West Branch State Park

We stayed at West Branch State Park in Ravenna, Ohio. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A nice state park, though many of the sites are unlevel.

Dates:

  • Check in: 2025-05-03
  • Check out: 2025-05-11
  • 8 nights

Weather:

  • Some rain and some mostly cloudy
  • High temps 60-70°F, lows 44-52°F
  • Some wind, gusts to 21 MPH

Noise:

  • No road noise
  • Distant train horn noise
  • Little neighbor noise

Site:

  • #100, back-in, asphalt
  • Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
  • Very unlevel site; high in front and driver side; used hydraulic leveling (which couldn’t get entirely level; air leveling couldn’t cope either)
  • Asphalt driveway about 45 feet long by 10 feet wide
  • About 90 feet to neighbor on passenger side
  • No neighbor on driver side
  • Just grass between sites
  • Picnic table
  • Fire pit
  • Tall trees
  • Clean site
  • Elevation 990 feet, front facing NE

Utilities:

  • 50 amp power, conveniently located
  • 55 PSI very hard water, conveniently located
  • Unthreaded sewer connection, very conveniently located (2 2-foot pipes needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • Starlink: 12-160 Mbps down, 5-22 Mbps up, 30-90 ms ping
  • T-Mobile: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 42 ms ping
  • AT&T: 17 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 80-120 ms ping
  • Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 9 Mbps up, 60-150 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
  • Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

  • Garbage dumpsters

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Nice campground, unlevel sites

This was a nice state park on the lake. Our site was very wide with lots of space between the neighbors, but a bit on the short side (just long enough for our 40′ motorhome, and we parked our truck crosswise at the front with about a foot to spare). The only real downside was how massively unlevel the site was front-to-back. We tried multiple positions and both air and hydraulic leveling, but could never get flat. Examining other sites in our loop, it didn’t appear that any of them were particularly level. Many rigs had their wheels off the ground, which is just unsafe. Our utilities were all in working order, but with very hard water, which required us to refresh the water softener twice in a week. We camped at West Branch State Park in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

You can see how much the site slopes… and our coach wasn’t even level:

Our site

Our site

A track to the lake from our site:

Track to lake

Lake

Back to coach

We added the Ohio sticker to our map:

Added Ohio sticker

Added Ohio sticker

And added the Cuyahoga Valley National Park sticker:

Added Cuyahoga Valley National Park sticker

Added Cuyahoga Valley National Park sticker

Dumpster and bathrooms:

Dumpster and bathrooms

Bathrooms

Other sites:

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

We’d be happy to stay here again, but not in the same site.