Checked out the campground on a drive thru the area. The store was not open but the campground looked nice with a playground area for the kids. The campground is right on the water. Looks like a great place to stay in the summer. read more

Paint Creek State Park - Playground area - Parks Near Me - Bainbridge, Ohio

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We did a day visit to Paint Creek during our stay at nearby Pike Lake State Park. It looked like Paint Creek picks up a bit more during the summer, as neither the camp store nor the nature center were open when we stopped by, and the large campground only had a few spots in use. There are some great spots overlooking the lake, some with little decks, which looked really nice. The campground had a good playground with a variety of equipment, swings, slides, climbing structures, and more. There is also a horse-friendly section for camping. Near the camp store and nature center, we saw a small mini golf course, as well as disc golf. Paint Creek has a swimming beach and permits boating and fishing. There are trails for hiking, mountain biking, and bridle. The friendly staff at Rocky Fork State Park are able to stamp passport books for Paint Creek. read more

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Camped here recently for the first time. Loved it! Will 100% be back! Park staff very nice. Camp ground very clean. Frisbee golf seems to be a real thing here, lol. I wish they had more full hook ups and maybe at some point they will expand. The park seems small until you get in there and drive around. LOTS of campsites to be had! read more

Paint Creek State Park - Parks Near Me - Bainbridge, Ohio

Review of Paint Creek State Park, Bainbridge, Ohio (two stars) I stayed here the nights of June 8 and 9. I've had either good experiences at Ohio State Parks or rather bad experiences. Nothing in between. Paint Creek State Park ranks in the "rather bad" category. On the surface of it, it's a beautiful park. The roads are well maintained and marked. The shower houses are good, and the big shower houses have washers and dryers for just $1 per use. Many sites have mature trees. Some of the sites are a reasonable distance apart. There is a nature center which is open for an hour twice a week. Here are the negatives. NO garbage bins except at the dump station way.....over at the entrance to the park. NO hiking trails within walking distance of the campground. There is officially one trail to the lakeside but it is steep and very muddy. If you have don't a tow vehicle or car, you can't see the most beautiful parts of the park. Maybe if you were a very avid bicyclist?? There are no sites with water, which I've learned is typical for some of the state park systems in the northern U.S. There are few water spigots available for RV tank fill up. What ones there are, mean that either you would find a vacant camping slot close enough to fill up your tanks, or simply block traffic. There are NO pull outs for people to pull over and fill their tanks. There are ugly "water disposal" dumps, one right outside my window. For dishwater? Fish offal from the day at the fishing lake? A bit gross. The camping slots are concrete but some are very much slanted. They are all very narrow, which limits your parking for extra vehicles. I had to pull down the picnic table off of the narrow camping slot so I could back my RV into the slot. The campsite was so steep on either side of the concrete slab that the table almost tumbled over. Many campers, apparently ignoring the two vehicle limit, park on the grass right next to the road. Some sites have grass for people to set up tents and pavilions on. Not so mine. See photo. Mud overflows any of the private areas of my campsite. I couldn't really sit outside. Nothing on the website really discusses this. The campsite slabs are not very long--campground roads are VERY close to your RV and heavily trafficked. If it's a busy weekend, don't plan on getting any privacy, sitting in the shade, etc. Many trucks and cars cruising around the park, from what I can see. Not restful. My main complaint is the congestion. I have never seen park rules observed at Ohio State Parks (Salt Lick, Tar Hollow--twice, Paint Creek). The regulations says two vehicles per site, with $2 extra for additional vehicles. Note in the photo here there are four and five vehicles per site. Either the rules are not being followed, or Ohio is not charging enough. Also, the rules say six people per site. That is simply not the case in practice. One site near me has at least ten people on it. There are many large family groups. There is nothing wrong with that. But why not enforce the limit of six people per site? Never mind the extra traffic, noise, and congestion. What about the mentality that arises with family groups? Their lack of attention to the feelings of others who are in close quarters? Their noise, and arguments, and we versus them sensibility that sometimes emerge? At one park (Tar Hollow) three years ago, one family group of TWENTY on one site results in groups of kids walking by saying snide things about everything they saw and one drunken woman demanding to know why I was travelling alone, and what was I looking at, anyway? Limit the number of people per site by enforcing park rules. Some of this will reduce. And, BTW I never once saw campground hosts except them tooling around on their cart, looking busy and uncommunicative. read more

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Very nice state park. The shelter house has corn hole! We love firing up the grill there and relaxing. A lot of nice places to picnic and play areas for the kids. Nice hiking trails. Good places to launch your boat. The beach is nice too. All around a great place to spend the day. read more

We purchased a Deck Site at the Paint Creek State Park Campground and we could not have been happier! The weekend we stayed it was in the 90s all weekend and it was at least 25 degrees cooler at our site due to the amount of tree cover we had. We enjoyed the campground very much. There were a lot of trails leading around the campground and down to the lake. They also have a Frisbee Golf Course on site and a Mini Golf Course. We drove down to the Paint Creek State Park Area and hiked on more trails, climbed the side of the rock cliffs, and explored the waterways around the Dam. The park is beautiful and it is truly relaxing. read more