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| - Many of the other reviews are old, so perhaps something has changed in the last few years, but we went last weekend and the one star yelp says "Eek!" and that would sum up my review quite nicely. A number of people have indicated that compared to other Cleveland beaches, or considering how close it is to downtown or convenient to westlkake, etc., it's pretty good. I think a review is not a relative thing, either it is good or bad and not "it's the best in the area." So does it deserve 4 stars as the best in the area since it doesn't have dead fish and hypodermic needles floating in the water? Then, depending how low the bar is set, anything could get 4 stars. I grew up near a 4-5 star fresh water beach and believe me, this ain't it folks. This is not how it is in Chicago, Baltimore, Toronto, or even Toledo.
It was a Sunday around 3:00 when we got there and i thought we might miss much of the crowds...wrong in a big way. It was extremely crowded. We were there 2 hours before i noticed families leaving, but then lots of large groups of teenagers arrived, so the crowd was about the same. The beach is vey small and narrow with few trash cans which were overflowing. I watched as 3 different families ate fast food on the beach and left behind KFC cups, straws and McDonalds cardboard boxes and bags...Yuck! I walked to the edge of the water with my 2 young boys and found a large, thick shard of glass on top of the mud. This is so unacceptable for a public beach. Also, virtually everyone around us was smoking and none thought anything of putting out the butts in the sand and leaving them there! Who does this? There are babies playing with buckets and shovels all around them!!! Just rude and lazy beyond belief.
I was told that the metroparks were doing a good job managing this beach with little resources and had loads of volunteers that clean the beaches. Why not do something to prevent the filth to begin with? Everything i mentioned are symptoms of a poorly managed beach which can be addressed with little to no resources. There is a picnic area right next to the beach, why not require people to eat there??? They should have "no littering" signs and signs showing no cigarette butts with large fines and more trash cans. Why not charge a small fee to help pay for real beach cleaning machines and patrolling? It's not possible that volunteers can do it all. I'd recommend to just walk around the park and go to the nature center there and avoid this disgusting little overcrowded beach with entirely too many smokers and litter bugs. Or go in the early morning and evening when these people aren't there and all the volunteers have picked up all their trash! If this is the best Cleveland can do, it's time they raise the bar.
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