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Waterways RV Resort

1 RV Site, 1 Cabin, 1 Cottage

On the shores of Big Rideau Lake in Portland, Ontario—in the Township of Rideau Lakes in the eastern Ontario cottage country where the Rideau Canal's UNESCO World Heritage waterway, the chain of lakes connecting Kingston to Ottawa through 202 kilometers of locks and canals, and the granite-and-pine landscape of the Frontenac Arch's southern corridor create the recreational destination that the Ottawa-Kingston travel route has organized its summer leisure around since the Rideau Canal's 1832 completion—Waterways RV Resort, a Summerhill Resorts property, provides 150 sites including transient RV positions and rental cottages on a property with direct Big Rideau Lake waterfront, a beach, a marina with dock rentals, a sports court with pickleball, basketball, and multi-sport lines, a volleyball area, horseshoe pits, a children's playground, a general store with WiFi, shower and laundry facilities, and the quiet Rideau Lakes setting that the Portland community's location between Westport and Perth sustains on one of the largest and most navigable lakes in the Rideau system. Big Rideau Lake frontage. Dock rentals. The Rideau Canal is outside. The 150-site property with transient RV positions and cottage rental options provides the accommodation variety that the Rideau Lakes summer market—the weekend boater from Ottawa, the Kingston weekend tripper, and the cross-Canada RV traveler on the Highway 15 corridor—brings to the Portland waterfront. Dock rentals accommodate the visiting boater whose rig includes a trailer and a boat needing a slip, and the sports court's pickleball, basketball, and multi-sport functionality creates the active recreation complement to the Big Rideau Lake swimming and paddling that the beach facilitates. Horseshoe pits, volleyball, a children's playground, and the store's WiFi, coffee, and Waterways merchandise create the daily social infrastructure that makes the campground more than a parking pad on the lake. Portland sits in the Township of Rideau Lakes in Leeds and Grenville County, on Big Rideau Lake's southern shore at the community whose commercial infrastructure—the Portland Community Hall, the marina, and the proximity to the Narrows Lock that connects Big Rideau Lake to the Lower Rideau Lake system—anchors one of the Rideau system's most active boating hubs. The Rideau Canal, completed in 1832 as a military supply route connecting Kingston Harbour to the Ottawa River at Bytown (now Ottawa), operates today as the most intact Rideau-era canal system in North America—the locks' original masonry construction, the lockmaster's stone houses, and the un-motorized portaging tradition of the canal's summer boating community create the heritage experience that the UNESCO World Heritage designation recognizes. Westport, 10 miles north on County Road 10, provides the Rideau Lakes' most complete village commercial center—the Westport Mill's historic stone building, the Sand Lake beach, the Cove Country Inn's dining, and the Foley Mountain Conservation Area's Spy Rock lookout trail above the Rideau Valley create the village day-off experience that the Rideau summer cottage community centers on. Perth, 25 miles west, provides the Tay Basin's heritage limestone architecture—the Perth Museum, the Matheson House, and the downtown core's 19th-century streetscape create the most complete small-town heritage district in eastern Ontario's cottage country corridor. Waterways RV 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 July and August peak delivering the Rideau Lakes boating season's fullest expression. Reserve your site, dock, or cottage at Waterways and let the Big Rideau Lake frontage, the Rideau Canal's UNESCO heritage waterway, and Westport's village character deliver the eastern Ontario cottage country experience at Summerhill Resorts' Rideau Lakes address.

from $43/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

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.

Cedar Valley Cottage Resort

On the scenic Scugog River in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario—in the rolling agricultural and cottage-country landscape east of Lindsay where the Trent-Severn Waterway's interconnected lakes, rivers, and locks create one of the most celebrated inland boating corridors in eastern Canada—Cedar Valley Cottage Resort, a Summerhill Resorts property, offers two and three-bedroom seasonal cottages with full kitchens and comfortable furnishings alongside premium waterfront docks, a multi-sports court with road hockey, pickleball, tennis, and basketball, direct fishing and boating access from the Scugog River, and the immediate proximity to the Kawartha Lakes region's trails, provincial parks, and the historic town of Lindsay that makes this cottage-country resort the complete base camp for a Kawartha summer season from May through October. The river is at your dock. Lindsay is minutes away. Cedar Valley's two and three-bedroom cottages provide the family-scale accommodation that the Kawartha Lakes seasonal market demands—full kitchens for self-catering the week, comfortable furnishings for the evening post-lake gathering, and the private cottage character that distinguishes a cottage-country stay from a standard campground experience. The premium Scugog River docks allow guests with their own boats to arrive by water or launch directly onto the river for the fishing, the leisurely river exploration, and the Trent-Severn Waterway lock system navigation that makes the Kawartha waterway network one of Ontario's great boating destinations. The multi-sports court's road hockey, pickleball, tennis, and basketball keep the active family and the competitive adults equally occupied during the dry-weather hours between lake sessions. The Kawartha Lakes region—City of Kawartha Lakes encompasses the former Victoria County's interconnected municipalities, conservation areas, and provincial parks in a landscape shaped by Precambrian Shield bedrock, glacial lakes, and the rivers that connect them—provides the fishing, boating, and nature experience that the Ontario cottage tradition has organized itself around since the 19th century. The Scugog River connects the resort directly to the Trent-Severn Waterway, the 386-kilometer engineered waterway that links Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay at Port Severn through 44 locks and 6 lakes in the most complete inland boating route in Ontario. Lindsay, minutes from the resort, provides the essential Kawartha Lakes town infrastructure—the farmers market, the historic downtown shopping, the medical and grocery services, and the community events calendar that the City of Kawartha Lakes anchors in its largest urban center. The Petroglyphs Provincial Park, 45 miles north near Woodview, protects the largest concentration of Indigenous petroglyphs in Canada—the 900-plus carved figures in the crystalline limestone outcropping are among the most significant sacred sites in Ontario's First Nations heritage. Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, and the other Kawartha Lakes waterfront communities provide the day-trip variety that the cottage-country touring circuit builds around locks, ice cream shops, and antique stores along the Trent-Severn. Cedar Valley Cottage Resort operates seasonally from May 1 through October 31 in the Kawartha Lakes' temperate Ontario summer climate, with June through Labour Day the peak cottage season and the September and October shoulder weeks offering the region's most comfortable temperatures, the autumn walleye and bass fishing peak, and the hardwood forest's fall color display that the Kawartha uplands produce in the October weeks before closing. Reserve your cottage at Cedar Valley and let the Scugog River, the Trent-Severn Waterway, and the Kawartha Lakes' complete cottage-country experience make Ontario's inland lake district the summer destination the resort's river location promises.

from $167/night

Junius Ponds Cabins & Campground

44 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites, 4 Cottages

In the Finger Lakes wine country of Ontario County, New York, near the community of Phelps between Canandaigua Lake and Seneca Lake in the heart of one of the East's most celebrated wine and outdoor recreation regions, Junius Ponds Cabins and Campground provides a 250-plus-site family campground with full-hookup RV positions, four cabin rentals, tent sites, and the weekend programming—hayrides, free crafts for children, campground dinners, and adult wine tastings—that gives the campground's family recreation character the distinctly Finger Lakes cultural dimension. A swimming pool, catch-and-release fishing pond, three playgrounds, a camp store with soft-serve ice cream, basketball, and laundry complete the on-property infrastructure for multi-day stays in the most campground-friendly wine region in the eastern United States. More than 160 full-hookup RV sites with 20/30/50-amp electric, water, and sewer service plus seasonal, long-term, and tent positions provide the full accommodation spectrum, and pull-through configurations accommodate larger rigs in the well-designed layout. Four cabin rentals extend accommodation options for guests without RVs, and the weekend programming calendar—free crafts and hayrides each weekend, campground dinners, and occasional wine tasting events for adults—creates the community-events culture that transforms a campground stay into a genuinely social experience. A swimming pool, catch-and-release fishing pond, three playgrounds, camp store with soft-serve ice cream, basketball, laundry, and restrooms complete the day-to-day infrastructure. The catch-and-release fishing pond and the campground's natural setting in the Ontario County lake country provide the freshwater fishing and outdoor character that the Finger Lakes' interior agricultural landscape surrounds with vineyard-covered hillsides and the lakeside communities that make the region feel unmistakably different from any other camping destination in the Northeast. The weekend hayrides through the campground's property and the surrounding farmland provide the agricultural touchstone that connects the Finger Lakes camping experience to the land itself—beyond the wine tasting and waterfall hiking that define the region's primary tourism identity. Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion in Canandaigua preserves a 50-acre formal Victorian garden estate in nine distinct garden styles—an extraordinarily well-restored 19th-century pleasure garden in the Finger Lakes' most elegant mansion setting, with rose gardens, Japanese tea garden, and Italian garden structures that Victorian horticultural culture considered its highest expression. Seneca Lake State Park in Geneva provides public swimming, boat launching, and the lakeside recreation that the largest and deepest Finger Lake's 43-mile length enables, and Watkins Glen State Park at the lake's southern end protects the gorge trail through 19 waterfalls in a slot canyon that is arguably the most famous waterfall hike in the northeastern United States. The Finger Lakes' four-season temperate climate supports camping at Junius Ponds from spring through fall, with the summer season from late June through Labor Day representing peak family camping activity alongside the wine trail's busiest weekend tasting room visits. The spring shoulder season in May and June activates the Finger Lakes winemakers' best tasting experiences before summer crowds arrive, and the fall harvest season from September through October provides the wine country's most agriculturally resonant backdrop when the vineyards turn gold and the crush season fills the air with fermentation aromatics that define the Finger Lakes autumn. The October foliage on Canandaigua Lake's hillsides and Sonnenberg's chrysanthemum displays make fall the most visually varied season for a campground-based Finger Lakes exploration.

from $39/night

Scugog Landing Cottage & RV Resort

Port Perry, Ontario, is one of the best-preserved Victorian main streets in Durham Region, an hour northeast of Toronto at the head of Lake Scugog in the southern edge of cottage country. Scugog Landing Cottage & RV Resort occupies 120 acres of rolling Ontario landscape incorporated into the Trent-Severn Waterway just ten minutes from Port Perry's waterfront, combining genuine cottage country character with resort infrastructure that accommodates both RV travelers and guests arriving without their own accommodation. The resort offers a range of RV sites with full services alongside cottage and cabin rental options that give guests the Lake Scugog experience without requiring property ownership on the water. The grounds are expansive and thoughtfully laid out, with the lake providing direct waterfront access for boating, fishing, and paddling from the resort's own shoreline. At 120 acres, the scale ensures that even fully booked summer weekends feel uncrowded and spacious — a quality that resorts on smaller properties simply cannot replicate. Pets are welcome throughout. Lake Scugog and the Trent-Severn Waterway form the twin defining features of the surrounding landscape: flat, mirror-calm water, marshland edges alive with waterfowl, and the measured pace of a historic canal system that has been drawing Ontario cottagers for generations. The Trent-Severn is one of Canada's most beloved recreational waterways, stretching 386 kilometers through Ontario's lake country and providing a boating route of genuine historical and natural significance. Lock 26 operates nearby, and watching cruisers and sailboats work through the lock mechanism is a quintessentially Canadian cottage-country experience that visitors from outside Ontario rarely anticipate and consistently remember. Great blue herons, Canada geese, and various duck species populate the Lake Scugog shoreline through the warm-weather months, giving the waterfront an animated natural quality that persists from dawn through evening. The Kawartha Lakes region surrounding Port Perry combines agricultural countryside with lakeside scenery in a way that feels distinctly and authentically Canadian. Port Perry's Victorian downtown rewards a morning of exploration: boutiques, galleries, bookstores, cafés, and antique shops line Queen Street toward the Lake Scugog waterfront, and the Boathouse Grill is a local institution for lakeside dining worth reserving. The Great Blue Heron Casino in Port Perry offers evening entertainment just minutes from camp. The summer months bring the Highland Games, Dragon Boat Races, and StreetFest to the Port Perry community, layering festival energy on top of the already-rich outdoor and culinary calendar. Scugog Landing operates through the Ontario camping season, with summer bookings — especially for waterfront cottages and preferred RV sites — filling months in advance given the resort's proximity to the Toronto metropolitan area. Friday-through-Sunday availability is always limited during peak summer months; longer stays of a week or more offer the best chance at securing preferred positions on the water. The resort's established community of returning guests gives Scugog Landing a warm, familiar character that first-time visitors tend to notice within the first day of settling in.

from $41/night

Lake George Camping Village

118 RV Sites, 9 Cabins, 37 Tent Sites

Lake George Camping Village in Lake George, New York, offers 118 RV sites, nine cabins, and 37 tent sites 1.7 miles from the lake's southern shore, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups and rigs accepted to 57 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Basic, premium, and deluxe categories serve one of the Northeast's most popular summer resort destinations. One hundred eighteen sites span basic back-in, premium 20/30-amp back-in, premium 50-amp back-in, and deluxe pull-through categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 57 feet. Nine cabins and 37 tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with mini-golf, a game room, sports courts, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, and shuffleboard filling the grounds, plus walking trails, hiking, and a playground. A casino is nearby. The amenity set is well-developed without being elaborate, which keeps this an affordable base in an expensive resort town. Pets are welcome. Lake George has drawn visitors from across the eastern seaboard since the nineteenth century, and the village concentrates historical attractions and commercial entertainment more densely than anywhere else inland in New York. The Adirondack foothills rise immediately around it. Directions: the campground sits three miles north of Lake George Village on New York State Route 9, 60 miles north of Albany. Summer is decisively the season, and Lake George fills across the board in July and August. Reserve well ahead.

from $48 $41/night

Skyline RV Resort

45 RV Sites

Skyline RV Resort in Darien Center, New York, occupies a position in western New York that puts guests within easy reach of some of the region's strongest attractions — including Six Flags Darien Lake directly nearby, Niagara Falls to the northwest, and Letchworth State Park's dramatic Genesee River gorge to the southeast — while delivering a well-equipped, lakeside campground experience that functions equally as a destination in its own right. The resort's full-hookup sites, two heated pools, and extensive event facilities make it as appealing for families who never leave the property as for those who use it as a staging base for the surrounding region. Full-hookup RV sites with spacious pads accommodate large rigs across the property, with the waterfront location adding a distinctive natural character to an otherwise well-programmed family resort. Two heated swimming pools serve guests through the warm-weather season, covered cornhole courts and an expansive event center provide structured activity space in any weather, and a snack bar, playground, sports courts, and clubhouse fill out a comprehensive amenity lineup. Propane exchange and Wi-Fi throughout make practical needs simple, and the overall infrastructure reflects a resort built to sustain families through multi-day stays with programming variety that reduces the "what do we do now?" friction of family camping. Pets are welcome throughout. The Genesee Country landscape of western New York surrounds the resort with agricultural beauty — rolling farmland, hardwood woodlots, and the characterful terrain of a region that was once the frontier of western New York settlement and has retained a quieter, more pastoral character than the Great Lakes cities further north. Darien Center's position between the Erie Canal corridor and the Finger Lakes wine country places it in a varied landscape with more to explore on multi-day itineraries than most guests initially anticipate. Six Flags Darien Lake, effectively adjacent to the resort, is western New York's largest amusement park with coasters, a waterpark, and the Darien Lake Amphitheater hosting major touring concerts and events through the summer — a combination that makes the resort particularly convenient for families with concert or amusement park plans. Letchworth State Park, about 30 miles south, protects 17 miles of the Genesee River gorge in terrain often called the "Grand Canyon of the East" — the three major waterfalls and canyon overlooks are among the most dramatic natural scenery in the Northeast. Niagara Falls and Buffalo's cultural institutions, about 45 miles northwest, round out a day-trip roster that gives the Darien Center location more regional drawing power than first glance suggests. Skyline RV Resort operates through the New York outdoor season from spring through fall, with summer peak weeks driven largely by Six Flags Darien Lake's operating season and the Darien Lake Amphitheater's concert calendar. Reserve early for concert weekends and the July-August peak, when the combination of pool, nearby amusement park, and the resort's own activity programming keeps it at or near capacity.

from $49/night

Saratoga RV Park

246 RV Sites

Saratoga RV Park in Gansevoort, New York, offers 246 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet, just north of Saratoga Springs. Basic and premium categories join an outdoor pool, clubhouse, recreation center, and on-site dining in the Capital Region. Two hundred forty-six back-in sites run in basic and premium categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet. A laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, RV storage, and boat storage handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a clubhouse, recreation center, and on-site dining besides. Pickleball, volleyball, basketball, shuffleboard, and sports courts fill the courts, with walking trails, hiking, biking, and a playground across the grounds. A state park is nearby. Pets are welcome. Saratoga Springs is the draw, and it carries an unusual concentration for a city its size: world-class thoroughbred racing at one of America's oldest tracks, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Revolutionary and Civil War history, and the natural mineral springs that made the city a destination in the first place. Directions from the south: take Exit 15 north off I-87, turn right, and follow NY-50 for eight miles — the park is on the left. The July and August racing meet is the sharpest demand spike of the year and fills lodging across the entire Capital Region. Reserve as early as you can if your stay overlaps it.

from $67/night

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

Bear Creek Lake

8 RV Sites

Bear Creek Lake Resort occupies 750 acres of forested hills and meadows in Franklinville, New York, in the Cattaraugus County highlands that define the southern tier of New York's Enchanted Mountains region. The resort centers on a private 15-acre lake—the bear creek lake itself—and delivers a recreation package that combines water sports, motorized trail access, equestrian activities, and court sports within a single property that feels more like a private wilderness retreat than a campground. The resort's amenities are built around physical adventure: the lake supports canoeing, kayaking, paddleboarding, and fishing for bass, trout, perch, and sunnies, while a heated Olympic-sized swimming pool provides a more structured water option. Miles of private ATV trails run through the wooded terrain surrounding the lake, and horseback riding adds an equestrian dimension that distinguishes Bear Creek from most family camping resorts in the Northeast. Basketball, tennis, and pickleball courts cover court sports, and full hookup RV sites, comfortable cabins, and scenic tent sites accommodate all accommodation preferences. The resort recently completed a $5 million renovation that has brought the facilities up to a level commensurate with the spectacular natural setting. Franklinville sits in the Cattaraugus County highlands, a landscape of deep hardwood-forested valleys, clear creeks, and the dramatic hill country that the last glacier left behind in southern New York. The terrain here is genuinely wild by eastern standards—thick second-growth forests on steep ridges, beaver ponds in valley bottoms, and the sense of being embedded in a large, relatively unpopulated landscape that grows increasingly rare this close to the population centers of the Northeast. The proximity to Ellicottville, one of western New York's premier resort towns, adds an extra dimension for guests who want options beyond the resort itself. Ellicottville, about fifteen minutes from the resort, anchors the region's tourist economy with Holiday Valley and HoliMont ski areas—two of the better ski destinations in the eastern United States—alongside a walkable village with distinctive restaurants and a summer and fall activity calendar. Allegany State Park, one of New York's largest and most diverse state parks at 65,000 acres, is within easy driving distance and provides camping, hiking, cycling, and swimming in an Appalachian Plateau setting. Letchworth State Park—sometimes called the Grand Canyon of the East for its dramatic 600-foot gorge carved by the Genesee River—is about an hour's drive and represents one of the Northeast's most spectacular natural landmarks. Bear Creek Lake Resort operates through the New York outdoor recreation season, with the full range of water, trail, and equestrian activities available through summer and fall. The ATV trail network draws motorsport enthusiasts, the lake attracts anglers and paddlers, and the combination makes it a rare multi-activity resort capable of satisfying a family with genuinely different outdoor interests. Book cabin accommodations early for summer holiday weekends in this part of western New York, where quality lodging options are limited and the Enchanted Mountains' growing reputation has steadily increased demand.

from $75/night