Bayside Drive-in Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $40From, per site
- Sites
- 22All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Tents, trailers and recreational vehicles (no hookups). Sites have a picnic table and a fire ring. Sites are $40 per night. No generators allowed in Loop B. Reservations are required from March 15 through November 15, and are available for November 16 through March 14.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives 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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($40), plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
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Oceanside Drive-in CampgroundAssateague Island National Seashore · 0.5 mi
Oceanside Walk-in campgroundAssateague Island National Seashore · 0.9 mi
Horse campingAssateague Island National Seashore · 1.0 mi
Back Country Camping - Tingles IslandAssateague Island National Seashore · 2.2 mi
Back Country Camping - Little LevelsAssateague Island National Seashore · 3.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Newark, MD
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
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.
Who answers for this land
Bayside Drive-in Campground 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 →