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Jan 08, 2024
Wish I could give it a four and a half. The grounds and cabin are clean: I love having the dog park. We didn't get to use amenities since it was winter in Illinois, and we stayed twice en route to another destination. With fewer check-ins and short days, I understand limited office hours. After-hours check-in was clear, but it would have been nice to have a call box in case we had questions.
Jan 04, 2024
Very nice cabins and well equipped, very nice setup and location and excellent staff, highly recommend it definitely better than hotel and better price than most!
Jan 03, 2024
Clean cabin, presented as advertised.
Dec 20, 2023
Nice campground. Dog friendly. Great customer service.
Nov 27, 2023
Came to town for the Thanksgiving holiday. Traveling from Texas with our Catahoula. The cabin was wonderful I wish it had a bigger bed but other than that it was great
Nov 22, 2023
Just a suggestion: if you have a coffee maker in the room, and filters, you should probably provide coffee. Hair in the toilet, dead jug in the bathroom sink. I usually love KOA cabins. This was the odd one out.
Nov 17, 2023
Jul 16, 2026
Fantastic. Someone there to Check you in, and lead you to your spot after a 7 hour driving day. Plenty of eating/drinking opportunities 5 minutes into town. Nice Pool. Would stay here again, coming through.
- Scott Lindbloom on Google
Jul 02, 2026
Benton KOA Journey is an easy overnight stop just off I-57. Since we were already familiar with the campground layout, we called ahead to ask if we could go directly to our site on the opposite side of the road from the office and check in afterward. The staff gladly accommodated our request. We stayed in Deluxe Full-Hookup Pull-Through Patio Site 65, which made it easy to center our 40-foot fifth wheel on the utilities. The site was slightly off level, but we did not need to use blocks. The gravel patio featured a huge wheelchair-accessible picnic table, fire pit with cooking grate, stand-up charcoal grill, wooden swing, and bench. We received one bar on Verizon and two bars on T-Mobile. There are mature trees around the seven pull-through sites across the road from the main campground, but Starlink should work in most of them if you're able to position the dish around the trees. For this overnight stay, we used our T-Mobile Home Internet, which averaged 358 Mbps download and 2.7 Mbps upload. The campground Wi-Fi was adequate for light browsing. A fenced dog park was conveniently located near our site, and being across the road from the main campground helped reduce interstate noise. Overall, this is a clean, well-run KOA with exceptionally friendly and helpful staff, and a good overnight stop returning to our home base in southern Illinois to rest and dump tanks.
- Mick Williams on Google
Jul 01, 2026
Easy access off Hwy 57 great rates quite sites near pond Great people Jasmine was especially efficient over the phone and even provided escort services to site on late arrival. Very welcoming and strong Internet clean sites beautiful!
- Denise Abruscato on Google