Lakeside Beach State Park Campground

This NY state park has spacious grassy sites as well as shaded locations in the 6 loops. We opted for a lake view site for our one night stay in the shade of a single apple tree not only for the view, but for the ease of access to the level gravel site. Opted not to use the showers due to their well “used” look at the end of the day. There are lakefront sites with more closeup views in the shade (occupied while we were there and in the pet free loops. The bigger rigs seemed to be in Loop G which was more wide open. This was one of the pet loops that had the least amount of driving through the trees.

We would stop again.

We stayed in Loop F (site F05). This loop was Dog Friendly. Our site had 30amp only, although the water tap was only 2 sites away to fill our tanks.
We arrived on a Friday and stayed until Wednesday (in August). The loop was full on the weekend and dwindled down to 10 occupied sites by Monday. Loop F was treed and private. Trees/brush between sites. We liked this site, although it backed onto a camp road (there were trees between the site and road, as well as a grassy area) so we didn't hear the cars and there was little traffic. Thru the trees you could see the lake (although a distance) so it was nice to see when sitting in our chairs. It was a nice walk to the waters edge (although swimming is not allowed). We took our chairs and umbrella to be in the sun and read.
Although we didn't not use the washrooms, except during our walks, we noticed they were not necessarily the cleanest, unless you were in right after they were cleaned.
We'd definately come back to this park!

Perfectly nice State Park with a mix of shady and sunny sites. All the sites we saw were back-in. Electric only on site but there are water spigots in the loop for filling with fresh water. There is a triple-aisle dump station but we didn't see potable water there. Garbage and recycle near each bathroom. Bathrooms were serviceable but I'm glad I have my own bathroom.

Loops D-G are the pet loops, and this is only the second time in nearly 5 years of full-timing that we were asked for a rabies certificate, so bring your paperwork!

There's a camp store and small laundromat, a big disc golf course, a large picnic area, and playground equipment scattered throughout the loops and in the picnic area. We were in a shaded site and had decent spacing from our neighbors.

Campground was quiet during the week but busy on the weekend. We'd stay here again.

Oh - our Google Fi phone has 3 bars of 4G but I'm not sure if that's T-Mobil or Sprint that it's picking up.

We stayed in mid-September 2019 and had a great experience here. Tons of shade (except G loop), spacious sites, and very friendly staff. The other reviewers covered it pretty well,, so there isn't much else for me to say. The only minor beef we had was the the $9 reserve america fee and the $5/night out of state fee. If I return, I will probably just check reserve america for availability before arriving then book directly at the office instead to save the fee.

this campground shows its age. it looks like they stopped upgrading it in 2005 and have been only maintaining it. I really enjoyed the view from my spot. but one thing i noticed the closer you are to the water the harder it was to get a phone signal.

T-Mobile = non existent in park.
AT&T = probably the best out of the 3 but at night it was slow.
Verizon = ok away from the water. the closer you are to the water the more likely you are to get dropped calls.