The well advertised places seem to be ok. But, when on a trip, we'd look for the nice looking campgrounds, off the highways. We'd check in our Triple A Camping booklets, and mostly always found good nice places to stay
Several Pennsylvania State Parks were NOT well maintained Kids had the run of the place, destroyed the wash-rooms, rode bikes thru the flower beds, forced folks off the walkways!
most places we found in the camp books were ok, but did drive 15 miles to find one place closed.
The privately owned camp-grounds were the best.

I live in the Northwest where we have some gorgeous, well-taken-care-of campgrounds. My favorite place to camp is on the coast, with a little bit of wind protection like dunes or a line of thicker trees) and easy access to the beach. I love the smell, and fresh air, and I love campfires. I also think it's more fun to make meals of fresh seafood when at the beach. I like camping on the mountains too, as long as there aren't too many mosquitos, and my favorite campsites have a lake or river or babbling creek.

I'd love to camp on the other side of the range of mountains - where it's high desert - and right up near one of the wild rivers (e.g. Deschutes River in Maupin, Oregon, where the whole place smells like sage) because then you have warm and dry with coolness from river and it's incredibly serene...EXCEPT that they don't allow campfires half the time because it's so dry, which sorta defeats the purpose for me!

I am partial to Michigan camping, with my favorite being Ludington State Park on Lake Michigan. The park is enormous with sand dunes on Lake Michigan and a beautiful river with a dam where people fish, tube, canoe etc. The salmon come to spawn there in the fall and it is a great place to be at that time. Hamlin Lake is also in the park as well as Lost Lake, which is great for kayaking and fishing. The park has a lot of beauatiful nature trails with lots of wildlife to see. Since it is such a great park, it is also very popular and hard to get into. The actual campgrounds are usually crowded, but there are some great sites that we like to reserve.

I never go anywhere, but when I do get away, I go to the Grand Canyon. My favorite place on earth.

Northern Rockies Alaska Hwy. Anywhere between Fort Nelson, BC and Watson Lake YK. We espeically like Stone Mountain Provincial Park. There are a lot of places to wilderness camp beside rivers and lakes up there and the wildlife is fabulous!

There are a lot of places and usually my favorite ones are where there's good fishing!

Here's a pic looking downriver from the last campsite along the Nantahala River (western NC) - Standing Indian C/G, Nantahala National Forest.

The weirdest dream I ever had about camping was when I dreamed about a werewolf coming in to the camp and then dragging me from my tent. It was actually really scary. On a happier note, the place that I like to go camping is Bear Lake. They have a beautiful camp ground where you can camp with either a tent or an RV. My favorite thing about Bear Lake is that you have the beach just off of the campground. We always go jetskiing and boating during the day. It is a lot of fun.

I would love to go back to Alaska to go camping.
My favorite place as a kid would be Point look out in Md.
I love going to Frontier town in Ocean city Md. Camping is so relaxing.

Depends on what you call camping, and where you are.

basic types to me:
1) RV camping, park in lot with other RV folks, generally drive to places, might day hike into a wilderness area, running water and power
2) car camping, big family size tent in campground
3) back packing, everything is carried by you, wherever you go
4) canoe or kayak camping, you portage your boat and gear on your back

I am from the Upper Mid-West and I generally do items 3 and 4. That said:

Backpacking that I have enjoyed
A) Porcupine Mountains in Western UP of Michigan
B) Isle Royale in Lake Superior
C) Beartooth Absaroka "Beaten Path" northeast of Yellowstone in Montana
D) Adirondacks High Peaks region near Mt Marcy
E) Sylvan Lake and Harney Peak area of Black Hills
F) Idaho side of Grand Tetons (Teton Creek)
G) Newport State Park, Door County Wisconsin
H) Devils Lake State Park northwest of Madison Wisconsin

Canoe Camping that I have enjoyed
A) Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota
B) Sylvania Wilderness of Northern Michigan near Watersmeet
C) Rock Island State Park, Wisconsin

Car camping
-Minnesota North Shore
-Lake Itasca Minnesota
-Door County Wisconsin State Parks
-Copper Falls State Park Wisconsin

ANYWHERE!!!