Functional and pretty; but the bathrooms could use a complete redo.
Comments: My wife and I have been staying here for at least five years; during the summer we spend a few days on the beach and Dixon's is our home base. We like car camping, not totally roughing it, although we wouldn't be caught dead in an RV or RV-centric campground. We enjoy the fact that we can really relax in a fairly natural setting with people who are generally considerate of the fact that this is a campground where one goes to relax in quiet, not in, well, riot. It's close enough to bike to the beach, but not to walk. Next time, we'll finally try the sea kayaking tours. Overall, a very pleasant experience.
Now for some constructive criticism. Our one complaint is the bathrooms. First, there are not enough. When we went most recently there was a large family (who took up several sites). They sent their kids to do the dishes in the sinks, and we had to wait to brush our teeth, etc., for quite some time. This is a typical problem. Often, one waits 20 minutes or so for a shower, which are coin-operated.
The bathrooms are not dirty, but they're not immaculate, either. They should put in shelves or more hooks for people who need to change or don't want to let their bag of toiletries touch the floor. The sinks are sort of under an awning on either side of the small bathroom/shower/sink huts, and are stainless steel basins mounted in plywood. Bugs tend to crawl in and around, and the plywood gets wet, and pools up because of surface irregularities that would not happen with formica, cement, whatever.
I know we're camping and so should have a different set of expectations than we would in a 5-star hotel. But I think larger, cleaner bathrooms (a la those at one of our favorite campgrounds, Megunticook, in mid-coast Rockland) that respond to the number and type of campers who stay there would make staying there that much more of a relaxing and pleasant experience.
