With Allegheny County just a short drive away, Pittsburgh boasts a large number of campgrounds and cabins to plan your vacation or weekend getaway. Here is just a short list of some of Ettractions favorite Pittsburgh campgrounds, guaranteed to provide you and your family with a memorable camping experience. With full service campgrounds, a wide range of facilities and activities, we invite you to come visit Pittsburgh and enjoy the outdoors. There is something for everyone: Relaxing for You, Fun for the Kids!

Bear Run Campground & Cabins offers a wide range of accommodations, facilities and recreational amenities that are designed to help you and your family enjoy the great outdoors of Pittsburgh, PA. Bear Run has been rated as one of the Top 100 Parks in North America by GoodSam, and Trailer Life rated Bear Run within the top 3% of 12,000 parks. With over 60 acres of rolling farmland and Moraine State Park and Lake Arthur on its borders, Bear Run is the place to go for quality family camping, tenting, RV’ing, or renting Cabins, Kayaks or Canoes. Plus, it’s just 5 minutes away from McConnell’s Mills State Park and the spectacular Slippery Rock Creek Gorge.

Very close by you will find Prime Outlet Shopping Malls, Unique Small Gift & Antique Shops, Two Beaches, Grist Mill Tours, Rock-Climbing, Rappelling, Cave Exploration, Boat Excursions, Lake & River Kayaking, Restaurants, Fine Dining, Zoos and an Amusement Park. For 35 years the Bear Run family has been providing families with endless memories of fun times! Enjoy the solitude that only nature and the great outdoors and hiking over rolling hills can offer!

Another great campsite is Heron Harbor Park. Heron Harbor Park is a great place to go boating, kayaking and fishing on the Youghiogheny River. You can also hike, walk and bike on the Youghiogheny River Trail. If you want to try new and different adventures, you could even go horseback riding on the trail! Each of the great campsites at Heron Harbor Park have a river view and large pull-through site with access to a large no-license fishing pond. Only a half hour drive from Pittsburgh, this Allegheny Passage campground is the only campground in a natural setting that is accessible by auto, RV, bike, bus, and boat.

Area attractions in reasonable distance to Heron Harbor Park include Boston Waterfront Restaurant with outdoor lounge and live music, Butler’s Golf Course with two 18-hole courses, practice ranges and a restaurant, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, the Kennywood Amusement Park and much, much more! This is a great place to go for an escape from the hustle and bustle of the city!

Mountain Top Campground sits in the beautiful countryside of southwest Pennsylvania just 20 miles from Pittsburgh. Mountain Top Campground is the perfect place to get some peace and quiet and also have a little fun. Just 45 minutes from The Meadows Casino and 20 minutes from PNC Park, there are plenty of opportunities to have fun outside the campground. Allegheny County and Pittsburgh have festivals, casinos, museums, a Pittsburgh Pirates game at PNC Park and much, much more. The campground themselves, however, are equally as fun with hiking, biking, fishing, canoeing, relaxing, swimming, and more!

Rose Point Park - Cabins & Camping offers a wide range of fun activities to make your camping experience complete. From ever-popular events such as the Fishing Derby, Summer Camp Olympics, Hawaiian Luau and Halloween Weekends to Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day weekends which are literally packed with non-stop fun, there is always something for your entire family to enjoy! Best of all, the Rose Point Park is located close to many of Pennsylvania and Lawrence County’s most unique attractions. Major highlights include the Living Treasure Animal Park complete with a petting zoo for and exotic animals, the Volant Main Street Shops where you can find one of a kind Western Pennsylvania items, Moraine State Park with an outstanding warm water fishery that is great for sailing and boating and McConnell’s Mills State Park where you can explore the deep gorge of Slipper Rock Creek, a National Natural Landmark.

If none of these campgrounds peak your interest, you can always use the PA Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau to help you find your ideal escape. Come have fun hiking, biking, canoeing, horseback riding, elk watching, picnicking, golfing or any one of our many other Outdoor Recreation opportunities in Pennsylvania's Great Outdoors Region. PA Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau is the official tourism promotion agency for Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest, and Jefferson counties operating under the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.

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