Lake Belva Deer Park (Keokuk County)

Deb Kephart

Great place to camp, clean bathroom, well maintained. Nice walking trail, great to walk dog. Also have a dog park so they can play. The cabins are nice. The park staff are friendly, helpful and do a great job. Great place for all ages.

Angela Wester

We LOVE camping here! The DNR guys here, they take a lot of pride in safety/security and cleanliness. We tent camp in the electric/rv spots since we need electricity and we always have plenty of space. This campground in Iowa is the best maintained we’ve ever been in. The lake has awesome large mouth bass fishing! Great boat ramp, and docks if you need. There’s another small lake, sandy beach for swimming, play area’s/parks, cabins, shelters, etc.

Bette Westphal

Very clean, cement sites with water and electricity. Water is shared with a neighbor, so be sure to have a Y connector. We were in site 17 and both water and electric were long runs. There were several very level sites, however, not available when we arrived on Thursday before Memorial weekend. Site 17 was not meant for our class A as we had to have 6" of wood under our front tires and 4" under the front jacks. People were catching bluegill and bass in the pond like area next to the lake. Very quiet, no highway noise or trains.

Harold Mozingo

Very well maintained. Very nice area. Descent fishing from the banks. The cabin we stayed was nice. The shower was kind of small with handicap seat installed. Maybe they could put a portable. A lot of wasp nests could be knocked down above porch. Overall we did have a very nice stay.

Jerry Brannen

Great place to hike, fish and camp. Also a great equestrian camp.

Tom Neese

We visited the campground but didn’t spend a night. Looked very clean. Concrete pads for electrical sites. A tad close together for my liking. Had individual shower rooms. Nice lake and not crowded at all, especially for Labor Day. I fished and had a couple bites but no catches. There looks to be a very nice paved bike trail through the area too as well as nice cabins for rent. I’d come back and camp here especially during the week.

Lucky Forever

Had a little drive down there to see the place. nice park. 👍😊

Joel Nielsen

good camping, hiking, swimming, and fishing spot for central Iowa. - on the north side of the lake, there is a large beach and swim area that is well maintained. drawbacks there are: no pets allowed on the beach, (we had to tie up our dog at a near-by shelter), you're not supposed to swim past the buoys which are at approx 6' depth, the bottom of this lake is reaaal squishy - the campground is on the south side of the lake. there is a playground and a shower and bathroom house that is very nice. the tent-camping sites are mostly bad, with almost all of them being right along the road, away from the water. However there is 1 awesome tent site - #11. it is huge, has its own driveway away from the road, and has access to the trail network and waterfront. (to get there you need to turn north on a gravel driveway just east of the playground). use the self-pay station right next to the shower house to pay for your site. We did have a ranger drive by in the morning to verify that we had paid for our camping site. if tent-site #11 wasnt available, i think i'd keep driving and find somewhere else to tent-camp, this place is mostly meant for the camper crowd the grounds were super well maintained, we absolutely slayed 2 hours worth of fishing near sundown with tons of bluegill and largemouth. the bass were hitting top-waters and that is hard to beat, tons of sunken timber makes for quite the bass habitat here