Came to Jerry's hoping for a relaxing weekend, and found the opposite. The campsite is incompetently run, dirty, and overall a terrible experience.
Both nights groups on neighboring sites were blaring music and fireworks until late in the morning. Fireworks are illegal in New York State, yet Jerry's seemed to ignore this fact. I had complained several times to the staff and despite multiple assurances from them, nothing happened. I could perhaps forgive sparklers, but these were loud, blasting fireworks that shook our campground, going off well into the early mornings. Aside from that, large groups kept blaring music well into the evening. Jerry's claims to have "quiet hours" from 11-7, but clearly nobody cares enough to enforce this supposed rule, and my friends and I got little sleep both nights we were there as a result of their total carelessness. A staff member mentioned their security had just quit, so there was nobody around to patrol the grounds in the evening, which made my friends and I feel unsafe considering the company around us. The campsite told us to call the police on the campers setting off fireworks, but of course nobody has cell service to do so; rather than dealing with the problem themselves they chose to ask us to do it for them. Instead of taking any initiative, they instead pretend to care and go on ignoring the problem. I even spoke to Jerry himself, and all he told me was "well, I tried", and went about his day, not doing anything. Nothing could be clearer to show their utter lack of care.
In addition, their campsites are dirty and poorly maintained. Ours had garbage from previous occupants spread around the grounds, the campsite was muddy and filled with tire tracks, and the picnic tables were falling apart. Their fire pits are small and without cooking grates, and they have the nerve to charge for them. We purchased a large bundle of firewood that cost quite a bit of money, but the firewood they gave us was damp and therefore useless, creating more smoke than fire. Though they have bathrooms on site, they were filthy, unmaintained (one stall didn't have toilet paper twice when I went), and one of the toilets was regularly clogged.
Needless to say, avoid Jerry's if you can. I'm sure there are plenty of other places to camp and float, but this shouldn't be one you visit. read more