Best RV Parks & Resorts near Erie, PA

Kenisee Lake RV Resort Thousand Trails in Jefferson, Ohio is a another great Thousand Trails park! This park is very large and has a park-like setting with 2 lakes. There is fishing on the lakes and the campground has rowboats available to use. They have all the amenities a family could want such as swimming pool, playground, mini-golf, and more! The staff is friendly and very accommodating. Kenisee Lake has 30 and 50 amp FHU back-in and pull-through sites. The only downside is the internet which is lacking in this area. We have really enjoyed our stay here and will be returning! 👍🏻😬

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As newbies to all things RV, we needed a place in Ohio to break in our new travel trailer. Indian Creek is family and pet friendly with all the amenities and even a great lookout spot across the street where you can take in a Lake Erie sunset. We loved the clean bathrooms and appreciated the staff's effort to maintain services while encouraging social distancing. All of their COVID-19 policies were well spelled out online and in signage across the resort so that you knew what to expect. All of the staff wore masks and bathrooms were cleaned often. Some of their usual events and programs were unavailable but they offered craft kits for children to pick up and do at their own campsite in lieu of the usual program. We enjoyed their beautiful put-put course and ice cream stand. They did not allow outside visitors in the resort. The only thing that threw us off was that the bathhouses were closed at night and we didn't know that until we tried to use them. The resort is expanding and adding new sites. They are planting lots of trees (it looked like one at each site) so the resort should become more park-like and less parking lot as they grow. We really liked the back-in sites with water and electric hookups because they were larger and more private and wooded. The fire ring was so easy to cook on that now I'm spoiled! The camp store/gas station was convenient and well stocked with camping supplies. Golf carts are available to rent if you need them to navigate this huge park. We rode our bikes instead. There is a township park just down the road towards Geneva-on-the-Lake proper that we used to spend some leisure and exercise time near the lake. We look forward to visiting this RV resort again in the future!

This place was a perfect stop for a couple of nights. Even during the week, there are kids everywhere. Lots of places here are full time, but they don’t go home during the week. You can walk across the street to the beaches of Lake Erie. All sits appear to have concrete pads with a picnic table and fire rings. We did not build a fire, but everyone we saw had much larger logs than the standard 2x4 sized kindling bundles you get from most places.

Laundry is across the street, so you do kind of need to drive over if you need it. It was only $1 per load and the dryer was $0.25 for 5 minutes. We were able to get two washer loads into a single dryer and get the clothes dry enough in 25 minutes.

The Waldameer water world place is perfect for kinds in the 5-12 range. Teens will dig it too, but they don’t have audacious roller coasters like a six flags. Actually, they had so many rides in the right age range that we couldn’t ride them all in one day and we only did the amusement park. Prices also weren’t crazy like a six flags, so we can’t say enough good things about that one.

Just outside the park are some places to eat and get ice cream. I think they are also owned by the same owners, but not 100% sure on that. We had pizza and it was surprisingly good. I expected fast food quality or worse, but they delivered!

Wi-Fi is reasonably good even with so many people. You can register up to 4 devices, so they seem to be slightly more advanced than most campgrounds.

The showers are pay to play, which is new to us. $0.25 for 5 minutes and they’re coin operated.

We had a great couple of days here and would come back in a heartbeat!

A beautiful park! We love being near the water when camping and at Pymatuning most if not all sites have views of the beautiful lake and the Pennsylvania shoreline across the lake. The campground is busy and very popular but the crew is super efficient at checking in campers, answering questions and especially maintaining the grounds. Quite a few of the sites are lakefront and of those a number are full hook up - and the FHU sites in the central section are new within the last two years. Boat ramps are part of the campground and are used by many campers. Some quaint Amish shopping is nearby - but not much in the way of grocery stores as the closest towns on the Ohio and Pennsylvania sides of the border are small and built to support the local communities. We love this park - our new favorite in the Ohio State campground system! P.S. The only slight downside for us is weak T-mobile cell service. Not a big deal but work requires us to stay in touch and work remotely via our hotspot.