Camping by state
47 places to stay, each with its nearest town and where our information comes from.
At Assateague Island, near Girdletree, the campground sits right behind the dunes, and the wild horses don't care that it's a campground. They wander between the sites, graze the marsh grass and walk the beach at sunrise. Keep your food locked up, because they've learned what a cooler is.
Inland, Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont has old cabin camps from the 1930s in the hardwood forest. Pocomoke River State Park has campsites by a cypress swamp, and the Patuxent River near Dunkirk has a canoe camp you paddle to. Ocean City has the big RV campgrounds if you want the boardwalk.
Data as of 2026-10-07.
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