Geneva State Park Campground

When we booked our site, the camp website showed cabins on the lake. We booked site 88 for our glamping, but a water leak at site 90 had our water off. Site 111 was available for the night right on the lake. We were happy to pay the difference to spend a night with the lake right outside our bedroom window. The water was back on in site 88 the next day so we enjoyed the rest of our stay in a beautiful site 5 minutes from the lake.

Woodsy park with nice spacing. If it rains however you will be in a swamp.

This was our first trip to Geneva State Park, despite my family going to the GOTL (Geneva on the lake) strip quite often growing up. We stayed at site 57, which I would consider a medium site. Don't let the website pictures fool you, many of the sites have a bit of a hidden area behind them that many utilize. Our site was very nicely set back from the road about 20-30 feet and had three trees around the fire pit that we hung out hammocks on. Our neighbors to the left actually set up their tent about 75 feet behind their site in the woods. The first, lower number, area of the campground seems to have way less shade and much smaller sites, while the higher numbers are much more shaded and have less dense woods behind them that many people utilize. The highest numbers currently, 94-100, were recently added and are basically an open field and gravel pads. The next set of sites being built are replacing the waterfront cabins and will be above site 100. We can't wait to come back and stay on lake Erie. There is only one shower house for the entire park, which I imagine is crazy during the busy summer. Luckily the restrooms throughout the park are flush toilets.

Outside of the park you have the nearby Geneva on the lake strip which has a wonderful boardwalk feel with small stores, putt putt, arcades, food, etc. Either way you explore, west or east, you will find many beaches of all sizes, amazing metroparks, observation decks, museums (Fairport maritime, Astrabula maritime) and more. You can spend many days just finding place after place.

The only negative part of our stay was the outrageous million dollar "campground", Hearthside Villa, that is currently contracting phase four directly behind the state park campground. So if you go during the week, you will hear a lot of construction noise.