camping reservations assateague island national seashore

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Group campsites can be reserved year round, up to 6 months in advance at $80 per night per site. Sites have multiple picnic tables and fire rings with grills. Tent-only sites, located 100-200 feet from centralized parking area.

Group Camping: Organized clubs and affiliated groups must use group campsites.

Sites are $40 per night and can be reserved year round, up to 6 months in advance. A Drive-In 'Generator-Free Zone' is located in Bayside B Loop. Sites have a picnic table and a fire ring with a grill.

Bayside Drive-in: Tents, trailers and recreational vehicles (no hookups).Walk-in sites are closed from November 16 through March 14. Sites have a picnic table and a fire ring. Oceanside Walk-in: Tent-only sites, located 100-200 feet from centralized parking areas.Oceanside Drive-in: Tents, trailers and recreational vehicles (no hookups).Dogs are welcome which is fun to see.Assateague Island National Seashore Campgrounds: I’d recommend bringing some lawn chairs to sit and relax. It was thrilling to see one run from about 100 yards to join them. We parked in the lot and walked a short distance to the beach and saw a grouping of 5 horses. Those folks looked like they were having a ball, mist with chairs and picnics. I wished we’d had a 4wd so we could have purchased a permit to allow us to drive onto the sand for the day to enjoy the surf.

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Because we were active duty military we were able to get into the park for free but there is a ranger entrance for fees to enter.

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They have put up temporary portable bathrooms in the parking lot. The displays at the Visitors Center are closed due to COVID as well as the bathrooms. We visited during the off-season and I found it more crowded than I would have thought. What a great trip from nearby Ocean City where we were vacationing! Best of all, there is a Food Lion grocery store on the way so you can pack a picnic lunch to enjoy while in the park. Obviously the winter is not the season for this but it provided a calm sensation that we were both looking forward to. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the beach and other areas. Also be cautious of the speed limits in the park, as horses and bikers/runners are out and about in abundance. The horses aren't meant to be fed by humans as it increases their dependence on outside food sources away from their habitat. These are wild animals that can kick and bite, yet parents were encouraging their young children to get close to the animals for photos. Please be cautioned though, the behavior we witnessed there was far below what the Rangers and normal people expect. We continued on and much to my joy and my wife's shock, we found roughly 6-8 horses in that area. A couple told us that there were often horse sightings at the end of the park's designation near the parking lot. Then we saw a crowd of people so we knew we'd be seeing something and one horse was grazing on the side of the road. As we drove for 5 minutes after entering the park officially (the pay station is a little further in past the visitor center over the bridge) we hadn't seen anything. Much to our dismay, the Rangers on duty said due to the season there was a good possibility we wouldn't see any horses due to hiding in the brush on the side of the road. The visitor center has several displays on the ecosystem, the horses, and conservation. We started at the visitor center to stamp our passports and browse the gift shop (above standards for NPS sites). We arrived around 11 in the afternoon to a windy and crowded parking lot, however it was roughly 65 degrees in late December. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Ocean City which was roughly 15 minutes from the entrance to the National Seashore. We were originally planning on doing this trip over the summer, but you could imagine (or maybe you can't) how much less expensive this was to do during the winter. We love visiting the National Park sites and I was intrigued by the possibility of seeing the wild horses.

After Christmas, my wife and I decided to get away for a night and settled on Assateague Island National Seashore.