RE: Red Ridge Lake Campground in PA?

[Acts 2:38 girl]

 I tried searching this site, but could find no info on this campground.  When I called them they said they have a web site - www.redridgelake.com - but it does not work.  Has anybody been here, and if so, did you like it?  Thanks for any info! []

[Acts 2:38 girl]

 Acts 2:38 girl
I guess I ll be doing my own campground review and let everybody know at the end of June - when we get back from the Rally!

[Acts 2:38 girl]

 Acts 2:38 girl
OK, just got back from the Rally, and here s my review of the Red Ridge Lake Campground in Zion Grove, PA.  
 
 I should have been warry when I couldn t pull up the web site they insisted was functioning.  Should have been nervous when the Mapquest directions lead us to the campgrounds fenced off back gate, and the written directions on the brochure were only 1/2 right.  We ended up finding the signs, but only because an off-roading Bronco group had thier signs posted at every turn for thier group.  DH went in, told them we were with the " Yankee Toys"  off-roading group and to please give us a site near them and possibly the bathroom too.  (for me!)  They gave us a site about 300 yards AWAY from our group, but close to the bathroom.  Went back to request a closer site.  We ended up in a large grassy area with huge pine trees right on the lake with the warning from the owners, "  It gets a little muddy down that area when it rains" .  I checked out the " lake"  right away.  About 4 feet in through silt it drops straight down.  BIG fear for me with three little boys.  Not only that but there is poison ivy growing out of control on almost every tree and pathway.  We weren t there 10 minutes before my 3 year old went over to tear some leaves off the " plant"  !  There was a small, well-built bridge to cross over a stream (watch out-poison ivy is growing up the banks and onto the bridge) where you assume it leads to the store/bathhouse.  Wrong.  It leads right through someone elses campsite, so if you don t mind marching through thier site to get to the store - go ahead.  No one seemed to mind at all since the campers were obviously not there for the week.  The bathhouse was clean, pretty new, and well maintained.  They seemed to have a hard time keeping paper towels in there, but I think someone was ripping them off, but they did try.  They did have a swimming area with two docks to leap off, but we didn t get to use it.  Not sure we would have since it was a huge cement slab that the kids had to play on/in.  This ran into the lake about 50 feet and had alge growing on it (slippery).  Not to mention swimming hours were 12noon - 6pm (?)  
 It started to rain the next day, and they weren t kidding when they said it gets a " little muddy"   The hay on the ground should have warned us!  By late afternoon there was a " moat"  around our camper about 8"  deep.  This is no exageration, folks!  DH came back from off-roading and had to hook up the camper to move it forward about 20 feet.  The conditions across the road for the guys in tents was worse.  One guy actually came back and had a small stream 3"  deep running through his tent.  He went to a motel for the night.  By the next day the tenters almost had landslide conditions there.  We have a video where the ground swelled up about 4 feet across and you could step on it like a waterbed!  
   Quiet hours were 11pm-8am, but these are definetely not enforced!  We had a couple guys running thier diesel trucks right next to our camper for about an hour while they worked on them.  Meanwhile a baby inside the truck was screaming!  I finally got up to go to the bathroom (about 300 yards away) and they couldn t hear the baby above the noise!!  They finally left about 1/2 an hour later, but it was common for guys to work on the trucks (running) until late at night, with lights on.  The owners of the campground do not live there (this was evident when they left every morning from the store for a 3 hour break), so there is no way for them to moniter the noise level.  I think these are new owners who do not have a ton of $$ to fix this place up like they would like to.  They do have a ton of activities planned, but these were rained out.  The store was stocked OK, except you had to look behind the counter and ask for what you wanted and there was no selection to speak of.  There were arcaide games, but almost all of these were turned off during the day or broken.  When asked if there was anything to do in the area (there were no brochures for anything) I was answered with a vague, "  I don t think so, no"   Finally another camper came up with Wal-Mart!  Yahoo!!  
 This place is not the " family campground"  advertised!  This is mainly for off-roading groups who go to Paragon Adventure Park.  I do not advise you to chose this place for a family vacation!  Sorry!