BurbMan wrote:
That's kind of the long way around, you could come down I-95 into I-278, Gowanus Expy in the Bronx the Brooklyn-Queens Expy (BQE) when you get on Long Island. Either way you wind up in te same spot, at the East end of the Verrazano Bridge. Honestly not sure about which local roads in Bklyn are better. I wouldn't worry too much with a C, but I would be extra careful pulling a trailer just because of tight turns.
Maybe see if you can get a local number for the CG and ask them. I grew up here and never knew you could camp there....
I'll check out that route, thanks. I certainly won't be towing anything!
I think the camping is a comparatively new thing (like maybe the past decade or so), at least for RV access. At one point plans were afoot to greatly enlarge the campground, but that hasn't seemed to have happened. Tent camping looks pretty nice, with grass and trees separating the sites and fireplaces and so on, but is walk-in only/no vehicles at the sites. The RV camping looks to be just numbers painted on a big parking lot and a couple picnic tables...no hookups, nor even a dump station.
espendydad wrote:
I have no information, but wanted to find out how you made reservations?
You get reservations via reacreation.gov, search for "Camp Gateway—Brooklyn, New York." If you search for "Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY" instead you get a rater confusing and contradictory entry that says they do not accept reservations via recreation.gov at the top but lower down, in the description, says you can make reservations via www.recreation.gov.
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