West Branch State Park

Pre-2000 West Branch was just an after-thought, 50 non-electric sites, 1950's pit toilets, muddy campsites. That all changed about 15 years ago. Complete re-build, now 200 sites (160 electric, 30 full service and 10 non-electric. 4 brand new showerhouses, in campground boat ramp. The campsites are built on a peninsula, divided into 4 loops or areas. All roads are paved as are the campsites. The park staff keep the shower buildings in top shape. Instead of men's and Ladies shower areas, there is a common area where there are 5 individual shower rooms that offer a large bench and where a mom can bring in 1-2 small ones and take care of their shower needs in there own little room. The only thing missing as usual are enough hooks to hand your clothes up. The lake is a un-limited horsepower lake, so you will see many bass boats speeding by. There are 4 hiking trails of about a mile each starting at the campground check-in station. There is a 9 hole disc golf course, newer playground equipment. Very popular park especially in the summer months. Average to to above average spacing between campsites. About 2/3 of the sites have part shade or full shade. The one thing keeping me from giving it a 5 star rating is: When they re-built the campground and added 150 new sites, each site was to be level and 65' deep. The general contractor must not have been a RVer. Where it could have been easy to make many of the campsites level, many are not at all level or are very short. Especially about a third of the full service sites that attract larger RV's.