Ocean Lakes Family Campground, Myrtle Beach SC

Posted by Sparky on October 29, 2015

Campsite at Ocean Lakes

Our ocean view

We planned originally to stay 3 nights at Ocean Lakes Family Campground in South Myrtle Beach SC. But we lost a day due to our truck problems. Then the forecast turned bad – the day we were scheduled to travel to Charleston was to be windy, with heavy rain. It is never fun to tear down/set up in the rain. And since Charleston was a flat daily rate rather than a weekly rate, we didn’t lose any money by cutting the stay there short.

All of which is why we ended up staying 4 nights in Ocean Lakes.

This is a HUGE campground – nearly 4,000 sites total, with 863 campsites (the rest are houses that are individually owned, with many available for annual lease). Besides the beautiful beach, the campground has five small lakes (hence the name). Amenities include a take-out restaurant, a huge camp store, a laundromat with over 100 machines and wash-and-fold service, a recreation center, a video arcade, two pools – one indoor, one outdoor – and probably a lot of other stuff that we never saw because we did not tour the entire property.

This campground is top-rated by Good Sam and I can’t dispute that assessment. The sites are level, with large concrete pads and lots of room for slides. The cable is outstanding with over 100 channels. There is daily curbside trash pickup. If there is a dog park I didn’t see it, but there are many places to walk the dogs (including on the beach, off season) and biodegradable poop bags are provided. There is a playground and a beautiful elevated public deck, both right on the beach. The beach has soft sand and is swimmable. Overall, a very nice park. And we had an ocean view!

The only bad thing about the park: the water is terrible. It ruins a cup of coffee.