This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard from an RV park…no school-age children allowed on the property! I didn’t stay there with my family and I won’t stay there.

This place is as competitively priced as anyone of the RV parks around. They have it all in a park is beautiful.  the pool is great. The showers are clean. The laundry is great. They have playgrounds. Everyone is nice. Most of the spots are level. The grounds are well cab. The campground Wi-Fi is decent. They have extra amenities that you do not get at most parks this is a true gem of a place to stay in the DC area 

I really don’t see how anyone could write this place higher than a Three to be honest. The spaces are so tight I could almost touch, my neighbors, RV, and mine without taking a step.  pulling into the spot, my back and swung and broke the light off on somebody’s tire because there’s not enough space to even drive down the lane. 

During the summer, the pool closes at 7 PM. No exceptions. 

Most campgrounds this size will at least build a comfort station and laundry facility in the sections. Not here.

The pads are not as level as I saw in someone else’s s review. Our wheelspan from front to back has at least a 6 inch slope. There are several Class As on our row with wheels a couple of inches off the ground.

On a positive note, the grounds are well kept and most of their buildings and equipment are in good shape. They do have a sand volleyball court and a basketball court.

This place was a perfect stop for a couple of nights. Even during the week, there are kids everywhere. Lots of places here are full time, but they don’t go home during the week. You can walk across the street to the beaches of Lake Erie. All sits appear to have concrete pads with a picnic table and fire rings. We did not build a fire, but everyone we saw had much larger logs than the standard 2x4 sized kindling bundles you get from most places.

Laundry is across the street, so you do kind of need to drive over if you need it. It was only $1 per load and the dryer was $0.25 for 5 minutes. We were able to get two washer loads into a single dryer and get the clothes dry enough in 25 minutes.

The Waldameer water world place is perfect for kinds in the 5-12 range. Teens will dig it too, but they don’t have audacious roller coasters like a six flags. Actually, they had so many rides in the right age range that we couldn’t ride them all in one day and we only did the amusement park. Prices also weren’t crazy like a six flags, so we can’t say enough good things about that one.

Just outside the park are some places to eat and get ice cream. I think they are also owned by the same owners, but not 100% sure on that. We had pizza and it was surprisingly good. I expected fast food quality or worse, but they delivered!

Wi-Fi is reasonably good even with so many people. You can register up to 4 devices, so they seem to be slightly more advanced than most campgrounds.

The showers are pay to play, which is new to us. $0.25 for 5 minutes and they’re coin operated.

We had a great couple of days here and would come back in a heartbeat!

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.

Other reviewers will do this place more justice than I can. It’s already been said. I’ll just say that a 45 minute horse ride for $25 is an absolute steal. Seeing the falls is free. There is a small on-site store and a playground for the kids.

Our stay at Mama Gertie’s did not disappoint. We splurged for Father’s Day weekend and stayed in the top section. The view from our private deck and swing was breathtaking. 

Each side comes with a fire pit and grill rack. The rock aggregate is fairly fresh and clean, so there is no issue with potholes or dirt when it rains. The showers and bathrooms are clean and nice enough. The on-site laundry was also in good working order.  the campground Wi-Fi was pretty good, but I will admit being a little disappointing when I paid for the upgraded bandwidth. I was supposed to get 40m down, but the speed test revealed I was getting three.  it was also a little annoying that I had to constantly log back in to the network.

There is no shade in this top section. That said, all of the sites down the hill have a beautiful canopy just without the view. 

RV pads are in great shape. All of them are level and come with a fire pit, nice picnic table, and an extra wooden table for tabletop grills or whatever else you want to use them for. Bathrooms are good enough. It looks like most or all sites have a view of the water. The shoreline is clean and the grass is mowed everywhere.

The listing here says there are sewer hookups. I don’t see them at any of the sites, so I’m assuming there is a dump station. We only stayed one night passing through, so we didn’t mess with any of that. I also saw something that only listed 50 amp hookup. My spot also has a 30 amp hookup in case you need that and don’t have the dog bone.

Nightly live music Pros Nightly dinner (one option) Good placement of sewer hookup and utilities Very nice and helpful staff Restrooms have coded entry and are very clean

Cons Not much shade in general Playground is really just a swing set No grill or fire pit Showers run out of hot water very quickly There’s a busy train track 100ft from my rv and it’s very loud. They seem to run a train by here every hour until dawn

We only did an overnight here, but it’s a decent campground. The proximity to downtown and everything else in the area is a huge plus. Showers/restrooms are locked with a code and very clean. I didn’t use the showers, but they look above average compared the the other dozen I’ve seen this summer.

The sites are decently sized and come equipped with a fire pit. The showers had decent shower heads and lots of pressure. There are some swings dow by the lake for adults and kids. Everything is nearby (not really walkable) and the shuttle for Mackinac Island ferries will come pick you up. They do not have full hookups, but we got by fine for a week since we have a composting toilet.

There is a small play scape feature by the lake. Plenty of folks tent camping as well as RVs. The campground has been here for quite a while and has mature trees. A small game room at the office features a pool table, air hockey, and a modern pinball machine.

The place is packed. It’s fine overall, and far from a favorite. We would stay here again if we had to, but I don’t think it would be our first choice. The WiFi and even our cell connection has been horrible because the towers are overloaded. It’s probably a great place for most people, but not really our speed. Lots of loud trucks flying “Let’s go Brandon”, Trump 2024, and blacked out American flags. Which…whatever… I’d rather stay somewhere that’s a little more on the peaceful side.

Pros - playground, pool, well kept grounds, helpful staff, gated/swipe card access, ponds, close to area attractions, decent campground WiFi, small fire ring, small dog park

Cons - tight spaces, BYO grill, bad showers, dirty/tight bathroom area

The mens room is just gross. Water in the stalls because showers don’t drain. Water in the shower never gets hot. Missing shower heads with pressure that almost tears your skin. Can barely squeeze into the tiny stall. Toilets are gross.

Other than the entire campground losing power Sunday morning and frying my coffee maker, it was a good stay.

Good sites, mature trees, and plenty for kids to do. The pool has a deep end, which seems pretty rare these days.

Most of the sites here look like annual spots. That’s fine, but the couple of spots they have for weekly or overnights are not well kept. They could have at least mowed our spot before we showed up. The office closed early the day we rolled in so we basically had to deal with an unmowed and extremely unlevel spot.

The next day, I had to use 6x6 blocks of wood from the caretaker’s wood pile as a foundation to jack the front end of my class C motorhome up. The front wheels were 6 inches off the ground with the jacks fully extended and we barely made level! I was fuming. It’s unsafe and I don’t want the leveling system to get messed up.

That said, the lake here is beautiful. The dock is nice as well. If you have older kids or want to swim in the middle of nowhere, I can see this as the highlight. They have a huge section of floating dock that you can lounge/fish on. And, it’s easy to get in and out of the water. The water is deep and fairly clear here.

This place was a learning experience for us being on the road for a couple of months with two young kids. This was the first place we stayed where there wasn’t a comfort station. We quickly found the laundry won’t get your clothes dry. The deal breaker for us was the kids having nothing to do. Maybe it would be different if I weren’t working full time from the rig.

I will say, though, the campground WiFi is OK. My Verizon signal was excellent and I was able to do video calls and Remote Desktop into other computers with no issues.

This is a nice place with a combination of pull through and back-in spots. Our site (and I’m assuming others) is level with well-packed aggregate. The sites are fairly spacious for this type of layout.

The park is located 10-12 miles outside of Hot Springs. Even though it’s along a highway, it’s quite a ways up a hill and through the woods. We had no issues with road noise at night.

If you want a built-in grill or fire pit, then you’re not going to be happy because they don’t have them. I saw a lot of folks had their own small grills. I also saw a full-size black stone griddle at the rec room, but did not ask if it was available for everyone to use.

We were here for a few days starting on Memorial Day. The campsites are very well maintained, shaded, and generally beautiful since we are surrounded by tall trees in the forest. There is a paved trail leading down to the river with a couple of workout stations along the way. You can take the unpaved trail back to complete the 1 mile loop or double back on the pavement. There is a great little water park that’s reasonably priced. Gem mining is on deck for today.

Here is something that only remote workers would care about. Verizon service is terrible. With my Peplink router including a roof antenna and grounding plate, I was able to work in the morning unimpeded, but couldn’t even do voice conversations respectably in the afternoon. We could not do any TV (Netflix, Hulu, etc) at night. Had I known this coming in, I would have adjusted my work schedule accordingly.