Wall Doxey

Christy Foster

How this place rates as a 4.3 at the time of this review is beyond me! This is truly a State Park that the state forgot about! We stayed one night passing through and after a really great experience on the other side of Mississippi at Lake Lowndes, we certainly were surprised by this one. It has a creepy, sketchy vibe, but we continued to camp site 19. As we drove in, we noticed trash everywhere, and I mean everywhere...along the sides of all the roads, at the campsites we passed and when we got to our site, I filled an entire trash bag with garbage picked up just at our site. Our site had a new picnic table, but many others were broken and gross. There is no fire ring, but a few rocks in a circle filled with trash and cigarette butts. We went walking and two different piers are broken, decrepit and falling apart. Stone buildings that were probably once beautiful, sit full of debris, with smashed out windows. I mentioned the garbage to the women in the front office and it was clear they couldn't care less. I'm not sure if this park is understaffed or the staff is apathetic, but it's a disgrace. We would never stay here again and do not recommend it at all. We couldn't wait to get out of there!

Denise Robinson

The best part of this parkis the staff! They are very nice. However... This park is very run down. It needs lots of repairs. It only has one working restroom/bathhouse for the entire park. The dock in the cover photo is not accessible. It's in disrepair. The picnic table are extremely old and nasty. The campsites are extremely close to each other, but very shady.

Ratchada Miller (เหมียว มิลเลอร์)

It is easy to find and is close to the highway. Although the park looks rundown, it offers a very quiet overnight stay. There is a good 2.5-mile walking trail around the lake.

Michael Ezell

A very awesome park. Walked half the trail wanted to do the entire trail but the trail got dangerous half way in, and we had to turn around. Trail was grown up and could use some clearing for sure. Certainly take some mosquito spray with Deet ticks are bad. Beautiful atmosphere. Playground looked very nice. Resting in main building were extremely clean.

Sarah Caylor

My group of 6 had a great first experience at Wall Doxey State Park! We stayed Friday - Sunday for the Snappy-Sync Firefly tours. I highly recommend attending this limited-time-only annual event! Park staff and volunteers were awesome and answered all of our questions. My group was amazed by how the synchronized fireflies lit up the forest. I'm taking Mom with me next year :) The bathhouse was very clean and well taken care of. Site 62 was completely shaded and had a small pile of firewood piled up near a tree for us to use. The hike, be it only 2 miles, was fairly easy. We saw a lot of cool mushrooms- including some edible chanterelles! We will be back again!

Patrick Clark

This place is nice and usually pretty quiet - i have seen groups doing training with canoes and the like (Scouts, likely). One of my daughters caught her first fish here, so it will always have a place in my memories. Ice heard others complain that they never catch there but I do regularly. Cool place.

T. J. Hot Dog

Deep in the shadowy woods of Wall Doxey State Park, when the fog hangs low over Spring Lake and the cypress trees whisper with the wind, old-timers warn of a creature that slinks just beneath the water’s surface — the Half Man, Half Turtle. The story goes back to the 1940s, when a reclusive biologist named Dr. Elbert Crane lived in a cabin on the lake. Obsessed with longevity, he studied turtles for years, convinced they held the secret to eternal life. Locals said he conducted strange experiments — injecting himself with turtle serum, muttering about “shedding the limits of man.” One stormy night, Crane vanished. The cabin was torn apart, claw marks gouged into the walls, and the dock was splintered like something massive had dragged itself into the water. They never found his body. But soon, campers began reporting eerie sightings: a hunched figure with leathery green skin crawling out of the lake, webbed hands dragging behind it, a shell fused to its back. Its eyes glowed like fireflies in the dark. They say the creature still roams the park on misty nights, stalking the shoreline, searching for something — or someone — to pull back into the water. And if you’re quiet enough, you might hear its slow, wet crawl behind you. Locals call it The Shell Walker. But most just say: don’t stay past sundown at Wall Doxey.

Kris Brasher

Really enjoy Wall Doxey! Had a great trip with our Cub Scout pack. Nice campsites, and a great hiking trail around the lake!

T Gomez

Very peaceful and quiet. But the roads that are in the camping area are in very bad condition . Roads have buckled. I was told that the tree roots were growing up and making the roads rough, but from what i saw (I'm not an asphalt person) but from what i saw, there were no tree roots even around the places that were bad. But if you are looking for a camping spot for a good price, yes, stop in or book a spot. But it's definitely not a destination campground. A word of caution is that the water pressure here is 100 psi ! !

Cameron Scott

Beautiful state park! I liked the multiple wood docks leading out on the lake. They’re nice for fishing, or just enjoying the view. The park was clean, and well kept. The disc golf courses were fun, and challenging; although some holes were a bit overgrown. The variety of waterfowl and birds was impressive. This is a nice park to see and explore in a day. The picnic area was quite nice. The camping also looked wonderful here.