Bolar Mountain Recreation Area
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2017

Bolar mountain/lake moomaw

Our stay at Bolar Mountain was awesome! We drove almost 5 hours from Pittsburgh to check it out and it was SO worth it! We reserved a primitive site online via recreation.gov (despite the fact that many sites are unreservable and are instead first come, first serve - we didn't want to chance it with the long drive). It was 6pm on a Friday when we arrived, check in booth was unoccupied but as we proceeded to our Sugar ridge site (very easy to find, sites clearly marked) we quickly located our camp host. Not a very enthusiastic host but he was nice, had firewood for sale at his site and drove his golf cart to the booth for us to purchase ice. Our site was across the road from the lake but there was a trail that lead to the water. The water was beautiful, temperature perfect for swimming. There's a Seperate beach that you can drive to that is roped off for swimming purposes but we rather enjoyed walking to the water from our site and having what seemed like our own little swimming spot. Bathrooms were the cleanest I've ever seen at any campground and were a very short, convenient walk from our site! The site itself was very clean and had an oversized, solid picnic table. It had a lamppost and fire pit with a grate for cooking. Recommend foil as grate will be rusty for obvious reasons. We rented kayaks at the marina/camp store down the road and explored a little cove that was really cool. We blocked out 4 hours, but only lasted 2 hours before we got tired and returned the kayaks.

Site108 - Sugar Ridge
Month of VisitAugust
  • This is the little spot accessed by a very short  path across from our Sugar ridge 108 site. So peaceful and just to show how clear the water is.
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  • From what I can understand, the water was lower than usual so not too sure you'd be able to do this on any given day. We took a hike to the next campground loop up from us and walked along the shore of the lake.
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  • Review photo of Bolar Mountain Recreation Area by Joanna G., August 21, 2017
  • Review photo of Bolar Mountain Recreation Area by Joanna G., August 21, 2017
  • Review photo of Bolar Mountain Recreation Area by Joanna G., August 21, 2017