Union Grove State Park - Beresford, South Dakota

 

Union Grove State Park might be referred to as the little sister of Newton Hills State Park.

The horses are in good-sized corrals up a hill above the equestrian campground

There is a nice picnic pavilion for equestrians to gather

There is a single wheel barrow provided for all the corrals.

Previous equestrians did not clean up after their horses, so Ari and I spent some of our time cleaning out the manure to make it a little nicer.

We have electric hook-up only.

There is a single water pump next to the vault toilet. Luckily we have enough hose to run the hose all the way up to the hill to the corrals, so we don't need to carry heavy buckets of water up hill.

The camp host saw us as we were riding on the trail and he came by later to say 'hi'. He told us he won't clean up after campers, so it is basically on us to maintain the equestrian campground.

We are the only campers, so we are fine being responsible for ourselves.

The trails here are very limited, maybe an hour's worth of riding, but they are well maintained, nice and easy trails.