Ranked shortlist · 10 of 20 campgrounds

Best campgrounds in Philadelphia

The 10 most notable campgrounds in Philadelphia, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Carson Simpson Farm

    3405 Davisville Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.431, percentile 100 of 20

  2. 2

    Philadelphia South / Clarksboro KOA Holiday

    117 Timberlane Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.431, percentile 94.74 of 20

  3. 3

    Ockanickon Scout Reservation

    5787 State Park Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.283, percentile 89.47 of 20

  4. 4

    Mountainview Campground

    135 Goritz Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.155, percentile 84.21 of 20

  5. 5

    Beaver Valley Campgrounds

    80 Clay Ridge Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.863, percentile 78.95 of 20

  6. 6

    Netop Summer Camp

    1617 Hopegate Dr

    listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.853, percentile 73.68 of 20

  7. 7

    Camp Kweebec

    26 Rock Hill Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.853, percentile 68.42 of 20

  8. 8

    Camp Onas

    609 Geigel Hill Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.853, percentile 63.16 of 20

  9. 9

    New Life Island

    990 River Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.853, percentile 57.89 of 20

  10. 10

    Timberlane Campground

    117 Timberlane Rd

    listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.853, percentile 52.63 of 20

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).