The recreational resources get a "10"! However, the campground is old, built in the 60's. The electrics have been upgraded to 50amp, but that seems to be the extent of work. The pit toilets and shower house are dirty and in need of repair or replacement. This park is disappointing after visiting other Ohio parks that have state of the art facilities. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

Lake Hope SP is a very rustic campground with a lot of sloping, set into mature woods and very few level pads. This is probably not a good campground for large units. We only saw one large motorhome and it was the camphost. This is great for tent camping (the non-electric areas were sparsely populated on a summer weekend) or tent trailers. Our site #77 was fairly level, backed up against the woods however, the sites were narrow so we were hemmed in quite closely with our neighbors. I recommend site #78 which was next to us but did not have any other site right nearby on their living side. It allows for a buffer from having neighbors on both sides of you. The only drawback of our cul-de-sac area is the pit toilet is right there (and water is convenient) and sometimes the odor would blow into our campsite. There are only pit toilets in this campground. The shower houses are not well maintained though we did have plenty of hot water. Only a cursory cleaning was done and the showers also do not have a changing room area with your shower (more like a gym shower area where everyone is out in the open). Mold was living in the grout of the showers also and the water seemed very hard. Fairly quiet campground though the sites again are narrow. On Sunday night, we pretty much had the place to ourselves. There is a lot of large trees around the campsites and after a storm on our second night, we heard a large tree branch fall. The next morning we saw that the branch had come just feet from smashing into a tenting group. We probably won't stay here again unless they upgraded the showers (and did better job cleaning) and added flush toilets at least at the shower houses. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.