Canoeing/Kayaking

Butternut Grove Campsites

17 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Roscoe, New York, carries a single piece of fly-fishing mythology that towers over the entire Catskills: the Beaverkill River. Known as the birthplace of American dry-fly fishing, this legendary trout stream runs directly through Butternut Grove Campsites, with a full quarter mile of river frontage giving guests direct access to water that serious anglers treat like sacred ground. The campground sits in the Southern Catskills near the village of Roscoe — long celebrated as "Trout Town USA" — where the Willowemoc meets the Beaverkill and the fly-fishing tradition runs more than 150 years deep. Butternut Grove offers a range of accommodations suited to tent campers, RV travelers, and those looking for a cabin retreat with river views. Waterfront sites placed along the Beaverkill put guests steps from the water, while wooded interior sites provide shade and privacy throughout the summer. Cabin rentals offer a comfortable base for those who want the full Catskills experience without setting up camp, and the mix of accommodation types makes Butternut Grove a reasonable destination for groups traveling in different configurations. The Beaverkill is a catch-and-release fishery for most of its length, drawing skilled fly casters from across the Northeast who come to match the hatch on pool-and-riffle water that has shaped American angling culture for generations. Guests without fishing gear can simply sit riverside and watch the river work — the Beaverkill in early morning light, with mist rising off the pools and hatches dimpling the surface, is a sight that earns its own place among the Catskills' considerable natural attractions. Beyond fishing, the surrounding terrain offers hiking trails through deciduous forest, with hardwood canopy that turns the hills gold and rust each October. The greater Catskills region surrounding Roscoe rewards exploration in every direction. The legendary music history of Woodstock lives on at the Bearsville Theater and in the art galleries, studios, and live-music venues clustered around that village, about 45 minutes north. The Catskills food scene has matured considerably, with craft breweries, small-batch distilleries, and farm-to-table restaurants scattered across Sullivan and Ulster counties. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the original site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, sits about 20 minutes south and hosts a museum alongside a summer concert series on the same historic hillside. The Beaverkill fishing season runs April 1 through November 30, with the opening weeks of April drawing intense local interest when winter-locked anglers finally return to the river. Summer evenings bring evening hatches and the coolest temperatures of the day — ideal for a few hours on the water before dinner. Fall foliage typically peaks in the Southern Catskills between early and mid-October, turning the hills surrounding camp into a blaze of color that makes every view from riverside feel composed. Reserve waterfront sites as early as possible for spring and fall weekends; they go quickly among those who know the water.

from $48/night

Lakeside Campground

28 RV Sites

Lakeside Campground in Windsor, New York, offers 23 full-hookup RV sites on a lake in the Southern Tier, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Small back-in, standard back-in, and pull-through categories join a beach, boat docks, and kayak rentals. Twenty-three sites run in small 30-amp back-in, 30/50-amp back-in, and 30/50-amp pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and site WiFi. The small back-in category is a useful option for compact trailers that would otherwise pay for space they do not need. Trailer rentals serve guests without a rig. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The lake carries the recreation. A beach gives swimming access, boat docks and kayak rentals put guests on the water, and fishing, boating, canoeing, kayaking, and paddle boats all run from the shoreline. An outdoor pool, recreation center, game room, billiards, basketball, a playground, and a pavilion fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Windsor sits in Broome County in the upper Susquehanna valley along the Pennsylvania border, where the rolling hills and clear glacial lakes of the Catskill foothills provide the backdrop. The campground draws families from the Binghamton area and weekend visitors from the New York metro corridor. Directions from I-86/Route 17: take exit 79 (Windsor) and proceed south onto Route 79 — contrary to many GPS directions, do not turn right onto Piper Hill Road after leaving town.

from $45/night

Spruce Creek Campground

31 RV Sites

Spruce Creek Campground in Dolgeville, New York, offers 31 full-hookup RV sites along a stocked brown trout stream in the Adirondack foothills, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 65 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Back-in and pull-through categories join a splash pad, mini-golf, and disc golf course on a family-run property. Thirty-one sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 65 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, BBQ pits, and site WiFi. The sites are genuinely large, which is the first thing returning guests mention. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Spruce Creek runs through the property as a stocked brown trout stream, putting fishing directly at your campsite. A splash pad, mini-golf, disc golf course, sports courts, basketball, volleyball, a playground, and a pavilion fill the grounds, with paddle boarding, paddle boats, canoeing, kayaking, boating, biking, picnicking, and birding besides. Off-roading is nearby. Pets are welcome. The campground is family-run and family-focused, with a full activity calendar and the kind of clean restrooms that get mentioned in reviews. Dolgeville sits in the scenic foothills of the Adirondacks, ten minutes from the East and West Canada Creek rivers — both popular for fly fishing, kayaking, canoeing, and tubing. Adirondack Park's hiking, sightseeing, and wildlife viewing open up from there. Summer and fall foliage drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $20/night

West Canada Creek Campground

57 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 3 Tent Sites

West Canada Creek Campground in Poland, New York, offers 57 RV sites, two cabins, and three tent sites directly on the creek in the Adirondack foothills, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 57 feet. Deluxe waterfront and premium waterfront back-in categories join premium and standard water-and-electric tiers, with an outdoor pool and general store. Fifty-seven sites span standard back-in, back-in 30-amp water-and-electric, premium back-in 30-amp water-and-electric, deluxe waterfront back-in, and premium waterfront back-in categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with cable TV, sized to 57 feet, with fire pits. The waterfront categories put you on the creek and are worth requesting early; confirm your tier, as the water-and-electric categories do not carry sewer at the site. Two cabins, including a four-person unit, and three tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with the creek supporting swimming, fishing, canoeing, and kayaking. A pond, playground, basketball, and biking fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season, productive birding, and a casino nearby. Pets are welcome. West Canada Creek is a fast-moving Adirondack stream, and the property occupies a forested stretch where hemlocks and northern hardwoods line the water. Poland sits midway between Syracuse and Albany, 12 minutes north of Utica. Summer and fall foliage drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $58/night

Riverbend RV Park

139 RV Sites

Riverbend RV Park sits in Blossvale, New York, on the southwestern shore of Oneida Lake—the largest lake entirely within New York State—where the park's waterfront position, boat dock access, and proximity to Sylvan Beach provide the full complement of inland lake resort camping that central New York's largest body of water sustains for seasonal campers and destination visitors. The campground is the East property of a two-park Riverbend operation in the Blossvale area, offering spacious wooded lakeside sites that accommodate any size RV in a setting where the water and the social infrastructure of the Sylvan Beach strip are both within reach. Full hookup sites with 5-way hookup service—electric, water, sewer, cable, and telephone—serve seasonal and short-term campers in a well-maintained site layout. Wooded sites with water views, cabins for enclosed accommodation, a playground, laundry, showers, walking trails, and boat docks provide the foundational amenities. Planned activities through the season and bird and wildlife watching in the lake corridor fill the recreation calendar, and the campground's Oneida Lake frontage provides swimming, kayaking, canoeing, and boating access from the property's own dock infrastructure. Oneida Lake's fishery is one of the most actively managed in New York State—the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation stocks the lake annually with walleye, yellow perch, and bass, supporting a sportfishery that draws serious anglers from across the Mohawk Valley and central New York for the walleye population that has made the lake locally famous. The lake's 79 square miles of open water provide habitat for all of these species across a range of depth and structure conditions, and the early ice-out season each spring triggers the walleye activity that signals the opening of the central New York fishing season. Sylvan Beach, about two miles from the campground, provides the entertainment infrastructure that transforms a camping trip on Oneida Lake into a genuinely social destination: a small amusement park, the Lake House Casino at Sylvan Beach, the Crazy Clam, and the waterfront restaurants and ice cream shops that have made Sylvan Beach central New York's classic summer beach town since the late nineteenth century. The town's combination of carnival atmosphere, lake access, and walking-distance bars and restaurants gives it a nostalgic summer resort character that remains largely unchanged by the development that has transformed other Great Lakes tourism communities. Riverbend RV Park operates through the upstate New York camping season, typically May through October, in a lake climate where Oneida Lake's thermal mass moderates the temperature swings that inland central New York experiences and the long summer days provide maximum time on the water. The fall walleye season in September and October drives some of the most dedicated fishing traffic of the year, and the early spring ice-out period begins the season that seasonal campers return to establish for the summer. Rome and Utica are within easy reach for urban amenity access when needed, and the Erie Canal corridor to the south provides historical cycling and boating context for the broader Mohawk Valley region.

from $60/night

Kittatinny K-Camp

58 RV Sites, 13 Cabins, 270 Tent Sites

Kittatinny K-Camp in Barryville, New York, offers 58 full-hookup RV sites, 13 cabins, and 270 tent sites on the Upper Delaware, with 20 and 30-amp service and rigs accepted to 30 feet. Creekside standard, deluxe, and standard back-in categories join a beach, pond, on-site dining, and a bar in the National Park Service river corridor. Fifty-eight back-in sites run in creekside standard, deluxe, and standard categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20 and 30-amp, sized to 30 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Two things to plan around before booking: the 30-foot cap is genuinely restrictive and rules out most modern coaches, and service tops out at 30-amp. The creekside category sits along a hemlock-shaded trout stream and is the one to request. Two hundred seventy tent sites make this overwhelmingly a tent property — a scale of tent camping almost no other campground matches. Thirteen cabins round out the lodging. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, and portable toilets handle the practical side. A daily resort fee covers the playground, bathhouses, and on-site boating amenities. A beach and pond anchor the recreation, with the Delaware carrying canoeing, kayaking, and swimming. Walking trails, hiking, a playground, pavilion, on-site dining, a bar, and productive birding fill the rest. Fourteen miles south of Narrowsburg, the property sits inside the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River corridor — 73 miles of one of the East's last free-flowing major rivers. Summer paddling season is the peak. Reserve well ahead.

from $57/night

Wake in the Woods Aquapark & Campground

Wake in the Woods Aquapark & Campground in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, offers camping and cabin rentals on a private seven-acre lake with an inflatable aqua park on the water, behind a gated entrance in the Pocono Mountains. Boat docks, boat rentals, a bar, and food trucks serve families and group events on historic Lake Genero. Tent sites and cabin rentals make up the accommodations, with corporate retreat and group event infrastructure on site. A general store, boutique shop, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout and a gated entrance controlling access. The inflatable aqua park is the signature. These are large floating structures with water slides, obstacles, and climbing features, designed to give swimmers a safe, genuinely demanding play area on open water — considerably more engaging than a pool, and the reason most families book. Boat docks, boat rentals, swimming, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and boating fill out the water recreation, with sports courts, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, corn hole, walking trails, hiking, a playground, pavilion, and community fire pit on land. A bar and visiting food trucks handle evenings, and the property also serves as a wedding venue. Stargazing and birding are strong across the forested acreage. Pets are welcome. Lake Ariel sits in Wayne County in the northeastern Pennsylvania lake district, where private lakes, state forest land, and ridge-and-valley terrain built the Pocono resort region's identity for Philadelphians from the nineteenth century onward. Summer is decisively the season for the aqua park. Reserve well ahead.

Kittatinny River Beach Campground

Kittatinny River Beach Campground in Milford, Pennsylvania, offers full-hookup RV sites, cabins, and tent camping across 18 acres directly on the Delaware River, with wooded, open field, and riverfront configurations. Its parent operation, Kittatinny Canoes, runs the region's most extensive fleet of rafts, kayaks, canoes, and tubes. Full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric in back-in and pull-through configurations with fire pits and picnic tables, alongside cabins and tent sites across more than 160 positions in wooded, field, and riverfront settings. A general store, dump station, restrooms, and firewood handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. The river operation is what sets this apart. Kittatinny Canoes offers self-guided rafts, kayaks, canoes, and tubes for trips of every length and difficulty on the Upper Delaware, which eliminates the outfitter logistics that usually complicate a river trip — you book the boat and the campsite together. A beach sits on the property, with swimming, boating, canoeing, kayaking, and birding from the water and a pond and playground on the grounds. The campground sits three miles from the borough of Milford at the northern tip of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, with mountains and river frontage on every side. Summer river season is decisively the peak — this is a water-recreation property first, and demand tracks the tubing and rafting calendar. Reserve well ahead for July and August weekends, when the Upper Delaware corridor fills.

from $60/night

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

Sun Retreats Pleasant Acres Farm

218 RV Sites, 6 Cabins, 4 Cottages

Sun Retreats Pleasant Acres Farm in Sussex, New Jersey, offers 218 full-hookup RV sites and 10 cabins and cottages on a working farm, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet behind a gated entrance. Premium gravel back-in and pull-through categories join group and buddy sites, a pool, and genuine farm programming. Two hundred eighteen sites span standard, premium full hookup gravel back-in, premium full hookup gravel pull-through, and group or buddy full hookup gravel categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Group and buddy sites suit families traveling together. Ten cabins and cottages round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, and recycling handle the practical side. The farm engagement is what sets this apart from a conventional resort — cow milking, sheep shearing, baby animal petting, hayrides, and pig chases run alongside the expected pool, playground, and hookups. A lake and pond support fishing, canoeing, and kayaking, with sports courts, volleyball, basketball, gaga ball, horseshoes, billiards, an arcade, jumping pillow, snack bar, dog park, and walking trails besides. Planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. Sussex County sits in the green hills of the New Jersey Highlands, with a state park nearby. Summer family season is the peak. Reserve well ahead.

from $86/night

Dingmans Campground

50 RV Sites, 82 Tent Sites

Dingmans Campground in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, offers 50 RV sites and 82 tent sites in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, with 20, 30, and 50-amp water-and-electric service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 50 feet. Forest RV sites join tent and RV categories with capacity limits stated up front, alongside a boat ramp, bike rentals, and river access. Fifty back-in sites span 20/30/50-amp forest RV, 20-amp forest tent/RV, and tent/no forest amenity RV categories with a stated 10-person maximum, carrying water and electric, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Plan around the hookups: sites carry water and electric but not sewer, so manage tank capacity and use the dump station. Accessible sites are available. Eighty-two tent sites make this a tent-first property — more tent sites than RV sites by a wide margin. A general store, dump station, restrooms, portable toilets, and firewood handle the practical side. A boat ramp and bike rentals open the Delaware for canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding, boating, swimming, and fishing. Sports courts, volleyball, corn hole, walking trails, hiking, and picnicking fill the grounds, with planned activities and genuinely productive birding. Pets are welcome. The Delaware Water Gap protects one of the most scenic river valleys in the Northeast, with waterfall hikes, clean swimming pools in the river, and Pike County's forested Pocono highlands all at hand. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $46/night

HTR Adirondacks Campground

51 RV Sites, 18 Cabins, 20 Tent Sites, 1 Glamping Site

HTR Adirondacks Campground in Old Forge, New York, offers 51 RV sites, 18 cabins, 20 tent sites, and a glamping site at the gateway to the Adirondack Park's southwestern wilderness, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, behind a gated entrance. Waterfront and waterview back-in categories join 50-amp and water-and-electric tiers, with a pool, beach, and tennis. Fifty-one sites span back-in 30-amp water-and-electric, back-in 50-amp, pull-thru 30-amp water-and-electric, waterfront back-in 30-amp, waterfront back-in 50-amp, and waterview categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The waterfront categories are worth requesting early; confirm your tier, as the water-and-electric options do not carry sewer. Eighteen cabins, 20 tent sites, and a glamping site round out the lodging. A laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, recycling, and on-site dining handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and beach anchor the summer, with boating, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing on the water. Sports courts, tennis, pickleball, basketball, walking trails, and a playground fill the grounds, with strong birding and stargazing besides. The Fulton Chain of Lakes' eight interconnected waters make Old Forge one of the Adirondacks' most beloved four-season communities. Summer and fall foliage drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $24/night