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I can't personally speak for either one on that list. I will say that Lake Thunderbird also has a local name of Lake Dirty Bird because it is usually very dirty. Also, because of past tornadoes, there is a lot of tree damage.
Are you in the need to be right in the immediate area of Norman. There is a local park with RV sites in Purcell with the name of Chandler Park.
Terry
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Terry and Jo
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We've been at Lake Thunderbird for a few days, 2 out of the 5 days it has looked muddy, but we arrived during a pretty heavy rainstorm. The other days it's actually looked blue, however, it's a 30 minute drive into Norman. Our Verizon JetPack is working great, our daughter's Sprint coverage is not working so well at the campground. Haven't seen a lot of tree damage so much of that must have been cleaned up. They do offer $1/night Good Sam's discount that we didn't know about, so be sure to ask for that if you stay.
We drove by the Cleveland County Fairgrounds just for future reference, much closer to Norman, but really just a parking lot. It's biggest plus is convenience to Norman.
I realize it is a little bit of a distance, but we have stayed at Lucky Star casino outside of El Reno. Free with fullhooks. No limit to length of stay. Not an RV park, but a good place to stay while in the area for a short time.
BTW, if you select Lake Thunderbird, study the maps / camping areas before you drive out here. We'd been here before while on a "fly in" visit to the kids and really liked the campground (Turkey Pass) near the Discovery Cove Nature Center. However, our map program sent us to the Indian Point area, as we were driving in last week, things didn't look quite so familiar and we were thinking we made a wrong turn. We hadn't, we were just in the camping area (Sandy Lake) on the other side of the lake, here they have FHUs with 30 AMP or W/E with 30 AMP. Turkey Pass has W/E but with 50AMP. The 2 camping areas are about 30 minutes driving distance. The bike trail and better kid play areas are on near Turkey Pass. Most of the RV sites are relatively easy to get into, because we arrived on a Saturday that was the first day of spring break, all the lakeside sites were already gone, we got one with a pretty good view but was a little tricky to get into with a 38 ft 5'ver due to the trees. If we had arrived in mid-week we would have had our choice of sites that were a little easy to manueuver into, of course, it didn't help that it was pouring rain when we arrived.
And one more comment, this from our 8 year old grandson as he was leaving tonight, "I hope you and Grandpa stay here again next time you come to visit, this was COOL"!!