The pool is heated but often doesn't feel that way. The deck area is very nice. One suggestion…read morewould be to provide lockers by the pool. Hillside campground does this efficiently and it takes up very little deck space. The cafe used to be one of our highlights but no more. In the past they had friendly servers take your order. But now you have to order at the counter and wait to be called. The dinner menu is very mediocre. But their breakfast choices are very good. The restaurant doesn't open until 9am so if you are an early riser, bring a box of cereal. Cabins are clean. Restrooms and showers are decent. For the dance on our last visit the music wasn't working for the crowd. Nobody dancing for the first hour. However, it did get better as the night went on. If you want a camping experience that dwarfs Jones Pond, check out Hillside campground in PA. An amazing non-stop Mardi Gras feel. If you want a low key weekend, Jones Pond is an acceptable option. But when you compare it to other gay campsites, it's somewhat vanilla. Not a bad place. Just not sensational.

Jones Pond is branded as "Gay Camping At Its Best" and is a 100+ acres facility located deep in the…read moreSouthern Tier of Western New York (Angelica, NY to be exact). The grounds offer a variety of options for your camping pleasure that include a guest house, cabins, bunk houses and a number of tent sites. Being part of the LGBT Community in WNY I've heard many things about this place and all were on the raunchy side however since obtaining new ownership, I don't know how many years ago I've also heard that things have turned around. Located approximately 1.5 hours from Buffalo and Rochester I have to say that I was truly impressed pulling up to the main building. As you enter the grounds you will pass the owner's house and pull up to front of several buildings, parking off to the side and walking into the first building you find a convenience store and registration desk. As per the usual be sure to stop in and get yourself signed into grounds, looking around you'll notice the barn, café and pool area. Upon being checked in it's time to explore the park! Being that there are different theme parties each weekend and obviously besides the seasonal there are a variety of people that go, my entire group found everyone very friendly and welcoming and offering advice, HI's, hello's and waves all along the way. 4 of my group stayed in one of the bunk houses which is located across from the laundry mat and shower area, I must say the fact that there is a laundry facility is great! BUT the fact that there is a real bathroom with individual showers and real toilets made it even better. I'm not the most outdoorsy type of person and have used out houses before but the creature comforts definitely help when you spend a few nights in a tent. The bunk house themselves are totes adorable and larger than I expected, the bunk beds are set to one side and building into the building, in an open format so they are sturdy and appear to be large as a double. These are communal shares so in the event you don't book the full bunk house like we did you may end up sharing the building with other campers however individual lockers are provided to protect your belongings. These buildings also provide a picnic table on the deck. I am most surprised with how clean they are, not just the inside but the outside as there were no cobwebs, wasp nets or other such creature "comforts" that you see with most lodging, to be at least this was a sign that they management really takes care of their facilities. The same could be said for the shower house, clean as a whistle inside and house. For my part I ended up staying in a tent site in the 500 region which is called Creekside because, well you are camped up along a creek. This area is nice due to it providing a lot of shade with all the trees; for the most part we didn't find this area very buggy even though much of the area is damp. The dampness didn't even really affect us either, so although near the creek bed you aren't swimming in water and the sites had power and water which was nice due to my need of a C-PAP machine at night. There is also a fair amount of seclusion so when you need to step back from the facilities you aren't over run by other campers. I was not able to drive the entire site like I had wanted and there are a variety of options available to fit your needs. A few words to the wise I would say is 1) wear comfortable foot wear, you will do lots of walking (sober and drunk) and if you hit "cardiac hill" a few times you'll know why. (my calves are killing me) 2) bring a flash light, once the sun sets the back area is DARK, more than once I walked around in the darkness hoping not to fall and/or run into a golf cart. 3) BYOB, although all the parties occur at the main bar there is no bar. 4) Have fun and be respectful of the other campers and Mother Nature, pickup after yourself and leave the site, the barn, the poolside how you would like to find it. 5) Nudity is allowed in certain areas so don't get spooked by it LOL