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Info: open to public. Non-members can pay a small fee ($3 for kids $5 for adults) to swim or fish for the day. It's a pretty decent place to do either or both.
Be aware that if you go here to fish weedless and top water rigs are best. The fishing waterway has bottom pine-tree like plant life everywhere. Not a good place for crank or jerk baits. And beware of the turtles! I was float fishing with minows and there were 2 turtles taking my bait almost immediately aftet it landed. It was funny because a few times one of them bit the minows head off and somehow re-hooked it behind the dorsal fin for me and gave the rest of it back. I was rigging them through the lips. The same turtle did this multiple times. They're giant sized red ear slider turtles. One of them was about 12" around and fat so it's likely they steal a lot of fisherman's live bait. I didn't see any snappers.
I saw bass frye and very small large mouths in the water but didn't catch anything. The turtles wouldn't leave my minows alone long enough for anything else to get at them. Someone who seemed to be a regular there said he caught 8 bass on a popper recently.
This place is a dump. The beach was a hard mixture of compacted dirt and sand. We didn't use it. My child hit her head off the wall in the bathhouse/restroom in the inch high water. The outhouse near our site was horrific. Some jerk mowed our campsite while we were off property and had out tent windows open. I have never had my site mowed while camping, anywhere.The reservation form says two tents per site but the lady tried to say I needed to pay the same price for a primitive as electric with two tents. Mind you this was after I had already paid some man in the legion building. Gee why would I have wanted a site without electric for the same price as electric when there were electric sites open? Overall the con artist female that came to my site to harass me about being parked in the grass ( the have ZERO parking spots) received 45 bucks for me and my children being on the property for about 28 hours. NEVER EVER PARK ON THE PRIMITIVE GRASS UNLESS YOU ARE BUDDIES WITH THE FEMALE RUNNING THE PLACE. Otherwise she will try to run her mouth at you. They wanted to charge me 75 between gate fees and camping for 3 nights. Are these people insane? Where is the clean pool, clean bathhouse that isn't water logged, Wi-Fi, campstore, laundry etc? If I am going to spend 75 for 3 nights at a campground it will at least be clean and have respectful hosts. This place is a disgrace to the American Legion!
It wasn't very nice.The restrooms were bad.Standing water in the mens room .Smelled like sewer. So glad we were self contained . Lake was drained somewhat. The picnic area had big holes in the roof ,it was pretty run down! It cost us 33.00 to stay .They should invest some money back into the property . It's a beautiful spot.
I've been going there since before my oldest was born and he's 30 now. Use to be great place to swim and enjoy family day. Just went 2 weeks ago and everyone got sick from water. Noticed alot of stuff going on and no one thinks to get out of water to use restrooms. Would not recommend going this year unless they clean it up!
This is a great place for family to go for a picnic and be able to fish or swimming or camping.(no on duty lifegard) Very clean Place kept up very well Grass Is Always cut trash picked up. It has a lot of campgrounds it has a shower house wheelchair accessible. Very clean. Cleaned twice a day. (4-wheelers allowed) electricity hookup for campers and even tent campers you pay a little extra for the electric but well worth it if it's 90 degrees out and you need a fan or a refrigerator you need to keep things cool.
