Glenn Cunningham Lake

This is the closest lake to our home so we have been here a lot. Usually we come here to fish and we have ran the trail a couple of times. The fishing isn’t the best but we catch a lot of baby rock bass and baby crappie but always throw them back. My husband caught a good size bass one time and I’ve caught a walleye that was a good size.
Today we went fishing with our sons and on the walk to our usual spot it literally smelt like feces. It was disgusting. When we got settled and started fishing I started to notice all the trash! It was all over the place. It irritates me a lot that people don’t have respect for their surroundings. There were countless beer bottles and cans, a mystery bag that was abandoned and even a shoe in the water. A shoe! Some people…
Needless to say we literally caught nothing after two hours so we just went home. The whole area smelt HORRIBLE today and the water was pretty green when it usually isn’t. I really hope this place gets cleaned up or I won’t be back.

I wouldn’t suggest staying here at all, I just didn’t like the surroundings or anything they had to offer. The bathrooms were constantly trashed and not taken care of. People were not respectful of others at night time.
You can rent water boards over by the beach that is run by a differnt company and i would say is the only thing they really offer here. You can not swim in the lake or the cops will be called.
The cops would come and clear the lake and not even 10 minutes after they would leave the lake would be full again. They would probably make a profit if they treated the lake and let people swim in it. The lake is huge i mean come on already. I should have just went to two rivers and had a better time. Now I know for next time. I wont come back here to camp.

This could be a fantastic lake and all-​recreational area. All it needs is some decent maintenance. Except for the week leading up to the Omaha Triathlon (July), it seems Omaha Parks & Rec pretty much ignores this place.
For example, the beach could easily be expanded and lined with fine grain sand. As it now stands, it’s overgrown with weeds and full of jagged rocks. People use the beach every day during the summer, so the demand is definitely there.
I also love that there’s a disc golf course here — what a potentially great use of the land — but it’s also in sad shape (i.e., overgrown and missing about 10 baskets).
The lake itself is the big draw, of course. On Labor Day, it was bustling with activity: kids swimming, old dudes fishing or other folks out on kayaks and sail boats. I could see a lot more people enjoying this park regularly with a few minor improvements and consistent maintenance. I mean I know they drained the entire thing, cleaned it up and refilled it. Let’s invest a little more time and effort and make Cunningham one of the best parks in the city — it could easily be done.