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Amy Savage

1 year ago
2/5

Campsite: (R&R HOF) American Wilderness Campground

Seasonal Residential Camp Experience. I wish I could give more stars but I have 3 major gripes about my experience.

First the good things about this campground... It's clean, the office staff is wonderful, the other campers are great, kid friendly with swimming pond, playground, and little activities here and there! We got to personally pick our site at the campground open house which was nice and unlike any other campground we stayed at.

This campground cost more than TWICE what we've paid at for any other campground without even having full hookup but we knew that going into it. There's not much in the Cleveland area for long term camping so we were ok with this.

Now for the cons.

1. During the first couple weeks the Owner and what I'm assuming was an employee walked through my campsite and shook my camper. This happened mid afternoon during a weekday and startled me, my dog, and my baby. Baby was peacefully napping before this happened. It turns out they had a problem with a package of wipes I had out on the picnic table as they moved it off the table....I guess having wipes on your table to clean your baby's chair that he sits in 3 times a day, every day, is not deemed ok to have on site and management WILL walk through your site with no warning and take your belongings. Meanwhile weekend campers come and their tables are full of all kinds of stuff at all times of the day and night and that seems to be no problem. Mid to end of the season there was a campsite that literally had beer cans all over it for weeks on end BUT again my package of wipes was a problem. Make sure to read your lease in full before signing and agreeing anything.

2. At the open house I asked if they enforce the dog leash law as this was very important to me. They said they did and that they were super strict and didn't tolerate dogs off leash. They do have policies and rules in place stating the same thing. However, they DO NOT enforce leash law whatsoever, not even when an employee is nearby and sees off leash dogs, and they DID NOT evict campers even after a loose rabid pitbull charged my dog and I informed them and told them I didn't feel safe. On August 1 my dog was charged by a loose pitbull while I was walking him on leash. (I don't blame the campground for that, it happens everywhere for some reason especially by non residential/seasonal camper dogs) I informed the office the same night and asked for the dog's vet records... It turns out they only require dog records for seasonal/residential camper dogs. I never received any records whatsoever so I assume this pitbull was rabid. The campground owners allowed these campers to stay at least a week after this incident, finishing up their stay to completion. This attack mentally cost my dog's life. If I owned a campground, loose rabid Pitbulls would NOT be allowed and without proof of a vaccination AFTER an attack would at minimum be an automatic eviction.

3. They only have 1 working dump station and it's flooded every time it rains so it's pretty much unusable 25% of the time. This does not work well when you have to dump 3-4 times a week because they have no full hookup.

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