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Lake Snowden is a 675-acre education and recreation park, featuring the largest of four lakes, which form the Margaret Creek Conservancy District.
The lake covers approximately 136-acres offering camping, boating, fishing, picnicking and swimming. The serene setting reveals natural beauty while maintaining the convenience of being just 5 miles from Athens, Ohio. The shelter houses, restroom facilities, beach, shoreline fishing holes, and fish hatchery make Lake Snowden a full-featured recreation park.
Lake Snowden was built for the Margaret Creek Conservancy District in 1968 with federal funds through the Farmer’s Home Administration and the Soil Conservation Service in an effort to control flooding. It opened to the public in 1972. In 1998, Hocking College purchased Lake Snowden from Le-Ax Water District.
From jct US 50/32 & CR 681: Go 1 mi N on US 50/32.
This has the potential to be a 5 star. Beautiful lake and wonderful camp sites. The outhouse when you com into the RV part should be knocked down and replaced with cleanable portable toilets. The bathhouse needs a paint job and a new screen door. Students in a hospitality program could get extra credit for fixing this place up. Counting on some improvement next year or we camp somewhere else.
Military discount. No restraunt on property but small patry. Water equipment needs to be upgraded to include handle bars and pullies to alloe children better gripping. Young man working in office needs more training in customers interaction.
Reserved campsite for 4 nights. Arrived to check in and office was closed. No staff available except 2 persons at the lake pay swimming area. Went there to ask how we could contact someone about our camp area. We had no table, no fire ring and no camper pad area. Water was across the street and we were advised we could not run water hose across the road to fill up tank. Someone was supposed to meet us at our site at 3pm, no one showed up. We had to find our own table and fire ring.
Also the shower house is unsanitary, reeking of mold, no toilet paper. All bathrooms throughout the entire park has been shut down and ports jons set in front of or beside. Those have not been cleaned for some time and are in need of servicing.
This campground could be an absolute wonderful place if it had the proper staff and updated facilities. There needs to be staff that knows what is going on. Office needs to be staffed and messages need to be returned if there isn’t anyone in office during office hours.
Very disappointed in what has changed since our first stay just 3 short years ago! We will not be back!
