Great Spots to Camp in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has many great places to camp. From the mountains to the rivers, Pennsylvania is home to some of the most beautiful campsites in the country.
There are hundreds of options for campgrounds throughout PA, but these are 10 that are guaranteed to give you a good time!
1. Fox Den Acres Campgrounds, New Stanton, PA
The Fox Den Acres Campgrounds has many amenities, including 119 electric campsites and 26 non-electric sites. The campground also offers showers, quiet hours for families with children, trash collection service available, picnic tables at every site and dump station.
2. Camp Davis Campground, Boyers, PA
Camp Davis has a lot of activities to do including hiking trails and mini golf! The campgrounds offer cabin rentals as well as tent camping. Hiking trails are beautifully constructed through the woods of the area leading to a pond where visitors can swim in during summer months or go ice skating on during winter months. In addition to swimming and ice skating there is also fishing along with horseshoes and volleyball courts. There is no charge for camping.
3. Mirror Lake Campground, New Florence, PA
Mirror Lake RV Camping and Fishing Campgrounds is located in picturesque southwestern Pennsylvania with an old-fashioned family atmosphere. There are many amenities including being close to the Laurel Highlands, a beautiful mountainous region in southwestern Pennsylvania. Private showers located within each camping area provide hot water and flushable toilets are centrally located throughout the campgrounds. Mirror Lake is also the closest campground to Idlewild Park and Soak Zone.
4. Gaslight Campgrounds, Emlenton, PA
Gaslight Campgrounds offer a quiet escape from everyday life and allows visitors to relax and enjoy nature at its best. The campsites have picnic tables and fire rings and has clean bathrooms that feature modern shower facilities and handicapped accessible bathrooms available as well. Other amenities include grills for cooking your meals, picnic pavilion available for group outings, open fires are allowed with the following conditions: an established fire ring is used, fire must be maintained at all times by responsible person(s) and fire must not damage trees or shrubs.
5. Fort Boone Campground, Milton, PA
Fort Boone is very family friendly RV park and campground has amenities that include hot showers, restrooms with flushable toilets that feature modern shower facilities for both men and women. There are also handicapped accessible bathrooms located throughout the campgrounds as well as grills for cooking meals on site.
6. Ringing Rocks Family Campground, Upper Black Eddy, PA
The Ringing Rocks Family Campground is located an hour south of the scenic Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. It offers amenities that include hot showers, restrooms with flushable toilets that feature modern shower facilities for both men and women, grills for cooking meals on site, picnic pavilion available for group outings, open fires are allowed with the following conditions.
Visitors can enjoy camping along with nearby rivers to fish in during summer months or cross-country skiing in the winter months. Other activities visitors can enjoy include hiking trails along the site, mini-golf and playing horseshoes within designated areas of the camping area.
7. White Oak Campground, Quarryville, PA
White Oak offers family camping with modern amenities including dump station open all year, restrooms that feature flushable toilets that provide showers for both men and women as well as handicap accessible bathrooms available throughout the campgrounds. There are also grills for cooking meals on site and picnic pavilion available for group outings.
Visitors can enjoy swimming in the lake or cross country skiing during winter months or fishing or hiking to nearby aquatic attractions during summer months while visiting this Pennsylvania campgrounds.
8. Red Rock Mountain Campground, Benton, PA
Red Rock Mountain is located in scenic Clinton County, Pennsylvania. There are many amenities to include access to the nearby Ricketts Glen State Park with hiking trails available along with fishing.
Nearby activities visitors can enjoy while visiting the campgrounds are catching a drive-in movie, visiting Mohegan Sun Casino in Wilkes-Barre, swimming, fishing and kayaking or even taking a scenic horseback ride at Brace’s Stables in Jamison, PA.
9. Pettecote Junction Campground, Cedar Run, PA
Pettecote Junction offers camping in natural surroundings near Sunbury and offers modern amenities including five lakes for fishing within close proximity, restrooms that feature flushable toilets that provide showers for both men and women, grills for cooking meals on site, picnic pavilion available to group outings.
10. Red Run Campground, New Holland, PA
Red Run offers camping in a wooded setting along 2 ½ miles of scenic Muddy Creek offering modern amenities including hot showers restrooms that feature flushable toilets that provide showers for both men and women as well as handicap accessible bathrooms available throughout the campgrounds. Visitors can enjoy fishing for trout, bass, bluegill and perch or hike trails located throughout the campgrounds.