For cottage owners beside Conneaut Lake Park, the lakeshore is paradise.

It's a place they reset after tough times. "I lose one of my sons in February, and I needed to have a place where I could have some peace and get away," said cottage owner, Rhonda Jaquay. She lives in Pittsburgh full time, but uses the shores of Conneaut Lake as an escape.

For others, the small village of cottages on the beach is a reminder of a happy childhood. "We'd pack a little bag and come to the beach, and it was fantastic growing up here," Carol Anderson told Erie News Now. She and her family spent many summers at Conneaut Lake Park. 

Many homeowners have been coming to the north end of Conneaut Lake Park for years, free of charge. But, they learned Thursday they will no longer have an all-access pass to their favorite beach. If they want to spend a day on the lakeshore, it'll cost them $10. 

"That beach. That's unconscionable to take that from the general public to not allow them to walk down there without paying an access fee," said Jaquay. 

Property owners are also questioning the legality of an entrance fee to the beach. Erie News Now obtained the deed to Conneaut Lake Park. It says, in part, "For the use of the general public forever... for public access to and use of Conneaut Lake and the lake shore, for swimming and boating and the like, forever. And further, for other like and similar and related public purposes; all forever."

For Carol Anderson, she says it's not just the entrance fee that's upsetting. It's the access that's been cut off for all the north end cottages. What used to be a straight shot through the park to the Conneaut Hotel is now a rocky ride along a busy road. "We had to cross over 618 twice just to get to the hotel and the boardwalk. Not fun and around quite a few curves there on Woodland where they have been getting a lot of traffic there," said Anderson.

These long time lake goers would like to come to an agreement with the park's new owners, so family's like theirs can get back to making memories on the lakeshore.