We did our annual outing to the beautiful scenic Delaware river in upsate NY. We always stay at one of landers campgrounds along the river. This year we were at the Skinner's falls campgrounds. We had an absolute blast. The weather was as about as perfect as can be expected for July was 80 degrees and no humidity during the day and it dropped down to 55 for great sleeping weather and nice and cool to sit around a camp fire at night. The campround is pretty much an open field along side the Delaware river with camp sites on either side. We tend to camp on the opposite side of the river to keep the bugs to a minimum away from the water. The staff is as friendly as they come and we have been camping here for about 30 years and are on first name basis with many of them.( If you ever need any spacial attention just ask for Gail shes been with launders since it opened). The camp ground office that sits just off the river is also a small country store with many supplies that you may have forgotten and very reasonably priced. We arrived early and they let us check in early with no hassles. the camp ground was very full this time of year with mostly tent campers . I did see about 3 other pop ups while we were there. It is a great location set in a valley off the main road (route 97). Once you set up your camp site you can walk down a path to the falls and bring a tube and a towel to either sit on the rocks by the falls or go swimming in the natural water pools that form near the falls. The campgrounds have a new bath house that they added 2 years ago with more shower and bathroom stalls. most of the sites have water bu there are no electric sites at this location however the bath houses have electric for shaving hair dryers etc. the camp ground is family friendly but if noise is a problem do not camp here its a mix of young and old but very noisey campers. On Friday night each campground was trying to drown out the other with music and drinking games and finally settled down by 1 am. On Saturday however the security patrol made sure that music was turned down by 10 pm and you could here the crickets they even made sure that the sites that were using the generators silenced them.Saturday morning we woke up packed some sandwitches and drinks in a cooler and headed to the river right behind the campground office where we took to large rafts on a 5 mile journey from our camp site to the next landers campsite down the Delaware river.the water was 68 degrees very nice for a dip and the river was really moving with current so our trip took about 3 hours when the river is slow it can take up to 5 hours with lots of paddling. during our trip we saw an American bald eagle that was nested along the river it flew overhead with a baby eagle was an amazing site happened so fast i could not get a picture, there is a national eagle nesting area and look out midway between the campgrounds that is open top the public for people to view the birds. there are a few sections of mild rapids that are fun, you can see this part of the river is kid friendly we had a 3 year old with us with no trouble. They offer canoe and tube rentals for the more adventures. when we Were done we docked our rafts and went up to the camp store and got some ice cream while we waited for the free shuttle bus back up river to our campsite. we organized a great big volley ball game in the middle of the camping field they have 2 volley ball courts and lots of volleyballs to borrow.Off site there is a nice supermarket country store about 5 miles south in town (narrowsburg) called pecks market that has anything you need and a tree cutting business just up the road that filled my buddies truck with fire wood for 20.00 I felt so bad like he was giving the wood away that i tipped him 10.00 and he looked at me like i was rockafella lol.I have attached some picture links of our campsite and our rafts on the river cant wait till next year!
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If you came from the calkins road Pa side you would cross it to the camp grounds most people come either up or down route 97 on the NY side and turn onto Skinner's falls west road , 40 Skinner's falls west Narrowsburg NY is the actual adders of the camp site if you look on Google earth and zoom in you can see the bridge crossing from PA to NY Its a 2 lane bridge and can support most trailers weight wise i watched as a Pepsi truck crossed to make deliveries into PA. landers owns 5 launch sites and 3 camp grounds up and down the Delaware in this area.
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Narrowsburg is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 414 at the 2000 census.
Narrowsburg is in the western part of the Town of Tusten at the junction of Routes 52 and 97. The community calls itself the "Eagle capital of New York State." Narrowsburg is home to the Ten Mile River Boy Scout Camp, the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Commodore Murray Cup and the Delaware Valley Opera.
The community was first called "Homans Eddy" after Benjamin Homan, the first settler in the town.
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