Chain O’ Lakes State Park

A great place to visit to get away! We came for a weekday getaway in a cabin, and it was fabulous. Cabin 18 was well secluded with only one cabin nearby (about 75 yards away). It was a 2 minute walk to a nice little playground, perfect for our 4.5 year old! Beautiful hikes, a neat little school house to visit (lots of programs if you go on the weekend!).

Our stay was quite due to the time of year and being the weekday. We didn't try any water features (other than beautiful views during the hikes! But they have a beach, canoeing and kayaking, and great set up foe fishing, either by boat (easy access boat ramps) or piers.

Lots of little places to host a family gathering.

Would highly recommend!

Love this state park. Campground is run well and overall the whole property is very well maintained. Nice beach area and a place to rent kayaks and other small boats. The water levels were very low so attempting to kayak the whole 9 lakes was too hard this go around as we had to get out or push through 1-3 inches of water multiple times inbetween the lakes. This isn't the property's fault ... just stinks the water was low when we went. Overall, absolutely love this park with PLENTY to do and enjoy the great outdoors!!

We went kayaking here. It's a really neat place. Lots of places to park, several trails, a nice campground, and the kayaking is pretty cool. You can spend as much or as little time as you want on the water. We got there later so we didn't spend too much time but met some people who went from one end to the other and back and were on the water 9+ hours. We are planning to go back when we can spend more time there.

This is a gorgeous campground with access to many lakes, nice beach and picnic areas. More than 400 camp sites (majority with electric service but water is accessible at stations) but some infrastructure (mainly washrooms or pit toilets) are almost as bad as those toilets in the Trainspotting movie (costing them a star!) We took site 24, very large site close to the trail leading to the beach. You can rent canoes and kayaks and many folks were fishing. We were hit by severe thunderstorms on July 20 and some sites (see pic of site #22) ended up flooded, so choose your site wisely! Wood is available at decent price ($6.50) as well as ice ($2.50 or $5.00). Store has a lot to offer in terms of camping material and basic food. Dogs are welcome but I have to say that it gets loud sometimes. Finally nice playgrounds for kids.

The pictures on the website do not do it justice. This beautiful park has everything! The lakes and streams in between allow you to paddle from one lake to the next. The hiking paths have incredible biodiversity, especially in flora. The campground was clean with a lot of tall, shady trees. Our family, which included 2 teens loved this park.