

Blue Bell Campground, which is filled with delightful smelling Ponderosa Pine trees, is our family favorite. Custer is also blessed with an abundance of excellent campgrounds. It's incredible hiking, wildlife viewing, and natural beauty put it on par with America’s finest national parks. Blue Bell Campground, Custer State Park, South DakotaĬuster State Park is one of the best state parks in the country. Don’t forget to catch a ranger program at the amphitheater during your stay. Many of those sites are back in and have a large area behind them with a picnic table and fire ring. Platte River is cozy and shaded and the sites are mostly large and private. Taking a tubing or kayaking run in the clear, warm waters of the Platte River out to the cooler waters of Lake Michigan is a transcendent National Park experience-and there are easy launch points near the campground. The Platte River Campground is open year-round but offers a truly classic summer camping experience. Platte River Campground, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan The Schoodic Peninsula is also much quieter than the main section of Acadia National Park, but it is every bit as beautiful. We could not see our neighbors from our site when we camped there a few years back. What is certain is that this campground has gigantic and private sites, with thick rows of fragrant pine trees in between each of them. Was it Stephen King? The founder of Burt’s Bees? Nobody is certain, but rumors abound. Schoodic Woods Campground, Acadia National Park, MaineĪn anonymous donor developed this near-perfect campground on land adjacent to the Schoodic Peninsula section of Acadia National Park before turning over the property to the National Park Service. The sound of live music fills the air twice a week and there is a Saturday evening chapel service if the spirit moves you.

Abundant organized activities make this feel like an old-fashioned summer camp from the 1960s. Families also love Aloha Beach-their gigantic tropical-themed swimming pool with waterslides. The vast majority of the campsites here are gigantic, wooded, and private. Their well-earned and accurate slogan is “look at nature, not your neighbor” and our family can confirm its accuracy. Moose Hillock is one of the best campgrounds in the beautiful Lake George region of New York.
