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Ocean Park, Maine provides a range of camping experiences along the southern Maine coast, with several established campgrounds offering beach proximity and family-friendly amenities. Sun Outdoors Saco Old Orchard Beach and Old Orchard Beach Campground are among the popular options within a few miles of Ocean Park, featuring sites for tents, RVs, and cabin rentals. Most campgrounds in this coastal region provide full hookups, shower facilities, and organized activities, particularly during summer months when the area becomes a hub for beachgoers and families.
The camping season in this region typically runs from early May through mid-October, with peak demand occurring during July and August. "The campground is just one mile from Old Orchard Beach and close to Route 1 which is the main corridor leading up and down the Maine coast," noted one visitor about Old Orchard Beach Campground. Reservations are strongly recommended during summer weekends and holiday periods when campgrounds frequently reach capacity. Many campgrounds offer shuttle service to nearby beaches, eliminating parking concerns during busy periods. Weather conditions remain relatively mild throughout the camping season, though coastal fog and occasional storms can occur. Cell service is generally reliable throughout the area, and most campgrounds offer WiFi, though connection quality varies.
Waterfront and beach access represent significant draws for campers visiting the Ocean Park area. Sandy Pines Campground in nearby Kennebunkport receives particularly high ratings (4.7/5) for its diverse accommodation options including tents, RVs, cabins, glamping units, and yurts. Bayley's Camping Resort features water access with boat-in camping options. Based on reviews from The Dyrt, family-friendly amenities like swimming pools, game rooms, and organized activities are common highlights. Several visitors mentioned the convenience of trolley service from campgrounds to beaches and downtown areas. While sites at most campgrounds tend to be relatively close together, many offer wooded areas that provide some privacy. Proximity to attractions in Portland (approximately 20 miles away) and the outlet shopping in Freeport makes this area a convenient base for exploring southern Maine's coastal region.
Best Campgrounds near Ocean Park (189)
1. Sun Outdoors Saco Old Orchard Beach
"Just a stones throw away from Old Orchard Beach, fantastic Sandy Maine beach. Staff was friendly. Only thing I would say is there were a lot of people!"
"Mainly pancakes and bacon. The only problem I had with this campground with no fault of there own is the noise at night."
2. Sandy Pines Campground
"Beautiful setting, lots of trees, bordering on beautiful marsh area. Many different types of campsites: rent, RV, seasonal RV, cottages, glamping tents and cabins etc."
"Sandy Pines is located a very short bike ride from Cape Porpoise, home of Nunann's Restaurant , Mussette, Lost Fire and Pier 77."
3. Bayley's Camping Resort
"Right next to the road. So yes lots of family glamping fun. But not for those looking for a more visceral Maine camping experience."
"The campsites are on top of each other all the way around. Of course, as we always find in the RV community, everyone was very nice."
4. Wild Duck Adult Campground & RV Park
"Spent three nights in a nice sized, quiet spot, on the camps’ outside loop. The park is well located, near the beach, shopping, and with access to Portland."
"This adult only campground is peaceful and quiet, with the sounds of birds and the trees being the main thing you hear - it is quite relaxing. "
5. Old Orchard Beach Campground
"Old Orchard Beach is a fun, family-oriented campground located in the fun little beach town of Old Orchard Beach."
"Easy access to area stores, eats. Very accommodating. Clean showers, laundry, arcade."
from $100 - $145 / night
Check Availability6. Paradise Park Resort
"Great campground, it is walking distance to Old Orchard beach and has large sites. Many family activities including fishing, 2 pools, a dog park, and a snack shack."
"Walking distance to Old Orchard Beach, this campground has something for everyone. While the site are fairly small and crowded, it harldy matters because of all of the amenities at the campground."
from $63 / night
Check Availability7. Wild Acres Sun RV Resort
"Extremely crowded, close sites, and heavy car traffic in walking and bike areas. Sun night was way quieter than Fri and Sat night."
"Good first: it’s the closes campground to the beach around. Quick walk to the sand and just a little further to the pier. Clean and neat facilities. Great activities for the kids."
from $60 - $400 / night
Check Availability8. Wild Acres Tent & Trailer Park
"Great huge campground only a walk to the beach from one entrance. Train goes by close to sites near beach access! Most sites are gravel.. clean clean clean"
"And of course the beach was walking distance which was the biggest draw for us. If you have little ones, time your beach trips with low tide. The waves crash pretty hard at high tide."
9. Sun Outdoors Old Orchard Beach Downtown
"Nice pool; playground for kids, can walk to old orchard; or they have a bus also!"
"Our campsite was close to bathrooms, pool and playground. Staff was so kind. Kids loved it.."
10. Red Apple Campground
"This campground is located near Kennebunkport in Arundel, Maine. Campsites are well-spaced and have level asphalt pads. Ours came with picnic table and fire pit."
"Has a beach. lake has a no motor requirement. Also trails to wonder"
Drive Time
- 34 min from Portland, ME
- 42 min from Lewiston, ME
- 1 hr 12 min from Manchester, NH
- 1 hr 31 min from Boston, MA
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Homestead by the River Campground - PERMANENTLY CLOSED
Sandy Pines Campgrounds
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Wassamki Springs Campground
Recent Reviews near Ocean Park, ME
880 Reviews of 189 Ocean Park Campgrounds
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TravelerWellington Camping Park
Very nice campground
A mix of seasonal and short term campers. Here for 3 nights I did not feel out of place at all - quite the opposite. Staff are very nice, campground is quiet, clean and has lots of amenities(laundry, games- pool, table tennis, badminton, small kids playground, kayak rental for the placid river, swimming area at the river"beach"). All sites have water and hookup. Couple of excellent tent spots right on the river. I had a small space down by the river for my tent trailer and found it quite spacious. Sites overall are somewhat close together but not overly and it remains peaceful. About 30 minute easy drive to the coast (Portsmouth, Hampton Beach etc.).
Sharman B.ScoutChewonki Campground
Serene and Clean
This campground is near our home but one feels miles away. Lovely views of the shoreline, saltwater pool, and many choices for hook-ups. We stayed there over Labor Day weekend in 2025 and are returning this year in 2026
- MMarie S.Scout
Gunstock Campground
Apparently Your Reserved Site Is More of a Suggestion
⭐**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.**
- GGeorge F.Scout
Cedar Haven Campground
Quiet
We 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
Richard P.ScoutSebago Lake Family Campground
Find a better place!
We 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!
- ccarolyn H.Scout
Hemlock Grove Campground
Great stay! :)
Wonderful 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 :)
- VVictoria W.Scout
Hampton Beach State Park Campground
RV camping
We booked three nights of dry camping and arrived Friday excited to start our weekend. Unfortunately, we barely made it 24 hours before deciding to leave because of the way we were treated. We were told by another man at the campground that we were permitted to run our quiet generator overnight. The posted cutoff time was 9:00 AM, and we fully intended to shut it off by then. At approximately 8:50 AM the following morning, a woman who lives on-site who is named Karen(no pun intended)- and appeared to run the facility came pounding on our RV door, yelling at us about running the QUIET generator all night. We tried to explain that we had been told we were allowed to do so and that we were going to shut it off at the required time. Instead of having a reasonable conversation, we felt that we were essentially pushed out and harassed during the short time we were there. We also had our baby with us, and it was a hot summer night. Being told that we should have simply opened the windows was incredibly frustrating and felt completely dismissive of our situation. We came to enjoy a three-night camping weekend and instead left after barely 24 hours because of how uncomfortable and unwelcome we were made to feel. We have never experienced this kind of treatment at a campground before. Unfortunately, based on this experience, we will never be returning to Hampton State Park RV Camping. The way we were treated was completely unacceptable and left us extremely disappointed and disgusted with the experience. She told us and I quote“this is a campground, not a prison” But clearly it wasn’t.
- Amy D.Traveler
Ellacoya State Park Campground
Pretty ok!
No major complaints. Beautiful location, easy to get to, convenient RV hookups. Goose poop everywhere so watch your step. Showers are relatively expensive. Sites are very very close together.
Guide to Ocean Park
Ocean Park camping spots range from densely wooded sites to more open RV-friendly parks, located 1-2 miles inland from the Atlantic shoreline. The region's sandy soil creates fast-draining campsites that recover quickly after rain, though mosquitoes can be problematic in wooded areas near the Scarborough Marsh. Most campgrounds operate from early May through mid-October with peak season rates nearly doubling during July and August when Canadian visitors from Quebec significantly increase campground populations.
What to do
Kayaking at Scarborough Marsh: Wild Duck Adult Campground provides access to the marsh waterways. "It is within a mile of the Audubon center office, where you can either put in your own kayak/canoe or rent one," notes Heather C. The Eastern Trail, a multi-use gravel path, runs near the campground for walking and biking.
Beach trolley service: Sun Outdoors Saco Old Orchard Beach offers shuttle service to Old Orchard Beach. "In the summer there is a shuttle that takes you to the beach which is convenient," says Nancy W. The trolley eliminates parking hassles during peak season when beach parking can cost $20-25 per day.
Local craft beer exploration: For adults seeking local flavors, the area offers accessible breweries. "We loved our lunch at the Run of the Mill Public House and Brewery which has a varied food menu with creative selections and good beer. The restaurant is in an old mill and retained some of the interesting original architectural features," reports Nancy W.
What campers like
Adult-only camping options: Wild Duck Adult Campground & RV Park offers a quieter experience. "This quiet campground is small but well maintained. We had a 'seasonal' site for two nights in September. It was very large and level with a picnic table and fire ring," writes Kevin W. The 21+ age requirement maintains a more peaceful atmosphere.
Multiple pool options: Bayley's Camping Resort features several pool areas. "There is a kids pool and a pool for the adults only w/bar. A pond for fishing, there are kayaks etc... Shower throughout and I might add very clean," shares Christopher S. The separate adult pool area includes hot tubs and a dedicated bar.
Private wooded sites: While many Ocean Park area campgrounds feature densely packed sites, some offer more secluded options. "We tent camp but they also offer small cabins which looked adorable and glamping tents. Easy access to local trails and tourist spots," explains Virginia W., who appreciated the natural setting and privacy at certain campgrounds.
What you should know
Site selection matters: At Wild Acres Sun RV Resort, location within the campground significantly affects experience. "Most sites your right on top of each other. And the campground map is missing the train tracks that are between the campground and the ocean. The trains all blow there horn and you will hear it if your at one of the site 'by the ocean,'" cautions Bryan.
Seasonal differences: September offers significant advantages with lower rates and fewer crowds. "We took a mid-September vacation and love how nice it is with fellow campers spread out. We are not resort campers, but this is very nice now that children are back in school," notes Celeste C. Fall camping brings cooler temperatures but much less congestion.
WiFi limitations: Internet connectivity varies significantly by campground and location within parks. "The wifi was pretty terrible. We paid extra for what was supposed to be fast, streamable wifi, but at times that didn't work at all or was very slow," reports Tina. Cell service is generally reliable throughout the area.
Tips for camping with families
Consider reservation timing: Old Orchard Beach Campground and other popular family campgrounds fill quickly. "If you want to have guests, plan on shelling out a bit of cash as it is $8/day for kids and $10 for adults and $12 for overnight guests," notes Nancy W. Family sites book 6-12 months in advance for July and August.
Variety of swimming options: Paradise Park Resort offers multiple water amenities. "This campground is very cute, oriented to families and couples. There are multiple pools and playgrounds. One pool has a hot tub for kids. There's also paddleboats available to rent," writes Tonisha T. Swimming options can provide alternatives when beach conditions aren't ideal.
Bilingual environment: For families seeking cultural exposure, the region welcomes many French-speaking visitors. "We were surprised by the amount of French speaking campers from Quebec! We loved the diversity it brought," mentions Nathan S. This creates opportunities for children to experience different languages and cultures.
Tips from RVers
Early morning construction noise: Some campgrounds have ongoing improvements that impact quiet times. "We got a train honking behind of our RV and a big construction besides of our windows with huge trucks coming and going all day long since 7:00 AM," reports Dilmargareth R. at Wild Acres. Asking about current renovation projects before booking can prevent surprises.
Electrical capacity varies: Red Apple Campground and other parks offer full hookups, but amperage differs. "Campsites are well-spaced and have level asphalt pads. Ours came with picnic table and fire pit," notes Diane S. During peak summer heat, 30-amp service may not support running multiple air conditioners simultaneously.
Site grading considerations: Tent campers face different challenges than RVers regarding site slope. "Our tent site at Sandy Pines was a bit small, and we were a bit closer to the people in the sites on each side than we would have liked," explains Michelle. Sites labeled "premium" typically offer better drainage and more level surfaces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which is the most popular campground near Ocean Park, ME?
Which is the most popular campground near Ocean Park, ME?
According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular campground near Ocean Park, ME is Sun Outdoors Saco Old Orchard Beach with a 4.2-star rating from 22 reviews.
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