New York City choices?

RVcrazy wrote:
We also considered Liberty Harbor, but reviews are poor except for location. Help!

liberty harbor is fine if your only intention is to visit NYC. Been to worse campgrounds, keep your expectations in check and you will be okay. :)

Mike

Ran into a fellow in Vermont 2 weeks ago that was staying here to visit NYC.

If your goal is to tour NYC liberty harbor is fine. But I don't think its FHU. There is water and electric. With a dump station.
Croton Point Park is a decent county park with FHU sites. It is close to the train station that will take you into NYC

Liberty Harbor is a parking lot with electric and water and a dump station. Given that, it is 10 minutes on the ferry to Manhattan Island as opposed to maybe an hour on the train. You have a view of the skyline right from the campground and the Statue of Liberty is right nearby. It's not perfect but I'd call it the best for visiting NYC.

Croton on the Hudson. County park with full hookups.

I called Croton Pt Park and they told me they don't open until the 2nd weekend in May.

We plan on getting to the area around the 1st of May to visit relatives who live north of Yonkers in Hartsdale (?) .

I would like a park close to a train station to NYC.

Highland Park near West Point is an option but it is pretty far from a train line and I don't really want to take a long bus ride.

Any info on parks (open around the 1st of May) near train lines to NYC from NY, NJ or Conn. will be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

5outta6 wrote:
I called Croton Pt Park and they told me they don't open until the 2nd weekend in May.

We plan on getting to the area around the 1st of May to visit relatives who live north of Yonkers in Hartsdale (?) .

I would like a park close to a train station to NYC.

Highland Park near West Point is an option but it is pretty far from a train line and I don't really want to take a long bus ride.

Any info on parks (open around the 1st of May) near train lines to NYC from NY, NJ or Conn. will be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Full camping facilities in Croton opens in April so you might want to double check the opening time you were told. They also have limited winter sites but have no idea if that includes RV sites.

I got that info from the county's website and called the park to verify as well. They have some sites with 50 amp power but they are already booked for the season(:eek:) according to the young lady who answered the phone. Seems they have some long term residents or it's locals who use the park as a spare bedroom or RV storage, LOL. Actually smart when you consider the price as it relates to this area.Digression over.

There is a nearby Metro North train station: Croton-on-Hudson on the Croton-Harmon line. It's about 1.5 miles from the park and if you prefer you can drive your car to the station and park it there until you get back from the city. NYC to park commute is about an hour and it's a very scenic ride that mostly skirts the Hudson River.

You'll have a choice of 2 stops in NYC- Grand Central Station which is great for Midtown shopping and sightseeing and 125th Street which I find more convenient for West Side attractions such as Harlem, Central Park, Lincoln Center, Museum Mile (it's actually on the East Side but still easier to reach from this train stop), the Cloisters and the Museum of Natural History. Also Bronx Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

Convenient supermarkets near Croton: Stop and Shop and La Placita for all things Mexican. Of course there is also Stew Leonard's in Yonkers that both Westchester locals and NYC residents flock to: all good food (prepped dishes and cook yourself), a creditable wine shop and amusing surroundings. You have to see it to believe it.

Uhmmmmmm....you can tell I like where I live, right?:B

The West Point site is nice but wayyyyyyyy too far from NYC. You'll spend all your time getting there and back.

Liberty Harbour is convenient and if I was only staying in the area for a day or two I'd deal with it.

HTH

RVcrazy wrote:
We were thinking Newburg KOA, but the reviews indicate lots of poison ivy & I am allergic. We want 50 amp fhu. Black Bear was our second choice, but reviews are less than stellar. We are looking for a tour bus from the park. We also considered Liberty Harbor, but reviews are poor except for location. Help!

Lots of easy to navigate tour buses in NYC; no idea what KOA is charging for their version but a 2 hour one way commute is long by NYC standards; same for Black Bear. I suspect both campgrounds are offering the tour buses as incentives to get people who want to tour the city to stay with them. Smart marketing strategy.

As stated in earlier posts, Liberty, is a big ol' flatop parking lot that is ultra convenient to lower Manhattan and parts north and east. Someday I suspect it'll become another needle tower.

There, you have the Path train that leads into the World Trade Center/Oculus (glorious building that has even the slightly jaded NYCer in me awed); great but expensive eats at Eataly (go there about......11:30 AM for the prime rib sandwich. We treat ourselves to one about once a month. Divine); a Shake Shack near the Hudson River ferry terminal; great shopping at Century 21 and of course it's nearby Manhattan's Chinatown, Little Italy, South Street Seaport and Wall Street area which includes the National Museum of the American Indian which is housed in the frmr Customs building. Also easy to reach the High-Line whose success caused the Guggenheim to open a new branch.

Make an early morning walk over the Brooklyn Bridge (choose your time for this excursion carefully. Walked over it w/ DGD early evening this summer and it was HORRIBLY crowded. Thank goodness, Junior's Restaurant was our Bklyn destination to take the hordes off our minds and back to our tummies;)).

In essence, choose your locale based on what is most important to you:).

It's probably not what you really want, but there is camping (or, perhaps more accurately, overnight RV parking next to a picnic table) at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. There are no hookups or dump station Just getting there with an RV would be something of an adventure in itself, I suspect; the most obvious route via the Belt Parkway is not an option due to typical parkway vehicle restrictions.

It looks like it's about a fifteen minute bus ride to the subway, or an hour or so walk. Biking also appears to be reasonably practical at first glance.

Liberty Harbour is the only place we'll stay at when wishing to access NYC itself = most expensive carpark ever parked on and shocked us upon first arrival, but ......... convenience for accessibility to NYC (trains,ferries etc), skyline views, fishing nearby for hubby for a couple hours in evenings or on a few hours downtime from exploring the city = we feel you can't beat it. If we weren't into the actual NYC exploration itself, then this parking lot wouldn't even come on our radar as a possibility.