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Best Campgrounds near Roosevelt, NY

263 Reviews

Camping options near Roosevelt, New York primarily consist of developed campgrounds within driving distance of urban areas. Nickerson Beach Park Campground in Lido Beach accommodates tents and RVs with amenities including electric hookups, drinking water, and showers. Approximately 15 miles north, Battle Row Campground in Old Bethpage provides a year-round tent and RV camping experience with more primitive facilities. Heckscher State Park Campground in East Islip features tent, RV, and cabin camping with electric hookups and waterfront proximity. The region includes several state and county parks offering structured camping experiences rather than dispersed or backcountry options.

Most campgrounds in the area require reservations, particularly during the peak season from May through September. Campsite availability is limited, with many locations filling quickly on summer weekends due to their proximity to New York City. Blydenburgh County Park allows year-round camping while others like Heckscher State Park operate seasonally from late spring through early fall. The coastal location means weather can be variable, with potential for storms and wind, especially at shoreline campgrounds like Nickerson Beach. Most sites accommodate RVs with varying levels of hookups, though size restrictions may apply. A visitor noted, "Nickerson Beach Park Campground is basically a parking lot, but it's steps away from some of the greatest waves on the east coast."

Campers report mixed experiences with amenities and environment at locations near Roosevelt. Several visitors mentioned that many campgrounds feel less like wilderness experiences and more like developed recreation areas. The campgrounds closest to New York City, such as Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City, provide urban convenience but lack natural setting. Sites at Heckscher State Park are described as open with limited privacy between camping areas. A recent review observed that at Heckscher, "The sites are designated by printing on the roads and do not have clear boundaries between them." Water access represents a significant draw, with beach access at Nickerson and Heckscher being particularly valued amenities. Wildlife sightings, including deer and birds, enhance the camping experience at several locations despite their proximity to urban environments.

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Best Camping Sites Near Roosevelt, New York (38)

    1. Nickerson Beach Park Campground

    8 Reviews
    Long Beach, NY
    6 miles
    Website
    +1 (516) 571-7700

    "It’s basically a parking lot, but it’s steps away from some of the greatest waves on the east coast. Showers are clean, there’s a dog park nearby, and the island is very bikable to get around."

    "Very close to everything."

    2. Battle Row Campground

    4 Reviews
    Old Bethpage, NY
    9 miles
    Website
    +1 (516) 572-8690

    $5 - $60 / night

    "You can take bike rides , and relax outside with a nice amount of space to yourself ."

    3. Blydenburgh County Park

    11 Reviews
    Hauppauge, NY
    21 miles
    Website
    +1 (631) 854-3713

    "just a great place to get away from home"

    "The group camping on the fox sites is accessible by a dirt drive in. I felt like I was suddenly transported upstate when in fact I had only driven 2 towns over, (about 20 minutes from home.)"

    4. Sandy Hook — Gateway National Recreation Area

    19 Reviews
    Atlantic Highlands, NJ
    27 miles
    Website
    +1 (347) 630-1124

    $30 - $150 / night

    "Boat from New York City."

    "Once you are there, you can walk right across the street to a bayside inlet and sandy shore that is not highly trafficked because no one can park there except those using the campground."

    5. Liberty Harbor RV Park

    13 Reviews
    Jersey City, NJ
    24 miles
    Website
    +1 (201) 516-7500

    $149 / night

    "Very easy to hop on transit to get to New York City. People were friendly."

    "This is all about location. The closest RV park to NYC. It's basically a parking lot with a dump station. Not much else. Pick one of the larger end row sites to get a little extra elbow room."

    6. Heckscher State Park Campground

    9 Reviews
    Great River, NY
    23 miles
    Website
    +1 (631) 581-2100

    $20 - $285 / night

    ".

    • cottages far enough away from each other
    • fire ring with Adirondack chairs
    • dumpster and recycling within walking distance
    • lots of bone dry firewood around for campfire
    • walkable beach"

    "Overall my experience was positive.

    Camping Sites

    Each camping site has a picnic table and barbeque grill."

    7. Collective Governors Island

    5 Reviews
    Jersey City, NY
    23 miles
    Website
    +1 (970) 445-2033

    $529 - $1200 / night

    "The article also mentions the benefits of camping on Governor Island, such as feeling close to nature, relaxing and enjoying a peaceful space, away from the noise of the city."

    8. Battle Row Campground

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    Old Bethpage, NY
    9 miles
    Website
    +1 (516) 572-8690

    9. Beaver Pond Campground — Harriman State Park

    41 Reviews
    Pomona, NY
    46 miles
    Website
    +1 (845) 947-2792

    $17 - $20 / night

    "$15 dolares la noche para los que viven en el Estado de New York o New York city .. si es fuera del estado son $5 dolares mas!!"

    "Drive-in tent campgrounds. Adequate restroom facilities sprinkled amongst tent sites. Some campsites have raised platforms. All sites have picnic tables and fire ring with flip-top grill."

    10. Skyline RV Camp - Non-Waterfront

    2 Reviews
    New York City, NY
    20 miles
    Website
    +1 (347) 434-6891

    $85 - $120 / night

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  • Paul K.
    Aug. 26, 2025

    Croton Point Park

    Not the Best Place to Go in the Northeast By a Longshot

    Croton Point Campground is a modest little campground, located along the Hudson River within Croton Point Park in NY. In addition to camping, the park itself offers many of its own attractions, including swimming, hiking, kayaking, cabin rentals, and a host of other family-oriented activities just along the Hudson. 

    The park, which is honestly probably the largest attraction here, is located just an hour and a half outside of the city. This proximity is both its perk and its downfall, as the park itself, but particularly the campground, has become laden with all sorts of inexplicable and burdensome rules, endless guidelines, and restrictions only a New York State-run bureaucracy could ever make sense of, let alone hope to justify. 

    This includes all manner of restrictions on how you can camp, where you can camp, what equipment can be used, and use in relation to what particular site you may have been lucky enough to reserve. Much of this you can understand while imagining what may have taken place here to bring them to such measures, but it doesn't make it any easier to contend with. 

    In terms of the actual camping conditions Both the tenting section and RV sites are each very clustered together, and quite crowded, with regular patrols🚓(actual patrols) being made day and night, by both the Park Rangers and what appears to be general park staff members, all looking to see if you or your family might be doing something that they might consider outside of the guidelines or not in compliance with the many restrictions. 

    This is not to say you can't possibly have a good time here. It just might mean being a bit more diligent toward reviewing the potential legitimacy of your normal camping routine to ensure it meets with many restrictions and guidelines imposed, while also making yourself comfortable with some fairly regular surveillance during your stay here. These all being things we hoped to get away from while camping ourselves It just turned out to be a bit much for our particular liking.

  • J
    Aug. 8, 2025

    Wildwood State Park Campground

    Our go-to spot

    My wife and I love this campground. It is right at the entrance to wine country on Long Island and has a beach on the Long Island Sound. (A little rocky on the north shore)

  • GThe Dyrt PRO User
    May. 8, 2025

    Wildwood State Park Campground

    Nice campground with lots of sites

    I've been going to this campground every summer for at least 5 years. Recently they became very stringent about parking to vehicles at the site making it very difficult to visit with a family and 2 vehicles. I usually host group camping trips and the single vehicle rule makes that very difficult.

    That aside, this is a very nice campground with various kinds of sites. You can find sites that are less wooded and better suited to group camping, as well as sites that are a little more secluded. This is one of my favorite campgrounds solely because there are platform sites so I can place my tent on a concrete or wooden platform. There is a separate area for RVs vs tents. There is also a store where you can get a cup of coffee in the morning and lots of goodies throughout the day.

    There are hiking trails and you can walk to the beach. Note - it is a downhill walk to the beach. The beach is fairly clean and has a small boardwalk.

    There are lots of stores nearby as well as orchards to pick your own fruits. I stayed there one weekend and went to Splish Splash waterpark that's not far away. There is also a Tanger Outlet nearby. I've been there during a full on thunderstorm and watched as the trees swayed in the wind.

    Lovely campground with lots of activities to entertain you.

  • GThe Dyrt PRO User
    May. 8, 2025

    Heckscher State Park Campground

    My favorite place for group camping

    This place is the best around for group and family camping. The entire campground is one flat open space where some sites are full in the shade and other sites (lower numbers) have lots of sun. I've been going here every summer since 2019 after it re-opened. Each site has a picnic table and grill. Water is also available near the sites.

    You can come here in tents as well as RVs and the staff is very nice. They toilets are cleaned constantly, though they are not immaculate. There is a shop at the entrance to get supplies if you need it and you can rent firepits and buy firewood. The ice cream trucks comes by as well. There is a playground just for the campground.

    Bring a bicycle or scooper and you can ride the loop around to the beach; you can also drive to the beach. There is a pool, but it has not been open for many years. There are also hiking trails and a place where you can rent a kayak.

    On one visit there was a magician performing for the camp goers. I've even been there while there was a philharmonic concert near the campground.

    Park staff and rangers regularly patrol the campground and are diligent about cleaning up.

  • M
    May. 3, 2025

    Blydenburgh County Park

    Great stay

    If your going to be on Long Island ,Suffolk county is really only RV friendly place.Worth buying green key card for resident access.200 but you’d spend that 4 nights regardless.Very clean campgrounds lots of space.Not much to do inside the grounds.

  • Joe R.
    Mar. 23, 2025

    Liberty Harbor RV Park

    Worth it

    This is a pricey park, but options are limited. As in almost non existent. This is a prime location for visiting the city or heading down the shore. The light rail is a block away, and the path train is about 8.

    Staff is average, as this is not meant to be high end. They are nice but a bit rough. We had some issues with our converter and they wanted to extort a 20% commission to allow our repair man in. A bit of logical conversation put that idea to sleep. Sites kind of level and very close. Power and water, and convenient dump station if staying and needing to dump. The bath house was above average and heated. The laundry was helpful and was acceptable. Having a view of Lady Liberty out your window is priceless.

    Getting in and out of the city is an adventure. Stay right off the highway to avoid the $30 tunnel toll. Follow RV life pro and not Waze.

  • Lee D.The Dyrt PRO User
    Oct. 18, 2024

    Croton Point Park

    Not too much to offer

    General: A county park with a mix of w/e (6 sites) and FHU sites plus about a dozen tent sites near a capped dump! There is a lodge and cabins close to the end of the point, but they appeared to be part of a group camp experience. They all appeared to be closed for the season (or because no one was renting at the time; they reminded me of places I used to take youth groups for weekend camps). The reservation process is a bit wonky. You need to call (no online reservations) and then wait for an e-mail, but the e-mail does not tell you your assigned site; you have to wait until you check in to find out your site.

    Site Quality: We had a loosely defined gravel pad that was level. All sites appeared level. The FHU sites were back-to-back and although there were trees separating the sites, they were close together. No one was in the tent sites, but they did have new picnic tables.

    Activities/Amenities: Other than a playground and a basketball court, there did not seem to be any activities to partake in. There used to be a pool but from the looks of it, it hasn’t been in use for many years. There are walking paths outside of the campground that are located within the park, but we did not have time to explore them. 

    Bath/Shower house: Clean but a bit dated. No shelves or hooks for toiletries. I was surprised the door was left open all night long. There was a sign warning that the toilets were slow flushing, but I think this may have been fixed because the flush was so powerful that the water splashed over the top of the seat! 

    Because it was on a point on the Hudson, I had hoped for views from the campground but there were too many trees to see the water. I was perplexed by the signs throughout saying no trespassing/fishing prohibited. I get the no fishing part but the trespassing? When we checked in, we had to write down our credit card number on a slip of paper before we were given a key that opened the gate to the campground. When we checked out, we asked for the paper or to watch it get shredded but were told they had to keep it on file which concerned us.

  • Jake R.
    Oct. 15, 2024

    Campgaw Mountain Reservation

    Busy but Lonely

    Campgaw doesn’t seem to offer much in terms of a camping experience. The sites themselves are fairly close to the road and there are super popular hiking trails that run right through all the camps. If you like being woken up by folks walking their dog at 7 AM, this is the spot for you.

    However, once the sun goes down, the campsite becomes a ghost town (except for the odd sheriff driving down the road). We went on a holiday weekend, and we were the only campsite that was occupied, so that is absolutely a plus. There was also plenty to do during the day, like joining the hikers on those trails, disc golf, and sitting by the water.

    All-in-all, it is not a terrible site, especially considering the cheap price.

  • Jessica C.The Dyrt PRO User
    Oct. 11, 2024

    Heckscher State Park Campground

    Great for families, not for solitude

    The campsites are very close together without any defining borders so everybody just walks across each other site’s to get to a different one, a path, the bathroom, etc. No solitude, lots of families with kids, lots of music, I mean it’s basically a party. I didn’t realize this when I made my reservations. The place is great for families who want a safe space to camp and it’s a typical Long Island campground. Rangers came around checking on everyone often so it really did feel incredibly safe. I had a pick up truck w/ tinted windows follow me in the park for quite a while which was rather creepy and I couldn’t shake them. When I biked into the campground itself, the pick up truck couldn’t get past the check in area. Everyone I met was friendly and there’s a little shop in the front of the campgrounds that sells various items. I personally wouldn’t stay here again unless I was meeting up with friends or something and wasn’t trying to have more solitude. This is no fault of the park itself though, I’m just more of a woods girl.

Guide to Roosevelt

Camping near Roosevelt, New York, offers a mix of beautiful nature and fun activities. Whether you're looking for a peaceful retreat or a family-friendly adventure, there are several campgrounds to check out.

What to do:

  • Hiking: Explore the trails at Harriman State Park - Beaver Pond. One camper mentioned, "Going for a hike here in the morning before heading out" made their stay memorable.
  • Fishing: Enjoy fishing at Wildwood State Park Campground. A visitor noted, "You can swim or fish there," highlighting the campground's proximity to the water.
  • Beach Access: Spend a day at the beach near Clarence Fahnestock State Park. One reviewer said, "The beach is in walking distance," making it easy to enjoy the sun and sand.

What campers like:

  • Clean Facilities: Campers appreciate the clean restrooms at Beaver Pond Campground. One happy camper stated, "I like the clean shower and bathroom facilities."
  • Secluded Sites: Many enjoy the privacy offered at Clarence Fahnestock State Park. A reviewer mentioned, "Some sites are good. Some very poor," but overall, they found spots that provided a nice level of seclusion.
  • Family-Friendly Activities: Families love the activities at Timberland Lake Campground. One parent shared, "Plenty of activities for kids with park area and pool."

What you should know:

  • Noise Levels: Be aware that some campgrounds can get noisy. A visitor at Beaver Pond Campground warned, "When I plan my trip around the spring, fall, or summer weekends that look sparse it is quiet."
  • Limited Amenities: Campgrounds like Liberty Harbor RV Park are basic. One camper described it as "just a parking lot," so don't expect many amenities.
  • Reservations Recommended: Many campgrounds, including Wildwood State Park Campground, require reservations. A visitor noted, "The sites are spaced well and have a nice bonus of large fire rings."

Tips for camping with families:

  • Choose the Right Campground: Look for family-friendly spots like Timberland Lake Campground. A reviewer said, "Great for families," highlighting the fun activities available.
  • Pack for Activities: Bring along games and outdoor gear. One camper at Cheesequake State Park mentioned, "Kids have to figure out how to amuse themselves in woods filled with chipmunks."
  • Plan for Quiet Hours: Be mindful of noise during quiet hours. A visitor at Beaver Pond Campground shared their experience with loud music, so planning around this can help.

Tips from RVers:

  • Maneuvering in Tight Spaces: If you're new to RVing, be cautious at places like Liberty Harbor RV Park. One reviewer advised, "Getting in and out is not for someone in a brand new 45' travel trailer."
  • Check for Amenities: Make sure to check what amenities are available. A camper at Timberland Lake Campground mentioned, "They do offer full hookups that include cable."
  • Stay Safe: Security is often a concern in urban areas. A visitor at Liberty Harbor RV Park felt safe due to "24-hour security," which can be reassuring for RVers.

Camping near Roosevelt, New York, has something for everyone, whether you're looking for adventure or relaxation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What camping is available near Roosevelt, NY?

According to TheDyrt.com, Roosevelt, NY offers a wide range of camping options, with 38 campgrounds and RV parks near Roosevelt, NY and 1 free dispersed camping spot.

Which is the most popular campground near Roosevelt, NY?

According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular campground near Roosevelt, NY is Nickerson Beach Park Campground with a 3.4-star rating from 8 reviews.

Where can I find free dispersed camping near Roosevelt, NY?

According to TheDyrt.com, there is 1 free dispersed camping spot near Roosevelt, NY.

What parks are near Roosevelt, NY?

According to TheDyrt.com, there are 11 parks near Roosevelt, NY that allow camping, notably Gateway National Recreation Area and Fire Island National Seashore.

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