Turns out, you really can see the Milky Way
Camping in the Catskills means actually dark skies—the kind where you spot constellations you forgot existed. Campfire smoke drifts through the pines and every story sounds better when there’s nothing but woods around you.
Pitch a tent by the river, park your RV under the hemlocks or settle into a glamping setup with a real bed. However you do it, nights out here feel different. The air smells like pine and woodsmoke. Water moves somewhere close by. Someone’s always laughing at the next site over.
This land’s seen generations of campers and it’s got a way of making you feel like you’re part of that lineage. The sky stays open. The invitation’s always there to stick around one more night.
Pitch your tent where Woodstock happened
At Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY, you can camp where music history was made. The grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Festival now welcome tents, campers and RVs. Wake to birdsong where guitars once echoed and wander through the museum or to the amphitheater just steps away. Whether glamping or going classic, you’re sleeping on sacred ground in Sullivan County.
Where you sleep matters around here
There’s something about waking up to the sound of the Delaware’s current or a chorus of birds in the hemlocks that resets you completely. Out here, camping isn’t just pitching a tent; it’s about where you pitch it.
Maybe it’s along the Willowemoc where anglers start casting at dawn or tucked into the woods near Mongaup Pond as loons call after dark. Sullivan County’s got riverside spots where you can paddle before breakfast, family campgrounds with fire pits already stacked with wood and backcountry sites where the Milky Way is the only thing competing for your attention.
Whether you’re an RV regular or a first-timer figuring out tent stakes, there’s a patch of ground here with your name on it. Here’s where to find it:
BARRYVILLE
BETHEL
HURLEYVILLE
LIVINGSTON MANOR
MOUNTAINDALE
NARROWSBURG
PARKSVILLE
POND EDDY
ROSCOE
- Beaverkill State Campground
- Butternut Grove Campsites
- Catskill Conestoga Wagon Outpost
- Hidden Chalet
- Roscoe Campsite Park
- Russell Brook Campsites
WOODBOURNE
WURTSBORO
GREENFIELD PARK
HANCOCK
EQUINUNK, PA
