![]() This is part of the series of blog posts on a fourteen day road trip from St. Horses roaming freely with the campers at Assateague. Only the dunes separate you from the ocean. This is what camping is all about and it is a rare experience to be able to be this close to the ocean when camping. Camp Store location at Assateague.Īt night it is quiet and peaceful and the stars are beautiful. There is also a nature center for kids and of course the seashore. The campground has a great cafe and camp store with picnic tables right on the water. The camp store also has a cafe with picnic tables right on the water (well, with dunes between you and the water).īut if that timing isn’t right, you really owe it to yourself to book a few nights at Assateague Island – either through the state park or national park. We didn’t stop in Chincoteague on the way up and many people have said it is a great experience seeing the horses go between the islands so that might be a great time to include both. The beach is the other main attraction to camping at Assateauge and it is fantastic and right over the dunes from your campsite. These beautiful animals will bed down for the night near your campsite if they want to and they will wander through your site also. The thrill of seeing wild ponies and horses walking through your campsite is incredible. Horses were common to see just about any time. And the campground staff in the office couldn’t have been any nicer or more accommodating. We like our air conditioning too much! On the non-electric sites you can’t run your generator past 10PM. We spend the first night with no electricity or running water – good thing we were in a self-contained motorhome but they managed to get us a site with electric the next night. This one went directly through our camp site. As night falls, the horses will still be active. We didn’t realize this and when we checked in were told the rules of running a generator. However, be warned that not all sites have electric – even for RVs. of Natural Resources and it was very easy. We managed to find two nights in a row a few months before arriving in summer and booked online at the Maryland Dept. Camping with wild horses and ponies means you can’t leave a lot sitting around your campsite that they can get into. You do need to book up well in advance and keep looking even if you don’t find anything. We were very excited to be able to camp here. We managed to find two nights in a row at the state park so that’s what we booked. The Assateague National Seashore offers camping as does the Maryland State Park Service. So we set off trying to find out where can you camp with the horses along the beach. We knew we wanted to go camping along the national seashore and be able to see wild horses and ponies.
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