I was surprised how strenuous it was because I’m usually good with ascending, but your payoff comes quick. Giant Ledge: This intermediate 3.5-mile out-and-back hike starts off with a fairly steep trek up rocky terrain in a beautiful wood. Needless to say we have invested in better gear since then.) We did once get trapped in a crazy bad storm though and have to eat cold rolls and an entire box of cookies in our car because our tent sprung a substantial leak. (For the record, we have never done this. The staff is welcoming and really does a great job keeping the bathrooms and showers clean. Also, if your attempts at campfire cooking totally fail, there’s an Italian restaurant in town that will deliver to your site.
RIP VAN WINKLE CAMPGROUND FREE
There’s also a pool, a nicely stocked camp store, a lake with paddle boats, trout fishing, laundry facilities and free coffee. The grounds are pretty, with a winding gravel road that leads through a fairly heavily wooded forest and past a creek (we like the creekside sites the best). The tent sites are huge. We’ve stayed at both the KOA and Rip Van Winkle Campgrounds in Saugerties, and Rip Van Winkle is our favorite by far. We do not like loud groups of college kids arguing over the rules of beer pong at 3am. (Yes, this makes me sound old. We like heavily wooded campgrounds where the sites are pretty well spaced. But despite being car campers, we still like our camping experience to be as close to “alone in the wilderness” as we can get. Granted, we do hike (take the train) out of New York City with all our worldly goods to pick up a car in New Jersey, but we can’t say that really counts as “roughing it” no matter how difficult it is to carry that stuff up and down the subway stairs. Here I’ve put together a little guide of some of our favorite things to do in the lower Hudson Valley.įirst, Andrew and I are “car campers,” meaning that we don’t hike out to remote campsites with all our worldly goods on our backs.
We love the close proximity to New York City-about a two hour drive-which allows us to get away for a long weekend without much fuss. For the past three years, our destination has been New York’s Catskills region, in particular the town of Saugerties. Andrew and I both love camping, so we’ve made it a tradition to go at least once a year.
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