Above the Copake corner of Columbia County, the hills along the Massachusetts line turn red and gold in the fall, and the campsite under them is where every day of the trip ends. West across the county are Warren Street in Hudson and Olana on its hill above the river. East, a path climbs a hemlock ravine to where Bash Bish Falls drops about 60 feet into a pool. Nobody breaks camp between stops, and on a wet October afternoon a family has room to wait out the rain with the heat on.
Give Hudson a whole day. Walk Warren Street end to end, stop for lunch, and save the late light for Olana, where the hilltop house looks out over the river toward the Catskills. Those mountains are a trip of their own, and the Woodstock campervan page covers them.
In summer the pull runs the other way, over the line into the Berkshires, for a concert from a blanket on the Tanglewood lawn or an afternoon in Stockbridge at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Both make easy outings with the rig waiting back at the resort.
Copake Camping Resort holds the rig for the week. Its 229 sites come with full hookups, meaning water, 50-amp electric, sewer and cable, in back-in, pull-through and deluxe patio layouts. That lets a family motorhome stay connected from the first night to the last, with the furnace running on cold valley nights and only the day trips on the move.
Lock the site before the rig. October is when the resort fills, holiday weekends come with their own stay rules, and the state parks nearby cap their sites short of a family motorhome, so the pad you land decides what you rent.
Lake Taghkanic State Park, off Route 82
Columbia County families book their summer weekends at Lake Taghkanic State Park, south of Hudson, where the campsites sit back in the woods around the lake. It works as a weekend at the water rather than a base for the whole valley, and it suits a small trailer better than anything bigger.
New York State Parks takes trailers and RVs up to 20 feet and sends large trucks and RVs to the Route 82 entrance, since the Taconic Parkway entrance is for cars only. Camping runs mid-May through late October as of October 2026, and the park's pages don't mention hookups. A family motorhome is over that cap, so the week sleeps at Copake and the lake becomes a day out.
Taconic State Park at Copake Falls, on foot to Bash Bish
At Copake Falls, the Taconic State Park campground lies at the foot of the trail into the Bash Bish ravine, with the falls just over the Massachusetts line. The path climbs beside the brook under the hemlocks to the pool, so a night here puts the hike right outside the door with the rig left where it is.
State Parks lists about 30 sites for trailers up to 26 feet, with no utility hookups, which leaves out the 25 to 32 foot motorhome most families rent for a week here. That rig stays at Copake Camping Resort, a short drive from the falls by the resort's own list of neighbors, and comes over for the morning walk. For two people, a campervan fits under that cap, and the New York campervan page covers Copake Falls and the other Hudson Valley state parks that way.