Assateague Island
I'd like to plan a trip here next year but struggling to find something that works for us. We would be going with another camper. Neither of us are set up to dry camp and do not want to try to. We w...
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2012Oudoorsman wrote:
Thanks!
Have a couple more questions.
We will be coming from Maine and NY both with young kids. If we can shorten the trip by an hour that would be great but I don't want to be traveling an hour each day either to see things.
It looks like the State Park is to the North but the fully hookup campgrounds are more towards the South. Are the sights/wild animals more towards the south or does it not matter?
It might be doable in one (long) day from NY, but from Maine you'll need at least 2 days (3 would be better). From NY I'd do TZ Bridge to the Garden State Parkway to I-95 across the Delaware Mem. Bridge to US13/DE13 south. Take a left at Salisbury.
On Assateague itself, the national park is south of the state park and has no hookups. The reason to do the national park was serenity and being basically on the beach. We're on Cape Cod and have watched the amount of beach accessible to normal people shrink over the past 40 years. It was nice to have a beach with no development at all. It reminded us of old Cape and brought back the feeling we had when we vacationed here.
But alas as with almost everything nice under government control, Assateague National Park is changing. They ran out of funds to constantly dig out the ocean side sites after the sand covered them so they are abandoning the ocean sites and moving those loops across the access road. The result will be less ocean breeze, more bugs and a thoroughly miserable experience.
I've enjoyed the DE beaches as well and will probably not go back to Assateague. There's a new KOA on Chincoteague, if you don't mind KOAs.
