National Park Service · Assateague Island National Seashore · MD
Back Country Camping - Green Run
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Information
OSV Status 10/13/26 MD OSV open to the State Line. VA South OSV is open. Beware of overwash conditions at high tides. The VA North OSV fishing mile is closed.
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
Reservable, and some sites walk-up1 of the 1 sites are kept for whoever pulls in first; the rest are booked ahead.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 11 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
Photos · NPS Photo
316 ftWater · an unnamed streamOcean · 149 ft
4.3 miNE of Chincoteague, VA
1Walk-up sites
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 4th darkest of 62 in MD
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Bayside back country site
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Dump station
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Some sites book, the rest walk up
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Back Country Camping Permit$10
Vehicle Entrance Fee$25
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Also near here
Assateague Island National Seashore CampgroundAssateague Island National Seashore · 0.8 mi
Back Country Camping - Pope BayAssateague Island National Seashore · 2.5 mi
Back Country Camping - State LineAssateague Island National Seashore · 2.6 mi
Back Country Camping - Pine TreeAssateague Island National Seashore · 4.6 mi
Back Country Camping - Little LevelsAssateague Island National Seashore · 5.5 mi
Back Country Camping - Tingles IslandAssateague Island National Seashore · 7.1 mi
Assateague Island National Seashore CampgroundAssateague Island National Seashore · 0.8 miBack Country Camping - Pope BayAssateague Island National Seashore · 2.5 miBack Country Camping - State LineAssateague Island National Seashore · 2.6 miBack Country Camping - Pine TreeAssateague Island National Seashore · 4.6 miBack Country Camping - Little LevelsAssateague Island National Seashore · 5.5 miBack Country Camping - Tingles IslandAssateague Island National Seashore · 7.1 miSource: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight54°Light Rain Likely55% rain
Saturday57°Light Rain89% rain
Saturday Night48°Partly Cloudy9% rain
Sunday61°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Chincoteague, VA
Source: National Weather Service, AKQ forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
100°32°20°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: ASSATEAGUE, MD (USC00180335), 0.5 miles away and at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026
Who answers for this land
Back Country Camping - Green Run is in Maryland’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Andy Harris (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.