Aloha State Park

The ramp sits in a narrow inlet off Mullett Lake, and by midsummer it's absolutely choked with weeds. You'll spend as much time pulling vegetation off your hull, prop, and trailer bunks as you did loading. It gets worse as the season goes on — early June is fine, late July is a jungle.

The inlet water looks pretty gross — green, filmy, and uninviting — but the tradeoff is that you're completely protected from crosswinds. On a big blow day when Mullett Lake is kicking up whitecaps, this is one of the few launches where loading and unloading stays manageable.

The ramp drops off quick. Deeper-draft boats (28"+) won't have issues getting off the trailer, but the steepness makes it tricky to power-load on retrieval. You'll want someone on the bow line guiding you back on, especially if the bunks are slicked up with weed slime.

This ramp is inside the state park, so you're sharing it with every camper who brought a boat. Midweek in peak season the campground is still packed wall to wall, and you can easily wait behind three or four trailers. Weekday mornings before 9 AM are your best window — weekends are a circus.

35 trailer spots sounds decent, but when the campground is full, those spots go fast. If you're not camping and just coming in for a day trip, get there early or you'll be circling. There's no real overflow option once the lot fills up.