16 Free Swimming Holes near Alliance, OH 44601
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Mill Creek Day Use Area
Berlin Center
9.2 miles NEFree Army Corps of Engineers picnic area on Berlin Lake near Berlin Center, Ohio, where swimming is allowed from the shoreline. There is no designated beach and no lifeguard.
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Guilford Lake State Park Beach
Lisbon, Ohio
14.0 miles SEA 600 foot public beach on the northwest side of Guilford Lake, a 396 acre reservoir dug in 1834 to feed the Sandy and Beaver Canal.
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Craig Beach at Lake Milton State Park
Craig Beach, Ohio
15.7 miles NEA 600 foot public swim beach on the east shore of Lake Milton, in the village of Craig Beach, where an amusement park with a roller coaster stood a century ago.
Canoe, Hike, Kayak, Swim
Turkeyfoot Beach
New Franklin
23.2 miles WA free 900-foot sand beach on Turkeyfoot Lake at Portage Lakes State Park in New Franklin, south of Akron. No lifeguards, daylight swimming only, and boats share the lake.
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Atwood Lake Park Beach
Mineral City
27.4 miles SA sand beach on a 1,540 acre flood control lake in eastern Ohio, open to anyone who pays the $5 to $10 gate fee at Atwood Lake Park. MWCD samples the water weekly, and there has not been a bacteria advisory here since July 2022.
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Nelson Ledges Quarry Park
Garrettsville, Ohio
28.1 miles NA privately owned quarry park with strikingly blue-green water, a swimming beach, cliff jumping, and camping — see the website for current pricing and available events.
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The Tubbs
Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH, Ohio
32.5 miles SESwim near Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH, Ohio
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White Star Park
Gibsonburg, Ohio
32.5 miles SEAn Ohio quarry swimming spot with fine white sand and brilliantly clear teal-blue water — unlike anything else in the state, with depth visible right to the buoy barriers.
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Quarry Rock Falls
Bentleyville
37.7 miles NWA tiered shale cascade on the Aurora Branch of the Chagrin River at Quarry Rock in Cleveland Metroparks' South Chagrin Reservation, Bentleyville. Free entry, wading at your own risk, no lifeguards.
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Punderson State Park
Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH, Ohio
37.8 miles NSwim near Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH, Ohio
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Chagrin Falls
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
38.6 miles NA natural waterfall tumbles right through the center of town in a riverside park where you can actually swim — a rare and charming small-city attraction year-round.
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Buttermilk Falls Homewood
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
41.3 miles ESwim near Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
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Neshannock Creek Area
Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania
41.5 miles ESwim near Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania
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Chestnut Run Swim Beach
Transfer
43.1 miles NEUnguarded sand beach on a quiet cove of Shenango River Lake, run by the Army Corps of Engineers off PA Route 846 near Transfer. No admission fee; restrooms open in summer.
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Raccoon Creek State Park Beach
Clinton
46.7 miles SEA free 500-foot sand and turf beach on 101-acre Raccoon Lake, with no lifeguard and a posted season of late May to mid-September. The park tests the water weekly and has closed swimming for elevated E. coli in each of the last two summers.
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Wallace Lake Beach
Berea
49.7 miles NWA free, lifeguarded summer swim beach on Wallace Lake, a flooded 1941 sandstone quarry in Cleveland Metroparks' Mill Stream Run Reservation, a short walk from downtown Berea.
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