Reviews

For Crane MWR Campground: Reading the previous reviews, I feel like I was at a different place. The Crane MWR Campground, in my opinion, is great! Yes, it's small - maybe a dozen sites, mostly pull thru's, right in a row on a gravel base. But it is located in the middle of a virgin forest, surrounded by tall trees, and 100 yards from a very nice (small) marina with good fishing and rentals on a beautiful 800 acre lake. The campground also has a half dozen small really nice cabins and pavilions scattered around the RV area, back in the woods. I guess if you come expecting Disney, you might be disappointed. But we thought it was well maintained, clean, and a great location.

Posted Apr 15, 2017 by Gordon MacDonald from Toledo Ohio. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.

For Crane MWR Campground: Crane military campground.
The young lady who took our reservation was very friendly.
We received a phone call about 6pm on our arrival date asking if we were still coming. We told her we were about an hour out.
Arrived via I69 Crane, Bloomfield exit. Have to check in at the navy lodge/motel, no big deal just a little out of the way.
This is an ominous eerie place. Very isolated.
Lots of concrete buildings, WW2 era. They do secret stuff up here and I really don't want to know what.
Very small active military presence. While we were visiting some National Guard/reservists on annual training were hanging at the smallest exchange I've ever seen.

The campground is a mess. Far too crowded to handle it's capability to support the occupants.
Lots of full timers. Appears to be civil service workers staking out a claim.
This place is very rural. It doesn't appear they have many constraints or rules at least ones they are enforcing! Some of the sites are trashy. Yep, MWR trashy!
Needs to be cleaned up to meet Military Campground quality.

Weather has been rough and there's been lots of rain in this area, the roads are full of ruts no one has tried to put down some gravel to fix it.
The sites are totally unorganized we had site 3 but the guy in site 4 had pushed himself into our site. He did move his truck so we could get in.
It took us close to an hour to get into our assigned site just to find out that the motor home next to us had both electrical connections hooked up to his big ol 35+ foot motor home. Yep, he was taking up electric to 2 sites. So to say this place is not set up properly and mismanaged is an understatement.
It's very tight and there's a ditch that if you're not careful you may end up in.
Navy MWR if you are going to have an RV park at least manage it professionally. These are not full time camper spaces.
Did I say anything about cell service or WIFI? Non existent! Forget about it.
Not going back. It's a trailer ghetto.

Posted Aug 14, 2016 by Mike from Evansville IN. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.

For Crane MWR Campground: We stayed a week. The staff was wonderful. Very helpful. We had trouble with electricity. It worked for 5 days then for unknown reasons we were limited - were unable to use front air or outlets. Another camper there told us they had the same problem at that spot. There had been recent heavy rains and the camping area had not been fixed. Also had to travel about 30 minutes to any town and the base was limited on their services. We originally stayed there to get medication refilled but they did not provide that service. Is great place to stay if you just want to get away and enjoy camping and fishing because any sites you wish to visit is a long ways away.

Posted Aug 08, 2016 by Camping for fun from Floridia. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.

For Crane MWR Campground: Not much of a campground. Basically an all gravel lot for campers. Most sites are 30 amp. If more than 12-14 campers could become crowded.
Nice surrounding area and base with very limited amenities. Limited hours on weekends at NEX, commissary and other services.
Appears to be a good location for day use for fishing from boat, fairly decent marina area for jon boats and such.
Personnel at Lodge were very helpful and informative.
We were traveling throughout the area familiarizing ourselves with camping possibilities for spring/summer. We did not actually stay but spent several hours roaming about and speaking with many others about amenities. Most agree that the entire base is virtually abandoned on the weekends. However many stated it's a great opportunity for primitive camping & fishing. They also stated to make sure to "be well supplied on arrival as it will require a 30+ minute trip to town".

Posted Feb 27, 2016 by Redsodywater from Indiana. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.