Rain last night and again this morning, so a lot of campers left early, like between 7 and 8. Don't blame them because ground is full of puddles and soggy again. This campground has very narrow asphalt areas, so if an RV is parked on one, the wheels barely fit on each side, and there is absolutely so where to walk except on the grass and mud! You literally step out of your door into mud. They did put in about 15 new and wider full hookup sites, but 90% of sites are still too narrow. Don't know when it was last paved with asphalt, but they really need to at least add a strip of large-sized gravel along each edge. The new sites are about 3' wider and have a paved patio, as well as a 6' x 6' area around the hookups paved.
All-dirt camp sites are fine for deserts and mountains where there is not much rain, but here where it rains every 3-4 days or sooner, it does not work. The other thing that these Ohio (and others) state parks are behind on are dump stations. I am guessing that they were built with the assumption that you only needed two dump spots for 200 campers since most campers were in tents way-back-when. Now, almost everyone has some sort of RV that needs to have tanks dumped, so Sunday is usually a long line. I am headed out to dump my tanks now that it is an hour after checkout time. Hopefully, I will be able to dump without waiting in a long line.
Actually, the worst setup for dumping was the state park in Traverse City where camp hosts had to direct traffic around checkout time because the line for the dump station went past a row of campsites. And the road past those campsites was very narrow, so it was hard for campers to leave, even in cars or pickup trucks, when the line was there! Plus for two to three hours each day, the "scenery" outside of those sites was a row of idling diesel trucks!!
All in all, however, this is a good campground, but next time, I will pick one of the newer sites. They also put new full hookup sites in West Branch, which is another place I stay at when in this area, and have one reserved for next Friday for my last two weeks here.
Good news is that my second bone graft to the tooth I had pulled last summer is less painful today. Had it done Friday because last one did not get enough bone take. They also added more bone because I had originally had a hole from tooth socket to sinus, and they do not want implant peg to migrate into my sinus!!!
Wouldn't THAT be fun??