Liberty Harbor RV

Hot showers but the curtains were moldy, electric hook ups, coin laundry, have to pay 50% non-​refundable up front which was a real bummer when the wifi didn’t work for the five days we were here and they made no effort or offer to discount our rate when this happened… Kind of chicken shit in my opinion when one of the advertised amenities literally didn’t work for our entire stay… The «24 hr security» was almost never around to be found when we were looking for them. 5 or 6 block walk to PATH station to get to NYC. Bargain compared to the cost of a hotel room.

Even though the park is only across the river, by the time you walk to the path, take it to the city and try to get to midtown, plan on at least 1 ½ hours each way and the last train back was at 11 pm. Tough to see a play and make the train. Worst of all, I paid $ 90 a night and then was charged an additional $ 40 because even though I left early, I didn’t stop in to sign out. You can find you plenty of hotels right in the city for less than that price. And you don’t have to walk 6+ blocks on dark barren streets at night to get to the «campground» (parking lot).

Convenient place to park and sleep while exploring NYC in an RV. As said by others, it’s a tightly packed parking lot – would not want to spend time there. But we weren’t looking for fun in the RV Park. It’s a moderate-​short and well lit walk to the subway for easy access to NYC via Grove St. Station.
Given the timing of our visit, Liberty Harbor was not busy at all and bathrooms in the RV Park were clean.
Do beware of low clearance bridges and narrow/​winding/​rough roads on routes your GPS may select. Holland Tunnel is very low clearance and is restricted for vehicle types. Coming from the east, we opted for the Washington Bridge and then went south on 95, east of the Hudson River – and there were many fairly low clearance spots (13’8″-14′-ish) that work for us, but it included a substantial stretch of very narrow and extremely rough, winding road. Apparently, the directions on their website are good, but I was never able to get it to load when I needed it for directions.
Overall: good experience.

First, I understand this is URBAN camping and not out in the woods — I get that. Still no excuse for the BS we went through on our 2 nights there.
The campground is the most compact I have ever been to. I was not able to put out my outdoor carper — had to put over half of it under the rig.
It was Columbus Day Weekend and so we were charged ‘Holiday’ rates of over $ 100 a day with tax. The only thing is no one told the neighbors there was a holiday. The adjoining construction site was in full swing before 7:00 a.m. — Cranes, Cement Tucks, Jack Hammers and who knows what else they use to build a new high rise over our heads.
No one told all of the commuters who started filling up the adjoining park and ride parking lot (for the ferry), on the other side of the postage stamp «RV Park’ that it was a holiday — to be honest, not sure who made more noise or was more disturbing.
But that’s not the worst of it — the security was awful. When you check in, they give you this very expensive full color presentation folder with lots of tourist info in and on it, including a business card for the «24 hour» security card, that has a Cell Number printed on it. When we came back to the site the first night, the security booth was manned — but that was the last time I ever saw any one there.
Long story short, there were 4 RV’s parked around me who were traveling together — they must have been out late, because there campground party didn’t start until after 1:00 a.m. — right under the pop-​out of my bedroom. Before getting anyone else involved, I went out and asked them to take the party inside — they refused and the conversation continued to sound like it was in my bedroom, — So, now, I call the Cell Phone — and no one answers and the VM is full — WORTHLESS.
Wanting some satisfaction, I left a VM at the main number of the campground — I thought, just MAYBE someone with a sense of customer service would have called and apologized — thinking they at least thought this was a high end establishment (as their rates suggest) — NOT.
There is not any sewer hookups — but there is a very nasty dump station where water peculates out of the ground — ugggh. There is no cable TV and all we could pick up off the air was 7 channels — no networks and nothing very interesting either.
Yes, I suppose their claim to being the closest RV park to NYC is true — and I’m sure the land is extremely valuable — but come on — this pace is a ghetto and should be avoided.

We stayed here for 4 nights in the dry camping area. It’s really a boat storage yard that they allow you to park in. That was fine by us, we found a space way in the back where we wouldn’t be close to anyone. So long as you are OK without hook ups, it was perfect. Just make sure you have flip flops because it is all gravel. Knowing what I am getting into, I would surely go back due to how close you are to the city.
One bad thing tho. I wish I would have read the reviews more serious. MAKE SURE YOU PERSONALLY CHECK OUT !! We left at 5:30 AM and I got a call at 11 that I was being charged $ 40 for not checking out. That is TOTAL BULLSHIT !! If I wasn’t checking out I would have paid another night !! When we were there the office was super nice and helpful, but when I argued about the fee, she hung up on me.
Also, the Surf City grill is fun if you are looking for Snooki and Jay-​Wow !!

I would rate this a one, but I have to keep in mind the location. Close to the PATH subway system. A view of the statue of liberty.
The good: close to the PATH subway and views of the statue of liberty. The office staff are friendly and helpful. On site washer and dryer. $ 3.00 for washing and $ 2.50 for drying.
The bad: for an RV park its overpriced, crowded and they will nickel and dime you. The restroom/​showers are in need of an update. Maybe a better ventilation system. The mens showers (6) always had at least one broken. The toilets (5) were in the same boat. Be sure to bring toilet paper with you many time the stalls were without any. Thy do try to keep the bathrooms clean. The cleaning lady shows up at 9pm and closes either the men’s or woman’s bathrooms for an hour each. No other bathrooms are available. They say you can use the office bathrooms. When I went up they referred me to a port a potty.
There is a line each morning for the one dump station. They offer a pump out service. We took advantage of it. You have to make an appointment. It is the same price regardless of the size of your trailer or holding tanks.
Like I said its close to the subway system and most people are not spending their time at the RV park. They have a monopoly and can charge for it. Also when you make a reservation, they charge 50% upfront and is non refundable. The WiFi sucks depending where you are located in the park. Walking around I only saw two antennas. They give you a password. I could only get service when I was outside near the street. We had a stall in the middle of the park. I am sure if you have a stall near the antenna it would be fine.

The good:
The main thing going for this park is the location.
I felt fairly secure for being such an urban location.
The Bad:
Bathrooms: had no AC. 90 degree day. Smelled like cat pee. Only one (of 4) stalls had toilet paper. Gaping holes in ceiling.
Electric Hookup: Only had 97volts at outlet (in corner of campground), even at night, so using the AC in the trailer was not an option.
No easy way for a later check-​out. Can pay $ 40 (and move to a «dry» lot that day. But can’t arrange for it in advance. Must do it day-​of, but the office does not open until 9am. If you need to leave before that, but need to leave the trailer, you are SOL.
Surf City: I went there at 4pm and a bouncer checked my ID (I’m 43). Gives you a flavor for the kind of place it is…
WiFi: Barely functional.
All this being said, I really did like the novelty of camping within sight of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan. Within a 5-​minute walk, there were fabulous views of Manhattan, and there were some great restaurants. within a quick walk.

This is a crowded metropolitan city so don’t expect much and you will be okay. It’s noisy, cramped, and dirty. The RV Park has a slick brochure, but don’t be fooled. The Park looks nothing like that. The wifi doesn’t work the bathrooms are not air conditioned, and the power is intermittent. The water is okay if you have it, we did not. We had no picnic table and no asphalt or concrete pad. They put us in the boat yard because they overbooked the sites. No refunds. No price adjustments. Too bad so sad for you. Oh, and don’t forget to check out or they WILL charge your card $ 40. The BEST thing about this place is the convenience to New York City.

When we were driving through the city while in route my initial thoughts of the surroundings was that I was making a big mistake. Once we turned off the main st to the RV park it went from a congested city to one that reminded me of Newport, RI. We can see huge private boats mooring and leaving the harbor.
The view of Ellis Island and the the back of the Statue of Liberty was awesome. It’s not a pretty lot, it serves a purpose of water/​electric but the views of the NYC skyline are incredible. The bathrooms were clean and the staff were accommodating. This is not a typical camping site as it’s devoid of grass and tress etc… but allows access to NYC, a 10 min walk to the Grove St Path train station is what clinches this place for us. $ 2.75 trip and in 20 min you’re on 34^th st (Macy’s) or the WTC site. No hassles with parking!
The Grove St station is quiet with lots of small shops and restaurants more importantly a Starbucks as well.
You can also walk a few hundred yards and take the ferry for $ 7 which crosses the Hudson and leaves you near the Stanten Island Ferry. For it’s location it is quiet, also
allowed us to order Chinese food which was brought to our Trailer.

I’m usually the person who reads reviews but rarely ever posts reviews. Sorry, I am bad like that. But this place is bad enough that I felt compelled to warn others.
As others have said, the location is very convenient to NYC. Great view of Statue of Liberty and close to public transportation. But that is why they got the one star rating from me.
We tried to get the water/​electric hookup but I guess two weeks notice wasn’t enough lead time. Had we gotten the W/​E hookups, maybe we would have gone to 2 stars. So we decided we would be self sufficient and just use their «dry camping» area. After all, we have generators and water tanks and can stay off the grid for 3 – 4 days.
I guess to Liberty Harbor, «dry camping» means parking your camper in a shipyard… Old boats, junk piles, and construction equipment. But we are all about the adventure, so we thought we could make it work. Since «quiet time» is between 11p to 8a we had to shut down generators and open windows. It is an active yard, so people were continuously walking around, working on their boats, big construction equipment moving around etc. There is also a parking lot for the ferry next door so people were loud when they got back from NY late in to the night. Quiet time was definitely not quiet.
As for the staff, they couldn’t be any less helpful. They could care less about their customers and whether they enjoyed their visit or not. It sort of felt like a Jersey scam where they take your money and *literally* send you to the shipyard. All they could say in their smug voice when I raised my concerns about what dry camping meant to them was «no refunds.»
If you can get the w/​e hookups, maybe it is worth it. If not, avoid this actual dump at all costs.

I am at The Liberty Harbor Marina in Jersey City. They advertise WiFi but you can not access it from anywhere but the office. The person in the offices suggestion if I wanted internet was to go to a Starbucks. It is cheap for New York (anywhere else it would be really expensive). It is $ 50 per night for a tent site with astroturf that is not big enough for my tent (plus the tent site flood about 2 inches deep in some spots). The laundry facility is available but only takes small loads at $ 3 to wash and $ 2.50 to dry. The showers are adequate for Marina showers and the water was hot. The staff is uncaring and unwilling to assist if there is a problem. Besides the night club there is also a gym that plays load music until 11 pm.
The bottom line. If you are on a budget and fairly self sufficient this could be a god place for you to stop in New York. If the draw backs are a problem for you I would not recommend this marina. I really wanted to see the city for a day so that is why I chose this marina (that and the WiFi).

Be careful… be very careful when making your reservation with this park! My girlfriend and I planned a vacation which would begin by going to NY so we booked a few nights at Liberty Harbor in March 2014. The park charged us a 50% deposit for our stay, which was OK as we were ready for this trip! In May she became very ill and was hospitalized twice and the Doctors were unable to determine what was causing the illness. They advised us to cancel our plans for travel until they could get to the bottom of the issue. On May 31^st we emailed Liberty Harbor advising them of the situation and told them we would have to cancel. This was 6 ½ weeks prior to our arrival and their response was «SORRY, deposits are non refundable» 6 WEEKS ADVANCE NOTICE! Make sure you don’t get sick and can’t make your reservation at Liberty Harbor!

We stayed at Liberty Harbor just over a week.
Short story: We are doing everything we can to find another option when we go back in January so we don’t have to settle for this place again.
Long story: As several of the other reviews said, it’s the only place around, the location is amazing but the staff and the facilities leave a lot to be desired. Just like everything else in NYC, this place is way over priced and delivers well under expectations. Don’t expect much help from the staff if you have any issues. The mentality of «my hands are tied and there’s nothing I can do to help you» permeates this place… unless you happen to be lucky enough to deal with Luis (Louis?) that day. He’s a step above the rest, but again, don’t expect too much above and beyond and you won’t be disappointed.
All of the facilities are just acceptable… the parking, the bathrooms, the laundry. No one is expecting a palace and for someone to wipe your ass when you’re done or anything, but if you lack in the facilities department you should probably try to make up for it somewhere else. How you treat other people, especially people who are paying to deal with you, is a great and cost free place to start.
Safety was not an issue when we were there. I never felt unsafe on the grounds, just a little sketchy walking past the nearby construction sites on the way to the train station.

I thought this place was quite a find! The location is absolutely unbeatable. Basically you are in a big parking lot where a lot of the boat owners park their cars and get on their boats in the harbor. It is absolutely no frills, but the hook-​ups are totally fine and it’s a CHEAP place to stay near NYC! It’s a 4 block walk to the subway to get to the city; it is usually deserted but I always felt very safe. (although I am from Chicago) If you are in an RV and want to see the sights of NYC, this is a gem. We went for one night and stayed for 3. The owners are super accommodating. There is also a fun-​looking bar for night life as folks are exiting the boats but I didn’t check it out.

I’m torn between 3 to 4 stars. They’re helpful as far as NY goes, and it’s literally across the harbor from the city (and I could see the Statue of Liberty out my window). The grounds are all cement, which isn’t too great.
***TIP: if you do only dry camping (no electric, no sewage/​water) for only $ 50.
PS I felt very safe here — 24 hour security with a gate.
PPS I found this place will let you park an RV for $ 32.50 a night! You can stay for a night.

My husband and I travel to NYC for business all year round. We have stayed here in every season and have enjoyed it. It is great to be right by the ferry into NYC and several blocks from the PATH, with a view of the Statue of Liberty. We had no idea what to expect when we showed up late at night but it turned out well. It would nice to have sewer hookups at each spot but using the one dump site works, too. The bathrooms and laundry have been renovated since Hurricane Sandy. Stay 6 nights and get the 7^th free is great if you are there a long time but we end up leaving after 5 or 6 days. TOO BAD they won’t apply your free stay to the next visit, especially when you are a repeat customer! It is much less than a hotel stay in the city and a convenient location to NYC. Will be back!

Liberty Harbor RV Park is clean and safe, & the rates are good. Staff is friendly, and security guards patrol both the RV park and tent area. The restroom/​showers are large and clean. The tent camping area is grassy & separated from the camp & marina’s private road by a wall. It is just a short walk to the New Jersey PATH Station, and NYC is only a few minutes by subway. There is a neighborhood store a couple blocks up from the camp & supermarket a couple miles into town on the same street. The only criticism is the noise of some RV campers coming to the restrooms late at night.

We stayed in the RV portion of Liberty Harbor Marina & RV Park for four days. This is a no frills park but the location cannot be beat (closest RV/​Marina to New York City) and that is why we chose this park for our stay. We had plenty of room for our awning, and the spot came equipped with a picnic bench. The washrooms were clean most of the time, and the showers were damn welcome after our drive from Toronto.
The only glitch in our stay happened the second night as we had to move for one night to the land of dry camping. Now we can boondog with the best of ‘em, but when the next to us RV generator kicked in and then ran loudly for the most of the night, I kind of wished that I had not given up drinking several years ago. Now I can without reservation state clearly that I was happy to move back to the land of water & electricity the following morning.
Will we be back? You can bet your RV’s wheel chocks, baby!

This is a nice, little no-​frills marina. It’s well protected, has floating docks and keycard access, usable restrooms, easy parking. A little walk to the Grove St path, but I usually drive.
They have a travel lift and a storage yard, but it’s not a full service situation — they partner with another local business for that.
Rates are reasonable for the area. I actually like this place more than the more luxurious marinas in the area — the no-​frills is nice, and it’s very well protected. (My little boat weathered Hurricane Irene with no trouble at all)

We arrived at the Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City on a Saturday evening with no idea what to expect. Our space was near a corner, harbor side, and backing in was pretty easy, the only debate being how much space to leave for the people who would show up behind us. We had read reviews about how small the spaces were but it didn’t seem like anyone had problems anywhere in the lot. There was plenty of room in the roads of the park for any size RV and we saw everything from coaches to tents in the week we were there, most people staying only a night or two. The roads also had to be wide to accommodate the boat cranes that drove down them occasionally.
A couple people managed to get out their awnings, partly by facing each other and parking as close as possible to the guide rail (slats of wood) but some people were lucky just to have enough room to get out their stairs. Everyone have room for slide-​outs through, further taking stair space from their neighbors, but no one seemed to be complaining to each other so it worked out. The only problem we noticed was that some people possibly new to camping insisted on parking within a couple feet of their hookups, even though their cords and hoses would likely reach — therefore parking with our bikes at their front door rather than somewhere in the 20 feet of empty space ahead of them. We shared a corner with an amazingly arranged 3 other people, in some sort of vehicular gridlock, each spot long enough for everyone and their cars, in our case with the truck — is over 50 feet long (website says 45 foot spaces but we fit the truck and trailer fine in our spot without parking at an angle). So although the spots weren’t wide, they were plenty long and the managers knew what they were doing when they handed out spots. The people who had no electricity or water, who stayed in the parking lot on the other side of the fence, had plenty of space — but no A/​C in most cases (unless they had an awesome generator).
The bathrooms were good, though some of the doors in the women’s bathrooms didn’t really close. The main door was secure by pin number and the showers fairly clean and spacious with good water pressure (just don’t touch the mildew covered shower curtain and it’s great). Camping full time makes you fairly tolerant of imperfect bathroom situations, I totally have a «wear some sandals and get over it» attitude at this point. Although RV parks are a service, if you keep your expectations a little lower and don’t expect everywhere to wipe your nose and pat you on the back, you’ll be much happier.
As for the name of the harbor, you guessed it, the Statue of Liberty is in there. Some reviews said that you couldn’t see the statue from the RV park but — I say to these people — «shutup — be happy you are staying in an RV park next to Manhattan Island» — AND you can see the statue from the entrance of the RV park next to the guard tower (yep there is a guard tower — there are like 5 million dollar yachts in that harbor). However the Statue of Liberty is super itty bitty. I was shocked as hell to see it in person (from the harbor) after having pictured it walking down the road in Ghostbusters or her head tumbling in the street in Cloverfield. My reality was a bit crushed when I saw her — Thanks France. thanks a lot.
All in all, we weren’t staying in an RV park in a harbor parking lot for the comforts and aesthetic of the park, there are no trees, the gravel is some horrible dark spiky mess but the roads between the rows of RV’s were paved and the surrounding opportunities of New York City, awesome.