Life's better when you add fresh air and a warm campfire.
- Anonymous
July 19 to July 26, 2025
During a 16-day camping trip in the summer of 2025, we planned to visit a bunch of state parks in western New York & Pennsylvania with our daughter and her family. For this leg of the trip we needed a campground with full amenities that would put us somewhere in the middle of the areas we planned to go, as well as providing us with the opportunity to do our laundry. We don't usually choose to stay at a KOA, simply because they have a lot of amenities we don't use and we don't wish to pay the higher fees that go with them. However, this KOA was our only choice for a campground in the area we wanted, and it turned out to be a good one.
The Mercer/Grove City KOA is located just outside of Mercer, PA. The campground has 155 sites including full hookup sites, water/electric sites, tent sites, 5 cabins and 4 lodges. Each site had a fire ring and picnic table. There was also on-site garbage collection if you left your bags at the road edge of your site. We had a full hookup site with a good amount of room between our camper and the next site where our daughter and her family were camped. The site on the other side of us was a seasonal site and it was a little closer to us, but we had plenty of room behind our site as well as at the road end for parking. Plus, our neighbor had a bunch of birdfeeders at the back of the site that were fun to watch and provided some great photo opportunities. The campground was busy when we arrived on the weekend, but emptied out quite a bit during the week. We had our loop almost entirely to ourselves for a couple of days before it started filling up again.
As far as the amenities go, there were 2 bath houses that were very clean and the free WIFI was among the best we've ever had at a campground. The Office/Camp Store was well-stocked with the usual supplies and some souvenirs. The staff were very helpful and friendly. A spacious laundry room with washers and dryers was located at the back of the office/store complex and had a separate door leading to the outside, providing access when the office/store was closed. Behind the office/store complex in a separate building was an event hall that was used for different activities on the weekends, and was also where you could buy fresh baked Amish goods on a Saturday morning. A dump station was located near the park entrance.
There was a dog park, but even though we walked around most of the park during our stay, we never did see it. There was also a nice pond located across the road from the campground. We followed a path from directly across the main entrance that wound all the way around the pond to a nice grassy area with a dock for fishing. We didn't do any fishing there, but we did see others with lines dropped in.
The swimming pool was located next to the office/store. It was a little small for the size of the campground, but was nice and very busy during most of our stay due to the warm weather. Other activities included a gem mine, playground, basketball court, gaga ball pit, an RC race course, volleyball net, sand play area, and a variety of outdoor games such as a giant Connect Four game.
We enjoyed our stay at this campground very much. It was right in the middle of the areas we planned to visit, the price wasn't terribly high, and we really couldn't find anything to complain about the campground itself. Even though we don't usually camp at KOAs, we would consider staying at this one again if we return to the area.
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