The Places We Go...: Hartwick Highlands Campground

Location: Hartwick, NY (near Cooperstown)

Our Site: C11

Date of Stay: May 19 – 23, 2012

Our trip to Hartwick Highland Campground was our first of the 2012 camping season. The campground had just opened on the 15th, so we arrived on their first weekend. We pretty much had the campground to ourselves, and the temperatures were mainly in the 60s during our stay.

The area that we stayed in was nice and open – all pull through sites, nice wide roads.

There was also a very large area that had cabins. Being so close to Cooperstown, they have a lot of groups that stay here – baseball teams etc.

The trip there was great – almost all highway; the directions were easy to follow. We had checked our route on Google Earth before we went, and we found that extremely helpful. The only part of the trip which was a little challenging was the fact that the last road to the campground, Seminary Road, was all uphill. But Max handled it with no issues!

We loved our site. A nice big pull-through site in an open field. Harry and I have had enough encounters trying to get around trees on our way in and out of sites, that we prefer open sites without trees. We have also heard too many stories from other rv’ers of problems with tree branches etc.

Harry and I are not baseball fans, but of course that is one of the biggest draws to this campground – it’s proximity to Cooperstown.

We were there during the off-season, and I was very glad. This town is very small, and I wouldn’t want to have to negotiate these roads during the tourist season.