Is Clearwater quarry still open?

Not sure but can you fish there, or have an address/location?

Didnt they build million dollar houses around that and privatize it? Or am I thinking of something else.

I'm not sure if its still open....but man, I've got some great memories (circa 1988) from that place. 18 years old, at the peak of fitness, fresh out of high school, coolers full of beer (and a blind eye to underage drinking), hot chicks, hoops, volleyball, and a dip in the quarry. Good times, good times.

My clearwater "Story"...

If I remember right, (late 70's, early 80's)

You came in the gate, and on that side of the water there was some kind of beach where you could walk right in to the water.

But if you circled around the water and went to the back side of the water (where the partyin' was), you could jump off the rocks into the water, and to get out, the rocks formed kind of a natural stairs that you could easily get back up to the top on.

Unless you're as drunk as I was, that is!!

I got almost up to the top, slipped on the rocks, and bam, bam, bam, splash - I bounced down the rocky stairs and into the water. Right in front of the whole 'gang' that was with me...

Like many drunken idiots, God must've been watching out for me, because I was completely unhurt!! Had some bruises the next day, but my skin wasnt even scratched!! What my friends couldnt see was there was a submerged rock that I could sit on that when sitting on it, my head and shoulders were out of the water, and I'd pulled up onto that, and was just sitting there catching my breath...

All of a sudden, there were about 4 splashes all around me, from my friends jumping in to come to my rescue - remember, Im both unhurt, and inebriated...

The first one to get to me was a gal pal, who in her rush to help me, dove in head first, and swam right over... And what happens when bikini clad chicks dive in to water head first??? Her top came down, but must've provided enough support underneath that she didnt notice that both her AMOF's (alabaster mounds of flesh) were out in plain view.

She got up to me and is like - "Oh my gosh - are you OK, are you ok??? And being the moron I was, I started laughing and pointed out the issue(s)...

Lesson for that day: If you scare a chick into thinking you're hurt, the LAST thing you want to do if you're really not hurt is laugh at her!! Tends to piss em off!!

30 years later,she's married to the guy she was there with that day, we're all still friends, and that story comes up once in a while, and she STILL laughs and says "Oh you were SUCH an Asshole!! I thought you were Dead!!"

LOL, good story billy.

GRRREAT STORY, Billy. I can almost hear the Nugent/Skynyrd/Frampton in the background and faint smell of "burning leaves" in the air.....I bet Little King's was drink of choice that day too.

I had a buddy, inebriated, who fell off of one of those floating rafts at Clearwater.....thought he was going to the bottom. Too bad that story didn't involve AMOFs.

Rumor has it, in the early 70's before he hit it big, Bob Seger played there a few times. Think it's true?

You know you’re a Midwesterner when: You learned to swim in a quarry.

Great story Billy!

I never went to clearwater, but i used to go to rockland all the time. I remember they finally had to ban kegs because they kept tossing them in the water after that we'd see people working like an assembly line bring in cases and cases and cases etc.

Swantucky....that is "The Quarry"...nowhere near Clearwater. Clearwater is still there (near Stoney Ridge/Genoa), but I don't know if its open for business.

Offshore, I see your point, but really.....did ANY of us learn to swim in a virtually bottomless quarry? lol. Thanks god for pools and inland lakes.

You know what I'm sayin...and you HAD to swim, no shallow wading!

Being a BGSU student, we actually went to Portage quarry more often - http://www.portagequarry.com/

Any yes Weakskd, you got the music right, plus some Doobies/allman bros thrown in.

And burning leaves? Mmmm... yeah.... there was that...

Oh, and yeah, Seger played there. So'd Ted Nugent, back in the day when they were just getting started. That was all about 10 years before my time - ie, late 60's early 70's...

Great memories of Clearwater, beer, weed, babes; non-stop good times. I remember Seger playing there and Kato's on the east side.

After working the night shift, getting off work at 8:00 am, grab a case of brew, and head out to Clearwater. Man the memories are fresh. You had to make your way to the backside of the quarry. That's where all the fun was to be had.

Clearwater quarry is still open on genoa rd. the price to get in went up of course. But krazykat is right all the FUN is still at the back of the quarry!