Best Tent Camping: Ohio: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization

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Perfect Camping for You in Ohio!
The Buckeye State provides a spectacular backdrop for some of the most scenic campgrounds in the country. But do you know which campgrounds offer the most privacy? Which are the best for first-time campers? Robert Loewendick traversed the entire state―from Lake Erie and its fantastic fishing to the rich Native American culture of southwestern Ohio―and compiled the most up-to-date research to steer you to the perfect spot!
Best Tent Camping: Ohio presents 50 private, state park, and state forest campgrounds, organized into six distinct regions. Selections are based on location, topography, size, and overall appeal, and every site is rated for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, safety and security, and cleanliness―so you’ll always know what to expect. The updated full-color edition of this proven guidebook provides everything you need to know, with detailed maps of each campground and key information such as fees, restrictions, dates of operation, and facilities, as well as driving directions and GPS coordinates.
Whether you seek a quiet campground near a fish-filled stream or a family campground with all the amenities, grab Best Tent Camping: Ohio. It’s an escape for all who wish to find those special locales that recharge the mind, body, and spirit. This guide is a keeper.

About the Author

Robert Loewendick is an award-winning freelance outdoors/travel writer and guidebook author, with work regularly published in print and on the Internet. Although his passion for outdoors adventure lures him throughout the United States, born and raised in Ohio, Robert still calls the Buckeye State his base camp. Whether fly-fishing a mountain stream, cruising a Great Lake for angling adventures, hiking miles of trails, or paddling across a placid lake, Robert’s days regularly end at a campsite.  As a young boy, Robert explored the creeks, hills, and ravines of rural southeast Ohio daily, which fueled his fire for adventure early. Today, Robert shares his outdoors adventures with the goal of encouraging others to get outside more and connect with the real world. Robert is an active member and past president of the professional outdoors journalism organization, Outdoor Writers of Ohio.

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Beaver Creek State Park Beauty: 4; Privacy: 3; Spaciousness: 3; Quiet: 3; Security: 3; Cleanliness: 3
Key Information

Location: 12021 Echo Dell Road, East Liverpool, Ohio 43920
Contact: (330) 385-3091, parks.ohiodnr.gov/beavercreek
Open: Year-round; limited facilities in winter
Sites: 44 nonelectric, 6 electric
Each site has: Picnic table, fire ring
Wheelchair Access: None
Assignment: Walk-in sites first come, first served; others may be reserved at 866-644-6727 or ohiostateparks.reserveamerica.com
Registration: Self-registration station
Amenities: Pit toilets, sun shower, playground, nature center, pioneer village, horseshoe pits, archery range
Parking: At each site
Fee: $24; deduct $1 from fee Sunday–Thursday; deduct $3 in winter
Elevation: 1,102 feet
Restrictions:

Pets: On leash only
Quiet Hours: 10 p.m.–7 a.m.
Fires: In fire ring, which must not be moved
Alcohol: Prohibited in public areas in every state park but may be consumed within the confines of a rented cabin, cabin site, lodge room, or campsite
Vehicles: 2/site
Other: Gathering firewood prohibited; maximum 6 people/site

Explore the home of the Little Beaver Creek State and National Wild and Scenic River.
Coming from the north, it’s soon apparent to visitors that they have arrived on the door- step of the Appalachian Mountains. Beaver Creek State Park covers 2,722 land acres and only 4 miles of river, but the river is the main attraction. Little Beaver Creek has been designated a National Wild and Scenic River and rightly so. Slip a kayak into its clear waters and shoot over a few, short rapids for some whitewater fun, or simply lean back and admire the cliffs that contain th