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Best Equestrian Sites Near Mount Sterling, OH (11)
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Hocking Hills State Park Campground
South Bloomingville, Ohio105 Reviews542 Photos155 SavesHocking Hills State Park offers camping all year round - electric sites, camper cabins, group camps, and primitive sites.
156 electric sites (with 20, 30 or 50 amp electric) and 13 non-electric sites.
Each site has a paved pad and can accommodate up to a 50' unit. Heated showers. Flush toilets. Laundry facility. Dump station. Camp store. Swimming pool for registered campers. Playgrounds. Volleyball court and horseshoe pit. Tent-only group camps are available by reservation. There are also 30 walk-in family sites with pit latrines.
All Hike-In Campgrounds are off the main Entrance and depending on the Site No. It requires up to 0.5 miles to hike from the Parking Lot. You have to drive to a different Parking Lot on State route 374. All sites starting with "H“ will be on the different location.
- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- ADA Access
$29 - $46 / night
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Alum Creek State Park Campground
Lewis Center, Ohio76 Reviews181 Photos107 SavesLarge campground features shady sites for all types of camping. Pets are welcome on designated sites.
An equestrian camp has 30 primitive sites available on a first-come, first-served basis.
286 electric campsites offer both wooded and sunny areas, some of which overlook the lake. Each site has 20-, 30- and 50-amp electrical hookup. 24 full-service campsites offer electric, sewer and water hookups Heated shower facilities with flush toilets and dump station Beach and boat ramp for exclusive use of the overnight guests Basketball courts, volleyball, miniature golf, horseshoe pits, and playgrounds Nature programs Equestrian camp has 30 primitive sites available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- ADA Access
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Buck Creek State Park Campground
Clarence J. Brown Dam and Reservoir, Ohio30 Reviews86 Photos147 Saves- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- ADA Access
$23 - $35 / night
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Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Arkansas River - Pool 5, Arkansas50 Reviews107 Photos164 SavesUPDATE March 2023: ... Campground: Loops E & F Sites 136-287 are closed for electrical upgrade. Sites will open as construction allows. Loops A, B, C & D Sites 1 – 137 are available to reserve. Thank you for your patience.
A Camp Store offers supplies, firewood, ice, concessions, novelties, and kayak rental seasonally. Caesar Creek Lake is located in southwest Ohio, centered between Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus. Visitors flock to Caesar Creek Lake for its great fishing, boating, Visitor Center and trail opportunities. Natural Features: Caesar Creek Lake is home to many different wildflower prairies throughout the park which offer views of native wild prairie flowers, insects and bird species. Caesar Creek Lake is also home to more than 50 miles of trails including the 13 mile backpack trail which takes you to a scenic overlook of Horseshoe Falls. Recreation: Caesar Creek Lake offers excellent boating, water skiing and canoeing. Anglers fish for crappie and trophy muskie. The shelter is close to the Visitor Centers courtesy dock, allowing for easy shoreline fishing or to launch a kayak. Also, the shelter is within a short walking distance to the Caesar Creek Lake Visitor Center which offers exhibits, films and information about the lake and Corps missions in the Ohio Valley. Visitors can also take advantage of the new Adena Trace fitness trail with 9 workout stations over a mile loop as well as 50 miles of additional hiking, mountain biking, and bridle trails. Facilities: Each shelter is located near the Caesar Creek Visitor Center where a 24-hour indoor heated and cooled restroom can be found. Many shelters also offer some of the largest playground areas found at Caesar Creek Lake. Each shelter also offers two cooking grills and both electric and water are provided with reservation. Nearby Attractions: Caesar Creek Lake offers 50 miles of hiking, mountain biking, bridle and archery trails. Caesar Creek Pioneer Village offers a collection of over 15 log cabins and other structures that are open during special events. Caesar Creek Nature Center is adjacent to the Pioneer Village; the nature center features exhibits on the areas cultural and natural history.
- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- ADA Access
$17 - $75 / night
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Cowan Lake State Park Campground
Wilmington, Ohio25 Reviews83 Photos105 Saves- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- ADA Access
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Delaware State Park Campground
Delaware Lake, Ohio35 Reviews162 Photos156 SavesThis recreation area is part of Delaware Lake
- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- ADA Access
$27 - $29 / night
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Korbel Campgrounds at Ohio Expo Center
Columbus, Ohio5 Reviews3 Photos16 SavesFrom Nov 1 - April 1, water service is not available in the Ohio Expo Center campgrounds.
- Pets
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- ADA Access
- RVs
- Group
$50 / night
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Pike Lake State Park Campground
Latham, Ohio11 Reviews126 Photos45 Saves- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Reservable
- ADA Access
- RVs
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Great Seal State Park Campground
Chillicothe, Ohio1 Review8 Photos13 SavesCamping is available to both horse and non-horse campers - Horse picket lines (tie lines) are located behind sites 1-10. Sites 11 - 15 do not have the horse picket lines.
- Pets
- Fires
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- RVs
- Tents
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Stacked Stones Retreat and Horse Camp — Hocking State Forest
South Bloomingville, Ohio3 Reviews2 Photos12 Saves- Pets
- Fires
- Electric Hookups
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- RVs
$20 - $175 / night
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Recent Equestrian Reviews In Mount Sterling
373 Reviews of 11 Mount Sterling Campgrounds
Alum Creek State Park Campground
Road Noise
First time visiting this state campground and we only stayed one night, did not explore entire park. Grounds well maintained, clean and decent amenities. The sites are well placed and a good size. But no water view on any of the “premium water view” sites in loop L, other than one L17 (the picture with view) Same for loop K. Guests and hosts were friendly and welcoming. Quiet except for the road noise due to nearby busy roads. The boat launch to lake access is very nice with plenty of parking and space. Not bad for a stop when traveling through or a weekend. We stayed with 34’ camper. Site L15 (picture with red truck)
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Great Campgrounds
I have always had great experiences at this campground.
Pine Creek Campground and Cabins
Equestrian
I was here before they sold out and seeing it now makes me sad. The bathrooms were gross, the arenas had weeds shooting up. This was a very nice place to take the horses, now it's an overpriced average campground with absolutely nothing to write home about.
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Nice Campground
I have stayed here several times. The showers are clean and the staff is friendly. Camp sites are spacious. The full hookup sites are a bit smaller. Over all a nice campground!
Cowan Lake State Park Campground
Great campground!
We've been to Cowan a few times, first time in this loop and was not disappointed. Bathroom was clean and well stocked through the weekend. Additional vehicles have to pay $3.
Alum Creek State Park Campground
Large Established State Park
Very well maintained, established state park. Sites are paved, level, and generally ample in space. Ample shade and privacy if needed. Amenities include boating, fishing, disc golf, MTB trails, live music select evenings, etc. Facilities are cleaned regularly. Staff are friendly and helpful..
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Hillside camp site has great amenities but the hill is a challenge
The Cedar Point group camp at Caesar's Creek is a large hillside camp site. Yes, hillside. The site sits at the end of an access road that circles back on itself and has a reasonably large parking lot. A large flat lawn sits inside of the road circle but the majority of the campsite is a steep hill with a few flat spots for tents. There is a fire pit and picnic shelter at the top of the so you'll be lugging your supplies up the hill for meals.
Several trail heads start all around the site, both on top and at the bottom of the hill. One of those trails leads down from the hilltop to a small beach on the water. Since the trailhead starts from the picnic shelter at the top of the hill it's reasonably private and we enjoyed fishing and swimming from the beach. It does sit in the wake zone so you'll have to deal with waves from the boats.
The restrooms are at the bottom of the hill and have flush toilets with running water for washing, though only the cold water was working when we visited. The worst we encountered there were carpenter bees and some spiders. They were reasonably clean when we arrived too. The park service did come and close them early on our checkout day, but they came back and reopened them for us by request.
Overall, there are better group camp sites at Caesar's Creek. Wellman Meadow has the same amenities, except for the beach, and is flat as a board. Book that site if you can but if it isn't available, and the hill won't be a challenge for your group, Cedar Point is fine.
Alum Creek State Park Campground
Great park
Been here before came back because we liked it so much. Sites are good sized compared to alot of state parks good for tent and rv. Cell service is good, bathrooms are older and could use updating but are decently clean for use.
Hocking Hills State Park Campground
Hike in spots
Beautiful area with great hikes and views close by. None accessible directly from our camp which was in the walk in section, separate from the regular camp ground. This area does not have many of the amenities that the other site does, just vault toilets. The walk in can be up to .3 miles so I highly recommend some sort of cart for your gear.
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Standard campground
This was close to home which added to the convenience but camp sites are on top of each other, and lots of nosey people
Alum Creek State Park Campground
Alum Creek - Nicely Designed and Well Maintained
Alum Creek State Park is a very well designed State park. Its located north of Columbus, Oh just off I-71N. The sites have level pads. The park is very neat and clean. Our particular rv site was an electric only site (L06) but water was just across the street so if was convienent to fill the camper. This was a very pretty campground with boating and water sports as the main activity.
When approaching the campground make sure you GPS is set for the campground and not the park. the two are separated by a few miles and signage at the park to the campground is not clear, especially, at 11:00PM when it is dark.
While were there they had a trivia night which was fun and a free pancake breakfast on Sat. morning which was quite delicious.
For Astronomers this is a Bortle class 4 site with an SQM rating of 21.27. I did not get observe from this site as it was cloudy due to wildfire smoke. Overall we had a great time at the park.
The electric only sites were priced at $33/night.
Pine Creek Campground and Cabins
Cabin stay
We stayed in one of the small cabins and loved it! Very clean, with thoughtful amenities. Hot tub on the back porch. This cabin also comes with two horse stalls. Bridle trail access right from campground.
Delaware State Park Campground
Great park
Spent the weekend would've spent longer if not for work. Some sites were bigger than others but all had plenty of space and alot of tree shade. They put in a put put course recently, had disk golf. We were in section c it had upgraded single person shower house and I was told there in the process of upgrading all of them to that style. huge beach area and each section has its own playground for the kids. Cell phone service I had verizon which was 1 bar but the wife has att and her phone worked no problems.
Delaware State Park Campground
Well maintained, quiet and relaxing campground.
My wife and I have begun our full-time RV living. We stayed at this state park during the transition from selling our house. We did not have time to enjoy everything this park has to offer. However, the staff was friendly, the campsites were well maintained and it was quiet.
Buck Creek State Park Campground
Very large beautiful park.
Large park with a marina, archery range, disc golf and more. Trails to lake covered with shade.
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Good public camping
Sites are close together unless you’re in the loop at the end of the loop. Clean bathrooms with shower Site 118 close to short trail to beach and boat dock Running water
Buck Creek State Park Campground
Leaves some to be desired
It's easy to get there. The non-electric sites don't have a lot of space or privacy (ie; trees) between them, definitely no hammocking. There's also a private camper's beach that is absolutely serene, probably not safe to swim in. Due to it being a holiday weekend, it was busy & loud like you'd expect, but it was so rowdy we left early. When we showed up, someone dumped all their trash in our firepit, absolutely disgusting behavior. Two different camp groups, one in electric and one in non-electric, got into loud verbal fights that resulted in the police being called. Fireworks and loud music were played all night long. No quiet hours, or if there are any they're not enforced. It's still great for a night visit if you're in the area, but it's not a dream weekend getaway by any means.
Delaware State Park Campground
Great sites
Found this SP during a cross-country trip for a quick night stay. Big site, clean bathroom. Worked great for our stay.
Hocking Hills State Park Campground
Nice, unique hiking trails
We had high hopes for this park because quite a few people raved about it. We did enjoy our stay and got a slightly larger camping spot than some of the others, but the spots were pretty darn close together for a state park. I was staring right into my neighbors door at one point from my camper :( ...we try to avoid campgrounds like tbis...they had a pool which people seemed to enjoy. We did not go in as we don't like busy pools and it was busy, but a nice amenity for some....showers were pretty darn gross for the parks reputation. We have been to many campsites and I'm usually the one complaining about showers and this time my husband came back and said it felt like his tour in Iraq back in 2005 it was so dirty. I did a spray off in our camper after hearing that...... Overall it was quiet though, very family friendly. The trails were peaceful and Old Man's Cave and lower Falls were neat and unique trails, definitely recommend....it was humid and we got rained out during our trip, so didn't do as much hiking as we would have liked. We only had a day there as the next night was booked. We did overall enjoy our time in Ohio!
Hocking Hills State Park Campground
Great location!
Excellent location for hiking hocking hills area. Bath houses could really use updating, showers were 50/10 pressure going 200 directions. The only bath house with laundry is the one by the pool. Our site looked much larger in photos but we made it work, although it was pretty steep.
Cowan Lake State Park Campground
Exactly what a great campground should be
Every facility you need. Really engaged staff. Camp Coordinator Linda has a great group of people on board. Very friendly.
Deer Creek State Park Campground
Very Nice Place
We went camping in June during the strawberry Moon. We are tent campers, we booked site 185. But once we got there we discovered that the site was slopped down from the pad and not a great place to tent camp. So, we had to find another site. They were booked so we had to cut our vacation short because the only site open for us was reserved for the following weekend. Bummer! There are not alot of spaces for us tent campers no matter where we go. We have to at the least have electric hook ups cause my better half has a CPap he has to sleep wearing. They did have a few premative sites for tent campers. Camp is very well maintained and they are having some construction done on many sites to make them bigger, full hook ups and even Handicap accessable. Great place to ride a bike, or hike or just go for a walk. The shower houses and restrooms were recently redone and in great shape! Though the shower heads could use a changing. Weekends were a bit crowded, but by sunday night the place was cleared out and the rest of the week was quiet and relaxed. Over all a great week. Friendly and helpful staff too. the only issue I had was the state of the Beach, trashed(People there didn't seem to care about throwing their trash around. Shame on them! Also,the sand was so compacted it felt like concrete. Not the best beach. Fishing, well. It seems we didn't have the low down on good fishing spots. All of the public fishing spots were of course taken and along the dam so not great. Lodge is beautiful, and they are doing some construction there. I did not like the food. Guess I am too picky, but when my salad comes out warm and my chicken is cold I do have an issue with that. Didn't seem like they were taking food safety too seriously.
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Tented, not bad
The lake is great, and the sites were clean with a lot of bathrooms nearby. Not many sites with shade, so for tents it was strategic to not be in the sun all day.
Bathrooms were typical, maybe a step below average.
No real complaints, just not as great as others.
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Weekend fun
Nice, Friendly and clean campground. The showers have some odd pressure and temp controls but that’s the only negative thing. They had activities for the kids (memorial weekend) like movie night, kayaking excursions, etc.
We stayed on site 263, all sites seem to be set up for RVs, so all sites are virtually on the road, not a make or break it but we prefer to our tent to be tucked back a little. It’s a large site, it has a little ravine where the water runs off which angles our tent a bit. So the site is smaller than it looks but still large enough for our family of 5 plus a large dog.
There are hiking trails and mountain bike trails all over. There is a pathway between our site and the next site that leads down to the lake. It’s easy enough for us to haul our kayak and dinghy boat up and down with the kids help.
Cowan Lake State Park Campground
Cowan
Great hiking trails and people are friendly
Hocking Hills State Park Campground
Great Beginner site
This was our first tent camping experience and over all went really well! Our particular site wasn’t very tent friendly and was overall a little awkward with the placement of hills and our fire pit, but I think that was a one off. We made it work and had a great time! The sites are close together so be aware if you aren’t fond of neighbors :) we will definitely be back!
Caesar Creek State Park Campground
Great Campground
We met friends here last week and we’re happy we found this campground. First, they have excellent, helpful staff. Good amenities, well kept and patrolled park so you feel safe. Another major reason we will be back, the sites aren’t stacked on top of each other. The best space I’ve seen in long time.
Guide to Mount Sterling
Camping near Mount Sterling, Ohio, offers a variety of experiences for outdoor enthusiasts. From beautiful trails to family-friendly amenities, there’s something for everyone in this scenic area.
What to do
- Hiking: Explore the trails at Hocking Hills State Park Campground. One camper mentioned, "Beautiful area with great hikes and views close by," making it a perfect spot for nature lovers.
- Fishing and Boating: At Alum Creek State Park Campground, visitors can enjoy fishing and boating. A reviewer noted, "The sites have level pads... The park is very neat and clean," highlighting the well-maintained facilities.
- Disc Golf: If you’re into disc golf, check out Delaware State Park Campground. One visitor shared, "They put in a putt-putt course recently, had disc golf," making it a fun spot for families.
What campers like
- Clean Facilities: Campers appreciate the cleanliness of the restrooms and shower houses. A review for Deer Creek State Park Campground mentioned, "The shower houses and restrooms were recently redone and in great shape!"
- Spacious Sites: Many campgrounds offer ample space between sites. A camper at Buck Creek State Park Campground said, "The campsites all have asphalt pads and are quite spacious," which is great for privacy.
- Family-Friendly Atmosphere: Campgrounds like Lake Hope State Park Campground are noted for being family-friendly. One reviewer stated, "Great area... Many trails to hike," perfect for family adventures.
What you should know
- Close Proximity of Sites: Some campgrounds have sites that are quite close together. A visitor at John Bryan State Park Campground mentioned, "The sites are very close together," which might not suit everyone.
- Limited Amenities: Not all campgrounds have extensive amenities. A camper at A.W. Marion State Park Campground noted, "There is no beach, and what is probably a snack bar or boat rental place was all boarded up," so plan accordingly.
- Wildlife Encounters: Be prepared for wildlife, especially raccoons. A review for John Bryan State Park Campground warned, "The sheer number and boldness of raccoons... ready to grab anything."
Tips for camping with families
- Choose the Right Campground: Look for family-friendly options like Delaware State Park Campground, which has playgrounds and activities for kids. One camper said, "Each section has its own playground for the kids."
- Plan for Activities: Make sure to plan activities that everyone can enjoy. A visitor at Alum Creek State Park Campground mentioned, "Amenities include boating, fishing, disc golf," which can keep the whole family entertained.
- Pack for Comfort: Bring along items that make camping easier for kids, like comfortable sleeping bags and games. A camper at Lake Hope State Park Campground noted, "The lake is beautiful and there is a very nice lodge for meals."
Tips from RVers
- Check Site Lengths: Make sure to check the length of the RV sites. A review for Stonelick State Park Campground advised, "Some sites are really short. Be sure to check the pad length."
- Water Hookups: Be aware that some campgrounds may not have water hookups. A visitor at A.W. Marion State Park Campground mentioned, "There is no water hookups," so plan accordingly.
- Quiet Hours: Be mindful of noise levels, especially during busy weekends. A camper at Buck Creek State Park Campground shared, "It's not a dream weekend getaway by any means," due to rowdy crowds.
Camping near Mount Sterling, Ohio, offers a mix of adventure and relaxation. Whether you’re hiking, fishing, or just enjoying the outdoors, there’s something for everyone in this beautiful area.
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