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Added by Jopie, at 11 April 2017
Opening Hours
- Monday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Tuesday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Wednesday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Thursday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Saturday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Sunday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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15 Reviews
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13 March 2018
There's so many hiker/ biker trails here. Connects to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Tuscarora trail runs through the park. Lots of camp sites throughout the park. Beautiful leaf change in the fall.
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01 March 2018
Beautiful. Easily accesible. Short walk to a gorgeous view. Everything was clean and well kept. We will definitely come back for a longer hike, and a picnic with the kids.
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04 February 2018
This is our most favorite place to camp. No electricity, no toilets, no problem. There are sites which are so remote that when you hike around the camp site that you don't hear or see any other campers. You're truely camping with the benefit of driving up to the camp site. Best place ever.
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15 January 2018
I loved camping here and plan to go back soon! The park his huge and has a lot to offer. Hiking, swimming, or boat rentals. Since it was our first visit the rangers and front desk we're very helpful and friendly. The primative sites were clean and a good size. I would recommend anyone that likes to camp to try Green Ridge Forest.
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12 January 2018
Best open land Stats Forest in Maryland. Plenty of campsites & great hunting fishing. Hiking & mountain bike trails & fairly well maintained dirt roads throughout. It is truly a great park with a lot of different gorgeous places. There's also a ton of hidden treasures all around this area! Restaurants to stores. I'd give Green Ridge five stars but as with every other piece of public land, Maryland's over the top liberal legislation of anything that's determined to be environmentally irresposible is removed. If these decisions were made by fact & empirical evidence & not politicians looking for reelection I'd accept wherever the facts led. So, this being a huge issue for me & many others my rating plummets.
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27 October 2017
I've stayed here twice near the Pink Lick Trail. For $10 a night, the primitive camping sites are a great way to spend a chilly weekend with family and friends.
This is the perfect place for campers like to rough it, but have friends that do not. We call it Primitive Glamping. You can sleep with a ground tarp and quilt, a hammock, or a massive tent-mansion.
There are miles and miles of hiking trails with great views. Most of the campsites are driveable for car campers. The only things we heard while camping were hunters, the rifle range, a small pack of coyote, and the distant hum of Rt. 68. The sites are positioned far enough apart to be fairly private.response / report this review -
23 October 2017
Have been going here for years. I guess the word is out. We arrived on 10/20 at 6:30pm. Absolutely no open sites. We wasted 3 hours driving around looking for anything. All full. It's the off-season, just couldn't believe it.
So completely disappointing. This used to be our favorite place, now I'll never go back. They need to get a reservation system, it was seriously horrible. I wouldn't have wasted a trip out there if I had known it was completely booked.
Have fun camping in a field next to a port 'o potty at Little Orleans, that's all you're gonna get if you even think about trying to get into Green Ridge after work on Friday.
Boo!!! I live in Pittsburgh, guess I'll give my business to somewhere around here. Not worth it anymore. Thanks for nothingresponse / report this review -
20 October 2017
There are good and bad aspects to this park. Let me begin with the good. Although we did dispersed camping and did not use the campsites the ones we saw looked really nice and separated. The overview sights (some accessible via road) are really amazing. See posted picture. Also for backpacking there are many natural water sources, even in the fall, so you don't have to carry much water if you have a filter.
About the trails
One huge positive is they are well marked. The blazes are easy to spot. NOTE: Two blazes means turn!!!! Now for the bad the blue and red trail were poorly planned and not meant for backpacking. They are very narrow, loose rock, and sloping downwards over steep drop offs. This is doable if you are in good shape and on a day hike without a backpack. With a backpack it's plain dangerous. We had continual adrenaline rushes as we scooted down the trail, removed our backpack and eased it down slopes, and at one point crawled.
I am an experienced backpacker and have done many, many miles both domestic and abroad. This was by far the most dangerous trail I have ever done.response / report this review -
16 October 2017
Very helpful ladies at the desk at headquarters. Gave us a map, recommended a driving route through the prettiest fall trees. Will look into again for camping.
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12 September 2017
There is wildlife in the forest but it feels very secluded compared to Shenandoah. You could drive minutes before encountering another camp site. We had wasps by our site and no snakes. Very quiet. Barely any cars drove by. The ground was very hard for the tent stakes however. No bathrooms. Make sure you take with you what you brought in and throw it out.
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13 July 2017
We have camped here twice in 3 months. Absolutely love it.
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12 July 2017
Beautiful place to camp and hike only a little over 2 hours drive from D.C. or Baltimore. If you want a campsite where you aren't squished up against other sites this is the ideal place. A few minutes hike into the surrounding forest and you can really forget about your urban troubles.
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29 June 2017
This place is awesome. Its slept on too. If you are like me you are looking for just some woods and cool places to drive your subaru and camp and just do outdoorsy things without "THE MAN" keeping you down.
Its about 2hrs from me, me and friends drove up and spent the day exploring and we only explored half the park. We plan to return and eventually camp. We got food at "jims place" or something along those lines. It was tasty and outrageously cheap. People are sleepin on western MD. Pretty cool stuff up there, lots to do.response / report this review -
18 May 2017
Can't wait to camp here again! Campsites are very far from each other. Very affordable. Great hiking.
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18 April 2017
An excellent forest with many primitive and natural recreational uses. Some highlights include Log Roll Overlook, Point Lookout, and 15 Mile Creek.
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