Best Cabin Camping near Ripley, NY

Lake Erie State Park Campground in Brocton provides cabin accommodations approximately 15 miles from Ripley, while Chautauqua Lake KOA in Dewittville offers cabin rentals with convenient access to lake activities. Both locations feature basic furnished cabins with electricity and beds, though amenities vary by site. "The campground was busy, but not over-crowded. The shower houses are clean," noted one visitor about Lake Erie State Park. Compass Campgrounds provides more rustic cabin options with trails for exploring local wildlife. Brushwood Folklore Center also offers cabin rentals but maintains a clothing-optional policy throughout the grounds.

Rustic and deluxe cabins are both available, depending on the location. Lake Erie cabins provide lake views but limited privacy, while KOA cabins typically include more amenities such as furnished patios at premium sites. Most cabins require two-night minimum stays during peak summer months from May through October, though some allow single-night bookings on weekdays. According to one reviewer, "Although this is a KOA Holiday, we used it as a KOA Journey on our way to the Catskills. Not too far from the Interstate and there was no highway noise at the campground." Pet policies vary by location, with most allowing dogs but imposing restrictions.

Most cabins include beds but require visitors to bring their own linens, towels, and toiletries. Kitchen facilities range from basic fire pits to equipped kitchenettes, depending on the cabin type and location. Chautauqua Lake KOA provides a camp store for basic supplies, while Lake Erie State Park cabins require bringing all necessities as the nearest grocery stores are approximately 15 minutes away by car. Firewood is available for purchase at most locations. Water access points are near cabins but not always directly at individual sites. During summer months, advance reservations are strongly recommended, particularly for weekend stays and cabins with lake views.

Best Cabin Sites Near Ripley, New York (26)

    1. Lake Erie State Park Campground

    22 Reviews
    Brocton, NY
    19 miles
    Website
    +1 (716) 792-9214

    $17 - $88 / night

    "This park is right on the lake near the PA border. Flat short trails through the forests or walk along the beach."

    "We stayed in a non-electric site in my campervan and it was perfect. There is comfortable space between each campsite in most cases plus lots of trees for shade."

    2. Chautauqua Lake KOA

    8 Reviews
    Mayville, NY
    15 miles
    Website
    +1 (716) 386-3804

    $35 - $300 / night

    "Not too far from the Interstate & there was no highway noise at the campground. 

     "

    "The sites are HUGE, plenty of space for our 30' TT, truck, and screen house. Nice large parks, mini-golf, and jump pad."

    3. Compass campgrounds

    1 Review
    Ripley, NY
    2 miles
    +1 (814) 397-3616

    $25 - $60 / night

    "Compass Campgrounds is more than a place to stay, they also have tons of trails so you can explore the area and search for local wildlife.  Check them out and share some pics of your stay!"

    4. Brushwood Folklore Center, LLC

    1 Review
    Sherman, NY
    11 miles
    Website
    +1 (716) 753-6636

    $10 - $45 / night

    "There are showers, hot tub and pool. All are very clean. There are two weeks of festival in the summer during which the rate goes up.

    My wife and I love the chill vibe."

    5. Sparrow Pond Family Campground

    6 Reviews
    Waterford, PA
    25 miles
    Website
    +1 (814) 796-6777

    $40 - $72 / night

    "Sparrows ponds Campground is very nice with level gravel sites with grass area and fire ring with a grate for cooking."

    "Plenty of things for kids to do heated pool, 1:00 check out with ability to check out at 5pm for a small fee."

    6. Erie KOA

    9 Reviews
    Girard, PA
    30 miles
    Website
    +1 (814) 476-7706

    "The staff was able to move us to a cabin and prevent us having to find other accommodations. They even stopped over to check on us after we swapped sites."

    "Fun little campground with friendly staff and wide open spaces. Clean bathrooms, great pool, fun little game room. The playground got 2 thumbs up from a 4 and 6 year old."

    7. Harecreek Campground

    1 Review
    Corry, PA
    23 miles
    Website
    +1 (814) 664-9684

    "There is a playground for the kids and a nice pond. Make sure you have a pressure regulator for the water as they have 100 psi on their water lines."

    8. Quaker Area — Allegany State Park State Park

    27 Reviews
    Steamburg, NY
    47 miles
    Website
    +1 (716) 354-2182

    "We head out to Allegany State Park every year in late fall. The cabins are perfect for cooler temperatures and cozying up beside the wood stove."

    "This park is massive with two distinct zones in the park and over a dozen individual campground loops."

    9. Evangola State Park Campground

    17 Reviews
    Irving, NY
    38 miles
    Website
    +1 (716) 549-1760

    $17 - $112 / night

    "We stayed here three nights to ride out a heat wave and really liked it. Sites are electric only, with a dump station available at the entrance and one in the campground loop."

    " We stayed here three nights to ride out a heat wave and really liked it. Sites are electric only, with a dump station available at the entrance and one in the campground loop."

    10. Presque Isle Passage RV Park

    6 Reviews
    Girard, PA
    29 miles
    Website
    +1 (814) 833-3272

    "Yurts and cabins available."

    "Clean facilities, friendly, wooded, and many rentals including 2 yurts."

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Cabin Reviews near Ripley, NY

163 Reviews of 26 Ripley Campgrounds


  • Bill  G.The Dyrt PRO User
    Sep. 26, 2020

    Willow Bay Recreation Area

    Quiet nights, Easy days

    Willow bay campground is run by the National Forest Service. The reservable lots are wide and numerous for a out of the way sight. The campground services tent sites, RV sites as well as small cabins with electricity. There is a central bathhouse near the oak loop. Closer to the boat ramp sites- most of which are tent ready, there are vault toilets. These sites are less than a mile from the North Country Trail. Other, smaller trails are here as well. The New York State lone is less than five miles away- providing access to Allegheny State Park. The closest town of note is Bradford, which is about 18 miles away. It has all you need to get your necessities. The cabins were small- one twin bed and a set of single bunks. You need to bring your own sheets. There is a small heater imbedded in the wall. It keeps things from getting too cold, as it was when I was there. Fire ring and picnic table provided. Charcoal grill as well. The only problem I had was with the wildlife. A mouse or something kep crawling in the space between the roof and ceiling. There is no cel service here, and you shouldn’t need it either. Places to visit are too numerous to mention, but I will give a shout out to the zippo case museum, absolutely a must.

  • Laura M.The Dyrt PRO User
    Dec. 28, 2023

    Evangola State Park Campground

    Great campground

    We stayed here three nights to ride out a heat wave and really liked it. Sites are electric only, with a dump station available at the entrance and one in the campground loop. There are potable water spigots throughout the campground, where you awkwardly pull over to the side of the road and fill your tank. Sites are pretty much wide open, with zero separation between you and your neighbor. Most are out in direct sun but the ones along the edge have some tree cover and shade. 

    There are yurts here as well, and a playground, and a huge disc golf course. You can walk to the beach from the campground (dogs aren’t allowed on the beach). The nature center is right in the campground, by the basketball and tennis courts. 

    Showers were dirty and buggy, but they’re free and you can actually choose your own water temperature. NY State campgrounds require proof of rabies vaccinations for your dogs.

     Good cell reception for Verizon, ATT wasn’t great but the cell booster helped. Trash bins, but no recycling. Beautiful sunset on the lake.

  • Laura M.The Dyrt PRO User
    Dec. 28, 2023

    Evangola State Park Campground

    Great campground

     We stayed here three nights to ride out a heat wave and really liked it. Sites are electric only, with a dump station available at the entrance and one in the campground loop. There are potable water spigots throughout the campground, where you awkwardly pull over to the side of the road and fill your tank. 

    Sites are pretty much wide open, with zero separation between you and your neighbor. Most are out in direct sun but the ones along the edge have some tree cover and shade. 

    There are yurts here as well, and a playground, and a huge disc golf course. You can walk to the beach from the campground (dogs aren’t allowed on the beach). The nature center is right in the campground, by the basketball and tennis courts. Showers were dirty and buggy, but they’re free and you can actually choose your own water temperature. 

    NY State campgrounds require proof of rabies vaccinations for your dogs. Good cell reception for Verizon, ATT wasn’t great but the cell booster helped. Trash bins, but no recycling. Beautiful sunset on the lake.

  • Travis S.
    Jun. 30, 2020

    Dewdrop

    Spacious

    Campsite layouts are non traditional with large driveways and often times the tables and fire rings are below the driveway.  With this layout you get more privacy with very few sites having and overlapping with other sites. Pitching a tent was easy on the driveway and fairly level. Some sites had large high sided fire rings which take away from the fireside relaxation of a shorter camp chair. 

    Bathrooms and shower house was below the standards of many of PA State Parks which we regard as the benchmark for campgrounds at reasonable prices. 

    Boating and biking all accessible from the grounds. No need to drive to the trails at Jakes Rocks.

  • Alex K.
    Apr. 30, 2020

    Quaker Area — Allegany State Park State Park

    Quaker Area- Buffalo Cabin #8

    We head out to Allegany State Park every year in late fall. The cabins are perfect for cooler temperatures and cozying up beside the wood stove. The table and chairs provided inside the cabin are perfect for eating on and prepping food. 

     The buffalo trail is perfect for a weekend getaway, with Cabin 8 far in the corner, providing lots of space between nearby cabins. It is also beside the river and provides a wonderful sound to fall asleep to.

    Shower facilities are just down the road and were very clean! The bathroom facilities on the buffalo cabin loop are also equally clean and warm in the colder temperatures!

  • S
    May. 27, 2020

    Willow Bay Recreation Area

    Willow Bay

    The camp grounds were great. Staff was very helpful and nice. Camp sites were decently spaced out. Fire wood was priced fairly well but they don’t usually deliver($).and they sell worms at the gate along with ice.

    The RVs had their own loop and tents and cabins were on the water down a wooded trail.

    The reason this was 4/5 is because you have to unload the car then walk everything to the camp. There is no drive up access for tent camping. A wagon is highly encouraged

    Additionally, vault toilets on the tent side and plumbing and showers on the RV side. Bathrooms were very clean and didn’t smell, the showers were hot.

    I saw some boats anchored at sites which I thought was nice. I also got to peek into a cabin and it was pretty cozy.

  • D
    Aug. 22, 2017

    Oil Creek Family Campground

    Ranger Review: Mountain House Lasagna with Meat Sauce at Oil Creek Family Campground

    Campground Review

    I can honestly say that Oil Creek Family Campground is the best private campground that we have ever camped at. Especially if you’re camping with kids, it offers everything that you would want for a ‘great American summer’ style camping experience, without being a cookie-cutter big-name private campground chain. They have a large pool; a few llamas that the kids can feed and pet; a 27-hole disc golf course (recently expanded from 18 hole) primarily in the woods near and around the campground property; a small pond for sunfish / bass fishing; a dog ‘playground’ (enclosed area with some obstacles); a well-maintained hedge maze; a pavilion with ping pong, a pool table, and foosball; a DVD rental program at the main office with about 300 movies; and a small camp store with a small selection of books that you can borrow. They also provide weekly entertainment for the kids, e.g. rock painting or special guests. This weekend, for instance was ‘Jungle Terry and his amazing exotic animal family.’ We don’t typically spend a ton of time actually AT the campgrounds when we’re camping, but we did this weekend - and we had a blast on the disc golf course, fishing in the pond, and playing ping pong. The kids had an awesome time in the pool for hours and running around with the other kids in the maze. And everyone agreed that it was a perfect way to wrap up the summer before the school year starts.

    We have a pop-up and my parents (whom we were camping with for the weekend) use a tent, so we had two water+electric sites in the tent camping area away from the RVs: sites A7 and A8. The sites in this area are well-maintained and LARGE, with plenty of room for a pop-up or multiple tents plus one or two vehicles, plus lots of room around the fire ring. There are smaller bathrooms placed around the campground as well as a center bathhouse located adjacent to the pavilion with 2 shower stalls and an additional toilet per gender.

    We chose this campground due to its proximity to Oil Creek State Park. The state park itself does not have a campground, and OCFC is right next door - in fact, the campground hiking trail loop has a very short connecting piece to the 36-mile Gerard hiking trail that runs through the park. The park is beautiful with a lot of history (it is the site of the world’s first commercial oil well, and where the oil industry began in the United States around 1860) and Oil Creek - which is really a river - runs right down the middle of the park. It is a stocked creek and it’s great for both trout and bass fishing. Some parts of the creek also have a lot of northern water snakes (we saw 4 near the Blood Farm day use area) which was cool to see.

    Overall: fantastic campground in a beautiful part of Pennsylvania - and we will absolutely be back.

    Product Review

    As a Ranger for The Dyrt, I get occasionally receive products to test or gift cards for new companies to check out.  Over the past weekend, we tried out one of the Mountain House favorites, freeze-dried Lasagna with Meat Sauce in the #10 can. Lasagna is not exactly a typical camping food, so the fact that we could easily make enough lasagna to feed a group of six people (4 adults and 2 kids) just by heating up some water was wonderful! We made the entire can (boil 8 cups of water, pour it into the can itself, stir a lot to mix up all of the freeze-dried ingredients, and let it sit for ten minutes - EASY) along with some crescent-roll wrapped hot dogs over the fire and it was like a gourmet camping meal. Everyone loved the lasagna - even the two picky kids!

  • Kim D.
    Aug. 31, 2018

    Evangola State Park Campground

    Some Sites Have a View of Lake Erie

    Unfortunately, my site did not.

    However, my site wasn't crowded and the electricity was reliable. This campground has three loops. One has 30 amp power, one has 50 amp power (with a 30 amp outlet on the same pedestal) and the third loop is for tent camping. There are several places to get water in the camp, so be sure to fill up your tanks before you park. There is a dump station. None of the sites are full hook up.

    Each site has a picnic table and a grill.

    There are two bath houses. The newer one - between loops one and three - also has laundry facilities.

    Your payment for your campsite entitles you to admission to the beach, which is a hike or a drive away.

  • Jessica C.The Dyrt PRO User
    Aug. 6, 2018

    Quaker Area — Allegany State Park State Park

    Gem of a park in Upstate NY

    We come here every summer. This park is massive with two distinct zones in the park and over a dozen individual campground loops. There's also two beaches, over a dozen hiking trails, a restaurant, camp stores, a dump station, and more. Note that on the Quaker side of the park, there is very limited cell service, and that many of the cabins do not have running water inside.


Guide to Ripley

Cabin camping near Ripley, New York, offers a fantastic way to immerse yourself in nature while enjoying the comforts of home. With a variety of campgrounds featuring cozy cabins, you can find the perfect spot for your next getaway.

Cabin campers appreciate these amenities

  • At Lake Erie State Park Campground, visitors enjoy electric hookups, drinking water, and clean restrooms with showers, making for a comfortable stay.
  • Chautauqua Lake KOA provides spacious sites with full amenities, including a market and fun activities for families.
  • Brushwood Folklore Center, LLC features a unique clothing-optional environment with clean facilities, including showers and a hot tub.

Some prices for cabin camping range from $50 to $150

  • Rates at Sparrow Pond Family Campground are affordable, with cabins available for around $75 per night, especially during special events.
  • Erie KOA offers cabins starting at approximately $100, providing a family-friendly atmosphere with plenty of activities.
  • At Compass Campgrounds, cabin rentals are competitively priced, making it an attractive option for budget-conscious campers.

Cabins are available at Lake Erie State Park Campground

  • The Lake Erie State Park Campground features cabins that provide stunning views and easy access to nature trails and the lake.
  • Chautauqua Lake KOA has a selection of cabins that cater to various group sizes, perfect for family gatherings or a weekend retreat.
  • Harecreek Campground offers cozy cabins with full hookups, ideal for those looking to enjoy the outdoors without sacrificing comfort.

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According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular cabin campground near Ripley, NY is Lake Erie State Park Campground with a 4.4-star rating from 22 reviews.

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