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Eastern Ohio · OH

Salt Fork Lake

Ohio's largest state park, built around a 2,952-acre lake.

Salt Fork Lake sits inside Salt Fork State Park, the largest in the Ohio system, in the hills of Guernsey County near Cambridge — a 2,952-acre lake with the park's own 148-room lodge as the commercial anchor, since almost nothing sits directly on the water outside the park boundary.

About Salt Fork Lake

Salt Fork Lake sits entirely inside Salt Fork State Park, Ohio's largest, in Guernsey County near Cambridge. The park's own 148-room lodge functions as a self-contained resort — Timbers Restaurant, the Wildlife Lounge, a golf course, two seasonal marinas (Salt Fork and Sugartree), and a 2,500-foot swimming beach. Cambridge, about twenty minutes away, covers the supermarket run and the hospital, since the lake itself has almost no commercial development outside park boundaries.

Nearest cities
Cambridge, OH
Airports
CMH · PIT
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