Cherry Plain State Park

Ended up staying for a 4 night 3 day adventure. Minor bumps in the road, nothing that destroyed the weekend. One thing though — we got Fri/​Sat/​Sun online & went back before camping trying to get Thursday — weren’t allowed to get 1 night via the 1 800 # or over the phone with camp directly. Needless to say we got the location, our site was taken! Luckily they had another site available — Site 16 (parking lot) not very private. Site 17 — phenomenal site for the rest of the weekend.
Low key & quiet park to say the least.
We did rent a row boat — $ 5 bucks an hour or $ 20 for the day. Great exercise & decently clean boats.
The site did offer wood, ice & etc supplies. We did not need to use the camp store or purchase any items. They seamed reasonably priced. $ 2 bucks for ice, $ 6 for wood.
Staff was friendly, inviting, & helpful. Quiet hours from 10pm to 7am.

Absolutely beautiful place. Our campsite was wonderful, the lake was beautiful but in the asinine neighbors next to us we’re belligerent drunks. This somewhat ruined our relaxing camping getaway but we tried (really tried) to not let these inconsiderate individuals bothers us. My only complain is that staff did not regulate as they should/​could have. The belligerent drunks had 10+ people at their site and they arrived without a problem (only 6 people allowed). They had 4 cars (only 2 allowed) but they parked in the free/​open parking area and of course staff did not find out. Finally, I have camped A LOT and staff/​rangers usually drive around or stop by sites to enforce quiet hours etc and this didn’t happen.unfortunately. But anyway, this place is amazing and if you do decide to camp here, I hope you are next to chill people– if thats kinda the person you are, if not, then there should be an area for only loud/​want to get drunk in the woods kind of campers :/

This park is beautiful and so low key. You’d be hard pressed to find more than 15 people on the beach on a given day. It’s quite a drive from Albany, but I prefer this so much more than Grafton.

Cherry Plains is a little gem of a state park. It encompasses 175 of forest, pond and trails. The park has a sand beach, picnic pavilion, hiking trails and 20 campsites. 10 of the campsites are drive in sites appropriate for both tents and small campers, the other 10 sites are walk in tent only sites. The park is surrounded by 4,153 acres of wildlife management area. The black river pond is small but pleasant for paddling, with rowboat pedal boat rentals at the park.
It’s so much quieter than the other state parks in our area, and just beautiful.