Ottawa Metro Park in Lima Ohio offers partial hookup RV and tent camping in a community managed location with abundant recreational activities. Visitors can spend the day fishing & boating on the 89 acre Lima Lake reservoir and swimming at Ottawa Metro Park beach. The campground roads and parking pads are paved with picnic tables and fire rings available. Multiple nice playgrounds and meandering paved hiking/ biking trails allow for recreation through the park. Restrooms with showers are available.
What campers say
Ottawa Metro Park is a large, well-kept park and campground with a variety of amenities that suit families and outdoor enthusiasts. Highlights include a nice playground with shaded seating, paved walking and bike trails, an 18‑hole disc golf course, an amphitheater, picnic shelters, and a lake with a trail and boat ramp. The grounds are generally clean and staff are friendly; the site is also good for birding and casual fishing. Practical tradeoffs: campsites are first‑come, first‑served and the park can be busy in summer, swimming access has been reported as variable, and restrooms may sometimes need attention.
Our summary of 553 traveler reviews.
Amenities
Hookups and power
Electric
Sites
Back-In
Facilities
Showers
Pool
Playground
Dump Station
Setting
Lake
More
Bathrooms
Big Rig
Biking
Boating
Canoeing
City Park
County Park
Destination
Dogs
Family Friendly
Firepits
First Come First Served
Fishing
Grass
Group
Hiking
Kayaking
Mountain Biking
Open
Pads
Park
Partial Hookup
Paved
Pets
Public Park
Public Parking
Pull-In
Pull-thru
Rural
Scenic
Seasonal
Tents
Tourist
Trails
Walking Trail
Water
556 reviews
3 of them were written on CampgroundViews.
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perk1957
★★★☆☆
This would be a better park if they could keep the politics out of it! This park claims to be a first come first serve,but when my wife and I went to get a site they were all taken for the whole week but there was nobody in them.Must be reservable, just as state park walk-ins!
Mark KoepMay 23, 2018
I don't believe politics plays anything in to this. This is a normal oversight that public park managers miss when setting rules. They likely have no rule requiring a unit actually be parked in a site for it to be occupied; with Memorial Day Weekend coming up the locals all went in and paid for the sites for the entire week to hold them.
CP
Camping Pro
★★★☆☆
30 amp and water hookups for $25 in a quiet county managed park. This place is well kept with great spacing and $10 for all you can burn firewood. During the warmer months there is a swimming lake (extra fee). We enjoyed the disc golf course and the nice playground equipment along with the paved multi-use trails. Lots of locals enjoying the park on the weekend and many said they return again and again because the park is so well managed. We used it as an overnight stop easily pulling in to one of the long pull thrus. Verizon 4G was excellent and so was the digital over the air TV selection. Lima is a center of commerce for the area so there are things to do in the area. Very impressed.
