Lake Murray offers some good and bad experiences. Our first day at the lake was met with exceptional service! We went kayaking, played mini golf, had snow cones, and enjoyed our fourth of July here. We had a lot of fun.

I do highly recommend that if you're using a non-flushing toilet that you check CAREFULLY for harvestman spiders... we weren't as careful and one of us ended up sitting on a nest!

However, we had called about a month before to set our horseback riding reservation for four people. We waited forty minutes past our reservation only to be told to maybe come back tomorrow. A party of 8 who had made reservations for the same time was told the same information, though they only had five horses on site. We came for a birthday and she was really looking forward to it, so it was sort of a let down. I would not recommend planning to ride horses here. Otherwise, we had a good experience.