Canoeing/Kayaking

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

Butternut Grove Campsites

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

Butternut Grove Campsites in Roscoe, NY, offers 18 full-hookup RV sites, 4 cabins, and 4 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 45 feet. The site categories are named for where they sit: riverfront back-ins, field back-in 30/50-amp, grove back-in water-and-electric 30-amp, back-in 50-amp, back-in 50-amp water-and-electric, plus Amanda's Trailer for guests arriving without a rig. Full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, and on-site dining cover everything. Pets are welcome, and there's a playground. Fly fishing is the reason to book. The Beaverkill — the birthplace of American dry-fly fishing — runs through the property with a quarter mile of frontage, and fishing guides work out of the campground. A pond, hiking, kayaking, and horseshoes fill out the rest. Roscoe sits in the Catskills, reached via State Highway 17, which is being renamed 86; take exit 92 toward Crooks Falls. Rates for sites, cabins, and tent spots are on the booking page. Riverfront sites book first once the trout season opens.

from $48/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 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

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

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

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

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 $43/night

Lakewood Park Campground

23 RV Sites

Lakewood Park Campground in Barnesville, PA, offers 23 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 50 feet. Sites come in four categories — back-in, deluxe back-in, pull-thru, and deluxe pull-thru — all carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. The campground is open all year, family-owned, and explicitly LGBTIQA+ friendly. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills, RV storage, and on-site dining cover the day-to-day, with cabins available for guests without a rig. Pets are welcome. The lake is the centerpiece: a fishing pier, boat docks, and boat and paddle boat rentals for fishing, boating, and paddling, plus a pavilion, playground, gaga ball, and planned activities. The property also serves as a wedding venue. Barnesville sits on 54 acres in Schuylkill County, three miles from the I-81 interchange in Pennsylvania's anthracite region, near Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine, and the Lehigh Gorge. Rates for sites and cabins are on the booking page. Deluxe pull-thrus are limited and book first on summer weekends.

from $63/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

Spruce Creek Campground

31 RV Sites

Spruce Creek Campground in Dolgeville, NY, offers 31 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 65 feet. Sites run from 50 by 50 feet up to 65 feet — unusually generous — on level stone pads with a picnic table and fire pit at each. Back-in and pull-through options both carry water, sewer, and electric. Choose creek-side for frontage on the water, wooded for shade, or open if you're running solar. One fully accessible site sits close to the bathhouse with a raised fire pit. The campground occupies 35 acres with nearly a mile of frontage on Spruce Creek, a state-stocked brown trout stream. A splash pad covers the younger guests, and there's a playground, disc golf, mini-golf, and courts for volleyball, basketball, bocce, horseshoes, and cornhole. The heated bathhouse has free hot showers, and there's 24-hour coin laundry, a camp store, firewood, a pavilion, and a dump station. This is the southern edge of the Adirondack foothills, with paddling, biking, and wildlife watching close by. Historic sites including Fort Herkimer Church, Fort Klock, and Oriskany Battlefield are within an easy drive. The facility is newly built, so pads and hookups are in good condition. Pets are welcome, and seasonal sites are available for guests who want to leave the rig in place.

from $20/night

Country Charm Campground

9 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 3 Tent Sites

Country Charm Campground in Potter, NY, offers 9 full-hookup RV sites, 2 cabins, and 3 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 30 feet. Sites come in two categories, back-in 30-amp and back-in 30/50-amp, each carrying water, sewer, and electric with a fire pit and picnic table. Check the 30-foot maximum against your rig before booking — this is a small-rig campground. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, a dump station, and a recreation center cover the essentials, with portable restrooms available on request. Pets are welcome. Extended dates may be possible after the park's closing date if the weather holds; call to ask. A disc golf course, a fishing pier, boat rentals, a pond and lake, walking trails, sport courts, volleyball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, and a playground fill the grounds, with fishing guides available and hiking, biking, boating, paddling, and paddle boats on the water. Potter sits in Ontario County between Canandaigua Lake and Keuka Lake, in the heart of the Finger Lakes wine country. Rates for sites, cabins, and tent spots are on the booking page. Confirm your rig length before reserving.

from $35/night