The Oberlin Country Day Camp on the west side of Baird Rd just north of Bates Rd, Kipton. This popular activity for children was built in 1954 and is still going strong today as Common Ground, which features canopy tours in the treetops with platforms, rope bridges and zip-lines. Yes, those little saplings in the photo are mighty 80-100 foot trees today!

The round pool in this photo was the deeper diving pool and the rectangular pool was for swimming. A basketball court is at the back. There was a wading pool added later. The pools fell into disrepair and were removed about 5 years ago. The two cabins are still there and in use today, and that turnaround is right where the central tree with its winding stairway is today. You can see it in the "canopy tours" section of their website:
http://commongroundcenter.org/

The original location of the camp was the Don Campbell farm on Parsons Rd (54-MLO-27) It moved to this Baird Rd site in 1956.

Correction: the wading pool is in the photo, barely visible in the foreground. The diving pool was an addition, but I don't recall when.

Eric, I think the wading pool was built where that concrete walk is along the left edge and front edge of the main pool. I got that information from the present owners who sketched it for me but I could have misunderstood.

The archives at the Oberlin College library have a thick folder on the camp including hundreds of photos of the "tribes" of children each year. I have a number of close up photos taken at the camp but none show the pool any better then this photo.

I don't see, or remember, any concrete wall. In the photo, the sidewalk toward the left from the top of the circle enters the pool area through the south fence, and the wading pool is off to the right. It's only partially visible in the picture because it was so shallow. My family was blessed to spend many summers there. It'd be nice to have some solid history of those days. I'm sure we have some of the same tribe photos which are at the library. Perhaps we should start a OCDC historical society. :)

A sidewalk, not a wall. Maybe we are talking about the same thing. The wading pool as I understand it was directly beside the concrete deck around the rectangular pool. In the left front corner of the main pool. In this photo it appears to be a dirt area about 5 feet wide running along two sides of the pool with some shrubs planted in it. That was dug out and lined with concrete to make the wading pool.

I actually made a formal application to the curator at Oberlin to use a few photos for an article I was going to write for Dan Brady's Lorain County blog http://danielebrady.blogspot.com/ . I'm pretty sure one of the photos showed the pools in a closeup but I never heard back from them. I can't go there now to check as it is closed to the public at the moment.

Ha! My bad, yes the walk. The wading pool is in this photo, just not very dark. I remember swimming in it the first time I was at the pool, I'm guessing around 1960. I'm pretty sure it was part of the original pool built. The photo is also interesting in that I don't see the (2) diving boards. This leads me to believe that the photo was taken at the time of the expansion. The basketball court was added at the same time if my memory serves correctly.