Oswego Lake — Attraction in Washington Township

Oswego Lake is a place I've been coming to for more than 20 years since a friend taught me how to find it by looking for an old half keg of beer at the corner which is now long gone! Right near mile marker 32, you will turn off and drive down the road until you cross over an old one lane wooden bridge. Now you just have to find a parking space in the lot just after the bridge or anywhere along the road you can find. This is dog friendly but always keep your pet on a leash. The water is shallow for quite a while so bringing little kids here is great too. Make sure to bring floats, rafts, tubes and kayaks to have even more fun. The Cedar Lake has a Sandy and somewhat Rocky bottom but water shoes are not really necessary. They just put in a few more nice picnic tables and you can bring a grill to have a great family gathering. There is a single eco-friendly outhouse, which really is not bad considering you are out in the woods buy the Cranberry Bogs. Make sure you don't wear a a bathing suit you want to keep nice because the Cedar water can and sometimes does stain your clothes. Oh, don't forget the suntan lotion and bug spray because the Flies can be brutal if there is no...

I once frequented this place going back as far as nearly 40 years ago. Now, too many of the class that feel that it's okay to trash every place they go visit. Every time I've gone this warm weather season there's piles of trash which is perhaps the best means to identify the class of those leaving it behind. And the porta-potty is absolutely disgusting. This was once a quiet and pristine place to go that offered a bit of peace and tranquility. Letting the word out seems to contain the irrevocable effects of trash. Very...

Now that it's not a secret place anymore it can get quite packed even during the week and it's not that big of an area where you actually swim and set up to begin with but if you're into the the Jersey Devil Pine Barrens and the lake that turns you and your clothes orange when you're done because of the Cranberry Bogs pretty much right next door LOL, I actually really...