Past Blue Mountain Lake, NY-30 turns north and the drive becomes pond after pond through long stands of pine, with Tupper Lake somewhere ahead. That stretch is the back half of New York's big motorhome loop. The front half starts at Old Forge on Lake Serene and follows NY-28 east along the Fulton Chain, through Inlet and past Raquette Lake to Blue Mountain Lake. Three campgrounds carry a family through that country, each one different: a resort on the lake, a small state campground on Lake Durant, and the beach at Fish Creek Pond at the far end.
Stretch any of those nights and the loop fills a week without much driving on any single day. The DEC's other Adirondack campgrounds, worked as one-night hops in a smaller rig, are the trip on the Adirondack campervan page.
Old Forge to Fish Creek Pond on NY-28 and NY-30
Old Forge Camping Resort shares an owner with Enchanted Forest Water Safari, so the first full day can go to the slides before the rig heads into the mountains. Its RV sites run from water-and-electric up to full hookups, with full-hookup sites right on Lake Serene, a guest dump station and a honey wagon. Most sites are back-in and pull-throughs are limited, so ask for one when you reserve if the driver coming up off the Thruway would rather not reverse toward the lake.
Leave Old Forge with the fresh tank full and the others empty. Neither DEC page lists hookups for the two state campgrounds ahead, which makes them back-to-back dry nights.
Lake Durant is the small one, a ring of sites on its own lake at Blue Mountain Lake, where NY-28 and NY-30 run together and the days go to the water and the village up the road. The DEC describes it as accommodating tents and RVs to 30 feet, with a trailer dump station, and that figure decides the rental for the whole loop. A motorhome longer than that can make Fish Creek Pond and still miss here, and individual sites can run shorter than the DEC's number. If that cap pushes a two-person trip toward something smaller, the campervan page runs New York at that scale, from the Thousand Islands to Cooperstown and the Chenango Valley.
Fish Creek Pond is the big, busy end of the loop, up NY-30 past Long Lake and Tupper Lake, with a swimming beach, a boat launch and sites along the water under the pines. The DEC page lists room for tents to 40-foot RVs and a trailer dumping station. With two dry nights in a row, use the dump station at each campground on the way out rather than saving it all for the last morning.
At the park's southeast corner, Lake George's private resorts are the family week on the Saratoga Springs RV page. The Saratoga race meet competes with them for the same rigs and the same pads in summer, so treat those weeks as one crowded calendar.
Wellesley Island and the Thousand Islands
Up on the St. Lawrence, the Fox loop on Wellesley Island is an open field that runs toward the shoreline, with the river and its scatter of islands past the last row of rigs. This one is a parked week: the rig stays plugged in, and the days go to boat tours out of Alexandria Bay and Clayton and to Boldt Castle on its island.
The park's 56 full-hookup sites are all in the Fox loop, and its other tent and trailer sites have electric hookups. The State Parks page posts no length limit, so confirm the specific site against the rig before booking either.
Syracuse falls on the drive north from the Thruway, and in late summer the Great New York State Fair's RV park, on the Syracuse RV page, draws on the same rental rigs as an island week.
Long Island, the Hudson Valley and western New York
Closest to the city, Nickerson Beach and Long Island's other county campgrounds put a rig within sound of the Atlantic, and the Long Island RV page covers them along with the parkway rules a tall vehicle has to plan around. Floyd Bennett Field holds the only campground inside the city, on the Brooklyn RV page. Up the Hudson, Lake Taghkanic and Taconic State Park near Bash Bish Falls belong to the Hudson RV page.
West of Syracuse, the Finger Lakes RV page sorts the state parks on Seneca, Cayuga and Keuka by what fits a motorhome, with wineries along the shores between them. Race weekends at Watkins Glen International fill those lakeside pads and the rental rigs at the same time, and the Watkins Glen RV page has the track's camping.
Farther west, Letchworth's gorge, the one people call the Grand Canyon of the East, is the trip on the Webster RV page. Darien Lake's campground, beside the theme park and the amphitheater, is on the Buffalo RV page.