Caesar Creek Lake
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 30 nights read 16:43 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Caesar Creek Lake is located in southwest Ohio, centered between Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus. Visitors flock to Caesar Creek Lake for its great fishing, boating, Visitor Center and trail opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Caesar Creek Lake offers excellent boating, water skiing and canoeing. Anglers fish for crappie and trophy muskie. The shelter is close to the Visitor Center's courtesy dock, allowing for easy shoreline fishing or to launch a kayak. Also, the shelter is within a short walking distance to the Caesar Creek Lake Visitor Center which offers exhibits, films and information about the lake and Corps missions in the Ohio Valley. Visitors can also take advantage of the new Adena Trace fitness trail with 9 workout stations over a mile loop as well as 50 miles of additional hiking, mountain biking, and bridle trails.
Facilities
Each shelter is located near the Caesar Creek Visitor Center where a 24-hour indoor heated and cooled restroom can be found. Many shelters also offer some of the largest playground areas found at Caesar Creek Lake. Each shelter also offers two cooking grills and both electric and water are provided with reservation.
Natural Features
Caesar Creek Lake is home to many different wildflower prairies throughout the park which offer views of native wild prairie flowers, insects and bird species. Caesar Creek Lake is also home to more than 50 miles of trails including the 13 mile backpack trail which takes you to a scenic overlook of Horseshoe Falls.
Nearby Attractions
Caesar Creek Lake offers 50 miles of hiking, mountain biking, bridle and archery trails. Caesar Creek Pioneer Village offers a collection of over 15 log cabins and other structures that are open during special events. Caesar Creek Nature Center is adjacent to the Pioneer Village; the nature center features exhibits on the area's cultural and natural history.
What the agency tells you
Absolutely no parking off-road or pulling vehicles onto the grass.
All posted directional signs should be free standing and NOT attached to existing structures, signs or trees.
For any special requests, including reserving the Flat Fork Area, you should contact the Visitor Center at (513) 897-1050.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Ohio 'Open Container Laws' prohibits alcohol consumption.
Caesar Creek Lake officially closes at 11 p.m.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Weekday Cost: $35 Weekend/Holiday Cost: $75
Facilities
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Fishing
2 of 5 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:43 UTC
The agency files 5 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
5 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 5 mapped sitesAll 5 records
| Caesar Creek Lake | Beech | day use | 20 amp | yes | 223 ft | 122 ft | $35 |
| Caesar Creek Lake | Dogwood | day use | 20 amp | yes | 223 ft | 167 ft | $35 |
| Caesar Creek Lake | Holly | day use | 20 amp | yes | 849 ft | 812 ft | $35 |
| Caesar Creek Lake | Redbud | day use | 20 amp | yes | 849 ft | 75 ft | $35 |
| Caesar Creek Lake | Sycamore | day use | 20 amp | yes | 2543 ft | 141 ft | $35 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cj Brown Dam and Reservoir - Dam Site (OH)37 mi
Paint Creek Dam Site42 miQuakertown Campground47 mi
Alum Creek Below Dam Area76 miTwo Point Group CampgroundWayne National Forest · 97 miFrom I-75 head east on Highway 73 for 11.5 miles past Waynesville. Follow the signs for the Caesar Creek Visitor Center for 3 more miles.
From I-71 head west on Highway 73 for 7.7 miles. Follow the signs for the Caesar Creek Visitor Center for about 3 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Corwin, OH
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Caesar Creek Lake is in Ohio’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Greg Landsman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyGreg LandsmanU.S. Representative · Ohio’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationBernie MorenoU.S. Senator · Ohio
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJon HustedU.S. Senator · Ohio
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Caesar Creek Lake has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Greg Landsman, I’m a constituent in Ohio’s 1st district. Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio carries 5 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Caesar Creek Lake (Ohio) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Caesar Creek Lake has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Bernie Moreno, I’m a constituent in Ohio. Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio carries 5 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Caesar Creek Lake (Ohio) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Caesar Creek Lake has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Jon Husted, I’m a constituent in Ohio. Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio carries 5 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Caesar Creek Lake (Ohio) via campanac.com