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St. Johnsville Marina & Campground
28 Marina Dr
St Johnsville, NY 13452

518-568-7406

June 18 – 22, 2025

Our final stop for the trip was the St. Johnsville Marina and Campground, a city park in St. Johnsville, NY. I arrived at around 1 PM, after a somewhat confusing drive from Westcott Beach State Park. I planned to stop for gas after getting off the 81, about an hour into the drive, but my GPS confused me and I ended up driving around aimlessly for about 20 minutes until I stumbled across a gas station and filled up. Then, when we got to St. Johnsville, navigation stopped in the middle of town and insisted I was there, when I was next to a bank and no campground was in sight. I circled around a bit more, then gave up, pulled over, and called the campground to get final directions to the site. Talked to a very nice lady who told me where to go and met me at the gate to show me to my site. John and Jill were already there. I set up and spent the rest of the day relaxing.

The campground has only 24 sites but it’s very well-kept with plenty of amenities. Our sites had full hookups, which was nice for a change. I could dump my cassette whenever I wanted to without having to leave the site! I’d filled the tank two days before and figured it would last the rest of the trip, but if it didn’t, I had water available. We were also right on the canal, on lovely deep sites with picnic tables by the water. Only negative was that the railroad tracks ran right along the back of the campground, and there were trains running through regularly. But I kind of like the sound of trains, so it didn’t really bother me. There was also a clean spacious bathhouse with laundry.

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Westcott Beach State Park
Route 3
Henderson, NY 13650

(315) 646-2239

June 13 – 18, 2025

We left our previous campground around 10 or 10:30 AM and drove the short 75 miles to our next campground, Westcott Beach State Park. Found my site just as John and Jill were parking their trailer at the next site. It was a nice little grassy area with looooong shallow sites, all grass with no pads marked out for parking, so it was a bit difficult to figure out where the borders of the sites were. I backed in at first, and ended up with my back door right against the trees. Stayed that way one night but discovered that there were birds sitting in the branches right by my back windows that decided they wanted to come into the van, and they pestered me constantly banging against the windows. The next day, I moved the van and parked it lengthwise on the site, hoping that moving away from the trees would cut down on the bird attacks. It did help quite a bit, but I still found myself chasing birds away from the windows. There was a Gray Catbird that was especially determined to come in, along with some smaller American Redstarts. Ah well, at least it wasn’t mice.

Aside from the birds, the sites were nice and level and reasonably private, with trees behind the sites on both sides of the road, and not that many other campers on our loop.

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