A campsite in the Knoebels pines comes with the lift hill of a wooden coaster showing over the treetops, and the kids are deciding which ride gets the first tickets before the coffee is made. A free shuttle runs through the campground to the covered-bridge entrance, so a day at the park starts with a short ride instead of a drive. Walking across that bridge into the park becomes the routine by the second morning.
Admission and parking at Knoebels are free, and rides are paid one at a time from ticket books, with Ride All Day Passes on select days. That pricing is what lets a family stretch the park across a whole week without racing the clock on any one day. The little ones can spend a morning on the kiddie rides and head back to the rig for lunch and a nap, while the teenagers save their tickets for the coasters.
Knoebels Park Campground in Elysburg
Back at the park's own campground, tents, pop-ups and motorhomes share the woods, and the shuttle ride home after the last tickets are spent closes out most days. For the rig, water filling and the dump station are free and kept for campground guests, so tanks get emptied and topped up without leaving the grounds.
Lock the site before you book the motorhome. The online booking form filters for pull-through and end sites but doesn't show their dimensions, and the campground doesn't post a length limit on its own pages. Call the office with the length of the rig you have in mind, then pick the class that fits the site you got.
Families stretching the trip south can add Hershey, where the whole town smells of chocolate, or one of the Lancaster County resorts built for big rigs. The Pennsylvania RV page covers both.
Lake Glory Campground in Catawissa
Out at Catawissa, Knoebels runs a second campground on a 5-acre lake, and a morning there with a fishing line in the water makes a good off day between rounds of tickets. The operator lists Lake Glory as partial hookup, with a dumping station on site and a free shuttle to the park several times a day, so the motorhome stays parked here too. It's the first place to try when the park campground is full for your dates, and the same order holds: the site first, then the rig.
North of Catawissa, the waterfalls stepping down the glens at Ricketts Glen State Park make a long day out, and the Pennsylvania campervan page covers that trip for two people in a smaller rig.
Halloween weekends at Knoebels
October turns the campground into a block party, with rigs strung in lights, candy handed out from site to site, and the ridges around Elysburg changing color. The park runs Halloween event weekends, Friday to Sunday, through October, and families who come back for them treat those weekends as the busiest stretch of the season.
That puts the park's biggest weekends and the campground's fullest nights on the same dates, competing for the same sites and the same rigs. Book the site first, then the motorhome, and pack the lights.