Campground Review: River’s Edge Campground
Review Stats
| Bathrooms | 2/5 |
| Scenery | 4/5 |
| Store | 3/5 |
| Activities | 4/5 |
| Privacy | 2/5 |
| Noise | 3/5 |
| Hookups | full |
| WiFi | Yes, but weak |
| Fires | allowed |
| Alcohol | allowed |
| Sprint | roaming, but decently fast bars |
| AT&T | 3 bars |
Imagine three hours of sitting in a tube, completely surrounded by the likes of nature, skippers walking on water, dragonflies picking their livelihood from the surface of the river, and larks picking off either of them as they semmingly-kamakazi into the water, only to pull up with a full taste of dinner and try their luck on another dive. All the while, a mossy thick covers the rocks below the water you’re floating down.
At Camp River’s Edge, in Connellsville, PA, not far from Ohiopyle, you can rent yourself a tube, a kayak or a canoe (around $12 / person as of this post), and float yourself down three miles of the Youghegheny River. It’s a slow and easy crawl, so feel free to bring yourself a few sandwiches, maybe a 6 pack of Yuengling, and all the sunscreen your skin is interested in. The staff will drive you up the river, drop you off near a large bridge right in Connellsville, and it’ll be nothing but a day full of sunshine and water between you and your campsite.
The campground itself has a decent little tent site area, but you won’t be secluded and you’re basically in a giant field of tent sites. But many are right near the river and therefore quite wonderfully situated. If you’re in an RV, expect to be a few feet from your neighbor, there are many spots for RVers to park and they’re nearly all full. It’s certainly much more of an “RV Park” than a campground. But still, you can find yourself a good spot. We got AA-9, which put us not only right across the road from a morning river view, but our neighbors on one side completely consist of group sites, and no one’s using them this afternoon. Therefore, bonus spot.
And if you tire of riding down rivers and having riverside campfires, you can take advantage of their pool, a small arcade with some classic hits (including pinball), or a community fire pit and basketball court/playground that seems like it would be incredibly fun to be at, were anyone else taking advantage of it as well.
We’ve stayed here twice now and both times the service and staff have been quite polite, if a bit downhome with their straightforwardness. All in all, I’d recommend the place anyday as long as you definitely remember to <em>get in the water.</em>
