Well, having read the two other reviews, I've got to wonder if we went to the same place. Breeze? Maybe if you're sitting right at the water's edge; certainly not if you're at one of the tables on the hill that the sun blazes down on all day long. And I don't know if they used to provide grilles (both prior reviews are two years old) but they didn't have any yesterday - we had to send a member of our group to Home Depot to buy one since the food we'd brought needed cooking. So for $8.50 apiece (that's per PERSON over 5 years old - slightly less for the 2 - 4 age group - folks, not per carload) you get to park across the street and way up a dusty hill until you get to a grassy field - and THEN you get to cart all your paraphernalia (grille, coolers, bags, towels, blankets, etc., etc.) down the hill, through another dusty parking lot, across the street, and onto this *hill* that slopes very sharply down to the water. There are very prominent signs prohibiting loading or unloading cars at the entrance to the place or even at the lower end of the parking lot, which would've made carrying stuff in and out of the *park* a bit easier. We glanced at the water slide prices - $17.50, I believe - and at the water slide lines (worthy of the rides at Disney World, undoubtedly) and declined that added attraction. Now, since the management doesn't provide built in grilles the way they do at state parks (for much less money, I might point out) people have all manner of grilles perched on the hill - some looking fairly stable, some VERY tenuously balanced, and far from safe, with children of all ages running about. And that's another thing - there is apparently no cut-off point or no regulation with regard to how MANY people could squeeze into this place, because people just kept coming in with no place to safely accomodate them, and blankets were spread all over that hill with barely a few inches between them - walking from one's "picnic spot" down to the water was quite a balancing act in and of itself. But back to the assorted and sundry grilles....I actually saw one topple over (a little hibachi-style grille) and come within inches of hitting an infant in an infant carrier, also perched precariously on that steep hill. Ditto a large garbage can that went rolling down and was deftly (and luckily) caught by another picnicker. Oh - and at the entrance, there was a very prominent sign listing the "NO's - and at 5:00, there was an announcement over a loud speaker that the park would close in an hour, and everyone needed to act accordingly. I've got to say, the whole experience felt very oppressive to me - felt like we were being allowed to pack ourselves onto their property like a bunch of sardines by virtue of having paid our admission fee, but that we'd better follow the rules and get out when they said get out, or ELSE. The bathroom facilities were utilitarian, to put it as kindly as possible, and the whole enterprise just looks to me like one huge money-making proposition for the owners with very little regard to the actual experience of the people paying to come in and spend their day. Definitely a "won't be back" experience for us. read more
