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East Harbor State Park

What promises to become one of the most popular outing grounds in the Ohio conservation division’s state-wide network of lakes and parks is the East Harbor State Park, located in Danbury township between East Harbor and Lake Erie, about one mile west of Lakeside.

The lake frontage, familiarly known to Lakeside visitors and others in that vicinity as Sandy Beach, is well wooded, and affords one of the finest bathing beaches in the Middle West. The beach is two and a half miles long, and the shallow water with its succession of sandbars enables the bathers to wade out fully 1,000 feet.

Little by little the state has been acquiring land in that vicinity until today it has converted 1100 acres into a park area.

Although uncompleted, the park was opened to the public in the early summer of 1947, and thousands immediately took advantage of the opportunity to go there for bathing and picnicking. Bathhouses, comfort stations, outdoor ovens, tables, benches, and other conveniences have been installed for the public. A yacht and cruiser basin with docks has been added, boats entering by way of the Sandy Beach channel.

Directly behind the bathing beach to the west and south is East Harbor, providing excellent fishing.

The park is reached by a newly-built highway running from state route 163.