Hickory Grove Campground & RV Park

Campground in Sheffield, IL • 11 RV Sites

Hickory Grove Campground and RV Park in Sheffield, Illinois, is a full-hookup camping destination in Bureau County's Illinois River valley heartland — a well-equipped family campground with full-hookup RV sites, tent camping, clean restrooms and showers, and laundry facilities in the rolling agricultural and woodland countryside of north-central Illinois between the Hennepin and Walnut river communities. Sheffield's Bureau County position in the Illinois River valley's northern agricultural corridor gives guests the practical access to the Illinois and Mississippi Canal State Trail, the Bureau County landscape's hunting and fishing opportunities, and the day-trip range to Starved Rock State Park, Princeton, and the Illinois Valley's recreational and cultural corridor that the Bureau County campground's central Illinois location specifically enables. Full-hookup RV sites with clean restrooms, showers, and laundry give the campground the complete daily comfort infrastructure for multi-day Bureau County stays — the full-hookup service ensures that both the short-stay overnight guest routing through the north-central Illinois highway network and the extended-stay fishing and outdoor recreation visitor have the practical campground amenities that modern RV camping requires. The campground's family-oriented character and the Bureau County countryside setting give guests the rural north-central Illinois experience that the region's agricultural landscape and the Illinois River valley's woodland corridors specifically provide. Pets are welcome. Starved Rock State Park, 35 miles southeast of Sheffield in LaSalle County, is the most visited state park in Illinois — a 2,630-acre park on the Illinois River's south bank where the sandstone canyons carved by glacial meltwater streams into the Matthiessen State Park and Starved Rock formations give Illinois its most dramatic geological landscape in the waterfalls, canyon walls, and the Illinois River overlooks that sustain over 2 million visitors annually in the state's most scenic public land accessible from the Chicago metropolitan market. The 18 canyons and 13 waterfalls of the Starved Rock-Matthiessen complex give the LaSalle County Illinois River corridor the specific scenic concentration that justifies the three-hour drive from Chicago. Princeton, 15 miles east of Sheffield in Bureau County, is the county seat's historic downtown with the Owen Lovejoy House National Historic Landmark — the home of the abolitionist minister and congressman whose residence served as a stop on the Underground Railroad in the 1840s and 1850s and who represented Bureau County in the U.S. House alongside Abraham Lincoln's Illinois legislative career. The Illinois State Water Survey's Bureau County monitoring stations and the Bureau County Historical Society's collections give Princeton the specific civil war and abolitionist heritage depth that the Owen Lovejoy landmark's National Historic Landmark status acknowledges. Hickory Grove Campground serves guests through Bureau County's Illinois camping season from spring through fall, with the spring turkey hunting and the fall deer and waterfowl seasons representing the primary outdoor recreation demand for the Bureau County hunting and fishing community and the summer months sustaining the family camping and Illinois River float trip market from the Peoria and Chicago corridor. The Illinois-Michigan Canal Trail, the 60-mile multi-use path along the historic 1848 canal bed from Channahon to LaSalle, gives cyclists and hikers the rail-trail and canal-trail access through the Illinois Valley's historic transportation corridor. Reserve sites ahead for summer peak weekends and the fall hunting seasons.

Campground rules and policies

Check-In Procedure
- Check-in time is after 1:00 pm.
- Check out before 12:00pm.
- We will not park you in the dark without prior arrangements, a fee will be incurred.
- While each park attempts to accommodate your exact spot request, the on-site manager has the ultimate decision for spot placement.Tents
- Tents are allowed on designated tent sites only and only one tent per site.
- There will be no tents allowed to be pitched on the same site as an RV site.
- A screen tent with no floor, over a picnic table is allowed.Registered Guests
- To reserve a campsite you must be 21 years of age or older.
- Visitors who are not registered guests are not allowed on the premises.
- Visitors to the campsite must check in with the front desk to obtain a visitor car permit.Campfires
- Campfires are the responsibility of the guest.
- Federal law and campground policy require that campfires be contained in the designated fire ring.
- Fires must be attended at all times and extinguished when leaving them unattended.
- Fires must be thoroughly doused with water by 11:00 pm.
- Do not move the fire ring.
- Cutting off any standing trees on the premises is prohibited.Occupancy Restrictions
- Occupancy is based on 4 family (two adults and two dependents) members per campsite.
- Additional child $2. Additional adult $15.
- A maximum of 2 vehicles is allowed per site.Trash Disposal
- Please help us protect the environmental quality of the campground by placing garbage in the dumpsters located in each of the camping areas.
- Please do not burn or leave trash inside the fire gate.Quiet Hours
- So that fellow campers can experience a quiet and restful evening, quiet hours are in effect from 11:00 pm through 7:00 am.
- Quiet hours during the week are 10 pm-8 am.
- Parents, please ensure that your children observe the rules.
- Kids under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult after 8:00.Fireworks
- Fireworks are not permitted at the campground.Pet Policy
- Pets are welcome when kept quiet, attended to, cleaned up after, and leashed at all times.
- All dogs must be leashed and aggressive dogs must be muzzled.
- There will be a charge for pets that are a nuisance.Vehicle Policy
- Washing of vehicles is not allowed.
- All vehicles must stay on roads and gravel pads of sites.
- Do not drive on the grass.
- Generators are not allowed.Speed Limit
- For the safety and consideration of other guests, the campground speed limit is 5 M.P.H.Gray Water
- Cannot be emptied on the ground.
- It must be disposed of in the campsite sewer receptacle or dump station.Damages
- Anyone who damages campground property will be liable for the cost of repairs or replacement.
- Customers will be held responsible for any theft of campground property.