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Camping near Denmark, Maine ranges from riverside tent sites to full-hookup RV campgrounds along the Saco River and nearby lakes. On the Saco Family Campground and River Run Campground provide direct water access with tent and RV accommodations. Colonial Mast Campground in Naples, approximately 7 miles east of Denmark, offers lakefront sites with both primitive and full-hookup options. The region includes developed facilities with amenities ranging from basic tent sites to cabins, yurts, and glamping setups, particularly around Sebago Lake and along riverside locations.
Seasonal considerations shape the camping experience, with most campgrounds operating from May through mid-October. The Saco River area experiences high demand during summer months when water activities are most popular. Many campgrounds require advance reservations, especially for riverfront sites and holiday weekends. Primitive camping options typically offer limited facilities, while established campgrounds provide amenities including showers, electric hookups, and picnic tables. Winter camping is limited to specific year-round facilities like Colonial Mast Campground, where one visitor noted, "We stayed at Colonial Mast 10/31/2020 to 11/1/2020. The water was turned off at our site due to freezing temps. Sewer and electric were available."
Riverside camping represents a significant draw in this region, with several campgrounds offering direct water access. The Saco River provides opportunities for swimming, fishing, kayaking and tubing directly from campsites. According to one camper, "We stayed down in the sandier sites on the river lots of shade and privacy - took a shuttle up with some kayaks - reasonably priced - and drifted back down 10 miles right to our site!" Family-friendly campgrounds typically feature playground equipment, swimming areas, and organized activities, while others cater more to adults seeking riverside recreation. Privacy between sites varies significantly, with some campgrounds offering well-spaced sites separated by natural vegetation. Most established campgrounds in the area maintain clean facilities with basic amenities, though several visitors mention the importance of booking ahead during peak summer weekends to secure preferred locations.
"Sebago Lake State Park is close to Portland, Maine and neighboring towns. Nice to be close to home so the drive to arrive isn’t so long. Nice scenery and helpful staff. An enjoyable weekend."
"The campsites were very tight, but there was nobody around us so we had plenty of privacy. All campsites are short walk to the beach and very pleasant."
from $25 - $30 / night
Check Availability"It is also in a great area with amazing hiking nearby. Make sure to head not far down the road and climb up to the peak of Pleasant Mountain to get an incredible view of the entire area."
"The river was perfect, sandy bottom, refreshing current, we anchored ourselves for a bit then pulled it up and just floated down river for awhile before walking back along the sandbars right in the river"
from $32 - $36 / night
Check Availability"A large wooden shelter stood over our picnic table, with a decent amount of space next to it for tents or a small camper."
"Great location with easy ride to all North Conway attractions. Nice hay ride and playground. The beach is sandy and lots of room to spread out. We visited Story Land and Mt."
"However that means everything is a decent walk away. The pit toilet style bathrooms were as expected. The showers were nice and the main bathhouse bathrooms were clean."
"We book 3 sites next to each other, right on the river. The sites are large and spaced out well. The river is great for swimming."
from $20 / night
Check Availability"There were plenty of sites to choose from and most (not all) had access to the river as well as a fire ring. Sites were on a dirt road, but it was quiet for the most part."
"Couldn’t ask for better sites, both sites 9 & 12 were very private and only a short walk through the woods to setup camp along the river."
"Long Lake, Maine. Some lakeside sites. Lots of wooded sites with easy access to the lake. A few local permanent campers."
"The lake is gorgeous. Rocks make direct access to the water from the site difficult, but there is a beach for water access not too far away. The staff was extremely nice and helpful."
from $50 - $69 / night
Check Availability"The campground is in a very nice location. It's close to shopping and beautiful recreation areas."
"Lake is stunning. Debbie and the others are single most helpful and competent staff we have ever run into."
"The site was easy to access and was roomy enough for our bikes and dogs outside. The space between us and our neighbors is significant."
"A lot of families around but it wasn’t distracting since the sites were private enough. Definitely recommend!"
"This campground is huge with over 300 sites set on nearly 200 acres and along a beautiful lake!"
"We love the golf carts and sandy beaches as well as the proximity to North Conway and Lake Ossipee. Staff are nice, quiet time is a bit over enforced."
from $40 - $85 / night
Check Availability"Grounds are well maintained and it’s location is close to the action if you want to rent boat/jet ski. Kids loved the water slides, crafts and pool. We’ll go back for sure!"
"Upon arrival to the campgrounds, it was close to getting dark. My husband and I were exhausted and RV rookies. We were personally escorted by the owner, Conrad to our site."
GuideThere are no bad camping spots at this charming, scenic, squeaky clean campground. If you love water views, walking trails and exploring low-tide. Run, don’t walk and make a reservation today!
ScoutThis is a great simple campground, near a lot of hiking trails. The campground was very clean, and has hot showers and washer/dryers (coin operated) available. Most sites have a lot of privacy. We stayed at #20. This was probably one of the biggest sites there, I think it was meant for popups or 5th wheelers, but we stayed in a tent. Only complaint for the site was that there was a lot gravel, so a little uncomfortable having a tent set there (so I would probably choose another site on the campground for a tent). Also, we did see a bear one morning, our dog barked at it and it walked off. Just be mindful of picking up trash, and don’t have any food in your tent. Theres a dumpster at the entrance you can use. Overall it was a great campground, I would stay again.
TravelerNo toilet, no showers, no Wi-Fi, no electricity Love it I’ve been primitive camping since before I could walk and def glad this app exist
First use of the app and found the perfect spot away from my friends Airbnb and still close enough to go hangout with them. The site is the perfect size for a single or couple and it gives off the right kind of privacy
Thanks Dyrt
ScoutWent on a weekend and it was still very peaceful! Lots to do on such a beautiful back road. We stayed at two different sites each night we were there and both were equally beautiful and peaceful
Scout⭐**Gunstock Campground: Apparently Your Reserved Site Is More of a Suggestion**
I don't believe I have**ever** left a negative Google review. I generally think that when something goes wrong, you contact the business, give them an opportunity to make it right, and most businesses are genuinely interested in doing exactly that.
Gunstock Campground has cured me of that quaint notion.
I reserved a full-hookup campsite for two nights. I was unable to make it there the first night, but arrived shortly after 7:00 a.m. the next morning. The camp store, where registration takes place, wasn't open yet, so I headed out for my planned hike— about six miles through the Belknaps, including summiting Rowe twice and Gunstock.
By the time I returned, I was utterly exhausted, starving, and actually feeling weak. My ambitions for the afternoon were modest:**eat something, take a shower, and collapse at the campsite I had paid for.**
The staff at the camp store greeted me warmly, checked me in, and sent me on my way.
I drove to my site. There was already a camper in it. Not merely*parked* there, mind you. They had apparently moved right in. They were hooked up to**my site's water and electric**, with water spraying from their ill-fitting hose connection and forming a rather impressive puddle underneath the camper.
I returned to the camp store to report that someone had apparently activated Gunstock's new**"Choose Any Site You Like"** camping plan. A staff member went down to speak with them and came back to tell me they were "packing up." Excellent! My mistake was assuming" packing up" meant**leaving**. It did not.
Apparently these campers had actually reserved a site**two rows away** that had**no water or electric**. Yet somehow, sometime after arriving the previous night, they had accidentally found themselves two rows over, in my clearly different site, connected to utilities their reservation didn't include.
We've all made mistakes. I've occasionally parked one space away from where I intended. I've never accidentally parked**two rows away, hooked myself up to someone else's electricity and water, and spent the night.**
But perhaps I lack imagination.
After they had now consumed about an hour of my afternoon— which, incidentally, is an hour I normally bill at attorney rates— I went back toward my site expecting to find it finally vacated.
And it was! Because Gunstock had moved these folks to another site**two spaces away from me**, apparently allowing them to pay for the upgrade they had already been test-driving. So the people who knowingly or unknowingly occupied my reserved full-hookup site, used the utilities, and delayed me from getting into the site I paid for were rewarded with...a nearby full-hookup site.
They never walked over to apologize. At that point, I no longer felt comfortable staying. It's difficult to relax at a campground when you've just discovered that site assignments appear to operate somewhat on the honor system— and that when someone helps themselves to your reserved site and utilities, management's solution is apparently to make sure *they* remain comfortably accommodated nearby. So I left. On my way home, I called Gunstock and asked for a refund. Surely, I thought, this would be the easy part. After all, I had paid for two nights, hadn't used the first, couldn't get into my site when I arrived for the second, waited while unauthorized occupants vacated it, and ultimately left because the entire experience had become so unpleasant.
Nope. Instead, the staff member **defended the other campers**. I was told they arrived late and "mistakenly" took my site. I was even told they supposedly **hadn't used the utilities**. This was particularly fascinating information for me to receive because **I PERSONALLY SAW THEM HOOKED UP TO THE WATER AND ELECTRIC.** I also took photographs. Including the enormous puddle underneath their camper from the leaking water connection. But apparently my eyewitness account and photographs were no match for the alternative version of events.
For my inconvenience, however, Gunstock did give me a coupon for a **free Bavarian pretzel**. So there is that.
I paid for a full-hookup campsite. Someone else occupied it and used the hookups. I lost roughly an hour waiting to access what I had reserved. The other campers were accommodated with an upgraded site nearby. I left because I no longer felt comfortable staying. And when I asked Gunstock to make the situation right, they refused to refund me and instead argued with me about things **I had personally witnessed and photographed**. The most disappointing part isn't that another camper took my site. Campers can behave badly. Businesses can't control everything their customers do. **What a business CAN control is how it responds when that happens. ** Gunstock had every opportunity to turn this into a mildly annoying story about a camping mix-up. Instead, they turned it into my first negative Google review.
But hey... **I do have that free pretzel coupon.**
TravelerPros: We have the p lube nearly to ourselves, thus it was very similar to dispersed camping. Nice little campground with two small ponds (One for fishing, the other for swimming). Nothing very remarkable, though.
Cons: As others have mentioned, if you want flush toilets and pay showers, you have to either stay at the more crowded, larger loop or walk across the highway to get to those amenities.
ScoutWe stayed midweek and the park was 1/2 empty. Lots of kids activities. Wonderful bathrooms and showers. Great laundry. Close to Freeport but not the water
ScoutWe just came back from a big family weekend there. We had 5 sites with 19 people(including children). This is by far the most rundown campground I've stayed! Only 1 bathroom facility was functioning. Of the 3 times I tried taking a shower, I only succeeded 1 time. The other 2 times(once at night and once the following morning at 6am) I only got drops coming out of the hot and cold faucets. I tried the only 2 stalls. Speaking of bathrooms...these have not been updated since the 60s-early 70s when I was camping with the same style bathroom facilities. The children's playground should be condemned!!! At least 25% of the wood is rotted. Some steps are missing from ladders. My granddaughter was swinging in the childs swing, the bottom unlatched and she fell through the bottom. If she wasn't monkey like in holding on she would have done a face plant to the ground. After looking at the swing, I found the plastic latch broken! 2 positives: the campsites are very nice! and the beach is great! Bottom line, these owners are not putting any money back into the campground and it's facilities. They are running it into the ground. I won't be coming back again!
ScoutWonderful stay! Clean bathrooms/showers. Woodsy and quiet. Clean campsites with water and electric. The people were super helpful and friendly! Wonderful stay, would easy stay here again :)
Denmark, Maine camping areas center around local lakes and the Saco River. Most campgrounds operate from May through October with peak demand during summer. Water activities constitute the primary attraction, with riverfront sites particularly popular at campgrounds like River Run and On the Saco. Sites range from basic tent plots to full-service RV hookups, with some properties offering cabins, yurts and glamping options. Winter camping is limited to select locations that remain open year-round.
River tubing on the Saco: On the Saco Family Campground offers direct access for floating trips. One camper reported, "We took a shuttle up with some kayaks, reasonably priced, and drifted back down 10 miles right to our site!"
Swimming in Long Lake: The clean, clear waters at Lakeside Pines Campground provide excellent swimming conditions. A visitor noted, "Long Lake is beautiful, clean and incredibly fun to be on."
Hiking nearby trails: Pleasant Mountain offers accessible hiking options. A camper at On the Saco Family Campground commented, "In a great area with amazing hiking nearby. Make sure to head not far down the road and climb up to the peak of Pleasant Mountain to get an incredible view of the entire area."
Free camping with fishing: Town Hall Road in nearby New Hampshire offers no-cost camping sites with river access. A reviewer shared, "There are trout in the river and if you cross and go through the woods to the right there's some great spots to explore further!"
Private riverside sites: Campers appreciate secluded spots along the water. A visitor at River Run Campground commented, "First time I camped out here I didn't realize how secluded each site was! It was great. The river is right there and great to sit next to and just watch go by."
Lakeside camping options: Waterfront sites are highly sought after. A camper at Lakeside Pines Campground mentioned, "We had a beautiful waterfront campsite. The lake is gorgeous. Rocks make direct access to the water from the site difficult, but there is a beach for water access not too far away."
Family-friendly atmosphere: Many campgrounds cater specifically to families with children. A visitor at Papoose Pond Family Campground shared, "This is a glamping campground and so much going on for kids and adults. The pond is amazing. The store is huge! The sites are huge!"
Year-round options: While most facilities close seasonally, some remain open throughout winter. A camper reported about Colonial Mast Campground: "There were quite a few sites with winterized campers, which I would assume are seasonal sites. They have cute park model homes for rent as well."
Site spacing varies significantly: Some campgrounds offer more privacy than others. At Sebago Lake State Park Campground, a visitor observed, "The campsites definitely felt like they were on top of each other and are pretty small. We picked a medium one and could barely fit 2 tents and 2 cars with a safe distance from the fire."
Flooding concerns: Some riverside campgrounds experience occasional flooding issues. A camper at Eastern Slope Camping Area noted, "Place has floods twice in five years."
Quiet hours enforcement: Campgrounds in the region typically enforce evening quiet times. At Danforth Bay Camping & RV Resort, campers mentioned strict security patrols after 11:30 pm when fires must be extinguished.
Water quality varies seasonally: Lake conditions can change throughout the summer. One visitor at Sebago Lake State Park Campground cautioned, "Sometimes the lake is not swim able due to duckage."
Activity-focused campgrounds: Acres Of Wildlife Family Campground offers extensive recreation options. A visitor shared, "This camp ground is FULL of fun for kids. There is activities and 2/3 playgrounds. We went 2019 and It was tragic we were cancelled due to corona virus this year."
Beach access considerations: Sandy beaches are particularly valuable for families with young children. A camper at Eastern Slope Camping Area noted, "Dogs are allowed in the campground and even on one of the two beaches. We went to the dog beach, which was clean and large."
Evening entertainment: Many campgrounds schedule regular family activities. At Papoose Pond Family Campground, a visitor explained, "They have weekly events that we love! Tuesday trivia, Wednesday beach party, Thursday dance party, and Friday karaoke- the latter being the most fun!"
Bathroom proximity: When camping with children, consider site location relative to restrooms. A camper at Papoose Pond cautioned, "There aren't many [restrooms], hence why we stay on a site with our own, and some are extremely far away from campsites that don't allow campers."
Road access challenges: RVers should research access routes carefully. At Town Hall Road Dispersed Camping, a visitor advised, "The road was not as bad as I anticipated. There was room for my Jeep Grand Cherokee towing a squaredrop camper to pass the very few oncoming vehicles we encountered."
Hookup locations vary: At Acres Of Wildlife Family Campground, one RVer noted, "Be sure to bring extensions for electrical and sewer as a lot of sites are set up with difficult connection spots."
Site size considerations: Larger rigs require careful site selection. At Lakeside Pines Campground, a visitor observed, "The road is tight so be prepared to drive close to trees."
Full hookup availability: Many campgrounds offer complete RV services. At Colonial Mast Campground, a visitor reported, "The water was turned off at our site due to freezing temps. Sewer and electric were available."
Frequently Asked Questions
What camping is available near Denmark, ME?
According to TheDyrt.com, Denmark, ME offers a wide range of camping options, with 313 campgrounds and RV parks near Denmark, ME and 10 free dispersed camping spots.
Which is the most popular campground near Denmark, ME?
According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular campground near Denmark, ME is Sebago Lake State Park Campground with a 4.4-star rating from 21 reviews.
Where can I find free dispersed camping near Denmark, ME?
According to TheDyrt.com, there are 10 free dispersed camping spots near Denmark, ME.
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