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Warpath
Senior Member
Registered: March 2003
Location: N.E. Ohio
Posts: 872
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Review Date: Wed February 8, 2006
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Quiet, Small, Lots of shade
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Can be muddy during heavy rains
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We have stayed here almost every year for the last 6 years. Nicely wooded, clean, quiet, great place to get away.
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Rich Pratt
Junior Member
Registered: November 2008
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 17
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Review Date: Sat March 18, 2006
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Nice wooded setting, spacious sites, clean and well maintained with good management and concerned owners
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Can be muddy (I had to be pulled out)
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I've camped here 2-3 times over the last few years. It's a pleasant well-managed campground with generous, nicely spaced sites. One of the most unusual features of this campground is that the electricity is metered, so you pay only for what you use. The bathhouse is clean and the campground is well maintained. Constant improvements are always being made. However some of the roads and campsites can become rather muddy during inclement weather. My TV is only 2WD and I got stuck in the mud while attempting to back into my site.
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sml3
Junior Member
Registered: July 2008
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Review Date: Sun July 13, 2008
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 3
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Pros:
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Well Kept Great Staff..
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Everything Shuts down At 10:00 Pm.
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This Place is not for kids..bottom line
Great pool ,but thats it nothing else for kids to do..nice club house but its locked up tight at 10:00 pm ..kids arent aloud to walk after 10:00.
Very expensive for what you get.You have to pay extra per night if you have kids. Guests have to pay 6.00 to visit.
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JMB
Junior Member
Registered: November 2004
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Review Date: Mon October 13, 2008
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Would you recommend the campground? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 2
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Pros:
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Picturesque, small, wooded
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Pricey, not camper friendly
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There are less than 75 seasonal and weekend sites at Lock 30. The property is beautiful and the restrooms are clean. However, this is overshadowed by poor management and higher than normal fees. Extra fees are charged for every adult or child over 2 people in the RV or tent site. If you have a visitor come to your site for the day, they are charged $6. It cost me $60./night for a family of four. Owner lives out of state and on-site management has no camping experience. Neither are in touch with what camping is all about. With the exception of 2 or 3 holiday weekends, this campground is empty year round. Any longtime camper knows this is a pretty good indication of it's flaws. Lock 30 comes off as a business investment rather than pleasant place for an enjoyable family camping experience. Owner and staff are extremely impersonal. The office and camp store do not have regular hours and frequently not open at convenient times. Observations and conversations with fellow visitors and seasonals indicate the same reasons for weekend campers not returning and the majority of seasonal campers pulling out to greener pastures. Although children are allowed, they don't appear to be welcome. With many a state park as picturesque at half the cost, happy family campers need not apply at Lock 30. Beware - websites are deceiving.
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cresendo36
Junior Member
Registered: October 2008
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Review Date: Wed October 29, 2008
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Beautiful property, friendly staff, clean!!!!
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Getting a reservation. Camping here is in high demand
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I found this place through it's website and wondered if it would look as good as the pictures. It does. I tried to get in three times before we landed a last-minute reservation during the week of the Shaker Woods festival. It was worth it. Level, huge sites, and a great bocce court –with night lighting that is maybe a hundred feet long. Kids invited their friends. Lots to do, including a nice paved basketball court..We'll return next summer when the pool is open--or maybe this winter to cross-country ski. Sign says it's open year-round.
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NLOVNIT
Community Administrator
Registered: March 2002
Posts: 40769
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Review Date: Thu July 9, 2009
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: $39.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Spacious sites, wooded setting, nice pool, friendly staff
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a bit pricey for electric to be extra charge, sites can be muddy when it rains, extra charge for kids, guest charges are a bit high
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This is a little gem of a campground on the far east side of OH (you're within 20 miles of both WV & PA) located off of Route 7 (which follows the OH River).
The campground is located in the foothills of the Appalachians & is quite popular. There is not a lot, attraction-wise, in the area. This is a campground for enjoying the surroundings. A section of the Beaver Creek runs through the campground.
The sites, all wooded (you are shaded by pines, hemlocks & oaks), are in a u-shape around a centered primitive camping area/playground/pool/gameroom complex. The sites are nice sized, deep, mostly level, a few have cement pads but the majority are gravel/packed dirt w/grass, fire rings & picnic tables. The sites have metered electric. This means you pay an additional charge (on top of your site fee) for the electricity you use. I guess this is fair as a 50A motorhome would use much more electricity than a 30a TT or pop-up, but I do think the rate (18-cents per kw) is a bit high. Our electric bill (we did not run our a/c the entire 3-day holiday weekend) was nearly $10.
The pool is nice & clean with plenty of chairs around for lounging. The game room could use some newer electronic games, though. There's a lighted bocce ball court, a small playground, basketball court, volleyball court, horseshoes & a fishing pond. There's also a nice trail that goes along the river below the campground. They advertise Wi-Fi, but it would not connect for me from my campsite. I did not try it from the poolhouse or campstore, so, maybe, it worked there.
Due to the emerald ash borer bug in OH, you cannot bring in your own firewood (unless it's dimensional lumber). The staff is very adamant about this, so if you want a campfire, bring money to buy it. Firewood is for sale at the campstore for $20 for a milk-crate full.
All in all, this is a very nice campground & I would recommend it.
Note: The price we paid, listed above, was the base rate (50a w/s) for the site for 2 adults. As stated, electric is extra (so are kids).
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Superslif
Senior Member
Registered: June 2000
Location: NE. Ohio USA
Posts: 5973
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Review Date: Sat January 2, 2010
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Would you recommend the campground? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Well spaced sites, shady, hiking trail
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mud, small changing area in main showerhouse
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Camped here once and would agree it is very wooded and the sites are fairly well spaced, but could use more gravel in some sites because of wet conditions. Water pressure was a little on the low side. Loved the smell of pine trees.....
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Jim Kathy & Robert ~ NE. OH.
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