How is the swimming? Is the lake bottom sandy?
The lake bottom is sandy and the swimming is great, although you do have to wade out a good ways before it is deep enough. You may like to know that Oneida Lake is not a crystal clear lake. It is a eutrophic lake which means that it has a rich biome…lots of aquatic life, both animal and plant. Consequently, the lake will have occasional algae blooms that make the water cloudy and there is often more plant material washed up along the shore than in a deep rock-bottom lake. It has always been this way and the area is filled every summer with happy vacationers cooling off in the lake; many who have been returning for twenty years or more. It is also what makes this such a terrific fishing lake.
