Bella Vista Campground

Don Pool

Very nice campground with good sized sites. All have full hookups! The owners are very friendly and helpful. Make sure you ask about their store hours, they are limited and broken up during the day, so we had to wait to check in.

G. R.

We used Bella Vista Campground as our go-to place in the Jamestown area for three or four years - before they expanded the septic lines. We really liked that quiet, peaceful place but the last time we stayed we discovered the septic connections were simply pipes, six to eight inches above the ground and no effective way to keep your hose secure. When we emptied tanks we had to hand drain our raised hose and manually hold the hose in the pipe and expected it would be changed our next visit. We were surprised this year to call for a site and get no response at all. A week later we called again and were told they had many seasonal applicants and to call closer to our visit. They did give us a 4 night site, one of 5 available. but we were stunned when arrived to find the wide comfortable sites were gone. It resembled a trailer park, a poorly planned one with campers parked helter skelter, making respecting someone's site by not walk through it get to the store or playground impossible , though what we saw of some of the people, they had no clue of that courtesy. The site we usually rented was a back in where we could watch our grand-kids on the playground and the hookups were on the left side where the trailer connections were. This site plus the next one was now a seasonal. The one offered was next to it and we had another unpleasant surprise. Unless we wanted to walk over our water, electric and sewer line, we had to drive our travel trailer in. They had placed 2 or 3 trailers at the “back” side of the sites so to unhook (and re-hook), we had to jockey around and our view of the playground was now blocked. That was worrisome as when our 4 and 5 YO grand-kids went to the playground a group of older kids always appeared within minutes. Oh yeah, the septic connections had not been improved on that penny pinching layout. Draining the tanks was still a challenge with a huge potential of messiness. Our visit last year showed that when the campers turned on their air conditioners the voltage dropped to 90 or less volts. That low of voltage will burn up your AC motor so during those hot nights, we had no AC. With the influx of a hundred campers or more, we thought they had taken care of that. We watched our voltage drop from 115 to 109, and it was far too cool for AC those 4 days. They have a nice pool, a midsize pool and I cannot imagine that many campers will be able to fit in that pool. Will that mean swim by appointment or not at all?. I regret that now my only positive reaction to Bella Vista Campground is the staff has always been great, and still seem to be, but the physical arrangement is terrible. We regret crossing this site off our go to list. The exposure we had this weekend to the unusual type of people we had not encountered in our travels,(more than 18 states so far), the incredibly low voltage, the penny pinching septic system and the likelihood of swim by appointment has made this campground well below our standard of acceptance and would only return as a last resort.

Kevin Schauman

Owner and her daughter are terrific. Very friendly and accommodating. Camp is quiet and serene. Nice pool. Alot of group activities. This was our first visit and we definitely will be back.

Doug Justham

We just purchased a trailer that's on a seasonal lot there. wow we could pull the trailer out easily and either go on the road or move to another campground The owners have been amazingly nice. We are so impressed with the campground itself as well as the cleanliness. The owners in their family have just been wonderful and getting us in and ready.