Silver Lake State Park — Attraction in Hollis

I’m not the type to make reviews but thought it might help the next person..The water had to be the worst I’ve seen in all the lakes I’ve ever been to. Came here today for July 4th with friends/family , which we all commuted about 45 mins to, just for there to be a sign advisory at the water saying the water is contaminated and not suitable for swimming …mind you I didn’t even notice the sign until 4 hours after since it was located on the side of the lake where I wasn’t really at all day. The fact that this place charges you $5 per a person, and not even mentioning on their website about the water conditions is really just shows how money hungry this lake is, also how they’re just allowing people to just swim around and possibly get sick. Who actually goes to a lake just to grill? Especially with kids. Unacceptable. This lake needs to be condemned, nobody...

I bought tickets online in advance so my friends and I could use the lake and this was my first time going. We get there and find out they had Cyanobacteria at their location. Other people were in the water with their children so we figured we would go in the water but not dunk our heads. Few hours in we had snacks and forgot to sanitize our hands. 3 hours later two friends had some bad G.I reactions to the water. I found out from a friend who lived in NH that this lake has been like this for years. If this is the case something needs to be done and also there should be a warning on the website for this location. So we aren’t mad people got it because we went in at our our risks, but it would be nice for the website to notify people in advance. Other than that the view is nice and the...

This is a nice place to bring the family except the water is really dirty not trash floating around dirty but loaded with bacteria and all sorts of germs dirty. When we went a bunch of the locals were telling us which places to avoid because of how dirty certain areas are. And this lake has also been shut down to the public multiple times in the past due to high germ levels. Both our kids got sick a couple days after we went here. Another complaint I have is that there us signs saying they have lifeguards on duty however we did not see any life guards any where except hanging out in the little store they have there. There is no way they would be able to see the lake from where they were...