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An easy 2½ Hours from NYC
From New York City, take the New York Thruway to Exit 16 (Harriman). This puts you directly on Route 17. Proceed on Route 17 West to Exit 96,
Livingston Manor Exit. At bottom of the Exit Ramp make a left onto DeBruce Road and go exactly 7½ miles. Make a right after our sign onto
Conklin Hill Road. Slow down the office is on the right just before the Covered Bridge.
1¼ Hours From Binghamton
Take Route 17 East to Exit 96, the Livingston Manor. At the top of the Exit ramp there is a Stop Sign. Make a right onto White Roe Lake Road.
Go about 1/10 mile to Stop Sign and make left onto Old Route 17. Go about 1/10 mile make left onto DeBruce Road. Go 8 miles make a
right just past our sign onto Conklin Hill Road. Slow down the office is on the right just before the Covered Bridge.
IMPORTANT: Clock out your mileage on Bruce Road. This is a twisty road, and at night it seems much, much longer.
This is a most rustic and idyllic location. However, the gps took us down a road that our camper couldn't navigate. The covered bridge is only 8' high, and currently closed to all but foot traffic. Make sure you read the directions on their site before heading here! You have to come in from Willenmoc / Debruce roads!
We understand that this campground was just bought last year and needed a lot of work. It still needs a lot of cleanup. The managers Louis and Caitlyn were very nice and helpful! They are having a bit of a problem with the electrical, so you might want to call before booking.
The bath house was just updated. Although we didn't need to use the showers, I would have liked to!
We enjoyed our walk along the riverside! Caitlyn told us about the waterfall, but we took the wrong path and missed it... Maybe next time!
Overall... Extremely quiet, except for the birds and river!
THERE WAS NO WIFI except directly in front of the office. We use T-Mobile and the entire area had terrible signal.
We drove into the very small town down the road. Got fuel and stopped at the grocery and package stores. Wanted to go to the brewery, but were there too early. The general store just up the road didn't have much to choose from other than basic necessities.
This is beautiful location if you want to completely disconnect and enjoy peace and quiet in a beautiful setting! I know we did!
We just spent four lovely nights here in site 2. Quiet and clean and so peaceful we would’ve slept with the windows open to hear the creek but it was too chilly (but perfect for a fire in the new pits!) Picnic table at the site seemed brand new too. Bathrooms and showers were updated and they have a new dump station! Kate was so sweet and helpful and you can tell they’re really working on the place. Will definitely be back!
Camping in the great outdoors is always amazing, but having a flowing creek as your front yard for your campsite is next level tenting! Bathrooms where clean and modern! The the staff was friendly and helpful… just really good people. Looking forward to planning another visit back there!!!
Nice Sites along the water. A little close to each other with no privacy. But overall I like it. I will go back and pick another site. Kate is super nice as was everyone else we dealt with. Bathrooms were clean and updated. Dump station has easy access.
One of my favorite campgrounds to date! We stayed for 5 nights along the Willomec river during the colorful show of the leaves changing. This campground was the perfect setting to a fall vacation. We stayed in our camper and had water hookups. They have a dump station and a honey sucker. Lots of riverfront tent sites that were BEAUTIFUL and private. Across the bridge (closed to traffic) there are some trails to waterfalls along a creek that flows into the willomec. Breathtaking. The managers always asking if we needed anything. Very friendly. And the new bathhouse was gorgeous. Although we have a shower in our camper. I chose to use the facilities there instead. Would love to come back again!
