Daughter starts teaching at Johns Hopkins next summer. Can anyone suggest a good campground in the area. Don't feel like traveling from Cherry Hill.

Can't think of the name offhand, never stayed there, but there is a KOA just off of I97 about 8 miles S of BWI.If you don't need to be going into the city everyday there are a couple of decent state parks across the Bay Bridge. Tuckahoe SP a few miles E of Denton a little off of 404 & Martinak SP immediately S of Denton. Martinak is our favourite. Quiet. 6 minutes from a Walmart. 5 minutes from a Food Lion. An Autozone & strip mall all 6 minutes away. Laundry & restaurants in Denton. It is our first stop coming out of storage at the beginning of a trip & our last stop before going into storage at the end.Traffic on the Bay Bridge can be horrendous. Don't be eastbound on a Friday or westbound on a Sunday. Weekdays avoid it normal rush hour times as you would around any major city. Once across the bridge the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake is a whole nuther world. The further down the DELMARVA you go & the further from the few major roads the further back in time you go. They even talk like Olde English over there.

Just crossed the bay bridge the beginning of October. Have friends who live in Millsboro DE and visit every other year, stay at Delaware beach south.

Patapsco State Park in Catonsville and Ramblin Pines in Woodbine come to mind. That KOA is in Millersville. There is also Long Bar Harbor in Abingdon. Abingdon is closest to Johns Hopkins. For your purposes, I'd really have to be desperate to fight the Bay Bridge traffic. Congrats and best wishes to your daughter.

Patapsco state park is decent if you don't need full hook ups.It is your closest place but still not that close. 30-45 min. away from Hopkins Millersville KOA or Bar Harbor are your next options they are a little farther away. Woodbine or anywhere across the bay bridge are too far away.Bay bridge is under construction and should be avoided at all cost

We always stayed at Merry Meadows in Freeland and liked the large Flagpole sites as being at altitude and relatively isolated.This makes sense if Johns Hopkins is on the north side of town. You don't want to have to drive thru/around Baltimore at any time.

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Lantley
Nomad
Dec 07, 2019
Dick_B wrote:
We always stayed at Merry Meadows in Freeland and liked the large Flagpole sites as being at altitude and relatively isolated.
This makes sense if Johns Hopkins is on the north side of town. You don't want to have to drive thru/around Baltimore at any time.

All in all Merry Meadows is not a bad option.
I agree it's on the right side of town and a direct shot to Hopkins.
One thing not mentioned I assume we are talking Johns Hopkins University vs. the hospital
Romer1
Explorer
Dec 07, 2019
Lantley wrote:
Dick_B wrote:
We always stayed at Merry Meadows in Freeland and liked the large Flagpole sites as being at altitude and relatively isolated.
This makes sense if Johns Hopkins is on the north side of town. You don't want to have to drive thru/around Baltimore at any time.

All in all Merry Meadows is not a bad option.
I agree it's on the right side of town and a direct shot to Hopkins.
One thing not mentioned I assume we are talking Johns Hopkins University vs. the hospital

Correct, she's a professor of philosophy.
doghouseman
Explorer
Dec 13, 2019
You might know this already but Hopkins is right in the heart of Baltimore and it is not in a great part of town. I am not sure what the other students do, I am not sure if a lot live in town, or in another part of town. Given a choice, I would not live close to Hopkins.
Busskipper
Explorer
Dec 14, 2019
Romer1 wrote:
Daughter starts teaching at Johns Hopkins next summer. Can anyone suggest a good campground in the area. Don't feel like traveling from Cherry Hill.

Map with area parks

Millersville KOA will likely be the easiest, but the Patapsco State Park is also almost close, not sure how the services are.

Congrats on the Daughter new Job - JHU and the Hospital are in different areas - Both are not an easy drive until you understand the traffic.

Best of Luck,
cross21114
Explorer
Dec 16, 2019
Busskipper wrote:

Millersville KOA will likely be the easiest, but the Patapsco State Park is also almost close, not sure how the services are.

Congrats on the Daughter new Job - JHU and the Hospital are in different areas - Both are not an easy drive until you understand the traffic.

Best of Luck,

Agree with Busskipper about traffic. Suspect you will visit your daughter at her home and not at work. May or may not be easier.

Also agree with avoiding going over to the Eastern Shore. The Bay Bridge is being rehabilated on the westbound span (maybe I did something wrong when I worked on the original construction in 1971?). Traffic delays are unpredictable.

We've stayed Merry Meadows. A little pricey and some unusual rules but very nice place.
Busskipper
Explorer
Dec 16, 2019
cross21114 wrote:
Busskipper wrote:

Millersville KOA will likely be the easiest, but the Patapsco State Park is also almost close, not sure how the services are.

Congrats on the Daughter new Job - JHU and the Hospital are in different areas - Both are not an easy drive until you understand the traffic.

Best of Luck,

Agree with Busskipper about traffic. Suspect you will visit your daughter at her home and not at work. May or may not be easier.

Also agree with avoiding going over to the Eastern Shore. The Bay Bridge is being rehabilitated on the westbound span (maybe I did something wrong when I worked on the original construction in 1971?). Traffic delays are unpredictable.

We've stayed Merry Meadows. A little pricey and some unusual rules but very nice place.

So your the one who screwed up the bridge so I am now "STUCK on the SHORE" really only bad when need to see the granddaughters :)

They are finally talking about a new bridge - sure hope it goes in down by Solomons and the Gas Docks. This area cannot handle any more traffic.

:S
Veebyes
Explorer II
Dec 16, 2019
I don't think that I have ever been across that bridge when something has not been happening to it.

Lucky me, my arrival & departure days for BWI are usually midweek & I have the choice of when to cross while dragging the house behind us. Being on the Shore side is a good thing. A whole nuther world over there. The further away from 50 you are the further you go back in time.
Busskipper
Explorer
Dec 16, 2019
Veebyes wrote:
I don't think that I have ever been across that bridge when something has not been happening to it.

Lucky me, my arrival & departure days for BWI are usually midweek & I have the choice of when to cross while dragging the house behind us. Being on the Shore side is a good thing. A whole nuther world over there. The further away from 50 you are the further you go back in time.

When you get down to Tillmans (think I've seen pictures of yours there) you are almost in another Country:)

Funny - have been traveling across that two lane bridge for years and then the other triple lane thing almost my entire life - always just could breath slower once we landed on the other side (Shore) now that we've moved here it is so relaxing - just like Lower Slower Delaware:)

Been trying to get the state to do a study on the lower bridge for 40 years - they sure move so slowly on any real solutions.

We've been flying back and forth to Colorado getting in at midnight to 1 in the am - bridge is usually down to two lanes and very little traffic at between 2-3 in the AM - just so easy before 5.

But the closure of that one lane sure makes the summer trafic seem to last later in the year.

JMHO,

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