr hospital shift to find my water disconnected. I called and was told that when it gets too a certain temperature that the owner disconnects anyone who isn’t “winter ready.” This came with no warning, no notice, the bath house was shut down as well. When asked if he could turn on the water long enough for me to fill my reserve tank the next day after work, the owner, Walter, said “I don’t know. I don’t like to make commitments that late at night.” This is after I said I would be there around 8-8:30 after my shift. I went without water for two days until a kind neighbor filled my water tank. When I checked out, Walter said I owed more money because my month to month payments only covered 28 days of the month. Very unprofessional, unkind, inconsiderate, difficult to get a hold of, and a sneaky businessman. Don’t camp there. **edit*** This was years ago and I stand by this review. I still occasionally look for campsites but even if this is a better price and location I will never stay again. I also think I should update this a little. After I wrote this and the owner responded with the statement below (which included my first and last name 🙄) he texted me and asked me why I left this and then reiterated his threat ti release our phone conversations. I told him to do so since they backed up my previous review. He never did anything more. If you are a camper and feel the need to warn and caution other campers about this behavior but are concerned about threats, you should write your review.

Seth Elmore

Hello, I am looking to get in touch with the owners to set up a stay, I cannot seem to find a number anywhere that is active/not disconnected, can anyone help me out? Thank you.

Jason Frieling

Walter has been a bit of a paradox for us.  We have seen him be very big-hearted, thoughtful, and kind during our 7 months (3+ of which we were full-timers there).  Walter obviously loves his son who is a REALLY good kid.  He helped us move in and provided us with a map and distances for exercise purposes without us even asking.  They opened a spot for us that was right by the basketball hoop. Melani Jones (the current Office Manager) worked HARD to get us upgraded to a better site and the trees are beautiful. Yet in the last month or so of our stay, we’ve had serious doubts as to whether we want to be depending on Walter and his campground for what we had hoped to be a good, long stay. His preoccupation with preparing for “something bad” that is soon-to-be-coming at the detriment of the maintenance of what was once a truly beautiful campground was troubling.  There were multiple jobs that had been started but never completed almost the whole time we were there: open septic pipes at a nearby camp-site, unfinished retaining wall project, damaged roofs in cabins, unusable child’s play structure (caution tape wrapped around it until the tape fell down), broken fence posts that needed repairing and were left broken even though there were replacements on hand.  The road throughout camp had a number of potholes that were never filled despite having multiple piles of gravel stored around the campground that could have easily been used.  The outside sitting area finally got fixed up and cleaned by one of our fellow campers so it could be used for their wedding just before we left.  Spotty WIFI, gnats and other bugs up the wazoo, HORRIBLE water.  The price of propane was the best around, but it took days in order for someone to actually get around to filling it.  This summer, one of our fellow campers was hired to mow the grass & prune some of the trees & I think help with the road upgrade by the office.  Melanie shared with us that he’d gotten a job elsewhere, and when asked who they’d be hiring to mow, didn’t see a need to hire someone new…the campers could take care of their own sites?!?!?!  Who on earth will be mowing the general areas or the sites with no campers on them….do you realize how buggy it’ll get if no one is mowing regularly? What exactly are they investing the $500 a month site fee in? We have yet to receive our $185.80 refund due us, but will update this when it comes in the mail.  If you could re-take all of the photos from the website or the Google reviews from the same spots today, they’d look a LOT different. Why this neglect of what once was a beautiful campground? COVID has left all of us feeling a bit more fearful, but Walter claimed to be preparing for what he believed was impending doom which was why the bathrooms and showers couldn’t be opened for public use; they were being used as storage for his supplies. But when he claimed he’d added bombs to his stash, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back for us.  What in the world do you need bombs for?  His office manager, Melani J, told us the day we left that they weren’t bombs, but something else that you could purchase at Rural King.  That didn’t really help matters any because then either she was wrong, and he did purchase bombs or she was right, and he was “just joking” about the bombs—which was NOT remotely funny or appropriate.  He’d “joked” about kicking us out several weeks earlier when my wife had dared to speak about our concerns about his focus on preparing for the apocalypse at the great detriment of maintaining his campground.  Again, not funny. We had high hopes for Frontier Campground but in the end there were just too many issues of concern for me and my family to continue our stay.

Melani Jones

So, we have stayed in another local campground here in Ohio and it was great for almost 6 years....we then moved to frontier and Walter, the owner is AMAZING! He provides a wonderful atmosphere for people/families. It is so quiet and peaceful here...we LOVE IT SO MUCH! When we read hateful reviews we are perplexed... Walter is honest, straight forward and just asks you to follow simple and basic rules....you can't and shouldn't expect to have your whole family free camping simply because you are staying here....he needs to make a living too and frankly this is his"backyard" and he's allowing us to stay here and enjoy the beautiful area......cudos and a Huge thanks to Frontier and Walter for providing an amazing place to stay!!!!!! If you're looking for a beautiful place to stay then this is it!!! Tons of trees, small and quiet. We've stayed here many nights and ABSOLUTELY LOVE it! The owner, Mr. Walter and office manager Miss Chelsie are very helpful and just plain good, honest people. Anyone who doesn't like it here or has an issue with how they run it is just hateful, we wouldn't stay here if we didn't respect the owner... He is truly a kind man of great character. We appreciate all he does in providing a comfortable, safe place to stay!