Playground
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Keep the little ones happy at campgrounds and RV parks with playgrounds. Featuring swings, slides, and climbing structures, these play areas provide safe and enjoyable spaces for children to burn off energy and make new friends.
RV parks and campgrounds with Playground near Mannsville, New York.
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Willows on the Lake
25 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites, 1 House
Willows on the Lake in Adams, New York, offers 25 RV sites, a house rental, and four tent sites on a lake with a beach and fishing pier in Jefferson County, carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp service with cable TV and rigs accepted to 80 feet. Sites run from 20-amp water-and-electric back-ins to full-hookup pull-throughs, 45 minutes from the Thousand Islands. Twenty-five sites span 20-amp water-and-electric back-ins, 30-amp back-ins and pull-throughs, and full-hookup back-in and pull-through configurations with water, sewer, and electric, sized to 80 feet, with cable TV, site WiFi, and picnic tables. A house rental and cabins serve guests without a rig, and four tent sites cover simpler camping. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The lake carries the recreation. A beach gives swimmers direct access, a fishing pier serves anglers, and boating runs from the property. Sports courts, a playground, and a clubhouse fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Adams sits on NY-11 south of Watertown, between the Tug Hill Plateau's upland forest and the Lake Ontario plain. The Thousand Islands region is 45 minutes away, and the Black River valley carries additional outdoor recreation. Directions from the west, south, and east: from the NY Thruway take Exit 36 toward Syracuse, I-81 north to Exit 41 (Route 178) for Adams/Henderson, right onto Route 178 to Route 72, then about two miles to the stop sign and right, following the signs. The park runs the northern New York season, with summer lake recreation driving peak demand. Reserve ahead for July and August weekends.
from $54/night
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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
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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