Northampton Beach Campground — Attraction in Town of Northampton

Worst camping experience of our life. Paid for a week stay and we were evicted at 3:30am on day two by the staff for using an outdoor outlet to charge the kids phones with zero warning and absolutely nothing in the provided rules or the orally provided rules at check in forbidding it. Disgusting way to treat a family on vacation. Will never stay here again and have requested a refund through the state for our stolen days. Zero communication and zero posted signs denoting that how is an evictable offense. I have been camping my entire life and have NEVER had such a horrendous experience. DO NOT CAMP HERE. There’s thousands of campgrounds in upstate NY that won’t kick you out at 3:30am for plugging an extension cord into an accessible unmarked outdoor outlet. God will judge you all for ruining our family vacation. If this is an immediate grounds to evict a family from their site then this should be PUBLICLY POSTED, explained with the rules at check in (especially when you tell the staff it’s your first time camping here at check in) and it should be in the provided pamphlet in the rules section (which it is NOT). TERRIBLE PLACE. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AND TERRIBLE STAFF. Don’t waste your family’s hard earned money on a campground that won’t hesitate to steal your money and violate your site privacy by entering your site or tent after midnight and look at you sleeping naked while trying to EVICT YOU. Absolutely unprofessional, illegal and invasive. Staff admitted they attempted to wake my sleeping husband who was fully naked in his tent while I was off site. DISGUSTING! This place should be shut down. We intentionally rented a site by the bathhouse because I had my monthly visitor and the main bathhouse near our site was CLOSED our entire stay which was not told to us at time of reservation or check in and the closest toilets were almost too far to walk to we had to drive the car there and it was a shack with dim light, dirty filthy facilities and NO feminine disposal in the stalls and no showers. 🤮 This is unacceptable and a violation of health laws and an absolute bait and switch situation where we were led to believe we would be provided basic hygiene facilities and in fact we were NOT. Shame on this campground. Mismanaged in all aspects. ZERO STARS. Will never...

We didn't have a campsite, just stopped there to swim. It's a pretty nice beach, clean and well taken care of. I would definitely recommend if your in the area.

PS- I'm posting this in June of 2020, so if you are going to north Hampton beach today I just wanted to give the heads up that the beach is "technically closed" right now because the 2020 Pandemic/ Coronavirus and NYS not allowing beaches to open yet (until phase 3 I believe). North Hampton is allowing people to swim and use the beach (or just looking the other way), but they are not allowing people to park in there lot until they open back up. The pro to this is you won't have to pay to swim or use the beach or for parking (most likely you will find free parking). The con is you have to find parking on the street ( our parking spot was free) and it will be a short to long walk from where you can park on the street to the beach, but it's well worth it to be able to swim on these hot summer days. If you really don't want to or can't walk too far I did see some near by businesses allowing people to park in there lots for a $10 fee, but it wasn't that much closer to be worth the fee for us. Once they completely open back up (in phase 3), you'll be able to park in there lot and you won't need to walk very far at all. Over all its a great place to...

After years of considering this a 5 star DEC, I had to remove one star...it's literally impossible to get a site on the water. They say you can book 9 months ahead of time. I checked for sites that should have JUST opened up right after midnight, and there are none. I'm not sure if they get pre booked or if you have to know someone to get them...but since this is a state campground, it seems a bit unfair that all sites are not fair game to the tax paying public.

The last time I went, we had a spot away from the water and planned on spending the day at the sandbar. Unfortunately everyone with a boat thinks they own the sandbar because they have a pontoon; after 2 hours of fending off our tiny sliver of beachfront (that our toddler was trying to play in) from rude, entitled, confrontational boaters, we gave up and left.

This is a beautiful campground and I adored it for the lake access, but it's getting increasingly difficult to access the lake. If you want water access, you're better off going up...