Great Seal State Park — Attraction in Chillicothe

Been visiting Great Seal my entire life but the last two visits have been terrible. A young guy in a American flag- camo hat calls me over to his white truck and starts telling me that he's "not going to make me leave but if I camp without paying that the park ranger will get the police involved." It happened today Sat. July the 27th at 3:30 in the AFTERNOON!!! AGAIN! He claims that he notified everyone at the campground, not just me. ALL I WAS DOING WAS SITTING AT A PICNIC TABLE WITH MY 3 YEAR OLD SON!!! I don't know who gave this idiot kid a job but he is doing it extremely poorly. And, I have a feelings that what he is doing to people ISN'T a part of his job, I watched him clean the out house after he tried to forcefully exert his ego on us. I'm planning on going back out and asking his name and reporting him to whoever he works for. If you visit this park and stranger calls you over to his white truck just say...

Although the trails are somewhat nice and clear (some of them that is) and when there isn’t a bunch of people, it is nice and quiet to hear nature. One big thing we did not like about this park is, none of the trails are labeled in color and there is barely any maps whatsoever. When we did see a map we went to go down a trail and it was completely covered up that it was no longer accessible. So we made our own trail up, which is somewhat sad for it to be such a popular park. We were lucky it took us somewhere. Also, people have vandalized a few of the signs making it hard to figure out where to go. This place would be amazing if there wasn’t so many unmarked trails not telling you where to go. Maybe I need to try going to the other side of the park to know where we are...

We did the Shawnee trail from the north trailhead and connected to bald hill and back for total 8 miles. In the beginning lots of trail map posts at each intersection and all trees spray painted to let you know you were on the trail. However, when we finished the winding bald hill trail segment there was no map to indicate which way to go. Fortunately took a picture of the map at the trail head and had my compass and all trails app which was able to confirm we chose the right direction as it was imperative we not continue further south on Shawnee and loop back around instead. Trails open to dogs and horses so be prepared to dodge lots of horse feces. Otherwise very peaceful with gentle sloping inclines on...