Tom Sawyer's RV Park is located in a heavily forested area, right along the bank of the Mississippi River. It gets flooding on a regular basis but they monitor river stages carefully and can give you ample notice before such flooding occurs. Our visit was rather last minute and they were still doing flood cleanup when we arrived. They were sweet and helpful by providing us a last minute spot to stay in for a couple of weeks during a very busy time for them. The staff are amazing people, fun, knowledgeable, and very helpful with every request we made.
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Laundry & Bathrooms - we stayed in the forest area toward the rear of the park so we used the quaint two story building that has the restroom/shower area below and the laundry area above. The machines are free to campers, which is a big perk. They have newer model machines. Both the laundry area and bathrooms were immaculately clean and well maintained every time we used them. This building is rather like a tree house and fits the Tom Sawyer theme perfectly. The stairs may be challenging for some but I think they have another facility in the park that has only a couple of stairs leading to it......
Sites - This park has a wide variety of sites with something for everyone's camping style. They have sites in the midst of the forest with heavy shade cover, sites with no trees at all, and various types of sites in between. They have gravel and fully paved sites, long and short sites, narrow and wide. Most of the sites we saw had picnic tables. All the sites we saw had full hookups. Our site (#33) was in the forest area with trees all around. It was gravel, fairly level, and only required a small amount of manual leveling on our part. It is a long but narrow site and our picnic table was right against the neighbors electric/sewer hookups so we didn't spend a lot of time at the picnic table. However, there are many many sites with more width than ours had. I suggest that you reserve ahead of time and let them know your preferences when you reserve. The folks who work/volunteer there know their park well and can help you find just what you need. We will return there again, and next time we will make sure to get the type site we love best. This is a great place to camp because of the variety but if you want a certain type spot some planning will help......
Pets - they allow pets and we saw all types and sizes. There are snakes, coons and other critters around so keep an eye on your fur babies....
Phone, Internet, TV, cable - Our T-mobile phone had little or no service while there. Our AT&T phone worked fairly well. We didn't have much success getting the camp wi-fi to work from our site. We had good reception of local channels with only rabbit ears on the TV. The campground doesn't provide cable hook ups......
We really enjoyed this campground, we will go again, we will plan better when reserving our spot the next time we go. The campground had a few mosquitoes, some gnats and some woolly aphids but not nearly as many insects as we expected along the river. We didn't even need to use repellent to be comfortable. The campground has a variety or trails through the jungle areas, some are easier and some are little more than deer trails....
Ice is available at the visitor center.....
Area - bike trails with bike rentals are just the other side of the levy on the road to town. You can bike and or walk along the levy. West Memphis Arkansas is a small truck stop style town. It has truckstops, a racetrack that is very active, a Walmart, fresh market etc. It is the location of the original Pancho's Cantina Style Mexican restaurant. If you take the "old bridge" over to Tennessee, you can be in Downtown Memphis Tn is about 10 minutes where you can enjoy all the tourist fun of Beale Street, take a riverboat cruise, sample some BBQ at the Rendezvous, etc.