Camping in the Catskills

The best part of camping in New York is that you can camp free in any state park as long as you are 150 feet from any road, trail, spring or stream.

The Sundown Campsites, near Pheonicia in the Catskills, offers some the best free camping. Either make, or use an existing fire pit from previous campers, pitch a tent and you are set to camp. It doesn’t take a scout to construct a sweat lodge just heat up some river rocks over a fire and fetch some water from the stream.

Check out the Peekamoose Blue hole just a half-mile or so up the road. There’s a very deep swimming hole where you can jump off the rocks.