Campground needs some trees planted, line ups for sewage dump at the end of the weekend. Canandagua is a great little town, campground is nice and close to the speedway. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Great park near the Canandaigua Lake. Park is well maintained and, contrary to other reviews, staff is very helpful and friendly. Would stay her again if in the area. WiFi adequate. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
My wife and I stopped here for an overnight on the way home from a longer trip. We had some concerns about KOA and crowded sites, but thought we would be OK on a Thursday in October. The hosts were very friendly and accommodating. We asked for a nice site away from other campers and got one. We were close to the restrooms near the small lake and could get WiFi reception on my laptop from inside the camper. The sites seemed a little small but not overly cramped. There are plenty of activities for kids. Well stocked store. Clean restrooms and showers. We would stop here again. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
We camped with several other families and I was hesitant when they said it was a KOA, which I equate with overcrowded and no trees. Not true here! While the front RV section is pretty densely packed, the tent area where we were had large wooded, park-like sites. The list of activities were endless. They have an obstacle course through the woods with a zip line! They had a pool, hiking trails, playgrounds, mini golf (fee), climbing wall, on-site cafe, paddleboats (fee) and bike/carriage combos (fee), rec hall, tetherball -- that's a partial list. My kids (12 and 14) loved it and I think they did just about every activity. Also, the restrooms were clean and spacious. The attractiveness coupled with the activities really changed my idea about KOA's. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.
POSITIVES OF THIS KOA: very clean restrooms, decent size store with most items you'd want or need, some weekend activities, variety of site options available (i.e: gravel, patio, pond, wooded, etc.). Many pull-thru sites and big rig sites. Free good quality wifi. Picnic tables in decent shape and fire pits for every site. Great small homemade obstacle course and short children's zip line in rear of park. Decent playground and cute canoe sandbox. Well-maintained and decently priced laundry facilities. Short drive from the campsite to Culinary Center, beach, water park, and vineyards. Clean, small pool (cold though!). Free blue wheeled tote can be borrowed from store for your use if you are not on a sewer site. Another plus-many more sewer sites than typical in campgrounds. NEGATIVES OF THIS KOA: Condescending owner, employees and overall generally poor customer service-present as friendly at first but we, and all others around us, were constantly being "warned" to not do this or that, even when we weren't to begin with! Example of this: bought net for child in store. Owner asked what was it for-I thought it was just friendly communication until he reminded us to not "move rocks", "take frogs from pond", etc. Another example: we rented a peddle bike and was warned 3 times to "not go too fast". It is as if they do not trust anyone to behave. Quiet hours are 10 pm, which was too early in our opinion. We'd just get our fire going after dark and have to go inside shortly afterward as this park is silent by 10 due to owner patrol (some might love this!). We wish it was 11 pm as in most parks. Another pet peeve-we didn't discover until after we got there that they have NO activities and cafe is not open during the week, which wasn't obvious on the site. We would have stayed at a state campground had we been aware of this given the price. Speaking of price, expect to pay for everything: Mini-golf was old, beat-up course and we each paid $3 dollars-with no score cards even available. Visitors are $3 dollars apiece, and be prepared for them to also be lectured about rules. You also must pay an extra $3 for each person in your family over 2 people per day (for our children, we paid an extra $42 dollars for the week). 75% of the RV sites are very close together. Be prepared to run water or sewer lines under RV's, etc to reach, and/or have utility poles near picnic tables/awnings, etc. If you do happen to get a bigger site, they'll charge you $3 dollars extra per day. Because this park is near the thruway, there was TONS of traffic at all hours-the site next to us had 5 different people in the 7 days we were there. The dumpsters are also only dumped once a week when they needed to be dumped 2-3 times per week. They were overflowing and smelly and are in the front of the park. They also park people EVERYWHERE in this park, including within 5 feet of playground, arcade, pond, and golf course! Someone else had commented on this and I couldn't believe how true this was! It was unreal when busy! We couldn't even find room to play bocce ball and frisbee unless we went into the unoccupied tent sites in the rear of the park. No food, except ice cream bars and slushies and some limited beverages available during week. Long waits always in store. Each of the 2 bathrooms are closed 2 hours per day in prime time (i.e: 10-12 and 12-2). Arcade is very outdated and my children and others lost lots of money in it. I told the office once and it took 45 minutes to get my money returned, and only after being questioned for a few minutes by no fewer than 3 employees separately about how'd I'd lost it! I was only asking for my child's .50 cents to be returned-it was ridiculous! They also refused to tell me when I made my reservation what site they'd given me, and I couldn't find a site map anywhere online, which is a first for me. Flies were very bad at this park and I can only assume it was due to the poorly maintained pond-it was filled with algae and weeds and difficult to fish in. We had to buy fly strips (conveniently sold in store!) just to eat dinner outside. They had some activities on Saturday (pancake breakfast for $5, craft for $2, ice cream for $1-2, free coffee, free zip line, free hayride, bingo for $1 per board, and wine tasting (unsure of cost) but most cost extra. Additionally, they don't print out sheets with activity times and costs listed so you must either write it down yourself (ia: copying it from office where it is posted or listen attentively to not-loud-enough announcements made when activities occur. Overall, we were disappointed and probably won't return despite clean facilities. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
We stayed on a full-hookup, pull-through site. The site was not bad - fairly level - but it was too small. The area you had between the picnic table and the next site was very close. There were some other pull-through sites that had more room, but it looked like they were reserved for the big rigs first, and the littler guys last - which makes perfect sense. The laundry came in very handy since our dog decided to pee on our bed the first night, and then her own bed the night before we left. The store had small packs of detergent, softener and a change machine for the laundry. Everything worked perfectly. The hiking trails were nice, and there was a dog walk area with disposable bags provide - nice. The staff was good about emptying the garbage and refilling the bag dispenser. We would stay here again, but only if we got a bigger site. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
The spaces here are level and easily accessible, although some of the big rigs seemed to have trouble getting into their sites. The sites seem quite close together. The trees are beautiful. This campground seems kind of far from the interstate, but that would not deter us from staying here again, if we were to be passing through. TV reception is great, without using the antenna. There is no cable. WiFi is good. Miniature golf, fishing, playground equipment, pedal cars, bikes, arcade room, and pedal boats are all available. This is a very nice campground, and we enjoyed our stay here, even though it was only overnight. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This campground is exactly what I expected from a national chain. It feels like you are parking in a parking lot. It is strongly policed by campground employees riding around the tiny campground in a golf cart with a clipboard. Your neighbor's sewer hose is a few feet from your door. The campground owners seem to have a very superior attitude about their campground and instead of welcoming guests they appear to be allowing you to stay at their esteemed establishment with a practiced and polite smile. The pros? It is close to Canandaigua lake and the water park. The rest of the finger lakes are nearby. The store is well stocked, the bathrooms are clean and they have full hookups. KOA campgrounds are and always will be a place to stop while traveling so you can dump your tanks, fill your water tank, take a shower in a clean bathroom and move on. If you are looking to stay in the area there are several state camp grounds within an hour that have so much more to offer. We camped here in a Motorhome.
We stayed a total of three times at this campground. The owner seems pretty nice. We were promised a site right next to our relatives, but were put far away from them. This upset us. There is a lot to do at this Koa, and the bathrooms seemed clean. The sites are extremely close together and have tree branches hanging down. Part of our roof was torn as a result. There is a big rig friendly part of this campground, but the sites there only have water & electric. This campground is close to beautiful Canandaigua. There is no cable at this campground, and the owner doesn't plan on adding it any time soon. Your antennae can receive Rochester and Syracuse stations though. I would recommend this campground if you have a small RV or have children. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
First the positive comments -- the campground is clean and well maintained. It has many amenities for the entire familiy and is conveniently located. Now the negative comments -- our reservation was not held properly. We reserved a full hookup site and they had us reserved for only water and electric -- its a good thing I printed my reservation confirmation. The owner advised me that he keeps one full hookup site open for such errors. The sites are EXTREMELY close together and I had to run my water and electric under the trailer under the steps in order to hookup. We had an end site with a road on 3 sides -- a lot of noise. Due to the configuration of the site, our neighbor's sewer hookup was 6 feet from our picnic table -- there was no place else to put it. The owners have a fee for everything -- I'd rather they charge a couple extra dollars per night and not fee so much. I wanted to stay about an hour or so passed checkout time and he wanted to charge me a fee and indicated that the site was reserved for that evening -- 4 days earlier he advised me that this same site was kept open in the event of reservation errors. Every inch of this campground had people camping -- on the miniature golf course and there was even a motorhome in one of the roads -- you literally could not have had one additional person on the campground -- way too crowded! If I'm going to have this many people around me, it defeats the purpose of camping -- we'd be better off staying at a hotel in the city. I would not recommend this campground. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
This is the second time we have camped there, first in 2004. We were in site 12 also agree wholeheatedly on the size. (we only have a 25 foot 5'er and it was tight) It is a nice campground and they are correct in saying that larger sites are farther down the row but aren't too many larger ones. And yes I saw someone almost go in one of those sunken firepits trying to avoid a vehicle from another campsite. The utility hook-ups are shared and for somone on the left of the box you had better have a real long electric cord or you wont reach it. Peddle cars are kind of pricy to rent. You may not be able to use your awning because of trees in awkward spots We stay there because of the proximity to two area water parks. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
Pros: Very clean and well kept. Very friendly and helpful management. Small enough so I would imagine that if you stayed a week or more, you'd know everyone else in the park. It also had some rental cabins at the end of the lake. Cons: We had a small site #12. Not enough room for tow vehicle and 32' 5th wheel front to back; had to park truck horizontally in front of trailer. . . which was a bit hazardous because of sunken fire pits. Sites further up the row appeared to be longer. Also did not like the water connection being located ABOVE the electrical connection. We will camp here again...but pick a different site. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.
This is a good family park with lots of things for the kids to do. But, if you have a RV the sites are too close together, the hookups are very poorly set up. The owners are not all that nice either. The laundry was clean. The garbage at the dumpster was overflowing and not emptied the 3 days we were there. We won't stay here again, just not a very friendly park. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Very convenient location - about 5 miles off NY Thruway (I-90) exit 44 - just east of first Rochester exit. Clearly marked. A very nice KOA park that has been nicely maintained and very clean. Good hard gravel roads and level sites. Spots for everything from tents to big rig RV's. Lots of grass and a very nice lake. A cafe and game room - with paddle boat and bike/buggy rentals available. Very safe location in the country. Victor and Kathy are personally involved and really enjoy what they do. Victor has years of experience with Boy Scout camps, and it carries over into the
operation of this camp. They take pride in what they do, and work hard to make campers happy. New WiFi added recently - fee based. We camped here in a Motorhome.