Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:47 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 4All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Visitors eligible for reservations at this location are limited to Active Duty, Reservists, Retired Military, Unremarried Widow, Veterans and Department of Defense employees. Learn more about eligible visitors and access to this military base recreation site. A variety of recreational programs and facilities await you and your family at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, located just 55 miles south of Washington D.C. Situated at the confluence of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay, this is an area rich in both American and Navy history and natural beauty. Part of the legacy of Southern Maryland may be found in the spacious, natural campsite areas aboard the installation. Hogs Point Campsites are nestled in the woods between the Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent River and are just a few walking steps for fishing and crabbing. Keep reading
Recreation
Water lovers will find that NAS Patuxent River strectches across approximately 12 miles of shoreline offering locations to launch kayaks, stand up paddle boards, motor and sail boats, places for fishing and crabbing as well as areas for the beach lovers. Bicyclists will find a 10 mile paved loop within the installation as well as designated bike trails. MWR also has a Golf Course, Outdoor Pool, Marina, Theater, Community Recreation Office, Auto Hobby Shop and Fitness Center.
Facilities
Tent Only Nonelectric Overnight Natural Features NAS Patuxent River Hogs Point Campground is located where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Patuxent River, offering the best views for sunrises.
Nearby Attractions
Historic St. Mary's City Patuxent River Air Museum Historic Sotterly St. Clement's Island Point Lookout State Park Solomon's Island Navy Recreation Center Solomons Contact Info This location is staffed. Please call (301) 342-3573 to speak with local staff.
What the agency tells you
MILITARY BASE ACCESS: Visitors eligible for reservations at this location are limited to Active Duty, Reservists, Retired Military, Unremarried Widow, Veterans and Department of Defense employees, and must have a valid eligibility ID card to check in for a reservation or to gain access to the facility. Gate 1 is open 24/7. Patrons can proceed to their campground but will be turned away at the gate if they do not have proper credentials. GUEST RESTRICTIONS: To enter the military installation, guests must be in the same vehicle as the ID holder and remain with the ID holder at all times. NOTE: Please be sure to verify all policies/restrictions prior to arrival, they may vary based on the military installation and/or location. This may impact (but not limited to) certain guest eligibility such as DoD civilians, contractors, retired civilians, sponsors, foreign nationals, etc. Other restrictions may apply but are not listed. NONAFFILIATED GUEST ACCESS: Visitors eligible for reservations at this location (Active Duty, Reservists, Retired Military, and Department of Defense employees) are authorized to sponsor nonaffiliated guests during their stay. It is imperative that package submission is provided no later than fourteen (14) days prior to your arrival date via email directly to the NASPAXRIV Pass and ID office. For more information please visit: MWR Pax River Camping
MWR Pax River Website
Fishing and Crabbing Information
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Personal or commercial drone usage within the NAS Patuxent River Fence Line is prohibited
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4 · 4 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Beach, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Crabbing
- Fishing
- Golf
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Softball Fields
- Swimming
- Water access
Full this Saturdayread 15:47 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 15:47 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 4 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 4 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 15:47 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
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 agency’s published rate for this season, $20 a night, 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 15:47 UTC
- Pax River Paradise Grove CampgroundsNaval Airstation (NAS) Patuxent River · 0.1 mi · 22 of 24 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:47 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 4 mapped sitesAll 4 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 4 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Hog Point | H1 | tent only nonelectric | 116 ft | 2,484 ft | $20 |
| Hog Point | H2 | tent only nonelectric | 100 ft | 2,556 ft | $20 |
| Hog Point | H3 | tent only nonelectric | 116 ft | 2,385 ft | $20 |
| Hog Point | H4 | tent only nonelectric | 100 ft | 2,656 ft | $20 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pax River Paradise Grove Campgrounds0.1 mi
Fort Hunt Picnic AreasGeorge Washington Memorial Parkway · 45 mi
Fort Dupont Park Picnic Areas49 mi
Greenbelt CampgroundNational Capital Parks · 54 mi
Greenbelt Park Picnic AreasNational Capital Parks · 54 mi
Cabin Camp 3Prince William Forest Park · 55 miFrom Washington D.C:
Take 295 S towards I-95/495, merge onto I-495 S, take exit 7A toward MD 5 S/ Branch Ave, turn left on to Mattawoman Beantown Road, turn left onto MD 5 S/Leonardtown Road, continue on MD 235 to NAS Patuxent River Gate 1, cedar point road
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Drum Point, MD
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds is in Maryland’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Steny Hoyer (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneySteny H. HoyerU.S. Representative · Maryland’s 5th district
No contact form we could verify, so that link is their own site. Contact is inside it. Washington office: 202-225-4131.
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAngela D. AlsobrooksU.S. Senator · Maryland
- Your senator, on the same appropriationChris Van HollenU.S. Senator · Maryland
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds, Maryland
Dear Steny H. Hoyer, I’m a constituent in Maryland’s 5th district. I tried to camp at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds, Maryland, and couldn’t. All 4 sites at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds. I’m asking you to put it to the Federal in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds (Maryland) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds, Maryland
Dear Angela D. Alsobrooks, I’m a constituent in Maryland. I tried to camp at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds, Maryland, and couldn’t. All 4 sites at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds. I’m asking you to put it to the Federal in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds (Maryland) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds, Maryland
Dear Chris Van Hollen, I’m a constituent in Maryland. I tried to camp at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds, Maryland, and couldn’t. All 4 sites at Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds. I’m asking you to put it to the Federal in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Pax River Hog Point Campgrounds (Maryland) via campanac.com