New York City North / Newburgh KOA Holiday

We stayed at New York City North / Newburgh KOA Holiday in Plattekill, New York. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A state-park-like KOA with nicely private sites.

Dates:

Check in: 2025-07-06
Check out: 2025-07-12
6 nights

Weather:

Partly sunny, some rain
High temps 76-88°F, lows 65-71°F
Little wind, gusts to 11 MPH

Noise:

No road noise
No train horn noise
Little neighbor noise

Site:

#117, pull-through, gravel
Needed to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
A little unlevel site; high on driver side and front; used hydraulic leveling
Gravel driveway about 55 feet long by 20 feet wide
About 20 feet to neighbors on both sides
Trees between sites
Picnic table
Fire pit
Tall trees
Clean site
Elevation 540 feet, front facing SW

Utilities:

50 amp power, very conveniently located
45 PSI water, very conveniently located
Unthreaded sewer connection, very conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

RoamLink: 16 Mbps down, 0.2 Mbps up, 1,000 ms ping (the RoamLink service picks the best network, so I’m not sure which one it used, other than not AT&T)
Campground Wi-Fi: 2 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
AT&T: 7-10 Mbps down, 0.2 Mbps up, 120-870 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
Starlink: not used

Amenities:

Garbage pickup from site
Pool
Package delivery to office

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Nice place to get away

We had a nice site tucked under the trees, which has pros and cons. On the plus side, it was shady and felt private. On the negative side, the trees made Starlink impossible to use, and our cell coverage wasn’t great. If you have to work or remain connected like we do, this is a problem, but luckily I didn’t have any critical meetings, so it worked out okay. There are a lot of amenities for families and kids, so I can see this would be a destination for folks who want to get away from the city. We used it as a jumping-off point to go into the city, as there aren’t a lot of options closer to the city for a large motorhome, and it was easy enough to drive to Yankee Stadium (about an hour and a half away). I would have loved to stay longer and explore more in the immediate area, however. Next time! We camped at New York City North / Newburgh KOA Holiday in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Other sites:

Other sites

Cabins:

Cabins

Bathrooms being renovated:

Bathrooms

Playground:

Playground

Pool:

Pool

Pond:

Pond

Office:

Office

We’d be happy to stay here again.

Video

Video: Foxboro, Massachusetts to Plattekill, New York motorhome travel timelapse

A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 201 miles from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Plattekill, New York.

Travel from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Plattekill, New York

We drove our coach 201 miles, about four hours of driving, from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Plattekill, New York.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:

Route map

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

Lots of kids:

Lots of kids

Leaving the campground:

Leaving the campground

I-495 North:

I-495 North

I-90:

I-90

I-90 West Mass Pike:

I-90 West Mass Pike

“The Last Green Valley National Corridor“:

The Last Green Valley National Corridor

I-84:

I-84

Picnic area:

Picnic area

Paladin normally faces forward when sitting beside the passenger chair, and seems confused when he goes in the wrong way and ends up facing backwards:

Paladin

“Welcome to Connecticut”:

Welcome to Connecticut

Fun with zoom:

Fun with zoom

East Hartford:

East Hartford

Fireflies mural:

Fireflys mural

13 foot 7 inches clearance; our coach is 12 foot 7 inches high:

13 foot 7 inches clearance; our coach is 12 foot 7 inches

Fancy building:

Fancy building

Heavy traffic:

Heavy traffic

Due to a crash:

Map

Clock tower:

Clock tower

Snuggly Paladin:

Snuggly Paladin

“Welcome to New York”:

Welcome to New York

Super snuggly Paladin:

Snuggly Paladin

Route 32 North:

Route 32 North

Arriving at KOA:

Arriving at KOA

Pond:

Pond

Office:

Office

Our site:

Our site

USS Constitution

We explored the USS Constitution, aka “Old Ironsides”, the oldest commissioned ship in the United States Navy. It is operated by the Navy in partnership with Boston National Historical Park.

USS Constitution

Boston National Historical Park

We visited the Boston National Historical Park in Massachusetts, and walked about half of the Freedom Trail.

An interactive map of our walking route:

Faneuil Hall:

Faneuil Hall

The Freedom Trail:

The Freedom Trail

Irish Famine Memorial:

Irish Famine Memorial

Ironically a popular place to eat lunch:

Ironically a popular place to eat lunch

Latin School memorial:

Latin School memorial

Graveyard:

Graveyard

The Freedom Trail

Boston Common:

Boston Common

Massachusetts State House:

Boston Common

MLK sculpture:

MLK sculpture

Visitor info and the end (or start) of the Freedom Trail:

Boston Common

Mary Chilton

Back to Faneuil Hall:

Back to Faneuil Hall

Cape Cod National Seashore

We took a drive out to the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts.

Here’s an interactive map of our route:

Entering Cape Cod:

Cape Cod

A small visitor center at a rest area:

Visitor Center

Salt Pond Visitor Center:

Salt Pond Visitor Center

Map:

Map

Shells:

Shells

Other exhibits:

Exhibits

Pond:

Pond

Boat:

Boat

Highland Lighthouse:

Highland Lighthouse

Province Lands Visitor Center:

Province Lands Visitor Center

What drew you here?

Province Lands Visitor Center

Three Sisters Lighthouses:

Three Sisters Lighthouses

Nauset Light:

Nauset Light

Baseball: Boston Red Sox vs Cincinnati Reds

After our two tours of Fenway Park, we attended part of a game of the Boston Red Sox vs the Cincinnati Reds.

Jenn’s game summary:

Took two different Fenway tours before the game—one more history-oriented, one where we got to go on the warning track and then watch batting practice from the Green Monster seats. It was pretty fun to watch the homers go over our heads or come very near us. Not a bad vantage for a game, but spendy! We changed our tickets from grandstand seats to loge box ones and got to see three innings before the game was postponed due to severe thunderstorms. A pity, because I was really digging the vibe. The Red Sox did win it the next day.

An interactive map of the ballpark:

Outside Fenway:

Outside Fenway

Free fans handed out on entry, which was appreciated; it was rather hot:

Free fans handed out on entry

Concourse:

Concourse

Exhibits:

Exhibits

Bobbleheads:

Bobbleheads

Concourse:

Concourse

View from our seats; our original seats were Grandstand 16, Row 4, Seats 5 & 6; after experiencing how uncomfortable those seats were, we changed them to Section Loge Box 133, Row DD, Seats 5 & 6:

View from our seats

Seat selfie:

Seat selfie

Mascots:

Mascots

Play ball:

Play ball

Baseball

There is netting above the seats behind home plate (rather unusually). A ball landed on the netting, rolled down, and got stuck:

A ball got caught in the netting

Run scores:

Run scores

Interesting hot dog vendor box:

Interesting hot dog vendor box

And pretzel vendor:

And pretzel vendor

Baseball

Nasty weather on the way:

Nasty weather on the way

Unconvered the tarp:

Unconvered the tarp

Covering home plate and the mound:

Covering home plate and the mound

Unrolling the tarp:

Unrolling the tarp

Game delayed:

Game delayed

LL Bean Keeping your Sox Dry:

LL Bean Keeping your Sox Dry

Weights for the tarp:

Weighs for the tarp

Take cover:

Take cover

Tarp on the field:

Tarp on the field

We left, as we could tell the rain wouldn’t stop for hours. The game was eventually postponed.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.

Baseball: Fenway tours

We did two guided tours of Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts: the Fenway Public Tour, which focused on the history, and the Fenway Pre-game Tour, with access to the warning track on the field behind home plate. Both tours had us sit in historic seats and the Green Monster.

Approaching Boston downtown:

Boston

A selfie:

Selfie

Newer plastic seating in the foreground, historic wooden seating in the background:

Seating

Historic wooden seats… rather uncomfortable:

Historic wooden seats

Historic wooden seats:

Historic wooden seats

Fenway

The Green Monster:

Green Monster

View from the Green Monster:

View from the Green Monster

Music performances at Fenway:

Music performances at Fenway

Gardens at Fenway:

Gardens at Fenway

Fenway

Sam Adams

The lone red seat in the right field bleachers (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21) signifies the longest home run ever hit at Fenway, hit by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946, and was officially measured at 502 feet (153 m):

The lone red seat

Fenway

Examples of seating over time:

Seating over time

Exhibits:

Exhibits

Behind the Green Monster:

Behind the Green Monster

Fenway Park plaque:

Fenway Park

On the field during our second tour:

On the field

View from historic seats (again):

View from historic seats

And the Green Monster:

Green Monster

View from the Green Monster:

View from Green Monster

Souvenir photo:

Souvenir photo

Interesting tours. In the next post, an actual game.

Completed visiting all contiguous states

With our road trip to Connecticut and Rhode Island, we have now visited all 48 contiguous states of the US.

Here’s Jenn adding last state pin:

Jenn adding last state pin

These states are so tiny, the pins in the state capitals overlap:

The states are so tiny, the pins in the state capitals overlap

All 48 states:

States map

Here’s the full pin board. Alaska and Hawaii are the only two remaining, which will require special efforts:

Pin board

Here I’m adding the last state sticker of the 48 to the outside of our coach:

David adding last state sticker

Last state stickers

The completed contiguious states map:

Completed contiguious states map

An exciting milestone.

Rhode Island

To complete visiting the 48 contiguous US states, we stopped in Rhode Island for dinner — our rule is that a state counts as being visited if we do something in the state, not just drive through. And with the tiny Connecticut and Rhode Island states, they’re too small to actually stay in each, so dinner and driving around Newport will suffice.

“Discover Beautiful Rhode Island”:

Discover Beautiful Rhode Island