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Maumee Bay State Park
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3 reviews for Maumee Bay State Park
I wanted to find a close park that was actually on the lake. Lo and behold, google maps showed me Maumee Bay state park. It's nice drive a bit out of the city and get on some open roads on the way to the park.
The park itself isn't big, but the boardwalks through the wetland type area is relaxing, and leads to a lookout point. Unfortunately the lookout point has a plaque naming the different smokestacks on Lake Erie that you can see (I didn't really think that should be a bragging point). It's nice to have a beach along there too. Good change of scenery considering how insanely flat toledo/northwestern Ohio is.
All that being said, I don't think it measures up to Oak Openings, but still a good park.
I didn't get to explore this place as much as I would have liked, but the parts I saw were beautiful. I was here for a wedding, and I was able to see it on a warm, sunny day. The park has an amphitheater, which is HUGE compared to other park amphitheaters I have seen. It contained lots of seating and an extremely wide stage. However, It seemed to be a little dark and unkept in the stage area.
At the top of the hill/amphitheater, you can see a lot of the park. I could see another wedding in the distance, so obviously I could see this was the ideal location in Toledo for weddings. It is right up on Lake Eerie, with a little beach area sectioned off from the grassy park. The view of the lake is extremely pretty.
There was ample parking available which can be a problem for most parks. You did not have to pay to enter which was nice (a lot of parks where I am from sometimes require this if you are not a local). My only complaint of this park is that it seemed to be a little too landscaped--it was definitely more rural than the surrounding city, but trees were spread out and everything was trimmed to provide an unnaturally perfect scene. (This could be due to it being a huge wedding spot?)
Definitely a nice and available park to sit near Lake Eerie.
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I'm sure that this park gets a lot of use, but it's not for me. Besides the stupendous vastness of parking lots, there's a long stretch of beach with a few pavilions and a shack which rents kayaks. There are some criss-crossing "hiking" paths through the grass and shrub growths; there aren't many trees, so shade is hard to find. That makes for rather unpleasant hiking on a sunny, 89-degree day.
I was very surprised that the park was so sparsely attended at 10:30 on Labor Day. I saw only a few dozen other cars there, even when I left after 11. There were some people on the beach, and some on bikes on the trails.
They also have campgrounds and a nature center which I did not examine.