Do many people swim at the Cedar Point beach?

Was just curious... Usually when I go to the park I will ride the rides and never really go anywhere near the beach unless I'm staying at a resort. Anyways, I was just looking at the birds eye images of CP from bing maps and that Lake Erie water just looks awful from there!

I don't swim there when I stay onpoint because the beach is pretty lame. I am 6'1". I can walk out to the bouys and the water's not up past my swimming trunks. It's hard to swim in 2 1/2 ft of water. I never thought it was nasty though and don't mind wading in the water. If I didn't stay at the resort and wanted to swim I think I would just help myself to the pools at the resort.

I've seen a lot of non-guests anchor their boats on the beach side just past the bouys and swim.

Beaches always looked empty to me....

Swimming on the Cedar Point beach was awesome as a kid. You can go way out and enjoy deep water and even body and raft surf in when the waves were right. Then, aledgedly, they hired Ellis to provide life guard "lake" training. Well, Lake Erie is a GREAT lake, not some inland puddle. If they got ocean training for the life guards they could have an awesome swimming beach again.

The lake is disgusting. No offense to those who like Lake Erie... I spend most of our time on the west side of Michigan, on Lake Michigan. Just... no... comparison.

Last year for coastermania I took my waverunner down to CP and took it out a couple times, and brought it into the beach down near Sandcastle to swap out riders. The silt was just disgusting.

Yeah, comparing the Lake Erie beach to the Lake Michigan beaches west of Grand Rapids, even the crowded ones like Grand Haven, is really no comparison at all both in terms of water quality and sand quality.

Though it's still not as gross as the people I see swimming in the Ohio River.

We've waded in thewater but never swam. I used to swim in the lake when I was a teen but my husband has been present for the retrieval of a few too many dead bodies from the lake while at work over the years so our kids aren't allowed in past their knees. We have a pool anyway and I don't remember enjoying bathing suits full of lake gunk that much. It was one of those things you put up with when you couldn't afford to swim anywhere else.