Its a nice beach to spend time. The climate is simply superb. Nice place spend time with family and friends

Shades Beach has been renovated and looks amazing. One side of the beach has a sandy beach with plenty of room for swimming, laying out and having fun with your friends and family. The other side has boat ramps and docks for loading and unloading your boats. Also, you can have fun with your Jet Skis here as well. Easy access for everything. Plus the Park up by the parking lot has Pavilions and playgrounds with plenty of space. I highly recommend not passing up on this awesome spot on Lake Erie in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania.

My lil boy had a blast on the parks playground.... It was beautiful and well kept.... Very clean! & theres a beautiful sceneic are to go hiking up near the cliffs @ the lake as well

The playground area is great for kids to burn a lot of energy and theyll have a blast doing it. The shore lines boat launches are a well added benefit but walking out the tiny peninsula is a wonderful time. The area offers some very amazing views.

Why do I love this place? Because I got engaged here! It was a lovely beach. Beautiful landscape and it was pretty tucked away which meant there was little traffic.

The park and the playground are always nice. There are some nice trails here, too... especially up at the scenic overlook. The beach is not always clean and sometimes has a lot of dead fish. The boat launch area is very nice. We always enjoy our visits!

Great find! A sandy beach. Playground. Grassy areas. Well maintained. Clean. Pleasant all around

First time here. Went for a benifit. Good size parking lot. Looked well maintained.

Very calm and relaxing place to visit, wonderful boat/kayak launch area. Family friendly.

This beach is small and sweet. Timeless feel and really beautiful driftwood arranged like art among the sand. Perfect to watch a sunset from or stop for a summer stroll whilst on route 5.

Shades is a nice beach but you have to park and walk. and there is a big hill so if you cant walk far then this is probably not the beach for you. There is a boat ramp to put boats in, and it always draws a busy crowd on weekends.

Though the beach is vary small but its Good place to sit and play for kids with lovely view

Great little beach. Lots of drift wood on the beach but was a good spot to relax for the day

Clean and well maintained. Nice for sunset too.

They built up the beach nicer now .check it out

Nice hidden little beach. No lifeguards but nice just to listen to the waves

Awesome place to relax...well cleaned & maintained restrooms...

Right off route 5 in harborcreek, plenty of free parking, nice playground and pavilion for picnics...nice beach lots of sand drift wood and beach glass.

Beautiful views of the lake. Not safe to swim, but can bring your boat.

Great park! Make sure you check out the trail up the little bluff on the back half of the beach, the view up top is awesome. Playground and pavillions are great for kids, too.

Very nice place for relaxing. No swimming.

It is such a nice, friendly, family beach. If everybody would only take pictures make memories, but leave only footprints

Not bad. No Life Guards though. Clean and had Fun.

Great beach and place to view the sunset. There is a nice playground boat launch or a place to set up in the beach.

Great spot to toss the kayaks in for a nice lake paddle

Great place to watch the sun set & score awesome driftwood.

My family and friends had so much fun!!!

Nice park great place to put boats in

Very nice beach and access area to Lake Erie. Definitely family friendly

Nice beach, playground, boat launch, with a short hiking trail along the cliff.

Beautiful at sunset, plus really relaxing place to go fishing.

Not too many ppl beautiful scenery nice spot on lake

Watched a beautiful sunset

Absolutely Beautiful thereWatched the Storm come across the Lake.

Good place to skip rocks and to take your boat. the beach itself is too cluttered to really be enjoyable, but its not too crowded with people.

Clean, cute fall display, great for pictures

Beautiful park, great playground! Clean and in great condition. Most of all fun

Beautiful on a nice calm day and great picnic place and park for children to play

2 different bathroom facilities are open for the public

Clean, great playground, nonswimming beach access. Picnic facilities and flushing toilets. Short hiking trails. Lots if flowers.

Had not been there in years, pleasantly surprised by all the improvements. Hill to the beach seems much steeper than when I was a kid.

Water is shallow enough for small kids but gets deeper for the more experienced swimmer.

Beautiful place nice boat launch & decent picnic area but definitely not a place to swim. Ok for fishing.

Shades Beach Its a Wonderful Hidden Gem on the east side

Nothing great could do a lot better.

Great place to watch the sun set.

People are still flying around in cars and going down hill to beach. Not following rules. Ruins ours experience.

Good vibe and fun for the famliy

Great launch for kayaking, beautiful! Wow!!!

Nice launch but busy

They need better parking for the beach and a walk path going up to the main parking area. Park is great for children and very adequate facilities for throwing parties.

Another great park in Harborcreek. Great place to bring the kids to play on a playground or to comb for beach glass.

Nice place lots of boats

Nice beach and picnic pavilions

Wasnt full of people, nice...however the smell of dead fish and seaweed was quite strong today.

Not dog friendly but a cute local beach and huge picnic area. Great if you dont want to go all the way to the west side or battle the crowds at the Peninsula.

Great place to take pictures of sunsets

Love the place. Waitresses awesome. You cant beat the scenery down by the bay. Food was good.

Love the sunsets here! They are wide open and very scenic! The beach has a very large area to walk with all kinds of backgrounds for pictures! A playground, a picnic area, restrooms and even grills!

Great service

Wonderful sunset!

On lake erie

The lake was beautiful

Great little local beach. Warnings posted about swimming becuase of sharp shale cliffs but it is a good time

Nice place to walk. Picturesque shoreline

We accessed the beach from the boat launch. Private and quiet in September. Picnic area with pavilions and playground for children, although no view from the beach in that area.

Great trails and pavilions

Rocked the monkeybars.

Dirtiest beach I have seen , I think local tax payers deserve cleaner beach !

Signs say you arent supposed to swim here and there is a lot of debris around. Pretty, and theres a boat launch, but not a place to spend the day at the beach

First time there went to a large party there it was roomy and clean play ground for kids a short walk or drive to Lake Erie.

Simply awesome!

Its beautiful

Very nice and calm place

I was surprised at how nice it was. Bigger Beach area than I thought and a very nice park with Pavilions and playgrounds for the kids.

It was a nice place but the algae in the water was bad and the water was gross and smelled really bad but im sure that its not like that all the time but we probably just came at the wrong time. The park itself was nice and kept up well and a large park for kids as well as trails and paths leading to an overlook of the lake.

Very nice beach ️

Awesome place for picnics and cookouts. You can swim at the beach and they have a bot launch.

The beach has a lot of rocks in the sand, but the sunsets are good.

Great place to get beach glass

Super fun

The beach was full of dead fish and even a small dog or some other animal. Litter and trash everywhere. The smell was sickening. It is a beach I get it.

Great boat launch into lake Erie, caught a lot of walleye, good fishing spot

Love the privacy here.well kept for the most part.After winter its a little cluttered but that can be fixed.

Nice beach. Though a couple of big dead fish

Sigh. Weve been blessed!

A couple of large pavilions available for reservations. As well as some public picnic tables. You can go for a scenic walk on the beach or play in the childrens playground. It really is a great place to have a reunion, event, or picnic.

Nice place to have a picnic,.or party.

I like this place

Beautiful views. Kinda sketchy after the sun goes down.

A place to check out...

My cousin and I like to go down to the lake at the Shades Beach access to walk and look for beach glass. Its so peaceful and serene, all our troubles disappear.

Nice for boats not really a good swimming area.

Good place

Love this place

Its beautiful but do much trash everywhere!! Yuk

Beautiful as always

Another limit of Walleye by 7:30

Beautiful place to watch sunset

Lovely