Camp Gateway- Brooklyn Ny
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 5453 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
There's no other campground in the world where a family can sleep under the stars, tour the Statue of Liberty, watch a Broadway musical and kayak in one of the world's premier bird migration sanctuaries-all in one trip. Camp Gateway provides a tranquil outdoor experience right outside the nation's most lively and iconic metropolis- New York City. Located in Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn, New York, the campground offers an outdoor escape for hiking, biking, birding and historic tours of airports and forts.Ranger-led programs are available all summer. Keep reading
Recreation
History buffs can visit Civil War-era forts, restored historic aircraft or Nike missile sites. Nature lovers can stroll wooded paths, watch for birds and horseshoe crabs or simply relax. Horseback riding, kayaking and archery are also options.
Facilities
Public bus transportation takes campers to a subway station for easy access around the New York City metro area. Camp Gateway is open April - October and offers tent and RV camping. Generators are permitted during limited hours at RV sites only. Dump Station is available.
Natural Features
Gateway National Recreation Area exists within one of the most urbanized areas of the country, covering 26,000 acres of New Jersey and three New York City boroughs. Among the urban environment, the park boasts grasslands, woodlands, sand dunes, beaches, ponds, salt marshes and forests. Camp Gateway is in the woodland habitat of Floyd Bennet Field.
Nearby Attractions
Biking trails weave through Fort Tilden, with a military history that dates back to the War of 1812. Birders should try the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with 300 species of migratory birds, with willets and green herons in spring and summer, or osprey and black crowned night herons year-round. If the big city beckons, head to Riis Landing for seasonal ferry rides to Manhattan. Call for information.
What the agency tells you
Check in is required. Photo ID required for check in. The primary occupant is required to show photo identification upon check in at the camp ground. Person making reservation must be at least eighteen (18) years old. An adult, eighteen (18) years or older, must be present at the campsite for the duration of the stay. All persons staying in the campsite must be listed at check-in.
No water/electricity/sewer hookups. RV camping: A dump station is available.
No day use; overnight camping only. A tent is required for all tent site reservations.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
No RVs allowed on Belt Parkway; take alternate routes on expressways
Charcoal grills are provided in tent sites. Personal charcoal grills are not permitted.
No generators in tent sites.
No glass containers or alcoholic beverages allowed
No pets in tent sites
Outside wood is not permitted. Collecting firewood in the park is not permitted.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Tying or attaching hammocks, clotheslines or tarps to trees is prohibited.
RVs/Trailers are not allowed in designated tent camping sites. Tents are not allowed at designated RV/Trailer sites.
Reservations at this location are limited to a maximum of 14 consecutive nights. Tents must be moved every 5 days to prevent resource damage.
All trash must be removed from the campsite. Dumpsters and trash containers are located at the entrances to the camp grounds. Do not burn trash or other items.
Check out is 10:00am. Campers must completely vacate the campsite by 10:00am on the last day of the reservation.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 54 · 36 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 22 of 54
- Accessible sites
- 23
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Campfires
- 36 of 38 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 12 of 54 campsite records
- Showers
- Seasonal Showers
- SHOWERS (SEASONAL) on 12 of 54 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 10 of 54 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Beach, Coast
- Archery
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Recreation Programs
- Stargazing
- Visitor center
- Winter sports
- Night sky · 9th darkest of 11 in NY
- Bortle 7
- Fall color · reported 5 days ago, 17 km away
- Minimal color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 53 of the 54 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
54 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 54 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 44 of the 54 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Amelia Earhart | A42 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 34 ft | 1.2 mi | 413 ft |
| Amelia Earhart | A43 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 34 ft | 1.2 mi | 440 ft |
| Amelia Earhart | A44 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 41 ft | 1.2 mi | 475 ft |
| Amelia Earhart | A45 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 47 ft | 1.3 mi | 516 ft |
| Amelia Earhart | A46 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 36 ft | 1.3 mi | 558 ft |
| Amelia Earhart | A47 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 36 ft | 1.3 mi | 589 ft |
| Amelia Earhart | A50 | rv nonelectric | yes | 40 ft | 1.2 mi | 360 ft | |
| Amelia Earhart | A51 | rv nonelectric | yes | 32 ft | 1.2 mi | 346 ft | |
| Amelia Earhart | A52 | rv nonelectric | yes | 32 ft | 1.2 mi | 337 ft | |
| Amelia Earhart | A53 | rv nonelectric | yes | 41 ft | 1.2 mi | 394 ft | |
| Amelia Earhart | A54 | rv nonelectric | yes | 40 ft | 1.2 mi | 418 ft | |
| Amelia Earhart | A55 | rv nonelectric | yes | 40 ft | 1.2 mi | 445 ft | |
| Amelia Earhart | A56 | type not stated | yes | ||||
| Amelia Earhart | A57 | rv nonelectric | yes | ||||
| Amelia Earhart | A58 | rv nonelectric | yes | ||||
| Amelia Earhart | A59 | rv nonelectric | yes | ||||
| Amelia Earhart | A60 | rv nonelectric | yes | ||||
| Amelia Earhart | A61 | rv nonelectric | yes | ||||
| Goldenrod | G20 | tent only nonelectric | 31 ft | 1.1 mi | 303 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G21 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | 1.1 mi | 322 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G22 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | 1.1 mi | 337 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G23 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 1.1 mi | 361 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G25 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 1.1 mi | 337 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G26 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 1.1 mi | 352 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G27 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 1.1 mi | 360 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G28 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 1.1 mi | 489 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G29 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 1.1 mi | 508 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G30 | tent only nonelectric | 28 ft | 1.1 mi | 493 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G31 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 1.1 mi | 475 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G32 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 1.2 mi | 473 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G33 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 1.2 mi | 472 ft | ||
| Goldenrod | G34 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 1.2 mi | 444 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T1 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 1.1 mi | 237 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T11 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 1.1 mi | 338 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T12 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 1.1 mi | 307 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T13 | tent only nonelectric | 38 ft | 1.1 mi | 271 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T14 | tent only nonelectric | 26 ft | 1.1 mi | 386 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T15 | tent only nonelectric | 26 ft | 1.1 mi | 408 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T16 | tent only nonelectric | |||||
| Tamarack | T17 | tent only nonelectric | |||||
| Tamarack | T18 | tent only nonelectric | |||||
| Tamarack | T19 | tent only nonelectric | |||||
| Tamarack | T3 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 1.1 mi | 241 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T4 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 1.1 mi | 248 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T5 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 1.1 mi | 259 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T6 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 1.1 mi | 294 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T7 | tent only nonelectric | 29 ft | 1.1 mi | 326 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T8 | tent only nonelectric | 29 ft | 1.1 mi | 326 ft | ||
| Tamarack | T9 | tent only nonelectric | 32 ft | 1.1 mi | 335 ft | ||
| Wiley Post A | W37 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 27 ft | 1.2 mi | 274 ft | |
| Wiley Post A | W38 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 27 ft | 1.2 mi | 257 ft | |
| Wiley Post B | W39 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 46 ft | 1.2 mi | 214 ft | |
| Wiley Post B | W40 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 44 ft | 1.2 mi | 241 ft | |
| Wiley Post B | W41 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 44 ft | 1.2 mi | 267 ft |
25 of 54 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camp Gateway - Staten IslandGateway National Recreation Area · 9.0 mi
Camp Gateway - Sandy HookGateway National Recreation Area · 12 mi
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Watch Hill Bayview HouseFire Island National Seashore · 47 mi
The Bayberry Dunes HouseFire Island National Seashore · 48 miPublic Transportation: Take the Q35 bus to the Flatbush Avenue/Ryan Visitor Center stop. Enter the park through the pedestrian gate and walk around the right side of the Visitor Center. Keep walking east for approximately 1 mile to the camp grounds.
Passenger vehicles: Take the Belt Parkway to exit 11S, Flatbush Avenue South. Proceed approximately one mile south to the main entrance of Floyd Bennett Field on the left (the last traffic light before the Gil Hodges Memorial Toll Bridge.) Make a LEFT turn at the light. Follow directions below.
RV Campers/Commerical vehicles: From Eastern Long Island (North Shore): Take I-495 West (Long Island Expressway) to I-278 West (Brooklyn Queens Expressway). Exit at Tillary Street (Exit 29). Make left at second traffic light onto Flatbush Avenue South. Stay on Flatbush Avenue approximately 10 miles until just before the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. Make a left turn at the last traffic light before the bridge to enter Floyd Bennett Field. After turning into Floyd Bennett Field make the first left turn and then the next right turn. Campground check-in is 1 mile ahead on the right.
From Central New Jersey: Take I-95 to Exit 13 (Goethels Bridge - toll). Cross bridge to I-278 East (Brooklyn Queens Expressway). Exit at Atlantic Avenuue (Exit 27). Stay right onto Atlantic Avenue. Take Atlantic Avenue to Flatbush Avenue. Make a right onto Flatbush Avenue southbound. Stay on Flatbush Avenue approximately 10 miles until just before the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. Make left at last traffic light before bridge to enter Floyd Bennett Field. After turning into Floyd Bennett Field make the first left turn and then the next right turn. Campground check-in is 1 mile ahead on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for New York, NY
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Camp Gateway- Brooklyn Ny is in New York’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Hakeem Jeffries (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →