Cedar Lake (Oklahoma)

Cedar Lake Equestrian camp is our favorite place in Oklahoma to trail ride. Nice campgrounds, friendly staff, excellent trails, efficiently marked and beautiful scenery. We recommend it to anyone who wants to enjoy the beauty of Oklahoma from the back of a horse.

Must ride blue mt snake mt emerald vista they are awesome

Great place to camp and ride horses. Camp hosts are very nice.

The good-The bathrooms were cleaner and better maintained than in years past. The riding and views were spectacular as always. Camp hosts were easily found if needed and did a good job enforcing the coggins test requirement.
The bad-Tons of manure were dumped by the contractor across from sites 10-16. This was authorized by someone with the Forest service so the contractor was simply following directions. Millions of flies were present and rapidly reproducing. No way for visitors to control them. Thirty yards away from the manure piles were the horse stalls including signage saying $300 mandatory fine for not cleaning stalls daily. I was unable to discover the name of the person that authorized the dumping of manure by the campsites but I haven't given up and will contact my US rep next week. The manure piles are a health hazard for not only transmission of diseases to horses but also to humans. We've enjoyed Cedar Lake equestrian area for years and have never encountered a problem such as I've described. Maybe we can get it fixed and educate the bureaucrats that don't understand how easily diseases can be transmitted by flies.

We love Cedar Lake. It’s quiet, lots of tall pines, clean bathrooms and showers, and a lovely trail.

Always a great place to camp, ride, fish and hike.

Always enjoy horseback riding at Cedar Lake. Multiple well marked trails. For the first time on last campout, the horse manure was stacked across from out campsite E012 which resulted in a real fly problem and smell.

Everything about the campsites were outstanding as usual. Was disappointed that only one of both the toilets and showers were available in the men's bathroom. My friend that was with me sprained his ankle the first night ( so we thought). Turns out he broke it! We had quite a time getting him to the bathrooms to take care of business. Outside of this, Everything was great!

Campground was clean and equestrian trails were well marked and beautiful. I did not want to leave.

While we overall had a good time on a group camp outing, it was due to our inventiveness and camaraderie, not the facilities. I was told just six months from the COVID shutdown that the Group Campsites were being renovated and were not available. We went to a Group site at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge instead. This year we returned to Cedar Lake Recreation Area and found that nothing had been touched in two years. Indeed, a degraded sign on the restroom (chemical toilet)
door said that it was out of order. From the condition of the sign, I'd say it's been out of order for a long time. Three weeks before I had inspected the site and questioned the state of the toilet and was told that we would have to use other restrooms about a ten-minute walk away. Or drive to one. The restroom in the equestrian area was the easiest for us in the daytime, with hot water showers. That was nice. But the commode doors, all of them, latches are broken and are held closed by duct tape.

The last day we hiked into the Kerr Arboretum. It has been abandoned for years. Wooden signage is splitting apart, bridges rotting. That doesn't happen in just a few months. Overall very disappointed in the deteriorating condition of the two areas in which we interacted.