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Buckeye Lake Columbus East KOA


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Chris & Cheryl Glaser

August 23, 2025

We’ve been guest here since second week of May!!! We love it!!! I’ve read other less than positive reviews and I need to comment. First off, this is a CAMPGROUND!!!!! You’re not at a hotel or motel. It’s about camping!! Bugs, dirt and mud really should be expected. The complaints about the bathrooms being messy, again there is NO maid service. The responsibility falls upon the guests who use them. Remember there are plenty of people that really don’t care how they leave the restrooms. The campground is rustic, the amenities are wonderful and the staff are phenomenal!!! If you want a great CAMPING experience this is the place. If you wanted pampered and perfect, my advice, go to a hotel!!!!

Jessica Glenn

August 22, 2025

This place has gone downhill steadily since Mike and Shirley sold it. It lost the family feel and added corporate unwillingness to work with loyal campers (been camping there every year since 2006). Security is worse in the evenings - some of the behavior of post COVID campers would have never been tolerated by Mike. The ONLY reason we keep coming back is the location. Unfortunately they still have the monopoly for proximity to the lake. When they screw up your reservation they just say, oops, sometimes the system glitches. And offer no way to fix it.

Luisa Gunther

August 15, 2025

The staff was exceptionally good,friendly and helpful. That's where the stars comes from. There are some small local eateries in the area that were nice. There's a ditch with stagnant water that smells like a swamp.There were so many mosquitoes that no amount of repellent, citronella etc , could stop them. At around 5 am there is a foul smell around the whole camp as if the dump stations were not working properly. It smells like sewage. It goes away through the day. The pool is nice but small and gets too full too fast. Again, the staff was amazing and that's what made our stay pleasant. We will not return though.

steve fisher

July 25, 2025

I'm sure at 1 point this campground was 5 stars. It wasn't bad just needed some updates. Bathrooms were very clean and nice. Pool was great. Mini golf was free but needed updated. Jump pillow wasn't working. Great location of of I70 and near Buckeye lake.

Mike Everson

July 07, 2025

The office people did everything they could to get us fit into a spot. Our original site was way too small and they worked hard to get us into another site. All the sites that don’t include a patio are extremely close to one another. Our sewer connection was right into the middle of the site beside us as the site to our other side their sewer was in our patio space. They tried to have activities and get people involved but I think being 4th July weekend most were either in the pool or on the lake. This KOA is an older version and could use a complete make over. Has a nice pool and game room but some king of electricity issue kept the arcade down our time there. It would be nice if they had dock space on the lake also.

tom yoda

May 11, 2022

Early in the camping season but the campgrounds were very accommodating. We enjoyed our 2 nites...we were here 5 yrs ago and enjoyed that stay too...!!! We'll be back.....!!!

John Edward

April 23, 2022

To Rhonda and staff at Buckeye Lake thank you for making our stay very pleasant. Our sight was level and the utilities well maintained. We full time RV and we plan to stay at Buckeye Lake each and every time we pass through your area. Even if it means we need to out-of-route to do so. Thank you again, for a pleasant stay. We are The Griswold's on RVVacation....

Bre Dolan

April 03, 2022

We couldn't have chosen a worse time to try to enjoy your establishment... Opening weekend, April 1-3 It literally was freezing cold and Snowing.. but your gameroom/ playground and equipment saved the day! Thank you so much for your hospitality on such a cold weekend!

David Ross

October 31, 2021

Is a.good place to go walk around the lake. Nice atmosphere and nice people

Harry Miller

September 06, 2020

Nice and clean, great service