Brookside Campgrounds — Hotel in Town of Catskill

I just want to say me and my family have been camping at Brookside Campground for 30+ year's this campground use to be a big field where hardly anyone was ever camping as the grass was barely mowed there was 1 or 2 showers it was a field to pop up a tent a hole in the wall with nothing but a miniture little store with bare camping nessitiety's when I heard there were new owners taking over my family and I decided to give it a shot expecting not to be returning not knowing what these new people would be like to all our suprise they were wonderful,caring,always willing to accommodate us in any way they could from changing our sites to loaning us tarps when we were expecting rain they have and continue to work daily from dawn to dusk to improve the Campground as I have watched a field turn into an awesome Campground with a new store going up filled with things you would never expect to find in a campground store and priced equally as fair as going to a real store without the inconvenience of having to go to the store also I have watched a once tiny little field double in size with new bathrooms being put in extra bathrooms being set up at times to accommodate large crowds to tree's constantly being planted right up to this summer tree's were still going in the ground so within a few years there will be more privacy and shaded campsites the grass is a constant daily mowing process which in all our years we have never seen a day go by unless it's raining or a full Campground that the mower is not going from morning till night and the restrooms yes they can get messy but with wet people constantly coming in and out of the pool it may get a bit wet but never in all our years has it ever been to the point of being scurvy or to the point of being unsable I have watched this entire family put everything in them into this campground so we could all have a nice place to camp and they are very generous as it probably cost them more when I bring my grandchildren camping for the store and game room as it cost me if your looking for a spotless quiet place to enjoy your time Brookside has that too but at certain times of the year and certain holidays you might prefer a hotel come on really isnt that why we all choose to go camping so we can have some out of the box ordinary fun and yes it can be noisy at times especially on the holidays but isn't that what celebrating the holidays and going camping are made for what ever happened to joining in the fun you know the more the merrier we have never ever been turned away by other camper's when asking to join in a volleyball game or other activites and we have also invited other camper's to come join in our activities speaking of activities Brookside never had any activity's or a game room which it now does even special events to join in while not camping my personal opinion I couldn't have asked for better people or a better family to turn this old field into the campground it is today Bonnie, Jerry and their 3 children couldn't be any better people then they are there kind,caring accommodateing, generous and most of all always willing to go out of their way to make everyone's stay there as comfortable and fun as possible Bonnie, Jerry and you 3 boys are awesome friendly and considerate It's always been clean well kept and a great family get away BUT MOST OF ALL BONNIE, JERRY & THEIR CHILDREN GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE YOU FEEL WELCOME AND ARE ALWAYS WILLING TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE YOUR STAY AS ENJOYABLE AS POSSIBLE BESIDES THAT ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS CAMPGROUND IS AWESOME BROOKSIDE CAMPGROUND ROCKS #1 WILL BE RETURNING WHENEVER WE PLAN A CAMPING TRIP IT WOULDN'T BE ANYWHERE ELSE THANK YOU BONNIE, JERRY AND CHILDREN FOR ALWAYS MAKING OUR STAY A WONDERFUL...

This weekend, my boyfriend and I decided to drive around and explore new places. Halfway through the weekend, we found this campground and luckily they were able to allow us to rent a camper for one night. We were so excited once we got there, we went to walmart, bought cleaning supplies and scrubbed the camper down and immediately started to relax and build a fire. The owners/managers really talked up the live music and bonfire that was starting at 10pm. We decided that since they made such a huge deal out of it, that we would go! So of course, we did. 10pm rolled around and the band wasn't there yet, the manager was sitting around the fire assuring us he would be there soon, that he was running late. No problem. The guy comes speeding in, gets his crew and equipment ready and starts his performance. Once he started singing, my boyfriend and I were feeling uneasy about his first verse.. we decided to wait it out to hear the second verse before we got upset.. and sure enough.. we realized this guy was singing about how anti-police he was. He was saying how he woke up one morning and all these cops were standing over him and all he saw were uniforms, no faces and he was talking about stealing and eluding the police and how he is such a victim of the police... I was getting nervous because my boyfriend is a police officer of 11 years and he was sitting there, enjoying his MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND... a weekend where we honor those who fought for our country... and these owners of this campground allow these scumbags come in and bash police officers in front of kids, parents, and first responders. We ended up getting up and going back to our camper where we had to listen to these people sing until 2am!! We were so upset that we left by 5am the next morning. We will now let everyone know about the views of this campground and why no one should support their business because they don't support our law...

Booked it in a rush for the holiday weekend to stay and hike the Catskill trails. The staff is friendly, and the bathroom is clean. Price is not cheap, but okay. We were told that the quiet hour ends at 2AM for holidays. We have camped over two dozen campgrounds in the east coast in the past year. This is the only one that really made us uncomfortable. First, the "noise" that we never experienced before. A few camp sites next to ours are empty. Then there was a large group there, about 40 yards away. Far enough? They played a kind of Mexican pop loudly till 2AM, and talked/laughed loudly after that. The next day, two other groups on the other side "joined" them to play loud music with strong base till 2AM. How loud? 60 to 80db just outside our camper and 45 to 60db inside. Second, security. We often leave the step stool on the camp site while driving our camper to trail head, especially when it rains and the stool is wet. This is the first time we lost the step stool in a camp site after a few hour's hiking. We asked the campground office, they had no idea who took it. We gave up the third night and left.

Update: We never moved anything, including the fire pit and picnic table. We don't do camp fire in the rain. We were on 32. We parked facing the sign, close to the picnic table, the pit and the woods. We might be confused if it is not the right place. By the way, we left the stool about 2 feet from the woods and 10 feet from the picnic table, which is not close to any other camp sites with people, nor in the middle of open field. We did expect holiday parties ongoing. We camped during independence day and labor day last year. This is really different. Plus, I never saw people talking so loud during quiet hours for...