Brookville Lake anybody going

[badbowtie]

I am leaving tomorrow afternoon to take the camper up then come back and grab the boat for the long weekend at brookville lake. Anybody from here going to be at brookville lake this weekend.

 

[findinghomer]

Re: Brookville Lake anybody going

hi bowtie. this is my main lake, i go there every weekend, bc its very close to me. i find it rather small though, and much perfer monroe, much larger, its cleaner, has alot more private coves, and you are allowed to shore camp. if you have not been to monroe, i highly recommend it. but being the holiday weekend, rather than goin to my usual brookville, i headed 4.5 hours to lake michigan. it was absolutely amazing, but i was shocked at the lack of access to the lake, AND the set up of the ramps. Never seen more unorganized ramps in my life. stopped at 3 different cities between gary and michigan city trying to find a decent ramp until i gave up once i realized they all sucked ended up in michigan city, washington park area. very nice harbor, but launch/ retrieval is worst ive ever seen.

so how was brookville, i imagine pretty packed? very friendly lake.

 

[badbowtie]

Re: Brookville Lake anybody going

Brookville was very busy the worse I have ever seen it I have been for alot of the holidays and never been this bad. The lake was extremely choppy, but camped at Quakertown, so spent most of the days in the no wake zone swimming. Brookville is also our usual lake too, have not tried Lake Monroe yet, would like to, just need to fnd a way to get camper and boat there, and would really like someone else to go too, to have extra boats.

 

[findinghomer]

Re: Brookville Lake anybody going

Brookville was very busy the worse I have ever seen it I have been for alot of the holidays and never been this bad. The lake was extremely choppy, but camped at Quakertown, so spent most of the days in the no wake zone swimming. Brookville is also our usual lake too, have not tried Lake Monroe yet, would like to, just need to fnd a way to get camper and boat there, and would really like someone else to go too, to have extra boats.

leave that camper at home and shore camp with a tent if you can. its best way to camp IMO, boating and finding your own private cove, its like being on your own little island. you dont need to worry about noisy neighbors, dogs on a leash, its complete private, primative camping.

if you must have a camper, there is two camp sights, paynetown, and hardin ridge. paynetown is not very wooded , personally i dont like it at all. i would recommend hardin ridge. very nice.

 

[badbowtie]

Re: Brookville Lake anybody going

The camper really makes it easy since I have a big dog that stays in the camper all day while we are boating. We also have a 13 month old and a 9 year old so at night the a/c is sure nice for them to sleep. I am going to have to try to get up thier soon and try it out. I just checked it is just over two hours to get their maybe I will try a long day trip coming up soon and see what happens.

 

[75TowerOfPower]

Re: Brookville Lake anybody going

I assume since you both boat at Brookville often you know about the State lake permit? Well we were out there the past two weekends and this weekend we got stopped and I didn't see the sign at the ramp for the permit. So idling out of the Gar Hill ramp area we get pulled over and they explain we need one and were nice to let us go with a warning and directions to the state dock. I am posting this mainly for anyone else wanting to go to Brookville, since the pass is $20 for the year for all the DNR lakes.