Big Rock Campground

We stayed at Custom RV Repair on Friday night to avoid driving in Friday afternoon traffic around Chicago. We had a reservation to check in to Paul Wolff Campground in Elgin, near where Carl's sons live, on Sunday -- for a two week stay. These campgrounds in the Kane County Forest Preserve system limit stays to 14 days out of any 21 day period, so we did not want to check in earlier to Paul Wolff. I checked and found that we would be able to get a site at Big Rock for Saturday night, so I booked it and we drove to Big Rock on Saturday.

Big Rock Campground is near Sugar Grove, Illinois and is in the midst of farm land and forests.

They now have new signage reflecting the fact that the campground now requires reservations. We had been alerted by friends in the area that the reservation system was going into effect on April 1, so we knew that we had to make reservations. For this year, it hasn't been too bad as we were pretty certain exactly which dates we would want to be in the area -- unfortunately, that won't usually be the case.

The rates for non-residents went up $6/night, and firewood doubled in price - bummer!

I was able to book a pullthru -- we don't have a problem with back-ins, but it is nice to be able to pull in and pull right out again.

It is also a super-long site, so we didn't have any problem with parking the Jeep.

The reservation system has some negatives for us, but it was nice to know that we had a site at Big Rock even with an arrival on a Saturday.