When Webster, New York camper Melissa White and her daughter Rachel pulled up to a wooded cabin at the Canadaigua, New York KOA earlier this year, it was love at first sight.

A fishhook wasn’t enough to spoil a camping adventure for the Askins family of Pittsburgh, PA. The friends they met helped ‘em out then…and they’re still in touch now!

Farmstand vegetables, Flathead Lake and a full moon are the backdrop for a camping adventure this Billings, Montana camper will always remember.

“My best day was watching my kids fishing for the first time at the Mystic KOA in Mystic, Connecticut. The kids’ reactions were priceless….it was a HOT humid August day and we just laid down by the pond, fished and let the breeze cool us off.” –Beth Knodler

Before her son deployed to Iraq for military duty, Kerstin Grant took him and her fiance on a camping trip that none of them will soon forget.

The Lafayette, Louisiana (USA) KOA was the site for the Vidrine family’s favorite—and perhaps most patriotic—day of camping.

It began in Yellowstone National Park in 1969—and is still going strong more than 40 years later. It’s a story of camping romance you’ve just got to read.

A new Labor Day tradition has begun for KOA Camper Ken Lange and his friends and family. Read how flashlight hunts, ice cream and more helped to create a favorite camping memory.

If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing the beauty of Glacier National Park, you’ll love this recollection of a day full of mountain goats, hiking, waterfalls and s’mores by KOA Kamper Kelly Tilton. It’s the first in our new series: “Our Best Day of Kamping.”

Meet John Horton, a cowboy poet who’s been serving up smiles–and nearly two million pancakes–for the last 21 years at the Rapid City KOA.

This Virginian has become a KOA kamping addict—and made the most of his quarter million Value Kard Rewards points. Learn where he’s been and why he always chooses KOA Kampgrounds over hotel rooms.