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Sun Retreats Sherkston Shores

66 RV Sites, 29 Cabins, 46 Tent Sites, 55 Cottages

Sun Retreats Sherkston Shores in Port Colborne, Ontario, offers 66 full-hookup RV sites, 84 cabin and cottage units, and 46 tent sites across 560 acres on four kilometers of Lake Erie beachfront, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet behind a gated entrance. Waterfront and premium full-hookup categories join a 30-amp tier, alongside a water park, splash pad, and mini-golf. Sixty-six sites run in full hookup 30-amp, premium full hookup 30/50-amp, and waterfront full hookup 30/50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The waterfront category is the one to request. Eighty-four cabins and cottages and 46 tent sites make the lodging inventory far larger than the RV side. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, firewood, boat storage, recycling, and food trucks handle the practical side. The property was formerly Sherkston Shores Beach Resort & Campground. A water park and splash pad anchor the summer, with an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and the beach alongside. Mini-golf, a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, arcade, sports courts, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, golf cart rentals, a playground, dog park, and bar fill the rest, with boating, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking, biking, live music, and Niagara wine country nearby. The scale rivals dedicated resort destinations. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $37/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

Hickory Hill Camping Resort

130 RV Sites, 9 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites, 6 Cottages, 5 Lodges

Hickory Hill Camping Resort in Bath, New York, offers 130 RV sites, 20 cabin, cottage, and lodge units, and four tent sites in the Finger Lakes Southern Tier, with 30 and 50-amp full hookups, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. A dedicated Big Rig back-in category joins premium sites, alongside a splash pad, mini-golf, and fitness center. One hundred thirty sites span 30/50-amp back-in, 50-amp back-in, premium back-in, and Big Rig back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The dedicated Big Rig category removes the guesswork for large coaches. Twenty cabins, cottages, and lodges and four tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, firewood, and a concierge handle the practical side. Reach the resort at [email protected] or 607-776-4345. A splash pad and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with mini-golf, a disc golf course, fitness center, recreation center, craft room, sports courts, basketball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, and a jumping pillow filling the grounds. A lake, pond, and creek support fishing, with walking trails, hiking, golf cart rentals, a pavilion, and community fire pit besides. Live music and planned activities run through the season, and the resort operates as a wedding venue. Watkins Glen, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Finger Lakes wine trails are all close. Summer and fall foliage drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $55 $48/night

Sun Retreats Geneva on the Lake

80 RV Sites, 6 Cottages, 1 House

At 4710 Lake Road East in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio—the oldest summer resort community on Lake Erie's Ohio shoreline, established as a vacation destination in 1869 when Cleveland industrialists discovered the lake breezes that Geneva-on-the-Lake's North Shore position generates, on 110 beautifully landscaped acres directly across from Lake Erie in the Ashtabula County wine country—Sun Retreats Geneva on the Lake, formerly Indian Creek RV Camping Resort, provides full hookup pull-through RV sites accommodating rigs to 75 feet, cottage rentals, three playgrounds, heated pools, stocked catch-and-release fishing lakes, 18-hole miniature golf, an on-site restaurant and lounge, a gas station with diesel and LP service, and the complete resort infrastructure that 110 acres and a Lake Erie position support at the premier size in the Ohio Great Lakes camping market. The Lake Erie proximity, the 18-hole miniature golf, the on-site restaurant, and the 110-acre scale define what differentiates Sun Retreats Geneva from a standard Ashtabula County campground. Full hookup pull-through RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections on grassy or gravel pads accommodating up to 75 feet with slide-outs, plus picnic tables and fire pits, serve the core RV market in configurations scaled for the largest modern coaches. Cottage rentals provide the fully appointed lodging alternative for guests without RVs. Heated swimming pools provide aquatic recreation through the Lake Erie shoreline's cooler late spring and early fall temperatures when an unheated pool would be unusable. Stocked catch-and-release fishing lakes provide the immediate angling access without requiring a Lake Erie charter or a walleye license. Three large playgrounds distribute the family recreation infrastructure across the 110-acre property. Miniature golf's 18-hole course, bocce, volleyball, horseshoes, and a climate-controlled pavilion provide the organized recreation calendar. A grassy off-leash dog park with benches and disposal stations serves the traveling pet population. An on-site restaurant and lounge—The Loft—provides full dining service. An on-site gas station with regular, diesel, and LP service handles the fuel and propane need. A grocery store, ATM, coin laundries, and soft-serve ice cream and concession stand complete the self-sufficient resort infrastructure that a 110-acre property sustains. Geneva-on-the-Lake's position on Lake Erie's Ohio shoreline places the resort in the Lake Erie Wine Country—the appellations stretching from Euclid east to the Pennsylvania state line that produce Riesling, Pinot Gris, and Cabernet Franc in the lake-effect growing climate that Ashtabula County's moderating influence on temperature extremes makes viable. More than 30 wineries along the Lake Erie Grape Trail provide the wine touring infrastructure that the campground's position at the heart of the appellation makes the most accessible wine country in Ohio. The Historic Ashtabula Harbor—a working commercial fishing port and the historic maritime community that the deep-water port at the Ashtabula River's mouth created in the 19th century—provides the covered bridge touring that Ashtabula County's 17 historic covered bridges (the most in any Ohio county) makes the dominant heritage tourism activity in the region. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland—45 minutes west via State Route 2 along the Lake Erie shore—provides the cultural day trip that converts a weekend Geneva-on-the-Lake camping trip into the complete northeast Ohio cultural tourism itinerary. Sun Retreats Geneva on the Lake is open seasonally through the Lake Erie vacation calendar. Summer from Memorial Day through Labor Day fills the 110 acres with the family camping and extended-stay population that the lake breezes and the winery access draw. Reserve early for summer weekends, book the miniature golf round for the evening, and let Lake Erie's Ohio shore earn the century-plus resort reputation that Geneva-on-the-Lake has been building since 1869.

from $63/night

Pymatuning Adventure

Pymatuning Adventure in Williamsfield, Ohio, offers full-hookup RV sites near Pymatuning Reservoir, with an outdoor pool, fitness center, library, and game room in Ashtabula County. A dog park, laundry, and general store serve guests exploring one of the largest inland lakes in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Full-hookup RV sites carry water, sewer, and electric. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and WiFi handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. The amenity set is broader than the site infrastructure suggests. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a fitness center, library, arcade, billiards, and ping pong covering indoor hours and basketball, horseshoes, and corn hole outdoors. A dog park serves pets, and planned activities run through the season. Swimming and state park access are close at hand. Pymatuning Reservoir is the draw. The lake straddles the Ohio-Pennsylvania line as one of the largest inland waters in either state, and the Pymatuning State Park system sustains a freshwater recreation economy built on fishing, boating, picnicking, and wildlife access. This is the most fish-dense and waterfowl-concentrated large inland lake complex in the Lake Erie drainage basin, which draws the northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania leisure camping market consistently through the season. The campground serves the Ohio and Pennsylvania lake season. Summer fishing and boating drive the heaviest demand, with waterfowl migration bringing birders in spring and fall. Reserve ahead for summer weekends.

Jellystone Park™ Harrisville

162 RV Sites, 40 Cabins, 4 Glamping Sites, 41 Cottages, 2 Yurts, 1 Treehouse, 1 Lodge

Jellystone Park Harrisville in Pennsylvania offers 162 full-hookup RV sites, 83 cabin, cottage, lodge, and treehouse units, and six glamping sites and yurts beneath tall hardwoods, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet. Red Carpet and Preferred Premium categories join premium back-in tiers, alongside a water park, splash pad, laser tag, and mini-golf. One hundred sixty-two sites span premium back-in, preferred premium back-in, preferred premium pull-thru, and Red Carpet categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Eighty-three cabins, cottages, lodges, and treehouses and six glamping sites and yurts make the lodging inventory far larger than the RV side. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Pet-friendly cabins are marked as such; pet owners must bring a crate. A water park, splash pad, and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with mini-golf, laser tag, a jumping pillow, gem mining, gaga ball, sports courts, pickleball, basketball, horseshoes, corn hole, a fitness center, recreation center, craft room, golf cart rentals, a playground, pavilion, dog park, and on-site dining filling the rest. The park took Camp Jellystone's Park of the Year award in 2025 and has five separate Outdoor Hospitality Industry recognitions. Butler County's rolling hills sit about an hour north of Pittsburgh. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $57/night