Catoctin Mountain/Owens Creek Campground

Rapid_Gunner

This place is absolutely the best camping I've done in a long time. Everything you need. From parking to your own grill and picnic table a pole to hang your food. I would recommend putting food in your vehicle so animals don't take off with your food.

Gregory Mainolfi

Great facilities, many of the campsites have lots of space with privacy from other sites. Our campsite hosts were friendly, helpful and weren't imposing. Firewood available for purchase at the campground. We stayed at site 32 which was nicely separated. I took other photos of sites 31-34 for reference.

David S

My favorite campsite in the DMV! This is my 3rd time staying here. I want to give a shout out to one of the camp hosts - Ty! He helped to bring logs to my site and was super friendly. The bathrooms/showers are always clean and each site is well-maintained. I stayed in Site #29 this time which is a little more isolated by the creek. Felt very safe each of my times here and camp guests are respectful. Mostly families and other couples. Have a great time!

Clinton Wike

This is a great local camping spot if your looking to get away for a night. Bring an axe if your planning on a campfire. The wood offered is a bit large.

lorie Nye

Campsites were decently far apart, bathrooms were clean, everyone was quiet and respectful. Good, dry wood was plentiful. Will definitely come back.

Howard le roux

Really cold hiking it today. Think it was 28 degrees. Looks like a cool place to ca.p when it opens

Molly Blosse

Beautiful campground. Well maintained. Friendly camp hosts. Love it there.

Joy Meade

Well kept campground. I liked that the tent area was separate on the site creating its own area. I will definitely be back

Julie W

I'd give the Camp Host Mary 5 STARS or more if I could separate things out! Camping in the Catoctin Mountains and we're from out of state when in the morning to start our car it acted up and the oil light came on. We checked the oil and it looked way low. We were stressed and luckily the camp host got us a quart of oil so we could get to town, too sweet and kind, she was awesome our whole stay and we actually will miss her! The camping is gorgeous here and we love it and would love to stay for longer if we could! I'd give the camp 5 STARS as well for how lovely it is but the lower stars is because the facilities, although clean are in desperate need of updates. I was here over 12 years ago and they haven't improved the restroom/shower house much. Could use more than one shower per gender for sure as well. HOWEVER, it's lovely here and the price of a giant metal tub of wood for only $5 cannot be beat! However, trick to getting that wood burning is start with small dry dead-fall on top of some sort of fire starter log, add bits of larger dead-fall, there's lots laying around, and then increase until you have a fire with some good coals then add the camp wood a piece at a time. Learn from us, don't start with the camp wood otherwise you'll be working to keep it going all night! We stayed first at Site 2 for three nights. It is located right when you enter the campground and you have to walk or drive the very short distance for the bathroom. It's a great site with plenty of space between you and the siteson either side to it but you have no one behind you. Wet decided we wanted to stay longer and since the site was reserved after that point we moved to site 11, it is right near the camp host and a very short walk to the shower/bathroom, it is also a great site and still rather private feeling (as many of the sites are) we stayed another three nights! The following photos are of the sites we stayed at as well as the parking pad. We were car camping but set up our 10x10 canopy on the tent pad and slept in our car at night. Plenty of trees too if you want to put up a tarp for rainy weather. The lantern post also is great for many uses besides a lantern, we used it to help hold our tarp. Word to the wise, if you have a canopy but want "curtains" or panels, you can do like we did, we used the cloth/polyester shower curtains which are semi waterproof and machine washable and far cheaper than buying the standard panels. We just use shower curtain rings to attach to the metal frame of the canopy, works great!

J B

This place was great! The host, mary, was fantastic.i was told it gets crowded on weekends. If your a civil war buff its within easy drive of harpers ferry, antietam and Gettysburg. Quiet and great tree canopy. No open fields for kids but woods galore.