Mosquito Creek Lake — Attraction in Mecca Township

Every time I try to pack up and leave it just gets more beautiful and I have to stay.😮🙃😐🙃🏕

I have stayed at multiple sites in the park this summer. All became home for a few days. This park is well maintained, and I do feel quite safe staying here alone or with my grandchildren. Children are able to play freely. Adults are able to relax and have a good time. People are friendly when you encounter them, but no one bothers you and you have plenty of privacy.

I like that the garbage dumpsters are kept out of the camping area, because they always smell bad as dumpsters always do. The bathrooms are well maintained. The latrines are actually not that bad considering that they ARE latrines. I always bring my own cleaning supplies wherever I am anyway just in case I have to use them.

I really never have problems with bugs out here. I see more bugs in my back yard than I have at this park .I put alcohol in my bathing water and it repels the few that are here at dusk.

There is every sort of camping areas here. There are deep woods, wide open, near the water, combinations of all of the above. It really is wonderful to be in this park and never get tired of the same scene.

The staff and volunteers are always friendly and helpful and courteous. Campers in my opinion always seem to be happy calm and peaceful people.

I do love this park. I am an older lady on disability, so money is always a concern. The prices to stay in the campgrounds are very reasonable. Camping here makes a nice fairly inexpensive holiday any time of the year.

P.S. some of the photos got chopped off while posting them.. They were much prettier than they...

We stayed in Camping Area 2 at site 206. My sister and her family stayed at 207. These sites were amazing! Huge and spacious and tons of shade. We actually were bummed that they weren't closer since we were camping together.

The in-camp bathrooms are some of the worst I've ever seen. No running water and gates for doors, basically, with no locks. Better than going in the woods, but even that's debatable.

The shower house we went to was great, though. There was no hot water in the showers at one point, assuming because it was a holiday weekend.

I also really hated having to walk down that main road of the campground to get anywhere. I'm sure it's because it was Labor Day weekend but I was very uncomfortable walking through there with kids and dogs. Everyone was driving slow and going around us, but kids are unpredictable so it made me really nervous.

I also didn't love having to drive to the beach. I see why the barriers are there seeing the traffic just in the campground, but again, there's nowhere that feels safe to walk from the campground to the beach.

The nature play area was amazing and so was the beach playground. We'd come back to the campground just for those two things. We'd probably try to camp in Camping Area 1 though to be closer to the play area.

The staff at the store was incredibly friendly too.

Overall it was an awesome stay, I just didn't love the holes in the ground or the walking conditions.

I'm sure...

*update/ This Ohio State Park campground does NOT take the Passport America discount anymore, nor do any of the other Ohio State Parks. That's too bad as we used the discount a lot */end update.

My review is for the campground at Mosquito Lake State Park. The campground is conveniently located just 5mins to big-box stores and other services. Movies are shown Saturday nights and there some weekend events. The campground has just one shower house, with at times luke warm weak water pressure, while at other times cold... but it gets the job done if you don't mind an uncomfortable experience. Two modern washers/dryers that work well. Each loop has open-house porta-potties that are disgusting with many flies flying up from the waste and landing on your arms, face, etc--Its got to be a health hazard. The roads are a little bumpy through the campground, but nothing too bad, minus one or two potholes. Most of the sites are heavily wooded, except the first loop which is open. One must stop each time to wait for a worker to open the gate at the campground entrance; however, there is a back entrance to the campground by the marina/beach that does not have kiosk/gate or personnel. Park Rangers and sheriff patrol the campground regularly, which makes one feel safe at night. I'm not sure why some rated the campground so high, given that their reviews do not reflect...