Stetson's Tumble Hill Campground

Stetson's Tumble Hill Campground in Cohocton, New York, is a hidden oasis on approximately 45 wooded acres in the Southern Tier's Steuben County — a family camping destination in the grape-growing and wine country hill landscape of the southern Finger Lakes region, where the rolling terrain that gives the campground its Tumble Hill name, the quiet wooded setting away from the summer crowds, and the proximity to the Keuka Lake wine district, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the waterfalls of Watkins Glen give guests the specific Finger Lakes Southern Tier experience that the county's diverse tourism resources sustain across the full camping season. Cohocton's Steuben County position in the Cohocton River valley gives the campground the classic upstate New York farm country setting. Forty-five wooded acres with RV sites, tent camping, and the family-friendly camping environment give Stetson's Tumble Hill the genuine wooded retreat character that the campground's hidden-oasis description specifically markets — a property where the forested acreage and the Steuben County hill terrain sustain the sense of natural remove from the commercial tourism corridor that the Finger Lakes region's lakefront communities inevitably develop in peak season. The family-oriented atmosphere, the lasting-memories-and-family-traditions mission, and the rural Steuben County setting give the campground the specific community character of a multi-generational family camping destination. Pets are welcome. The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, 15 miles south of Cohocton in Steuben County, is the most comprehensive museum of glass art and science in the world — a collection of 50,000 glass objects spanning 3,500 years of glass-making history, housed in a museum complex that has expanded continuously since its 1951 founding and now includes the flame-working and glassblowing demonstration studios where visitors can watch master glassblowers create molten glass objects in real time. The Studio at the museum allows guests to create their own glass objects under instructor supervision, and the Innovation Center's history of glass science gives the Corning Museum a depth of experience that justifies the full-day visit that the museum's scale specifically requires. Keuka Lake, 20 miles north of Cohocton in Steuben and Yates Counties, is the only Y-shaped lake in the Finger Lakes — a geological distinctiveness matched by the viticulture that the Keuka Lake wine district sustains on the steep glacial hillside vineyards above the lake's west and east bluffs. The Hunt Country Vineyard, Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, and Heron Hill Winery represent the Keuka Lake AVA's combination of historic and contemporary estate wineries producing riesling, gewürztraminer, and cabernet franc varieties that the glacially carved hillside soils and the lake's thermal moderation specifically support. Hammondsport, at the southern end of Keuka Lake, houses the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, dedicated to the aviation pioneer who built and flew America's first licensed aircraft in Hammondsport in 1908. Stetson's Tumble Hill Campground serves guests through Steuben County's camping season from spring through fall, with the summer months providing the peak family camping demand and the fall foliage season from late September through October delivering the most visually dramatic backdrop for the Cohocton River valley's wooded campground setting. Watkins Glen State Park, 25 miles northeast in Schuyler County, preserves the most dramatic and most visited gorge trail in the Finger Lakes region — the 1.5-mile Gorge Trail through 19 waterfalls and sculpted sandstone canyon walls that makes Watkins Glen a mandatory day trip from the southern Finger Lakes area. Reserve sites ahead for the fall foliage peak and the Watkins Glen NASCAR race weekends when Steuben County accommodation fills from the regional sports market.