Lake Dennison Recreation Area Day Use Entrance — Attraction in Winchendon

Me and my family have been coming to this place for the past 40 years around the end of July! We always have so much fun and enjoy our time. My younger self used to bring camping up when it was 6 months away, and make a paper chain 3 months prior the date we left. I now take my children and we are all getting super excited for this years trip!!! The ice cream truck is always the best to cool us off after a bunch of biking and swimming in the lake over at the beach. Kayaking is so nice and the current is never super strong and it’s always easy to paddle. The bathrooms aren’t perfectly clean but they work great and we all know that all the employees are trying their best to clean them the best they can. The arrows on the ground are helpful to explain and I hope some of you guys enjoy this campground and make many memories just...

The entrance and lake is just the beginning of the fun you can experience. Miles and miles of roads and trails outback to explore. Some open to wheeled motorized vehicles, most of them are available to be used by human power only. The roads that are now open gets you around most of the recreational area. Off of these roads are trails galore to explore. Remember to bring a Camera and water is a good idea. Along with hiking, there is fishing and canoeing at multiple locations in the park. Have fun, I know I do.

Remember this area is used for flood damage prevention in towns downstream and sometimes it is to dangerous to be used for recreational use because the entire area is compleatly flooded. Cars in the swimming area parking lot could be completely covered with water in an extremely massive rain event.

Enjoy your time...

Great place to visit and swim. Rude office staff recently at the Recreation area phones though. Don’t know what’s happening over there but on 2 separate events this summer this has occurred. Since they swimming area has been closed 2 out of the 4 previous visits this year; I simply wanted to find out ahead of time if swimming was open before packing up 3 kids under 10 yrs old for this particular excursion. Both times (previous call and today’s call) the staff was verbally short and had attitudes like they were being bothered for even being asked. I understand the reasons for being closed but the attitudes are unwarranted, just because you aren’t talking to someone in person doesn’t mean you should care less about the...