Below Letchworth State Park's Highbanks camping area, the Genesee River runs a long way down between gorge walls that climb as high as 600 feet. The rest of the park south of Rochester fills the days, with overlooks strung along the canyon and trails down to the three waterfalls the river pours over on its way north to Lake Ontario. Rochester-area camping roundups name Letchworth first, and with kids along it rewards a week more than a weekend.
In a motorhome the gorge becomes a base. The rig stays on one site all week, the kids get their own bunks and a fridge to raid between hikes, and a wet morning just pushes the waterfalls to the afternoon. By midweek the family has a favorite overlook and walks back to it after dinner to watch the light leave the canyon walls. Couples after a quick overnight at the park have a lighter trip, and Rochester's campervan page covers that one.
The Highbanks loops at Letchworth
The sites at Highbanks are electric, wired for 30 and 50 amp service, and the state's reservation listing shows a dump station on site, so the tanks get emptied without leaving the park. That makes a week of shore power and trail days easy to run from one pad, with nothing to unplug or stow until the last morning.
Lock the site before you book the rig, because the pad you land decides how long a motorhome makes sense, and heading into 2027 there are fewer pads to choose from. As of October 2026, New York State Parks lists loops 300 through 600 and loop 800 as tentatively closed until early July 2027 while five new shower buildings go in, with phased closures expected through 2027. Check the park's notice before you settle on dates, since the loops taking reservations will keep shifting while the work runs.
Sodus Point and a bluff week on Lake Ontario
At the Sodus Point KOA, out on the Lake Ontario shore east of Webster, the sun goes down over open water, and the evening routine is a chair on the bluff and the lake turning orange off to the west. The water-view row is set back from the edge and kept for adults, so families take the sites behind it and walk out to the bluff for the sunset.
Sodus Point suits the week when nobody wants to drive anywhere. The park, which was South Shore RV Park before it became a KOA, runs full-hookup back-ins and 50-amp pull-throughs with a 90-foot maximum length as of October 2026, which leaves room to spare for a family motorhome and means no dump runs all week. Days go to Sodus Bay and the village, and the lighthouse museum out at the point opens from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
The Seaway Trail runs both ways from the point, west to Webster Park's stretch of lakeshore and east to the bluffs at Fair Haven Beach State Park, and for two people in a smaller rig those nights make a looser trip that the Webster campervan page lays out.