Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park

Our campsite was private and spacious. The bathrooms were clean, the pool was clean. My disappointment came with the lake. It’s nothing like the picture on their website. It’s gross!!! By the way, you need to pay $ 6 per person per day to use the pool. Quiet time is a joke. People close to us were talking loudly and singing until past 2am! I don’t think I’ll be visiting this campground again.

Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Campground. What do I say? What I truly feel, or what my heart wants to say. For the good of this website, I won’t leave my blind bias opinion. I won’t leave the part of me that wants to look passed the bad. I’m going to give you the truth and nothing but the truth.
I’ve been coming to this campground for 22 years. Since the year I was born. I’ve been coming to this campground. From everything I remember when I was kid. This was an incredible place. My brother and sisters, we loved coming here. Every weekend in the spring and fall. We had great friends, our whole family was here. It was a different time. It used to be a family campground. I loved this place. The parks were incredible! The lake was loaded with fish and clean to swim in. The pools and water slide was clean. The food was great from the snack bar, the general store was loaded with random junk I had no use for but made me incredibly happy. I write this not as someone who misses their childhood and wants to preserve that. I’m writing as someone who wishes this place was as good as it was when I was a kid for my future children.
So now I’ll come back to reality. Present day. I don’t want to trash this place. That’s not what I intent to do at all. But here’s my unbiased opinion.
First off it’s nice to see the place isn’t completely dead as it is during spring and fall days. It’s upsetting but the place is generally a ghost town unless it’s a major holiday. The campground plain and simple is not maintained. That’s as real as it gets. The 2 parks have lost most of their amenities and enjoyable children play things. The lake is currently closed and blocked off with a sign reading «Lake closed due to High Bacteria Levels, Swimming may cause illness. Gross! Now I’m no biologist I don’t know if this is a yearly thing or just a not maintained lake but neither would surprise me.
Now let’s talk about the fact the places infrastructure hasn’t been updated since probably the 1800’s. The rolling power outage in entire sections of the camp ground on a 90 degree day are fabulous. No this isn’t the first time in a major holiday and no, it won’t be the last. Took about 12 hours to get power back to the site.
Now I’m not the type of person to bash other people. But I will say this. This is not a family camp ground. The people here now tend to be… Excuse the language. Trash. It’s a trashy place. So much so that children can’t even play by their sites anymore without their trashy neighbors sticking their head out and yelling at innocent children.
Not for nothing, but for the money you spend coming here… You could really find a much more family friendly and oriented place… and that’s what it’s all about. Family. I go camping for the time with my family, my family goes camping for time with family.
So to sum this up. They really let the place go. In every single category there is… It’s not a place for families and friends anymore. The swimming water is unsafe. There is so much more scaring information I could give but I’ll stop it there. Go somewhere else. It seems the family’s left and trash is here to stay. But hey. At least they still do bingo every weekend!
and this is just something that’s bothered my for a while… WHY DID YOU KILL OFF CINDY! It used to be Cindy, Yogi, and Booboo. Cindy has been erased from this places history. It’s crazy. Well that’s it. Sorry Yogi Bear. I’m signing off.

This is a great campground for the Family or just a quick getaway with some friends. It has every amenitie that you need with a dj or live band performing on any given day. It’s a cool place I enjoyed it.

Very expensive for what we actually got. My wife and I were looking forward to this vacation for months. When we got to the campsite, I couldn’t believe how run down the cabin was. No table. One outlet. Just a bunk and a roof. My wife is 6 months pregnant. I asked for a cabin that was near the bathroom. The woman on the phone assured me it was. It was NOT close to a bathroom. We had to walk up 2 large hills to the bathroom. After the 2^nd hike there, my wife was complaining that her belly hurt and had to use the car to get there! We paid over a $ 100 a day, then had to pay $ 6 per person, per day to use the pool. This park is not next to a nice lake. It’s a stagnant, disgusting pond. No fireworks on the 4^th of July either. Stay away from here and find a reputable park run by honest people who care about their customers. I felt ripped off and will forever warn people to avoid this scam of a park.

i love doing May days and Fall days here, the price is reasonable during that time, and its great not to haul the camper around all the time

So the wife and I had some high hopes for this place and really wanted to enjoy some fall camping.
This place feels like a trailer park that is trying to make some extra money renting spare sites.
The sites are super small and if I opened my awning it was touching the camper next to us, so it goes without saying u can of course hear everything coming from the camper next to you. Not private or peaceful .
The snack bar does not take credit or debit cards so U have to order food at the snack bar, take your order slip down to the general store, pay for it and then bring your receipt to the snack bar, then they make your food. It’s a pain in the ass process w kids in tow…
The field staff was friendly. The general store was well stocked. The kids crafts were fun. But I wouldn’t go back. Too crowded and small. It’s a shame because I was looking for a place to camp and enjoy OSV.

We had high hopes for this campground based on their website. First impression was not good as there no grass near our campsite. It was all dirt which is not great with small kids. We were near the playground and Aqua Center which were both pretty nice and well maintained. The hay ride was short but the kids had a good time.
The Comfort Station was gross. It smelled terrible and was not exactly dirty, but not clean either. The showers were small and this makes it unavoidable to rub your body on the walls which grossed me out.
The staff was nice and the other campers around us were mostly courteous. This place needs some updating which would make it much better.

We always have a great time camping at Yogi’s in Sturbridge. When camping, there are a lot of things to consider. My 5 year old son wandered from our campsite. We were frantic and called the office. They locked down the whole park until my son was found. You just dont know these days! The entire staff was on the lookout. Fortunately it was just a case of him wandering around, but I will always be greatful to Jellystone for the way they handeled my crises.

So not a fan of this place, My husband’s family have been coming here for over 30+ years & I have been coming here for 12 years.
It is a family tradition that his whole immediate family (36 of us) and his extended family-​Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Cousin’s kids all come on Columbus Day weekend each & every year.
When I first started coming here, I swear that had Charles Manson «family» cleaning & maintaining the campgounds. The bathrooms/​showers are disgusting.
We usually rent our own RV or Trailer & bring it in.
But I have to come here every year. So I make the best of it as long as I have family & friends to keep me entertained.

I cannot figure out if I liked this place or not.
Let me paint the scene for you — a few friends and I were going to Brimfield Fair, and decided to camp out. We had done so before at a different campground, but wanted to go to one that had stuff to do.
Jellystone is billed as a family place, and is themed around Yogi Bear’s fictional park. It has roads with names like «Boo Boo Blvd.» and «Ranger Road.» It has a waterslide that goes into a giant puddle or very small pool next to a much bigger pool, and mini-​golf.
So it’s safe to assume that this might be a bit hokey and not terribly friendly to 20-​somethings looking for a place to hang out and drink until the fire wood goes out.
When you get there, you pass a statue of his bearness as you enter the visitor check-​in center. There, you have to pay entirely too much money for not very much wood, and no outside wood is allowed. They give you a huge flyer that says «quiet time 11pm-​7am, ALL FIRES OUT BY 11:30pm.» This seems pretty stern, but whatever. We’re adults. We can go to bed at 11 or so. No big deal.
The first night (a Thursday) was pretty quiet. Not a lot of campers. Friday night was a bit louder, with fires going past 11:30 in a few places.
Then came Saturday. Oh, Saturday.
Saturday had this campsite overflowing with the 16 – 23 age set. Apparently, in central Massachusetts, Hannah-​Barbara themed campsites are tantamount to frat house. There were bleach blonde girls with sun dresses and Bud Lights everywhere. The ragers raged on to the wee hours. It wasn’t really a problem for me, because I sleep like a dead panda, but our neighbors had a four year old, and at about 3am, they got out of their tent and yelled «Can you people keep it down? We have a 4 year old!»
The response from the revelers? «F*ck you and your 4 year old!»
The most amazing part of this evening happened earlier, though.
At about 11:30pm, in the woods near party site 3 (collect all 7!), a rhythmic pounding began in the woods. After a bit of investigation, we established that either tinkerbell was kicking a tree, or a guy was holding up a cell phone for light while another guy was trying to cut a 100 foot tree down with an ax.
You think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding.
Other highlights included Sunday morning, where a crop of ladies could be heard vomiting in the showers, which were already muddy and pretty gross.
Other stuff you should know about this place: it’s more expensive than a lot of other campsites, but sells that it has a pool, mini-​golf, waterslide, swimming lake, etc. Much of this costs extra to use, and the lake/​pond smells like rotting leaves, is about 2 feet deep, and feels like pee-​water.
Despite all this, I actually had a pretty good time.