2025 Best of Camp New York Awards
Let your voice be heard!
This is the Best of Camp New York Awards inaugural annual event, celebrating the very best independently owned and operated campgrounds across New York State. This special award program was created to spotlight the campgrounds that campers themselves love most — with all nominations and votes coming directly from the camping community!
Terms & Conditions apply and can be found below.
Camp New York’s Camper’s Choice Awards is a first annual camper’s choice event designed to honor the best independently owned and operated campgrounds across New York State.
More information coming soon.
Nominations are collected through an online platform. From X – X, campers will have the chance to nominate their favorite campgrounds in various categories.
To nominate, navigate to the ballot to the appropriate section and category and simply type the full name of the campground, city, and website. You will be prompted to complete a short registration form in order to nominate.
Individuals can nominate once per category during the nomination phase.
The voting period runs from X-X. The finalists listed on the voting ballot are based on the results of the nomination period. The top 5 nominees in each category make it to the final ballot.
The finalists on the voting ballot consist of the top five nominees from the nomination round. New companies cannot be added at this stage. To vote for a company, find its category on the ballot and select “Vote” next to its name. You can then continue voting in other categories. If you click the vote button, your vote has been recorded. There is no final “Submit” button.
You can vote once per category throughout the voting period. The Top Five Nominees will move on to the voting round.
Similar to a primary election, the nomination phase identifies the businesses that will appear on the final ballot.
No. No purchase is required to participate in the competition or to win the competition. However, advertising helps because it is the best way to remind the voters about your business and what category you’d like to be considered for – much like political candidates advertise to get their name out to the public.
Also, we would not be able to do this competition every year without our advertisers. It costs a lot of time and money to do a competition like this and selling advertisements helps offset those costs.
The best strategy for earning the title of Camp New York’s Camper’s Choice Awards is by providing an outstanding customer experience! We also encourage businesses to use resources like social media, emails, websites, even in-store signage and handouts, to remind your customers, vendors, neighbors, family, friends to nominate and vote. We also offer highly discounted, highly visible advertising packages to help you reach your target audience and stand out from the competition. Offering prizes or discount-related incentives to obtain nominations and votes is strictly prohibited and may result in company disqualification.
An individual can nominate ONCE PER CATEGORY during the nomination phase and ONCE PER CATEGORY during the voting phase! You get one nomination and one vote per category – make it count!
No! You can nominate or vote in as many or as few categories as you would like. However, nominations from email addresses that only nominate in one category may be flagged as fraudulent because our software thinks they look fake. We encourage everyone to engage with as many categories as possible across the ballot.
We get this question a lot. As much as we’d like to have a category so every single campground in New York could participate, it’s simply not possible. We select categories based on what categories have been popular requests to Camp New York. Also, we require 4-5 nominees on the final ballot; we need enough businesses to support the category for it to be viable.
Yes, nominees must be active Campground Owners of New York members in good standing.
When nominating and voting, individuals must use their own email address. Email addresses must be valid. The system we are using has a complex algorithm to help eliminate potential voter fraud. Any votes that trigger the system are reviewed. Votes that cannot be verified or show signs that they may be fraudulent are eliminated.
NO. The ballot platform we use is well-versed in identifying and eliminating many of the ways companies attempt to commit voter fraud.
Yes, but no more than 10% of a company’s nominations or votes can be from internal email addresses.
Yes, locally-owned franchises are welcome! It’s up to the voters to say what/who they support.
Yes, locally-owned franchises are welcome! It’s up to the voters to say what/who they support.
Winners will be announced at the Campground Owners of New York annual meeting on November 2, 2025. Campers and Consumers will find out that week on social media, on our website, and in the 2026 Camp New York Travel Guide.
So glad you asked – we absolutely do! You can find them here!
Winning or placing among the top two finalists is a prestigious achievement that reflects a campground’s excellence. The winners and finalists are recognized at the CONY Annual Meeting, with post-event coverage featured on a dedicated section of the Camp New York website for 1 year. Additionally, winners and finalists will be announced in a special section of the Camp New York Travels, a trusted resource for campers near and far searching for the best places to stay across New York. Campground can also showcase their accomplishments by using our free winner and finalist logos/graphics, and by purchasing winner plaques and window clings to proudly display their achievement. Contact us to learn more about these opportunities.
We know the Camper’s Choice Awards contest matters to the community and to the businesses and organizations that are nominated. That’s why we take its integrity so seriously. We expect all nominees to abide by the following rules of fair play, and we reserve the right to exclude any nominee found to be in violation of these or other rules posted here.
Nominees/entrants are prohibited from soliciting votes by offering payments or exchange of value of any kind.
Individuals may nominate 1 business per category per region and may vote for 1 business per category per region.
We do have systems in place to detect fraudulent voting. When we see evidence of fraudulent voting, we may eliminate all suspect votes at our discretion. In extreme cases, we will remove entrants, as well.
No more than 10% of a business’s votes can come from internal email addresses.
Our commitment to integrity is simple: We let the campers decide – and we never, ever pick favorites. No member or CONY Board of Directors member will receive special treatment.