Tent Camping near Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania

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

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

The Campground at Bethel Woods

414 RV Sites, 25 Tent Sites, 60 Glamping Sites

The Campground at Bethel Woods in Swan Lake, New York, offers 414 RV sites, 25 tent sites, and 60 glamping sites on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival, with 30 and 50-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 60 feet behind a gated entrance. Premier RV and car camping categories join a disc golf course, general store, and community fire pit. Four hundred fourteen back-in sites run in Premier RV and car camping categories, carrying water and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 60 feet. Plan around the hookups: sites carry water and electric but not sewer, so manage tank capacity accordingly. Twenty-five tent sites and 60 glamping sites round out the lodging. A general store, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and portable toilets handle the practical side. Two things worth knowing: the camping price does not include concert tickets, and lawn and camping chairs are permitted in the campgrounds. A disc golf course, pond, pavilion, and community fire pit fill the grounds. The amenity set is deliberately restrained — the property exists to serve the amphitheater and the museum, not to compete with them. Pets are welcome. Guests sleep on the actual site where half a million people gathered over three days in August 1969 to define a generation's relationship to music and possibility. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, its museum, and its concert pavilion sit on the same ground, in the Sullivan County countryside of the Catskills. Demand tracks the concert calendar entirely. Check the schedule and reserve as early as you can for show weekends.

from $54/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

Pocono Point RV & Campground

46 RV Sites, 3 Cabins, 11 Tent Sites, 4 Onsite RV/Trailers, 1 Tiny House

Pocono Point RV & Campground in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, offers 50 full-hookup RV sites, four cabin and tiny-house rentals, and 11 tent sites in Carbon County, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet. An outdoor pool, clubhouse, and game room anchor the on-site side, six miles north of Jim Thorpe. Fifty sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Rental units include 5th wheel, Avenger, Hideout, and Sunset trailers for guests arriving without a rig, alongside cabins and a tiny house. Eleven tent sites cover simpler camping. A general store, firewood, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle longer stays, and WiFi reaches the property. An outdoor pool anchors the summer season, with a clubhouse, game room, and arcade for indoor hours. Sports courts, basketball, and a dog park spread across the grounds, walking trails and hiking run from the property, and fishing is available on site. A pavilion handles group gatherings. Pets are welcome. Lehighton sits on US-209 along the Lehigh River. Lehigh Gorge State Park's 26-mile whitewater and rail-trail corridor is immediately accessible, and Jim Thorpe's preserved Victorian downtown, with its inns, restaurants, and galleries, is six miles south. Philadelphia and New York are each about 90 minutes. The campground serves the Pocono season, with summer rafting and October foliage driving peak weekends from both metro markets. Reserve well ahead for fall color and summer holidays.

100 Mile View Camping

7 RV Sites, 7 Tent Sites

100 Mile View Camping in Jim Thorpe, PA, offers 7 RV sites and 7 tent sites, with room for rigs up to 40 feet. Every site is a rustic campsite that takes either an RV or a tent, with a fire pit and picnic table. Be clear on what rustic means here: there are no hookups at the site — no water, sewer, or electric — and sanitation is by portable toilet, so come fully self-contained. The property is rated big rig friendly within its 40-foot limit. Pets are welcome. What you get instead of hookups is the view. The campground occupies 400 acres of rolling Pocono terrain and its high ridgeline delivers panoramas across multiple counties on a clear day — the name is not marketing. Walking trails, hiking, biking, and mountain biking run from the property, with boating and a state park nearby. Jim Thorpe sits three miles away, a Victorian town in the Lehigh Gorge that anchors this corner of the Poconos. Rates for RV and tent sites are on the booking page. Arrive self-contained and with water aboard — there is nothing to hook up to.

from $40/night

Jim Thorpe Camping Resort

9 RV Sites, 24 Tent Sites

Jim Thorpe Camping Resort in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, offers nine RV sites and 24 tent sites in Carbon County's Lehigh Gorge, with 20 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 36 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. An outdoor pool, game room, and planned activities sit at the foot of the Pocono Mountains. Nine sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 50-amp back-in configurations, with water-and-electric-only 20-amp sites also available, sized to 36 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, cable TV, and site WiFi. Note the 36-foot cap before booking a larger rig. Twenty-four tent sites make this notably tent-friendly. A general store, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. One important reminder from the operators: there is wildlife here, including black bears along with squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, and skunks. Keep all food in coolers inside your RV, trailer, or fifth wheel rather than out at the site. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a game room, playground, and walking trails on the grounds and planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Jim Thorpe is sometimes called the Switzerland of America for its dramatic gorge setting, and the Victorian-era downtown is among the most architecturally remarkable in Pennsylvania. The Lehigh River's whitewater rafting corridor runs alongside, and the surrounding Poconos carry extensive hiking and biking trails. The resort serves the Pocono season. Summer rafting and October foliage are the two peak windows, drawing heavily from Philadelphia and New York. With nine RV sites, reserve well ahead for fall color weekends.

from $55/night

Sun Retreats Birchwood Acres

29 RV Sites, 24 Cabins, 20 Tent Sites, 6 Cottages, 4 Onsite RV/Trailers, 13 Villas, 29 Lodges, 1 Park Model

Sun Retreats Birchwood Acres in Greenfield Park, NY, offers 33 full-hookup RV sites, 73 cabin, cottage, lodge, park model, and villa rentals, and 20 tent sites, with 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 40 feet. RV sites are 50-amp back-ins carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with site-delivered WiFi and a picnic table, and there's a premium one-bedroom RV rental with a bunk room for guests without a rig. Note the electrical: the resort runs 50-amp service, so a rig wired for lighter service will need an adapter. With 73 rentals against 33 RV sites, this is a cabin resort that also takes RVs. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, a snack bar, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, golf cart rentals, and bike rentals cover the practical side. A free resort app and a rewards program are available. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. The recreation is exhaustive: two pools, an interactive water zone with inflatable toys, a hot tub and sauna, a recreation center with an arcade and laser tag, a jumping pillow, tennis, sport courts, basketball, volleyball, bocce, shuffleboard, horseshoes, gaga ball, gem panning, boat rentals and paddle boats on a private four-acre lake, walking trails, and a planned-activity calendar that runs Memorial Day through Labor Day without a gap. Greenfield Park sits in the Catskill foothills in Ulster County. Rates for every accommodation type are on the booking page. Summer books far ahead.

from $31/night

Jellystone Park™ Binghamton

79 RV Sites, 6 Cabins, 11 Tent Sites, 4 Glamping Sites, 4 Yurts, 7 Onsite RV/Trailers, 4 Wagons

Experience outdoor fun at Jellystone Park with exciting attractions, engaging activities, and various ways to stay, all designed for an unforgettable family adventure. Enjoy a stay in a luxury cabin, a deluxe RV site, or a scenic tent site. Discover our incredible water attractions including pools, splash grounds, and water slides, then take a break to play with Yogi Bear™, Boo Boo™, and Cindy Bear™. It's a vacation your family will never forget! YOGI BEAR and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera. (s26)

Jellystone Park™ Gardiner

136 RV Sites, 77 Cabins, 19 Tent Sites, 59 Cottages, 2 Houses, 2 Lodges

Jellystone Park Gardiner in Gardiner, New York, offers 136 RV sites, 140 cabin, cottage, house, and lodge rentals, and 19 tent sites across 100 rolling acres above the Wallkill River, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet. A water park, lazy river, and full Jellystone activity program run beneath the Shawangunk Ridge. Sites run from premium back-in and pull-through to Red Carpet and riverfront categories — riverfront deluxe RV/tent, riverfront premium, and riverfront Red Carpet — all carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp with water and sewer, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. One hundred forty cabins, cottages, houses, and lodges cover every lodging format, and 19 tent sites serve simpler camping. Cable TV reaches the sites, and a dump station, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Note that a daily resort fee applies and covers mini-golf, playground, and the wider amenity set. Recreation is the product here. A water park, lazy river, outdoor pool, and inflatable water toys anchor the summer, with mini-golf, a jumping pillow, laser tag, an arcade, and a craft room besides. Tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, shuffleboard, and gaga ball spread across the grounds, and a pond and lake support fishing. Walking trails, a dog park, community fire pit, and golf cart rentals round it out. On-site dining covers meals. Pets are welcome. The Shawangunk Ridge rises above the property — the white conglomerate cliffs that climbers know as the Gunks. Mohonk Mountain House, state park access, and Hudson Valley wineries are all close. Summer is the peak by a wide margin. Book well ahead for July and August weekends.

from $39/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 $63/night