RV Rental Fort Washington, PA

When you rent a motorhome in Fort Washington, be sure to check out Fort Washington State Park in Springfield. Stretching across 493 acres, Fort Washington State Park received its name after George Washington established a temporary fort here in 1777 on the way to Valley Forge. The park offers guests approximately four miles of hiking trails as well as opportunities for fishing on Wissahickon Creek. Common catches include catfish, carp, panfish, and suckers. While at the park, you can also enjoy a picnic at one of the pavilions or play a round of disc golf. During winter months, you can also sled and ski on the park’s Militia Hill.

North of the Potomac River, Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust in Huntingdon Valley spans 812 acres and has almost 11 miles of nature trails for residents and visitors to explore. Besides preserving the land, the Pennypack Trust works to protect and restore local wildlife. One of the primary ways the stewardship staff accomplishes this goal is by understanding the density and movement patterns of herds of white-tailed deer within the preserve. Those interested in bird watching can purchase birdseed from the visitor’s center. Also at the visitor’s center, guests can buy local honey, houses and feeders for birds, natural history books, and other gifts to commemorate the visit to Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

If you have a green thumb, or if you just enjoy looking at gorgeously landscaped gardens, check out Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. The Morris Arboretum, with its 92 acres, is designed to educate, research, and display beautiful gardens for all to appreciate. There’s a rose garden, glasshouse fernery, a swan pond, and multiple colorful gardens. For a more aerial view, visitors can walk 50 feet up in the treetops and enjoy a canopy walk.

There aren’t very many RV parks nearby when you book a travel trailer rental in Fort Washington. However, one option in the outlying area is Campus Park and Ride in Philadelphia. It’s less than an hour's drive away and provides guests with easy access to Philly. Spanning 11 acres, the urban RV park has leveled and paved RV sites with partial hookups. Though there are no sewer hookups, guests can use the on-site dump station. Free WiFi, restrooms, and hot showers are also available.

You might also consider Oak Grove Park and Sales in Hatfield as home base for your RV rental from Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Each of the 63 campsites in this wooded RV park is leveled, graveled, and has full hook-ups. While at the campground, guests have access to a children’s play area, picnic pavilions, a bathhouse with hot showers, laundry facility, and much more. Pets are allowed, too.

Fort Washington is full of history. One of the historical structures in the city is the Highlands Mansion and Gardens. Erected over 200 years ago and stretching across 44 acres, this estate features a majestic late-Georgian mansion and a formal two-acre garden enclosed by massive stone walls. In addition to the garden and mansion, the grounds have nine outbuildings including a greenhouse, bank barn, and springhouse. Today, the estate is available for private rentals and public tours.

Got kids in tow? You won’t want to miss Sesame Place in Langhorne. In production for half a century, children and adults alike will marvel as they explore Sesame Street through this iconic theme park. The park has several Sesame Street-themed rides, and near the end of May, the water park area of the theme park opens, creating a whole new Sesame-themed world for the family to experience. With a lazy river, kid-friendly wave pool, body slides, and much more, this could be a fantastic place to visit when you have an RV rental near Fort Washington.

Historic Hope Lodge in Fort Washington was built in 1748 by prosperous Quaker entrepreneur Samuel Morris. Upon Morris’s death in 1770, the house was sold to William West and served as headquarters to George Washington’s Surgeon General, John Cochran while the Continental Army encamped in the surrounding Whitemarsh area during the Revolutionary War. Take a tour of the historically-decorated home and gardens or witness a Revolutionary War re-enactment when you book a camper rental in Fort Washington.