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Jellystone Park™ PA Wilds

71 RV Sites, 34 Cabins, 3 Tent Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Jellystone Park PA Wilds in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, offers 72 full-hookup back-in RV sites, 31 cabins, and three tent sites, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 75 feet. Full-hookup categories at 20/30-amp and 20/30/50-amp join a pool, mini-golf, jumping pillow, and golf cart rentals in Pennsylvania's Wilds. Seventy-two back-in sites run in full hookup 20/30-amp and full hookup 20/30/50-amp categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 75 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Pick the tier that matches your rig's service, and note that 75 feet accommodates a long coach with a tow. Thirty-one cabins — including the six-person Cardinal Inn — and three tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, restrooms, and golf cart rentals handle the practical side. Check-in is 3pm and checkout 11am, and day passes run $10 per person. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with mini-golf, a jumping pillow, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, corn hole, a pond, playground, and live music filling the rest. Boating and fishing run nearby, and a state park is close. Pets are welcome. The PA Wilds is a 12,000-square-mile expanse of north-central wilderness where elk graze open meadows at dusk, the Pine Creek Gorge drops 1,000 feet through what is sometimes called Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon, and the night sky is dark enough to have earned one of the most significant dark sky designations in the eastern United States. Cherry Springs State Park is the destination for that. Summer and fall foliage drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $31/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

Back-Achers Campsites

12 RV Sites, 13 Tent Sites

On the secluded western shore of Seneca Lake in Himrod, New York—on the largest and deepest of the Finger Lakes, 36 miles long and 618 feet deep in the glacially carved trough that creates the most dramatic lake scenery in the region—Back-Achers Campsites & Cottage Rentals holds the distinction of being the only private campground on Seneca Lake with direct lake frontage, offering cottage rentals, RV and tent camping, and boat hoist rentals in a location on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail that puts the Finger Lakes' most celebrated wine-producing landscape immediately accessible from the campground's lakeside property. For wine country travelers who want to sleep beside the lake they're tasting around, Back-Achers provides the singular access that no other private campground in the region can offer. RV and tent sites alongside cottage rentals create the accommodation range for the diverse guests that Seneca Lake's western shore attracts—the wine trail enthusiasts who work through the 35-plus wineries on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, the boaters who want private dock and boat hoist access on one of New York's finest sailing and fishing lakes, and the families and couples who want the Finger Lakes experience at the intimate scale of a smaller, personal campground rather than a resort. Three cottages feature their own private docks for personal watercraft use, and boat hoist rentals accommodate guests who bring their own boats and need dry storage and launch infrastructure. Snack bar, pavilion, playground, firewood, laundry access, propane fills, and clean bathhouses provide the essential amenity infrastructure for multi-day stays. Himrod occupies Yates County on Seneca Lake's western shore in the Finger Lakes wine country, in the appellation that the Finger Lakes American Viticultural Area encompasses—one of the most distinctively positioned wine regions in the world, where the lakes' thermal mass moderates the temperature extremes of upstate New York's continental climate and creates the growing season length that supports riesling, gewürztraminer, and the cold-climate grape varieties that have made Finger Lakes wine internationally recognized. The Seneca Lake Wine Trail, with 35-plus member wineries concentrated on both shores of the lake, represents the densest wine trail concentration in the northeastern United States. Watkins Glen State Park, at Seneca Lake's southern tip 25 miles south, protects the gorge that is considered by many visitors to be the most spectacular natural feature in New York State—a 1.5-mile gorge with 19 waterfalls, ancient stone bridges, and the spray-cooled caverns carved by Glen Creek in the shale bedrock that makes the gorge geology a textbook example of post-glacial stream incision. Watkins Glen International Raceway, adjacent to the state park, hosts major NASCAR and IMSA sports car races that make Watkins Glen one of the most important racing circuits in the United States. Seneca Falls, the site of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention and the Women's Rights National Historical Park, lies at the northern end of the lake corridor. Back-Achers operates seasonally in the Finger Lakes camping window from spring through fall, with the wine trail season and the lake boating in peak condition from June through October. The grape harvest in September and October brings the winemaking activity and the harvest events to the wineries that surround the campground, creating the most festive and most authentically wine-country period of the year on the Seneca Lake shore. Reserve your site, cottage, or boat hoist at Back-Achers and let the only private lakefront campground on Seneca Lake deliver the Finger Lakes wine country experience from the best position on the lake.

from $45/night

Route 6 Campground

Route 6 Campground in Gaines, Pennsylvania, offers full-hookup RV sites, cabin rentals, and tent spaces along a peaceful pond on the historic Route 6 corridor in Tioga County. A general store, boutique shop, on-site dining, and a pavilion serve guests exploring the Pennsylvania Wilds. Full-hookup RV sites carry water, sewer, and electric on well-maintained grounds, with cabin rentals and tent spaces rounding out the accommodations. A general store, boutique shop, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout and on-site dining for meals. Pets are welcome. The pond anchors the setting, with fishing from the water and walking trails, hiking, biking, a playground, and a pavilion across the grounds. A golf course and state park are nearby. The property is deliberately unhurried, which suits the corridor it sits on. Pennsylvania Route 6 is often called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway and is recognized as one of the state's most scenic byways, running through a landscape of ridges, valleys, and the deeply forested terrain of the Pennsylvania Wilds. Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon — the Pine Creek Gorge — is the region's headline attraction, with state forest wilderness and genuinely unspoiled rural country throughout. The campground serves the northern tier season. Summer hiking and paddling on Pine Creek and October foliage in the Wilds drive the heaviest demand, with the Grand Canyon overlooks drawing visitors from across the Northeast in fall. Reserve well ahead for foliage weekends.

from $35/night

Stetson's Tumble Hill Campground

17 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 5 Tent Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Stetson's Tumble Hill Campground in Cohocton, New York, offers 18 full-hookup RV sites, five cabins, and five tent sites across roughly 45 wooded acres in Steuben County, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet. Back-in, pull-in, and pull-through sites are all available, along with a deluxe trailer rental that sleeps six. Eighteen full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, in back-in, pull-in, and pull-through configurations sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Five cabins and a deluxe trailer rental sleeping six serve guests without an RV, and five tent sites cover simpler camping. A general store, firewood, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The wooded acreage is the draw. Walking trails run the property, and a clubhouse, playground, dog park, community fire pit, and sports courts fill the on-site calendar with volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, shuffleboard, and corn hole. Picnicking areas spread through the trees, and the 45 acres give the campground a genuine sense of remove from the summer crowds on the Finger Lakes proper. Pets are welcome. Cohocton sits in the Cohocton River valley in the Southern Tier, within reach of the Keuka Lake wine district, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the waterfalls at Watkins Glen. State park access is close by. The campground runs the upstate New York season, with summer families and fall foliage driving demand. Reserve ahead for summer weekends and for October, when Finger Lakes lodging fills across the region.

from $35/night

Country Charm Campground

9 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 3 Tent Sites

Situated in the rural township of Potter in Ontario County, New York, between the shores of Canandaigua Lake and Keuka Lake in the heart of the Finger Lakes wine country, Country Charm Campground offers a well-equipped family destination with 50 Adirondack-style campsite suites that accommodate RVs, tents, and cabin-style lodging in a setting well positioned for exploring one of the most scenically and culturally distinctive regions in the northeastern United States. The campground's own pond and on-site recreation infrastructure give guests a self-contained activity environment that complements the wine trail, lake recreation, and natural area exploration available across the broader Finger Lakes landscape. On-site recreational programming spans a broad range suited to multigenerational family camping—disc golf, a fishing pier on the pond, paddle boat and boat rentals, canoe and kayak access, volleyball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, hiking on the property's trail network, and biking round out a roster that gives guests full-day activity options without requiring a drive to regional destinations. Full hookup sites, clean restrooms and showers, a laundry facility, a general store, a recreation center, and playground infrastructure address the practical daily needs of an extended family camping stay in a property format that rewards guests who plan for multiple nights of exploration across the Finger Lakes. Canandaigua Lake, the westernmost of the Finger Lakes proper, and Keuka Lake—the Y-shaped lake just east of the campground—are both accessible within a short drive and provide the swimming, boating, sailing, and fishing access characteristic of the Finger Lakes recreational culture. The Finger Lakes Wine Trail, one of the most productive and internationally recognized American Viticultural Areas outside of California and the Pacific Northwest, encompasses hundreds of wineries along the lakes' glacially carved slopes, with Riesling and Cabernet Franc as the signature varietals of the cool-climate lake-effect growing conditions. Tastings, cellar tours, and harvest events during the September and October growing season make the wine country surrounding the campground one of the most visited regional tourism destinations in New York State. Watkins Glen State Park, at the southern tip of Seneca Lake approximately 30 miles from the campground, provides access to one of the most dramatic gorge hiking experiences in the Finger Lakes—a mile-and-a-half trail ascending through 19 cascades in a narrow sandstone gorge whose mist-filled atmosphere and waterfall scenery have made it one of New York's most photographed state parks. The NASCAR and sports car racing events at Watkins Glen International bring motorsport visitors to the region throughout the summer, and the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, Pennsylvania's Tioga County rafting, and the Chemung Valley's natural areas extend the regional day-trip roster for guests staying multiple nights. Country Charm Campground is open through the spring-through-fall Finger Lakes camping season, with the summer months delivering the warmest lake swimming conditions and the most active wine trail programming. Fall's harvest season—September through October—is arguably the region's most visually spectacular period, when vineyard color change, harvest events, and the apple orchards of Ontario County create a multi-layered autumn experience that draws visitors from across the Northeast. Advance reservations for summer holiday weekends and the October foliage and harvest peak are strongly recommended.

from $35/night

Jellystone Park™ Milton

119 RV Sites, 24 Cabins, 12 Tent Sites, 2 Wagons

Jellystone Park Milton in Milton, Pennsylvania, offers 119 RV sites, 17 cabins, and 12 tent sites on the Susquehanna River, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 57 feet. Creekside back-in and pull-through categories join deluxe options behind a gated entrance, with a splash pad, laser tag, and covered wagon accommodations. One hundred nineteen sites span back-in, deluxe back-in, creekside back-in, pull-through, deluxe pull-through, and creekside pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV, sized to 57 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Seventeen cabins, covered wagon accommodations, and 12 tent sites round out the range. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The after-hours emergency line is (570) 412-5794. Recreation is the product. An outdoor pool and splash pad anchor the summer, with a jumping pillow, laser tag, gem mining, gaga ball, sports courts, volleyball, basketball, and horseshoes across the grounds. Walking trails, a pond and creek for fishing, golf cart rentals, a playground, pavilion, and community fire pit fill the rest, with food trucks and planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Milton sits on the Susquehanna in Northumberland County, a convenient base for the river valley, the State College corridor, and Knoebels Amusement Resort. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $30/night

Splash Magic RV Resort

127 RV Sites, 38 Cabins, 18 Tent Sites

Splash Magic RV Resort in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, offers 127 RV sites, 38 cabins, and 18 tent sites on the North Branch of the Susquehanna, with 30 and 50-amp full hookups and rigs accepted to 40 feet. Premium 30-amp and 50-amp pull-through categories join a water park, splash pad, hot tub, and beach. One hundred twenty-seven sites span 30-amp back-in, 50-amp back-in, premium 30-amp pull-through, and premium 50-amp pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 40 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Note the 40-foot cap before booking a larger rig. Thirty-eight cabins and 18 tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A water park and splash pad anchor the summer, with an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and beach alongside. A lake supports boating, paddle boats, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing, with mini-golf, a game room, arcade, jumping pillow, gaga ball, basketball, and volleyball filling the grounds. Bike rentals, golf cart rentals, walking trails, hiking, biking, a clubhouse, playground, pavilion, dog park, and snack bar round it out. Birding along the river is productive, and a state park is nearby. Pets are welcome. The Susquehanna's broad river valley gives the resort a natural backdrop that the water park programming sits within rather than replacing. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $64/night

Woodstream Campsite

Woodstream Campsite in Gainesville, New York, offers full-hookup RV sites, tent camping, and cabins alongside a fishing creek in Wyoming County's Western New York farmland. An outdoor pool, mini-golf, and a game room serve a classic, no-fuss family campground south of Letchworth State Park. Full-hookup RV sites serve guests with rigs, with tent camping and cabins covering the rest. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout. One important planning note: the campground closes for the season over winter and reopens each spring, so confirm dates before booking a shoulder-season stay. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with mini-golf, a game room, sports courts, basketball, volleyball, and horseshoes across the grounds, plus a playground and pavilion. A creek, pond, and lake on the property support fishing, and biking and swimming run from camp. Food trucks visit and planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. Gainesville sits in Wyoming County's agricultural hill country in the Genesee River valley, and the wooded campsite privacy and rural character are the appeal. Letchworth State Park is the headline attraction close by — one of the most spectacular gorge landscapes in the eastern United States, and remarkable natural scenery at short-drive distance from a quiet farmland campground. The season runs spring through fall. Summer families and October foliage at Letchworth drive the heaviest demand — reserve ahead for fall color weekends, when the gorge draws visitors from across the Northeast.

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.

Lake Bluff RV Park

53 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 2 Tent Sites, 2 Cottages

One mile from Chimney Bluffs State Park on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Wayne County, New York, Lake Bluff RV Park sits at the intersection of two of the Finger Lakes region's most distinctive attractions—the geological spectacle of the Lake Ontario bluffs and the scenic agricultural beauty of the Lake Ontario Wine Trail that runs along the shoreline between Rochester and Oswego. With 140 resort-quality full hookup sites accommodating rigs up to 72 feet, cabin rentals, a full recreation program including a swimming pool, mini golf, and game room, and its position on the Seaway Trail three miles from the park, Lake Bluff provides a well-equipped base for exploring one of New York's most underappreciated regional destinations. The campground's 140 full hookup sites—including pull-through configurations for larger rigs—come with water, electric, and sewer connections, and the resort infrastructure includes a swimming pool, catch-and-release fishing in the frog pond, a playground, game room with pool tables and video games, basketball, shuffleboard, volleyball, and mini golf. Cabin rentals provide an alternative for guests who want enclosed accommodation without the full RV setup. WiFi, showers, a dump station, and organized seasonal programming round out the amenity lineup in a package that serves both overnight and extended-stay guests with equal reliability. The campground's family-oriented character attracts Lake Ontario shoreline explorers, Finger Lakes wine trail visitors, and families from the Rochester and Syracuse markets who value a well-maintained, comprehensive campground experience close to home. Lake Ontario's south shore at Wolcott offers a landscape character that surprises many visitors who arrive expecting something more Finger Lakes conventional. Chimney Bluffs State Park, one mile from the campground, preserves a formation of dramatically eroded glacial drumlins rising directly from the lake shore—spires, ridges, and turrets of compressed clay and gravel sculpted by wave action into formations that echo the Badlands in their geological drama while sitting incongruously on the New York State lakeshore. The bluffs are best experienced at sunrise, when the low-angle light catches the ridgelines and the lake beyond provides a blue horizon of genuinely Great Lakes scale. The Lake Ontario Wine Trail traces the southern shoreline through Wayne County's apple orchards and vineyards—a cool-climate growing environment that produces distinctive rieslings, cabernet francs, and lake-effect-influenced white wines that reflect the unique mesoclimate created by the lake's modifying influence on the surrounding agricultural land. The Seaway Trail—a 518-mile designated scenic byway along the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario shorelines—provides the corridor for a larger regional road trip connecting the campground to Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, and the broader Great Lakes heritage landscape. The Finger Lakes proper, with their concentrated winery, gorge, and waterfall programming, are within driving range for multi-day guests who want to combine the lake shore character with Finger Lakes interior. Lake Bluff RV Park operates from April through October in alignment with the New York State camping season. The July and August period draws the strongest family demand, and Chimney Bluffs is busiest on summer weekends. Fall offers a quieter alternative with apple harvest season in the surrounding Wayne County orchards and excellent conditions for photography at the bluffs. Reserve early for summer holiday weekends and arrive ready to discover the Lake Ontario shoreline that most upstate New York visitors inexplicably drive past on the way to somewhere else.

from $43/night

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