Boating

Sandbanks River Country Campground

70 RV Sites, 6 Cabins, 8 Tent Sites, 3 Cottages

Sandbanks River Country Campground in Prince Edward County, Ontario, offers 70 full-hookup RV sites, nine cabin and cottage units, and eight tent sites on the Outlet River, with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 48 feet behind a gated entrance. A dedicated 30-amp waterfront category joins 30 and 50-amp full-hookup tiers, with boat docks, kayak rentals, and a beach. Seventy back-in sites run in 30-amp full hookup, 30-amp full hookup waterfront, and 50-amp full hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 48 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Accessible sites are available, and the waterfront category is worth requesting early. Nine cabins and cottages and eight tent sites round out the lodging. A laundry, propane exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Boat docks, boat rentals, and kayak rentals open the river for boating, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding, and fishing, with a beach on the property. A recreation center, sports courts, volleyball, horseshoes, a playground, and picnicking fill the grounds. Pets are welcome. The Outlet River connects to East Lake here, and Sandbanks Provincial Park's internationally recognized freshwater sand dunes and barrier beach are close by. Prince Edward County has become one of Ontario's most celebrated wine and culinary destinations over the past two decades, with tasting rooms and farm restaurants throughout. Summer is decisively the season in Ontario, with the harvest drawing a strong September and October. Reserve well ahead for July and August.

from $48/night

Shady Shores RV Resort & Campground

6 RV Sites

Shady Shores RV Resort and Campground in Sterling, New York, delivers waterfront camping along the south shore of Lake Ontario and the Blind Sodus Bay inlet in Cayuga County's lakefront countryside — a resort with breathtaking Great Lake views in the Sterling and Fair Haven area that has served as a favorite destination for families and friends seeking the specific combination of Lake Ontario's open-water beauty, the Fair Haven Beach State Park's sandy shoreline, and the world-class trophy trout and salmon fishing that the lake's cold, deep waters produce in the remarkable fishery that has made the Lake Ontario south shore one of the premier sport fishing destinations in the Great Lakes system. The resort's bay and lake frontage gives guests the multi-aspect waterfront experience — the protected Blind Sodus Bay for calm-water recreation and the open Lake Ontario shoreline for the full Great Lake experience. RV sites and camping accommodations with the shoreline positioning on Lake Ontario and Blind Sodus Bay give guests the comprehensive waterfront access that the Sterling-Fair Haven corridor provides for boating, swimming, fishing, and the specific sunrise-over-the-lake experience that a western New York Great Lakes shore campground delivers on clear mornings when the lake's unobstructed northeastern horizon lights the water in the specific quality of Great Lakes dawn light. The resort's decades of serving returning family guests reflect the depth of loyalty that a well-positioned waterfront campground sustains from year to year. Pets are welcome. Lake Ontario's sport fishery is one of the most productive trophy trout and salmon fisheries in North America — a legacy of the Great Lakes restoration programs that began stocking chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead rainbow trout, brown trout, and lake trout into the lake system in the 1960s and 1970s, creating a sport fishery where the open-lake trolling for chinook salmon in the summer months and the bay and stream steelhead runs in fall and spring sustain a charter boat industry of significant regional scale. The Wayne and Cayuga County Lake Ontario ports — Sodus Point, Fair Haven, Port Ontario — provide the charter fleet access to open-water fishing that produces the trophy catches that the Great Lakes sport fishing industry specifically markets to anglers from across the northeastern United States and Ontario. Fair Haven Beach State Park, two miles west of the resort in Cayuga County, preserves a mile of Lake Ontario sand beach and the Sodus Bay inlet's bay beach in a state park that gives public access to the shoreline that private resort development has claimed along most of the Lake Ontario south shore. The park's swimming beach, pier fishing access, and the dune-backed natural beach character give families the public waterfront complement to the resort's private amenity infrastructure. Shady Shores RV Resort and Campground operates through the upstate New York camping season from spring through fall, with the summer months from mid-June through Labor Day representing the peak family camping demand and the spring and fall fishing seasons for steelhead and brown trout drawing the angling-focused visitor market that extends the resort's effective season into April through May and September through October. The Erie Canal's cultural and cycling tourism, accessible 20 miles south via the Cayuga County trail network, gives the resort's inland neighbors a heritage tourism dimension that complements the lakefront recreation. Reserve sites well ahead for summer holiday weekends and the July salmon-fishing peak when Ontario south shore accommodation fills from the New York and Ontario markets.

from $35/night

Fair Point Marina

1 Cottage

Fair Point Marina in Fair Haven, New York, offers cottage accommodations and full-hookup sites at a working marina on Little Sodus Bay, with boat docks, boat storage, a beach, on-site dining, and live music. The natural harbor opens onto Lake Ontario's southern shore in one of the region's most protected anchorages. Cottage lodging and full-hookup sites serve guests, with laundry, a dump station, restrooms, showers, and a general store handling the practical side. WiFi reaches the property, and a clubhouse rounds out the facilities. Boat storage is available — genuinely useful at a property where most guests arrive with a boat or intend to spend their days on one. Pets are welcome. The marina is the identity here. Boat docks give direct access to Little Sodus Bay and out to Lake Ontario, with boating, fishing, and swimming from the property and a beach on site. On-site dining and live music create a waterfront resort atmosphere rooted in the boating and lakeside social culture that Fair Haven has sustained since the nineteenth century. Biking runs from the area, with a state park, golf course, wine tasting, and skiing all nearby. Fair Haven sits in Cayuga County, where the natural harbor that has sheltered Great Lakes boaters for generations meets one of the Finger Lakes region's most naturally beautiful freshwater coastal communities. The boating season is short and concentrated on Lake Ontario. Summer is decisively the peak — reserve well ahead for July and August.

from $189/night

Sun Outdoors Association Island

209 RV Sites, 10 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites, 5 Cottages, 17 Lodges, 2 Park Models

Sun Outdoors Association Island in Henderson, New York, offers 209 full-hookup RV sites, 34 cabin, cottage, lodge, and park model units, and four tent sites on a 65-acre private island, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 65 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Elite waterfront pull-in and lakefront sunset pull-through categories join deluxe lake view tiers, with a marina, boat ramp, and fishing guides. Two hundred nine sites span deluxe lake view back-in, elite pull-thru, elite waterfront pull-in, lakefront sunset pull-thru, and limited lake view back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 65 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Naming a category "lakefront sunset" tells you exactly what you are paying for. Thirty-four cabins, cottages, lodges, and park models and four tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The resort is open mid-May through mid-October, with most planned activities and the pool running in peak summer. A marina, boat ramp, boat docks, boat rentals, kayak rentals, fishing pier, and on-site fishing guides open Lake Ontario for boating, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing. An outdoor pool, clubhouse, game room, arcade, craft room, sports courts, basketball, corn hole, golf cart rentals, walking trails, and a playground fill the rest. An entire island reached by private bridge, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where the Thousand Islands begin. The season is short. Reserve well ahead.

from $44/night

Shady Acres Cottage & RV Resort

Shady Acres Cottage & RV Resort has served as a beloved Rice Lake family destination for over 30 years from its prime position along the northern shore of one of the Kawarthas' most scenic and fish-rich lakes. With more than 300 full-service campsites including waterfront locations, a heated pool, cottage rentals, and full marina services for boating guests, Shady Acres delivers the complete Kawarthas cottage country experience in a campground setting accessible to the broadest range of Ontario outdoor enthusiasts. On-site recreation covers an impressive range: horseshoe pits with regular Sunday tournaments, shuffleboard courts, basketball, a children's playground, and a heated pool provide the daily activity framework, while dances on long weekends, bingo, a kids' fishing tournament in June, Halloween Night in July, annual fireworks, a golf tournament in August, Monte Carlo night, and a September corn roast fill the social calendar with the community events that keep shady acres' core of returning campers planning their next visit before the current one ends. A general store, laundry, security gates, and clean washrooms and showers handle the practical side of a longer stay. Boat, motor, and dock rentals, a boat launch, and complimentary fish freezing ensure Rice Lake anglers are fully equipped. All RV sites feature 30-amp service, water, and sewer. Pets are welcome. Rice Lake itself is the resort's defining natural feature — a large, shallow, island-dotted lake that is one of the premier walleye and muskie fisheries in Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region. The lake's natural productivity and its position on the Trent-Severn Waterway make it a destination for anglers and boaters who use shady acres keene as a home base for extended water-based exploration. Lang Pioneer Village Museum, a short drive from the resort, preserves 19th-century Ontario rural life in an open-air village setting with costumed interpreters, historic buildings, and operating traditional trades. Hopes Mill Conservation Area and the Warsaw Caves provide geological and natural history interest close to camp. Peterborough, the Kawartha Lakes' largest urban center, offers dining, shopping, and the Canadian Canoe Museum — one of the country's most unique heritage institutions celebrating the canoe's central role in Canadian identity — within 30 minutes of Shady Acres. Shady Acres Cottage & RV Resort is open through the Ontario camping season, with peak demand falling June through August when Rice Lake's warm summer temperatures and the resort's social calendar are simultaneously in full swing. Seasonal sites are held by returning families year after year, so book overnight and weekly stays early — shady acres resort's reputation in the Kawarthas has created a loyal clientele that ensures summer availability is genuinely competitive.

Willows on the Lake

25 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites, 1 House

Willows on the Lake in Adams, New York, offers 25 RV sites, a house rental, and four tent sites on a lake with a beach and fishing pier in Jefferson County, carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp service with cable TV and rigs accepted to 80 feet. Sites run from 20-amp water-and-electric back-ins to full-hookup pull-throughs, 45 minutes from the Thousand Islands. Twenty-five sites span 20-amp water-and-electric back-ins, 30-amp back-ins and pull-throughs, and full-hookup back-in and pull-through configurations with water, sewer, and electric, sized to 80 feet, with cable TV, site WiFi, and picnic tables. A house rental and cabins serve guests without a rig, and four tent sites cover simpler camping. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The lake carries the recreation. A beach gives swimmers direct access, a fishing pier serves anglers, and boating runs from the property. Sports courts, a playground, and a clubhouse fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Adams sits on NY-11 south of Watertown, between the Tug Hill Plateau's upland forest and the Lake Ontario plain. The Thousand Islands region is 45 minutes away, and the Black River valley carries additional outdoor recreation. Directions from the west, south, and east: from the NY Thruway take Exit 36 toward Syracuse, I-81 north to Exit 41 (Route 178) for Adams/Henderson, right onto Route 178 to Route 72, then about two miles to the stop sign and right, following the signs. The park runs the northern New York season, with summer lake recreation driving peak demand. Reserve ahead for July and August weekends.

from $54/night

Bedford Creek Campground

2 RV Sites

On the eastern basin of Lake Ontario in Sackets Harbor, New York—in Jefferson County where the lake's broad freshwater expanse, the historic War of 1812 battlefield village, and the St. Lawrence River's Thousand Islands corridor create the maritime and historical landscape of the eastern Great Lakes—Bedford Creek Campground and Marina provides 204 RV sites with full hookup and water and electric options on 57 acres, a sheltered marina with more than 50 boat slips, a gas dock and boat motor repair, a private sandy beach, boat rentals, a boat launch, a camp store, a pizza and sandwich shop, mini-golf, horseshoes, cabins accommodating up to 8 people, and WiFi, in a combined campground-and-marina operation whose Lake Ontario position, protected marina, and sandy beach create the complete freshwater lakeside destination that the Jefferson County Great Lakes community has built its summer recreation around since the shores of the eastern basin became accessible by road. The marina has 50 slips. The beach is sandy. The lake is Lake Ontario. The 204-site campground's full hookup positions and water-and-electric sites accommodate the range from the seasonal resident whose slip and site are adjacent to the through-traveler whose Lake Ontario circuit includes a Sackets Harbor overnight. Two dump stations serve the campground's RV population across the 57-acre property. The sheltered marina's 50-plus slips provide the protected berth that Lake Ontario's weather patterns demand—the eastern basin's exposure to the prevailing westerlies makes the sheltered harbor's protection genuinely functional rather than simply convenient. The gas dock, boat motor repair, and boat rentals cover the marina service and rental needs for the guest arriving without a vessel. The private sandy beach provides the Lake Ontario swimming access, and the pizza and sandwich shop, camp store, mini-golf, and horseshoes create the on-property food and recreation that the family campground's daytime activity requires between marina excursions. Sackets Harbor sits in Jefferson County at the eastern end of Lake Ontario's south shore, in the historic village where the Battle of Sackets Harbor in May 1813 repelled a British amphibious assault on the American naval shipbuilding facility—the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site preserves the earthworks, the picketed Navy Yard, and the 1817 Union Hotel in the compact waterfront village that the Jefferson County Battlefield Commission has maintained since the 1930s. The village's 19th-century architecture, waterfront dining, and the lakefront park created the character that makes Sackets Harbor one of the most complete small lakefront communities on the American side of the eastern Great Lakes. The Thousand Islands region, 25 miles northeast via NY-12E along the St. Lawrence River, provides the 1,864-island archipelago between the United States and Canada that the St. Lawrence Seaway's international waterway bisects—the river cruises from Clayton and Alexandria Bay, the Boldt Castle's Rhineland castle on Heart Island, and the Thousand Islands Bridge's international crossing create the most distinctive freshwater island landscape in the eastern United States. Watertown, 15 miles south on I-81, provides the Jefferson County regional service infrastructure and the access to Fort Drum's military community that drives the campground's extended-stay demand. Bedford Creek Campground operates seasonally through the Lake Ontario summer and early fall, with the Memorial Day through Labor Day window covering the primary boating and beach season and the September bass and walleye fishing peak on Lake Ontario extending the productive season through the fall. Reserve your site, slip, or cabin at Bedford Creek and let the Lake Ontario marina, the private sandy beach, and the Sackets Harbor battlefield village deliver the eastern Great Lakes freshwater experience that Jefferson County's historic harbor provides.

from $65/night

Woodland Park

3 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites

At Woodland Park in Sauble Beach, Ontario—on the Bruce Peninsula where Lake Huron's freshwater coast produces the seven-mile continuous natural sand beach that makes Sauble Beach the most visited freshwater beach community in Canada, a short walk from the campground's entrance—Woodland Park provides more than 770 campsites including 155 overnight and transient sites, 575 seasonal sites, and 20 tent sites, alongside an indoor heated pool and hot tub, two playgrounds, supervised children's activities, a recreation center, beach access, boat docks, boat ramp, a dog park, and the complete amenity infrastructure that a 770-site campground in one of Canada's most popular Lake Huron beach communities develops when the summer season fills to capacity with the Ontario camping families who have been making Sauble Beach a generational tradition for decades. The seven-mile beach, the indoor pool, and the supervised children's programming together define what families return to Woodland Park for year after year. All overnight and transient sites at Woodland Park include a large cement patio, picnic table, and fire ring on paved roads, with free cable television at every site. The paved road and cement patio infrastructure provide the clean, durable site surface that a 770-site property with high summer turnover requires to maintain the quality standard that repeat-visitor families arrive expecting. Clean washrooms and showers distributed through the property serve the hygiene infrastructure at the site density the campground maintains. Free WiFi provides the connectivity. Two- and three-bedroom trailer rentals—stocked with dishes, plates, pots, pans, glasses, cutlery, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, and television with free cable—serve the families who want the Sauble Beach camping experience without bringing their own equipment, providing the fully outfitted domestic setup that makes a week at the beach practical regardless of the gear situation at home. Sauble Beach's seven-mile freshwater sand beach—a short walk from Woodland Park's gate—is the largest and longest freshwater beach in Canada and one of the longest natural sand beaches in North America, stretching in a continuous arc of clean quartz sand between the Lake Huron shoreline and the beach communities that have grown up behind it since the early 20th century when the Bruce Peninsula's sand beaches became accessible by road. The lake's shallow, gradually sloping sandy bottom provides the safest swimming conditions in any large Canadian beach community, and the clear, freshwater character eliminates the ocean beach concerns that parents with young children at saltwater beaches manage. The Bruce Peninsula extending north from Sauble Beach contains some of the most ecologically significant and visually dramatic natural landscapes in Ontario: the Bruce Peninsula National Park's Georgian Bay shoreline, the Fathom Five National Marine Park's shipwrecks and clear-water diving, and the Niagara Escarpment's limestone cliffs and alvars that create the specific karst terrain that supports rare orchids and the migratory birds that use the peninsula's narrow land bridge as a concentration point during fall migration. Woodland Park is open seasonally through Ontario's summer camping calendar from May through October. Sauble Beach's peak season runs from Canada Day weekend in July through the August civic holiday when the beach fills with the Ontario cottage-and-camping population that converts the seven-mile shore into the most socially animated freshwater beach scene in the province. Reserve transient sites well in advance for July and August, claim the patio space on arrival, and let Lake Huron's seven-mile sand beach earn the Sauble Beach reputation that Ontario families pass from parents to children as reliably as any summer tradition in the province.

from $40/night

Red's Twilight on the Erie RV Resort

61 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 2 Tent Sites

Red's Twilight on the Erie RV Resort in Macedon, New York, offers 61 full-hookup RV sites, four cabins, and two tent sites along the historic Erie Canal, with 30 and 50-amp service behind a gated entrance. Back-in, pull-through, and pull-through buddy sites carry water, sewer, and electric, with an outdoor pool, kayak rentals, and direct Erie Canal Trail access. Sixty-one sites run in back-in, pull-through, and pull-through buddy configurations — the buddy sites suiting parties traveling together — all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, with fire pits and picnic tables. Four cabins and two tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, and a gated entrance controls access. The canal is the recreation. The Erie Canal Trail runs directly from the resort for cycling and walking, kayak rentals put guests on the water, and a lake and pond on the property support fishing and boating. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with an arcade, playground, pavilion, and corn hole filling the grounds. Wine and beer tasting is nearby in the Finger Lakes. Pets are welcome. Macedon sits in Wayne County on the Erie Canal's western section. The 363-mile canal, built between 1817 and 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and opened the continental interior to trade — the most ambitious engineering project of early America. The corridor now carries one of the most comprehensive canal-trail cycling networks in the Northeast, with Rochester and the Finger Lakes wine region both close. The resort runs the upstate New York season. Summer cycling and canal traffic drive demand — reserve ahead for July and August weekends.

from $55/night

O'Reilly Lake Resort

9 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 17 Tent Sites, 3 Cottages

At 1091 O'Reilly Lake Lane in Mountain Grove, Ontario—in the Township of Central Frontenac where the Canadian Shield's ancient granite and the spring-fed lakes of the Frontenac Axis create the cottage-country landscape that the rural communities between Kingston and Haliburton have built their outdoor recreation identity around—O'Reilly Lake Resort, a Summerhill Resorts property, offers 3,500 feet of beautiful waterfront on O'Reilly Lake, a small spring-fed lake teeming with fish and featuring a small private forested island, alongside paddleboards, kayaks, pedal boats, canoes, life jackets, and hydro-bikes for cycling across the lake, an inflatable water playground, a jumping pillow, a playground, and a camp store stocked with ice, firewood, snacks, and small groceries in a pet-friendly resort whose spring-fed lake character—the clarity, the fish population, and the private island visible from the waterfront—creates the complete Canadian Shield lake experience in the Frontenac Axis's most secluded cottage-country terrain. The lake is spring-fed. There's a private island. The water toys are included. Three thousand five hundred feet of waterfront on O'Reilly Lake—the spring-fed, fish-rich lake whose clarity and forested margins create the aesthetic that the Frontenac Axis's granite-and-lake landscape produces at its best—provide the natural centerpiece for the resort's water recreation. Paddleboards, kayaks, pedal boats, canoes, and life jackets are available for guest use, and the hydro-bikes—the pedal-powered watercraft that cyclists operate across the lake's surface—provide the distinctive water recreation alternative that distinguishes O'Reilly Lake from the standard paddle-only cottage-country resort. The inflatable water playground and jumping pillow create the energetic water recreation for the younger guests whose enthusiasm for the lake needs a structured outlet beyond the canoe. A camp store with ice, firewood, snacks, and small groceries handles the daily provisioning without requiring the drive to Mountain Grove's limited commercial infrastructure. Mountain Grove sits in the Township of Central Frontenac in Frontenac County, in the rural Shield community on County Road 38 between Sharbot Lake and Arden in the granite outcrop and mixed-forest landscape that the Frontenac Arch's geological connection between the Adirondacks and the Laurentian Shield creates across southeastern Ontario. The Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve—a UNESCO-designated biosphere encompassing the Thousand Islands and the Frontenac region—protects the wildlife corridor that the granite ridges, spring-fed lakes, and forested wetlands of Central Frontenac sustain for wolves, black bears, moose, and the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence forest community's full species composition. Frontenac Provincial Park, 30 miles south near Sydenham, provides 6,000 hectares of the most remote backcountry canoeing and camping in southeastern Ontario—the park's 50-plus interior lakes connected by portage routes create the classic Canadian Shield paddle experience that the provincial park system protects without road access to the backcountry campsite positions. Kingston, 60 miles south on Highway 38 and Highway 401, provides the regional urban infrastructure, the Royal Military College, Queen's University, and the Fort Henry National Historic Site's living history interpretation of the 1812-era limestone fortification that overlooks the St. Lawrence. O'Reilly Lake Resort operates seasonally through the Ontario summer and early fall, with the Victoria Day weekend in late May through the Thanksgiving weekend in October covering the primary open period and the summer months from late June through Labour Day delivering the warmest lake conditions for swimming and the water playground. The late summer bass and walleye fishing on O'Reilly Lake, the spring bass opener in late May, and the loon observation that the spring-fed lake's clear water and forested margins support create the fishing and natural history activity across the season. Reserve your lakefront site at O'Reilly Lake Resort and let the spring-fed lake, the hydro-bikes, the private island view, and the Frontenac Shield's ancient granite landscape deliver the cottage-country Ontario experience that the Summerhill network's most secluded property provides.

Bass Lake Resort

14 RV Sites

Bass Lake Resort in Parish, New York, provides a family-oriented lakefront camping resort on a private lake in Oswego County's Great Lakes agricultural fringe, offering a complete resort recreation package of mini-golf, pool, boat docks, ball field, shuffleboard, and planned activities in a central New York lake setting approximately 10 miles inland from Lake Ontario's southern shore. The resort's private lake—insulated from motorized boat traffic and the wave action that Ontario shoreline camping produces—provides the calm-water swimming, kayaking, and small-boat recreation environment that families with young children and first-time lake campers find most comfortable and enjoyable in a campground that feels genuinely resort-like despite its upstate New York small-town surroundings. The resort's facilities cover the full family camping recreation spectrum: full hookup sites, an outdoor pool, mini-golf, a ball field, boat docks for guest watercraft, boating and canoeing and kayaking on the private lake, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, shuffleboard, a playground, pavilion, dog park, clubhouse, laundry, showers, bathrooms, dump station, and Wi-Fi create organized recreation capacity across diverse activity preferences. The private lake's protected swimming environment and the shore fishing for bass, crappie, and panfish that a stocked inland lake reliably produces round out the water recreation options for the resort's core family demographic. Planned activities and supervised events for children make the resort's social calendar active through the summer season. Parish sits in Oswego County's transition between the Tug Hill Plateau's northern escarpment and the Lake Ontario plain, a quiet agricultural community in the interior of one of New York's most scenically understated regions where apple orchards, dairy farms, and the waterfall-laced streams descending from the Tug Hill create a rural landscape character entirely different from the Adirondacks' tourist infrastructure 60 miles to the east. The surrounding Oswego County terrain's trout streams, the Great Lake salmon fishing in Salmon River—one of the most prolific fall salmon rivers on the Great Lakes—and the Lake Ontario charter fishing operations based in Pulaski collectively provide adult outdoor recreation of national significance within an hour's drive of the resort. Selkirk Shores State Park on Lake Ontario's shoreline approximately 20 miles west provides access to the Great Lake's dramatic shoreline bluff environment and the steelhead and brown trout surf fishing that Lake Ontario's tributary streams support in spring and fall. The Salmon River Reservoir north of Pulaski and the Tug Hill Plateau's vast state forest lands create backcountry hiking and wildlife watching opportunities in the ruffed grouse, wild turkey, and black bear habitat that the plateau's remote beech-maple forest preserves in an area of New York that receives less tourist attention than the Adirondack and Finger Lakes corridors but delivers genuine Upstate wilderness character. Bass Lake Resort operates seasonally from spring through fall in Oswego County's four-season Great Lakes climate, where the Lake Ontario snow belt's heavy winter snowpack eventually yields to the genuine summer warmth that fills the pool and private lake with swimmers from late June through Labor Day. The Tug Hill's snow shadow creates microclimatic conditions that can extend the Oswego County spring into late June and return fall colors by late September, and the resort's private lake environment provides the family camping experience that appeals to repeat seasonal campers who prefer the intimate small-lake atmosphere over the more complex and crowded shoreline campgrounds that Lake Ontario's recreational fishing communities attract.

from $66/night

Tiny Village Bon Echo

1 RV Site, 6 Tent Sites

Tiny Village Bon Echo offers a one-of-a-kind glamping experience in the Canadian Shield country of Ompah, Ontario — a short drive from Bon Echo Provincial Park, where the Canadian wilderness reaches its most dramatically scenic expression in the granite cliffsides, clear lakes, and ancient forest of the Madawaska Highlands. For guests seeking a uniquely designed nature retreat far from the ordinary campground, Tiny Village Bon Echo delivers an experience that begins with the accommodations themselves. Ravine Domes, Forest Villas, treehouses, and cozy cabins connect guests to the landscape in ways a conventional campsite cannot match — each unit positioned and designed to deepen the sense of immersion in the surrounding Canadian Shield forest. A Ravine Dome's built-in net hammock and panoramic natural views make sleep itself an event. Forest Villas bring three connected cabins among the trees onto a massive shared deck, where the trails to the kayak launch begin practically at the door. On-site amenities include a beach, waterfall, swimming pool, hiking trails, modern showers, a general store, propane, and dump station services, with internet available for guests who need to stay connected. Tiny village bon echo prices reflect the property's unique glamping positioning and the quality of the designed accommodations. The Canadian Shield geology surrounding Tiny Village Bon Echo is one of the most ancient and visually compelling landscapes in North America — Precambrian granite sculpted by glaciers into the lake-studded, forest-covered terrain that stretches across Ontario's vast interior. The clarity of the lakes, the silence of the forest, and the quality of the night sky in this remote part of the province make the Bon Echo experience genuinely restorative in ways that busier outdoor destinations cannot replicate. Bon Echo Provincial Park, a short drive away, is the defining natural landmark of the region — home to Mazinaw Lake and the 100-meter Mazinaw Rock, one of the largest collections of Ojibwe pictographs in Canada, with over 260 Indigenous paintings on the cliff face accessible by canoe or the park's interpretive ferry service. The rock's sheer scale — rising nearly 100 meters directly from the lake's surface — is among the most arresting natural spectacles in Ontario, and the ferry ride along its base provides a perspective impossible to replicate from the shore. Canoeing, kayaking, and swimming on Mazinaw Lake fill a full day at the park. Tiny Village Bon Echo is open through the Ontario camping season, with summer delivering peak conditions for lake swimming, paddling, and the full outdoor recreation lineup. Book domes and treehouses well in advance — demand for the most distinctive units consistently outpaces availability, and tiny village bon echo photos simply don't prepare guests for the experience of waking up inside the Canadian Shield at its most beautiful.

from $40/night