Not your average campground!
The Setting
Sampson State Park encompasses nearly 2000 acres including just over 5.5 miles of lakefront providing beautiful scenic views and abundant recreational opportunities. Once a naval training station, the Park now showcases wildflowers, shrubs, trees and grass on flat, rolling woodlands surrounding ravines. Centrally located in the Finger Lakes Park Region, Sampson State Park slopes gently above the eastern shore of Seneca Lake. Formed over 12,000 years ago during the Ice Age, Seneca Lake is the largest and deepest of the Finger Lakes with charted depths over 630 feet. It is rated as excellent for fishing and is especially known for lake trout with a National Lake Trout Derby held on Memorial Day weekend.
The Facility
What’s at the Park? 245 electric campsites and 64 non-electric sites.
Baseball/Softball
Basketball
Biking Bird Watching
Boating
Cross Country Skiing
Fishing
Hiking
Horseshoe Pitching
Hunting
Picnic Tables
Playground
Powerboating
Recreation Programs
Sail Boarding
Sail Boating
Swimming - Beach
Tennis Court
Volleyball
Water Skiing |
What’s provided with each site?
Electric sites available
Picnic Tables
Fire Ring or pit
Choice of shaded or open site
The facilities available and their features?
Boat Launch
Comfort Station
Concession
Convenience Store
Dump Station
Interpretive Center
Marina
Pavilion
Picnic Shelter
Restaurant
Showers
Water Fillup Station |
Park Features
The focal point of the park is the 123-berth marina for seasonal and transient boaters. Seneca Lake is famous for its trout fishing. Located in Seneca County, the heart of Finger Lakes wine region, visitors to the park can enjoy the Seneca and Cayuga Lake Wine Trails as well as many historic points of interest in the nearby towns and villages. There is a Dog Show at the park every year at the end of September.
Camping Tips
To help preserve the park's proud military history, Navy and Air Force veterans have established a military museum in the original base brig (jail) facility. They provide the park patrons with an excellent opportunity to learn about the proud history of Sampson and to see many outstanding exhibits both indoors and out doors. Visitors can look through an actual periscope from a nuclear submarine, sit at the controls of a WWII 5 inch gun or take a seat in the cockpit of a jet simulator. The museum is open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, 5 days a week, Wednesday through Sunday 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM and weekends only from Labor Day until Columbus Day. For more information you can call the Navy museum at 315-585-6203 and the Air Force museum at 315-585-9555.
Address
Sampson State Park
6096 ROUTE 96A
ROMULUS NY 14541
(315)585-6392
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