Westcott Beach State Park
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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