The Shenango Recreation Area is a large campground with some 300 plus sites located on a lake in western Pennsylvania. Access to the campground is fairly easy and about 12 miles north of I-80. Most campers come here to enjoy the boating, fishing, and relaxing in the lake. Some of the sites are right on the water and provide nice scenery and easy access but, if you are not at a water site, your only access is at the boat launch or public beach area. 

All sites can accommodate tents or RV’s and some are dry camping without utilities while others have 30 amp electric (99 sites) and 50-amp (15 sites). There are no water spigots at individual campsites so you either have to come in with water on board or fill up at a spigot in the campground. You can make reservations on recreation.gov and seniors get half price. The online reservation system has pictures of each site. There are bathhouses scattered around but the one I went in was not very clean and they are pretty old. The bathrooms are heavily used since sites don’t have sewer and water. 

We only stayed two nights as we were just traveling thru the area and had a nice stay. The only complaint we had was a pesky neighbor who came over the minute we started backing into our site and didn’t leave until we were all set up and went inside just to get away from him. Our site was long and level and the electric worked fine. Our site was at the beginning of a loop with a one-way road so there was a bit of traffic. The campground was very quiet at night. 

FYI, alcohol is not allowed in this campground and we did see rangers and camp hosts driving around the campground so we kept ours hidden when outside. Not sure if they were looking for violators or just driving around for other reasons. Check out is not until 4 pm so be careful arriving too early. We noticed in the that a lot of people are fairly local and spend the day on the water before packing up and checking out.