This campground is the best! It is located in Amboy, Illinios, about 2-1/2 hours west of Chicago. They have an abundance of sites with electric, water and sewer. The sites are very large (twice as large as some other campgrounds we have been to).
They are very kid friendly so if you have younger children, this is the place to be. There are 3 pools, jacuzzi’s and two water slides.They have hay rides, crafts for the kids and a lot of things for adults to do too. We stayed there a week and it wasn’t long enough.
Kamp Komfort RV Park is located in the town of Carlock, near Bloomington and Peoria. The campground is very clean and quiet. There are many features such as an in-ground pool, a large pavilion, a play area for children, a small store and a dog walk area.
This campground has the cleanest restrooms I have ever been in. The sites are level and most are pull through. Many have patios. There is plenty of shade in this campground. They provide 30 and 50 AMP service. Most of the sites provide full service. There are plenty of sites for large RVs and even tent camping. They also provide an escort to your site.
I can not say enough about this park and the owners. They are wonderful people and go out of their way to make you comfortable.
Recently we headed for Massachusetts and a camping trip that included a day at Six Flags New England. Sodom Mountain Campground had a very impressive ad in a Massachusetts Campground Guide and they claimed to be the “closest camping destination to Six Flags”, so we made our reservations.
The campground is a bit out of the way and the route from Sodom Mountain to the theme park runs through several villages and involves a number of route changes. It took us about 20 minutes to actually get there. Not as close as we had hoped but not a problem.
When we arrived at Sodom Mountain Campground we were a little disappointed. Aesthetically, the park entrance and the grounds were not that appealing. Throughout the property there were areas where maintenance equipment was openly stored, unfinished earthwork and just a general lack of visual appeal. Having maintenance equipment available is understandable but it wouldn’t be that difficult to park a tractor behind a building and out of view.
The interior roads were gravel in fair shape and the sites were of equal quality. Our site was next to another occupied by a family with several noisy kids raised by parents who obviously never taught them manners. They in fact were occupying part of our site and showed no concern for moving once we set up camp. Rather than deal with it we simply picked up and moved to another site. Not a great way to start a weekend.
Sodom Mountain does have a good mix of amenities including a large pool, and plenty to do for kids. Scheduled activities include Texas Bar-B-Qs, clam bakes and pig roasts.
I do think though that if we ever decided to do the camping/theme park thing again, I’d look for another campground… even if it were a bit further away.
Running Bear Camping Area is a little campground located at the foot of Mt. Ascutney in the picturesque southern Vermont village of Ascutney. The park is convenient to Interstate 91, exit 8. So close in fact that some sites tend to get a little road noise.
The campground has a mix of shaded and open, sunny sites. Nearby Ascutney State Park, offers hiking on wooded trails to the summit of the mountain. Two miles south of the campground is Wilgus State Park which offers a canoe launch to the Connecticut River. There are also several free and easy points of entry on both sides of the River.
The facilities are relatively clean and adequately maintained and the interior roads are in fair to good shape. Most sites are level, with fire rings and picnic tables. Some are full hook-ups. There are a few larger sites but with minimal landscaping in between. Some sites are wooded, with a few very close to your neighbor.
Amenities include a campstore with a limited selection of groceries and camping supplies, a heated pool, function hall, and playground.
If you just want to relax, the campground offers special Holiday weekend activities for children & adults, quiet time at your site or a dip in their heated swimming pool. Overall, Running Bear is an acceptable campground but I think we would try a few others in the area before we returned.
I can’t say enough good things about White River Campground. This is one of the nicest campgrounds that we have found in Indiana.
The property is gated with 24-hour security. The facilities are extremely well maintained. The restrooms are always clean, and the buildings and amenities are in great shape. They have a nice camp store, fishing, boating, volleyball, horseshoe pits, a recreation room, playground, and picnic areas. They also have free wi-fi.
Every one of the campground staff are friendly and eager to please the customers. This is a regular stop for us. We’ve been coming here for years and are already making plans for another visit this fall!
Clean. Quiet. Comfortable. You can’t say much more about this campground. Newfound RV Park is located about 10 miles west of I-93, exit 23 in the town of Bridgewater, New Hampshire. The campground is very near spring fed Newfound Lake, considered to be one of the cleanest inland lakes in the United States.We had the opportunity to stay at this campground during the first weekend of August.
Newfound RV Park is a small (45 sites) “big rig”, pet-friendly campground. Our check-in on a Friday afternoon was quick and the attendant was pleasant and accommodating. The campground has a paved entrance, but the interior roads are gravel… wide, and well maintained. Just about all the sites here are pull-thrus… except for 5 “brook side” back-ins. Each site is level and has a fire ring and picnic table. All sites are full-hookup, some with cable TV.
Newfound RV Park - Bridgewater, NH
The showers, rest rooms and laundry facilities are open 24-hours a day and are very clean and well maintained. They have a large pavilion building with pool and ping pong tables and plenty of room for gatherings. We spotted a small book lending library in the pavilion as well.
They have a camp store but quite honestly is was sparsely stocked. You won’t find any refrigerated items like milk or eggs so be sure to get your groceries before you get here. They do offer firewood and propane.
It’s a good thing we had cable tv because Bridgewater, New Hampshire is fairly remote. Our over-the-air digital antenna did not pick up a single tv channel. They do have free wi-fi and the signal was relatively strong and seldom dropped out. Other amenities include a nature trail and a dog walking area.
Newfound RV Park - Bridgewater, NH
There are no scheduled activities here, and not much to do to keep kids occupied. It’s just a clean, quiet, comfortable place to be. It makes an excellent base for exploring this part of New Hampshire. If you’re looking for a campground to just relax and get away from it all, Newfound RV Park is the perfect place to spend a few days.
Barren River Lake State Park has both pull-throughs and back-in sites. The good news on the pull-throughs: They are long! The bad news on the pull-throughs: Although paved, they are not level. In fact, the slots are very much “humped” in a small hill. I had to move five times before I found one that did not stress out my hydraulic levelers. Further, the pull-throughs have partial shade. The back-ins are more shady and appear fairly level, but will only accommodate small (30 foot or less) RV’s.
The park offers AAA Motor Club Discounts. The full rates are $19 for weekdays, $21 for weekends. I was surprised to find that this state park has laundry machines. Unusual to me for a state park. However, the laundry machines were outside under a cover that could be pulled down when not in use, so the laundry facilities were a little dirty. Restrooms were so so, I would wear shower shoes.
Apple Island Resort is located in the Champlain Valley Region of northwestern Vermont. The resort is approximately 6 miles from I-89, exit 17 on US Route 2.  Apple Island Resort includes a campground, a 9-hole golf course, marina and general store.
We arrived on a Friday afternoon in July for a weekend stay. The drive up I-89 from New Hampshire is absolutely beautiful and this part of Vermont’s Champlain Valley is especially picturesque. Our check-in was quick and the front desk attendants were friendly and efficient.
The campground is fairly large (242 sites on 188 acres). The property is a mix of open, sunny areas and tree shaded. The grassed areas and landscaping was neat and well maintained. The bathrooms, showers and laundry facilities were all newer construction, very clean and well stocked.
Apple Island Resort - Looking North
The major interior roads were paved and well maintained. The side roads were packed gravel, some a tad narrow but still in good condition and navigable to even the largest RVs. Our pull-thru site was level and a confortable size with plenty of room for our awning and slide outs. All sites have a picnic table and a fire ring.
Campground amenities include a large new “community” center with a fitness room, library (with an Internet-enabled PC), and a large function room. Next to the community center is an Olympic-size heated swimming pool and hottub, restrooms, showers and a laundry room. There are two other restroom buildings located elsewhere in the campground.
The resort also has a small, 9-hole par 3 “executive” golf course and a full service marina… definitely amenities that set this campground apart from most.
Apple Island Resort - Recreation Hall
Rounding out the feature list is a small playground, walking and biking trails and a respectable schedule of activities for both kids and adults. There is a general store located at the entrance to the campground. The store stocks groceries and camping supplies. They also serve breakfast and lunch items. The campground is also “pet-friendly”.
The resort has a great wi-fi system. I noticed several hotspots as we walked through the property and we were able to “see” several of them from our site. The signal was strong and consistant.
Apple Island Resort is a great campground to spend a few days and a perfect base for exploring this part of Vermont and Upstate New York. That said, it’s not without a flaw or two…
At least half of the sites at this campground are either permanent vacation “homes” or for seasonal campers. While that may not be a factor for some, we do find that it takes a bit away from the camping experience. I will say that these permanent sites are clean and very well maintained, which is more than I can say for most campgrounds.
Apple Island Resort - Marina
With the high number of permanent sites (as well as the golf course) comes a lot of golf cart traffic. It wasn’t unusual to see several carts buzzing past our site at a time throughout the day (and evening). If you’ve got little ones, keep an eye out for them… carts don’t make much noise.
Apple Island Resort also boasts of a snack bar, which we were looking forward to trying… but it was closed. One of the resort employees told us that they did not open it this year because they were trying to get their general store off the ground and the snack bar would be competition.
And while we’re on the subject of the general store, most of the items on the shelves don’t have prices. What’s up with that? You find out what something costs when you check out (an it’s usually too expensive). That’s very inconsiderate to customers and it stopped us and a few others from spending money there.
There is no cable TV at this campground. However Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburg, NY are within signal distance so you can receive the major networks, including the digital subchannels with an antenna.
While the campground does have rules, there always seems to be campers who feel they are the exception. Every night there were quite a few kids riding their bikes through the campground in total darkness. There were also a group of campers who felt the need to test the limits of their stereo and play their music as loud as possible all day long. We really felt sorry for the campers near this group. I know if we had a site near this group, we would have left for another campground. They did at least have enough courtesy to tone it down during quiet hours.
That being said, Apple Island Resort is still a wonderful campground. It’s well maintained, has lots of amenities and it’s located in a beautiful part of Vermont. It’s just not for us.
Hampton Beach State Park RV Campground is a small RV-only park located directly on the Atlantic Ocean on NH Route 1A in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.
The campground itself is nothing special… gravel roads, no trees, no shade, no amenities, but plenty of cool breezes off the ocean. In fact, most campers leave their awnings up… it’s fairly windy most of the time here.
We arrived in late June for a two-week long stay. We had an unobstructed view of the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, the northeast was experiencing and extended period of rain, so we only had a few days of sunny weather… but as they say “a vacation day of rain is still better than a sunny day at work”.
All campsites are gravel, level and comfortably large with full hook-ups. Even the largest RVs will have plenty of room here. While there is no cable, your antenna should pick up more than a dozen channels clearly from Boston, Providence, Portland and Manchester. There are no on-site amenities… no camp store, no laundry, no playground, just campsites. Adjacent to the campground is Hampton Beach State Park which does have a small store with some snacks, ice cream and bagged ice, but that’s about it. If you need anything, head down the “strip”. You’re bound to find it there.
This year they’ve instituted several new changes… rates now cover two adults and two children on the site. The maximum number of adults allowed per site is four, with a maximum of six people total. Each additional adult is charged $11 per night, and each additional child is charged $5 per night. They also now charge for day visitors… $10 per vehicle.
So what’s so great about this park? Other than being directly on the ocean (if that’s not enough!), it’s just a short walk to the Hampton Beach strip… with more food, shops and entertainment than you can take even if you stayed here a week!
Grab your umbrella and towels and head for the beach, it’s only a minute from your campsite. Walk along Hampton Beach Boulevard and smell the fried bread dough, pizza and french fries. Listen to the bells and whistles of the nearby arcades. At night, grab your chairs and head down to the beach and catch the fireworks. Summers are great here! Spend some time exploring Massachusett’s north shore or head a few miles north to downeast Maine. There’s plenty to see and do nearby.
This past July was our 17th visit to Hampton Beach RV Park, and we’ll be back again this summer!
Before reserving a tent site at Thousand Acres, I asked if this was a party campground. I was assured by their staff that the “Family” in the campground’s name meant just that, and that the 11:00pm quiet time was enforced by their security. I wanted this reassurance as we were camping with our 3 year old and 1.5 year old twins for the first time.
I somehow managed to fall asleep around 2:30am, being kept awake (with earplugs, no less!) by the blaring music from the loud, drunk, seasonal camper ‘neighbors’.
Luckily my kids somehow fell asleep around Midnight. I got up and went for a walk around the campground at 11:30pm, looking for this so-called security. No such thing. I saw other campsites with fires going and music playing, but at least their music was a bit softer. So much for security, the supposed quiet time, and the “Family” aspect.
There are two playground areas. The main playground has old, somewhat dangerous equipment. The other has wooden equipment next to the bath house. The pool and bathrooms were clean.
