soooo we went & rode through the former state park Saturday. That place is bigger than I remembered. It does have its pluses, although the layout probably won't be considered optimum by some folks, spectators mainly.
There is a 2 lane boat ramp with a pier between the lanes, with quite a bit of parking at the boat ramp. As much as Colet has, maybe more. They have a pretty damn big day use area... nice bathrooms there close, lots of picnic tables with bbq grills pretty close to each table and super shady. Boat ramp is on the same side of the cove as the day use area. The "beach" spot I mentioned in an earlier post is on the camping side, across the cove from the day use area. This brings me to why we thought it may not be optimum from a spectator standpoint. That whole cove is a no wake zone. So no matter if people end up hanging out on the day use side of the cove or the campground side of the cove, when people go out to run around & make passes and what-not, they will be out of sight of anybody hangin out on shore. So while it would be fine for hangin & socializin, you won't have any views of the action, so to speak.
On the opposite side of the point, where the cove opens up out to the lake there are a few campsites that face the actual lake & are close to the water, with the one on the end having pretty fair amount of space around it. People gathering on that side would then be able to see the boats out screwing around on the water. The key may be trying to get all those sites on the point there so that whole area, or the majority of it, will be people there for this get-together.
Working on resizing the pix & will get them posted shortly.
