Griffin City Park

Re CAMPGROUND: This is a wonderfully maintained city campground. This campground is on the Missouri River. The city of Fort Pierre has put a lot of money into its parks. Campgrounds are really clean and beautiful. The Griffin site has electric at the sites but not water, though there is potable water available. On the upside for Griffin, there is a wonderful tornado shelter/rec room/bathroom with showers. The showers are warm enough. On the other side of the river, and also a Fort Pierre city park campground, is Fisher‘s Lily Park campground. The sites at Fisher Lily Park Campground are little larger, the view is a little nicer, and there’s water and electric at the sites. But the bathrooms are not as convenient and do not have showers. We stayed Fischer Lily Park campground, but went over to Griffin Park to shower. You really can’t go wrong with either campground. The Price during the season which starts 1 May is now $25. Sites are available first come first served basis. There is no gate, no host, and we never saw the campground patrolled, but we did feel safe. I added pictures of where the showers are (distal end of campground before the marina)

Park was nice, visited for the Doc Holiday festival and it was a great experience! If you have a chance definitely plan on attending this festival in the future!

Overall, this park is a mixed bag. Some areas are totally run-down and rusted. There are decent areas, like the two new playgrounds, the pavilions, the tennis courts, and the golf course. I wouldn't trust some of the swings or the strangely isolated blue slide. The environment is quiet, and there are quite a few open spaces to just relax.