Willow Lake Park Inc

Some days you just need peace and quiet sitting by the campfire and enjoying the creek and the woods. Other times you want to get up and go dance to the band, swim in the lake, join the bingo and other games or throw a grand picnic.  Willow Lake Campground offers it all.

Stay here for the holiday weekend, they offer plenty of activities for everyone. Had a band each night! Bad Juju was definitely a favorite of mine. During the band and the day they have a concession stand open with really good food, the girls that work in there are very lovely. The facilities were clean and staff members were respectful and friendly, really the whole park was. This is a great park for a weekend getaway for the family or even just for yourself.

This was a nice spot with lots of family activities. Lots were pretty large and well maintained. But this is more of a local hangout with a ton of permanent spots. There aren’t any signs to follow to lead you to the campground. I prepaid in full with no refund because it was a holiday weekend. They don’t have the technology to email you a confirmation or receipt, so you either have to hope they have your reservation or call ahead to confirm. Never did get a copy of my receipt. They have a bunch of rules about visitors, and charge you for every single person (yes, there is a person at the gate checking passes!). Permanent residents were racing through the campground on their golf carts and blaring music. I was disappointed we didn’t get a full hook-up site, only to find out they don’t have any (and this is a large campground!). But, for a prepaid fee, you can schedule an appointment to have someone come by and dump you out. I overheard our neighbors say they would never stay there again, so I asked what their experience had been. They complained about the loud neighbors, charges for visitors (had to pay $70 for one day!), and they paid for a dump but the person never showed up. For such a large campground they only have two bathroom spots. Bathrooms by the pool were full of sand and flies, and could have been better stocked.

I was going to leave a bad review, but that's not really fair. I'm sure this place is pretty great on the weekends and we weren't here for a long time, just here for a good time.

In short, 90% of the place is filled with seasonally permanent campers. There's a small section where they cater to short-timers. The place has mostly been a ghost town all week (Sunday through Wednesday), but it's full of people's rigs. I think a lot of folks come out from Cleveland and spend the weekend here.

The playground was good for the kids. The grounds are well maintained. There's a good-sized fishing pond and a separate swimming pond. They have an arcade here that looks fine, but it was locked up the entire time we were here. That's probably a good thing; I'm sure it saved us some jing.

I'm not sure what's up with the water, but it smells like metal and you're probably better off bringing your own drinking water. The showers were kind of gross, but not the worst. My drain didn't seem to work at all and the entire shower stall flooded.  I had to dry off and get dressed in the main bathroom area, so I guess I was glad it was a ghost town that day.

I want to complain about not having sewer hookups and laundry, but that's not fair. Their website is accurate. It seems there are multiple "Willow lake park" results that come up and I might have thought I booked a different one when we planned out this 3-month trip. That's fine; I'll do the laundry at the next one!

The sites themselves are fine. Nice and level with a firepit.

The owners are making tremendous improvements to this campground. We visited 7 years ago and said we would never go back. Had some friends that stayed there tell us about new ownership right about the time Covid hit. We opted to get a permanent site (Base for travels). We have seen many major improvements from the pavilion with bands every Saturday night, plenty of events for kids, the shanty shake being removed, newer R.V. under 15 years old, new fencing, siding on buildings, bathroom upgrades. I think they are working on water lines and I'm hoping they get city water.

Staff is very courteous and campground was usually pretty quiet with a large open field to walk dogs. The majority of the campground is full time residents with DIY add ons that are falling apart. The “pool” is a part cement, part sand hole filled with blue-green water. The bathrooms and showers smell of rust and are not very clean. I would never send my kids in there to shower, let’s put it that way. As we were leaving, we went to the dump station and found it was clogged and overflowing. No full hookups as indicated on some search sites.

New owners for the last 4 years. Busy upgrading from previous owner. Very nice and accommodating. Truck camping and caught them early in the season and after rains the sites were kind of wet. Cold showers free, $0.50 for 5 minutes of hot water. I chose the latter. Bath house was clean but dated. Owners are making improvements all the time. Verizon 3 bars 5G. I was on site G24. Elec. box had 3 extension cord outlets. The water, while I'm sure was fine, had an odor to it so I didn't partake.

Long established campground with daily activities for all ages. Fishing lake and swimming lake are separate. Multiple bathroom/shower locations. Game room, snack pavilion and general store.

Good price very kid friendly , swimming lake and a pool, also a fishing lake. Mostly RV but some tent. Old campground