Do you like to swim in the summer time?

There is a local river near us that we go to on occasion...but not as often as we'd like because it is a bit of a drive to get there (30-45 minutes from our house) and it is often crowded. We have to drive up to an hour or a little more to get to the more remote areas of it and then there is no guarantees that it won't be crowded there too when we have heat waves. There are a couple of small lakes in our area but they are usually packed with people in the summer too.