Nature Aspect Rating: 5/10
Recreation Factoring Rating: 8/10
Well we went to this park with really low expectations, it's right off the highway and didn't really seem impressive by the descriptions and such. We were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the park! there is significant highway noise and boat noise from the jetskis on the lake, but the park itself is quite lovely!
It's got a park store, which is a bonus, and a well staffed gate house. there are boat rentals as well. there are some really crappy sites along the main road, almost as bad as the ones in McRae!! but there is also a lot of nice sites mixed in all the areas. some of the lake side ones looked quite spectacular, if that's your thing.
The trail is quite lovely, takes you along a few ponds, the lake, some nice rocks and such, and some lovely trees. All in all quite nice! It was quite buggy though. but that's to be expected!
One thing that was unfortunate was that the security staff was missing in action by about 2am. our neighbours set off fireworks in there firepit at around 3am. on the plus side, the security did eject them from the park in the morning, i guess there were a FEW reports of fireworks ;). there was also a lot of excesive noise all night, but it' was a long weekend, so it's hardly not-expected.
so all and all, it was a good experience! we'd go back!
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I really enjoyed this park too. I would definitely agree that the noise from the highway was the major down-fall of it, but it had many other aspects that made it a nice trip out. The trail also had many loops so you could customize it to how long you felt like walking, which I thought was neat.
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