Deep Creek Lake State Park is located in Western Maryland’s Garrett County. The park encompasses over 1,800 acres and adjoins Deep Creek Lake Natural Resources Management Area and its 3,900-acre man-made lake. Deep Creek Lake camping lies just west of the Allegheny Front on a large plateau known as the Tablelands or Allegany Highlands. Its location at the southernmost end of Meadow Mountain places it west of the Eastern Continental Divide and within the Mississippi River watershed. The park gets its name from the lake, which was a hydroelectric project, constructed on Deep Creek in the 1920's by the Youghiogheny Hydroelectric Company. The Deep Creek Lake State Park Complex also includes Sang Run State Park and the Youghiogheny Wild River Natural Environmental Area. Deep Creek Lake Camping offers 112 campsites, 26 electrics sites, a picnic table, fire ring, lantern post, and a wildlife resistant food storage box on each site. They also have heated bathhouses, a dump station, freshwater fill up spot, free boat trailer parking, overnight dock slip use, and even some mini cabins and other lodging options! The park itself offers a sandy lakefront area, fishing areas, bathrooms, playgrounds, and hiking and biking trails. All in all, the park encompasses 1,800 acres!!

Features include:
86 basic sites and 26 electric sites
Two Mini Cabins - The mini cabins sleep six people and have electricity, heat, (no water) and beds. Users must provide their own linens. Pets are not permitted. Includes a picnic table, fire ring and lantern post
One Yurt - The yurt sleeps six people and has electricity, heat, (no water) and beds. Users must provide their own linens. Pets are not permitted. Includes a picnic table, fire ring, and lantern post
Bear Den - A three sided Adirondack-style shelter with the open side facing out into the forest (Site 72). Includes a picnic table, fire ring, lantern post, wildlife box, stone fire place and raised sleeping platform
Delphia Brant is a pet-free loop
Heated bathhouses
Dump station
Freshwater fill up
Free boat trailer overnight parking registration
Overnight dock slip use
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Deep Creek Lake State Park Campground

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**Campground Review:**

Don’t let the name fool you, the campground is across the street from the lake and there are no lake view sites. We arrived after 6 pm on a Tuesday after Labor Day and found there were only six out of 112 sites occupied. We had the entire Delphia Loop to ourselves. Some loops allow pets and others do not. One loop (the Meshach Browning Loop) has electric hookups; the other loops do not. With so few campers, we were surprised to find the office staffed until 10 pm but this made checking in easier than self-registration. The campground is gated and you need a code to get in; this gave me pause wondering about how safe it was but there were regular ranger patrols and all was quiet. Restrooms in the Delphia loop were modern and very clean. The showers were very nice and rivaled any hotel shower I’ve had. We were told there were regular bear sightings and there were bear boxes at each site; we saw many deer but not a single bear, keeping our zero bear sightings record intact. Each site also had a fire ring, lantern hook (but you would need to be much taller than me to reach it!), and very generous sized picnic table. Alcohol, weapons, and fireworks are prohibited. No/very limited cell service. Sites in the Delphia and George Beckman loops are very quiet but some sites in the other two loops are closer to the road so you will hear road noise. The lake is open Memorial Day through Labor Day so I imagine this campground would yield a very different experience in the height of summer!

  

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Very quiet after the summer!

This place is amazing. The lake is absolutely beautiful and perfect for all types of water sports. It's great for all ages as well, with things to do to keep everybody entertained. 

The fishing was a lot of fun as well. We caught a solid amount of Bass, so all in all it was a success!

I would highly recommend it to anyone. Also, the town of Swanton isn't too far away- which is a fun small town to explore.

Fantastic

Our visit was great, the staff was friendly, the sites were all clean(side note. some of the sites are AWESOME, some are a patch of grass. its honestly best to carefully look at the site map) 

We did have a raccoon visitor, and a black bear while we were there. The paths are littered with very docile deer and the lake is crystal clear. 

as per all MD sites, drinking is illegal, and it was awfully windy to fish, but certain ly great fishing spots are there.

BEAUTIFUL mountain lake!!! 

The campground was clean and nicely maintained. The bathrooms were quite possibly the cleanest camp bathrooms I've ever come across. Overall, I couldn't have asked for a better first experience there.

Deep Creek Camping

This is a great place to camp! the facilities were great and having a bear proof container at each site was great. 

We had the perfect amount of sun for an afternoon nap after a short hike. 


Beautiful Area!

Beautiful mountain area. Lake is beautiful! Nice hiking trails.

Beautiful 

Super nice Campground 
The beach is beautiful and super close the lake is amazing and the campground very well maintained. 

Deep Creek State Park

Site 12 is a great private site. It’s long and narrow but view is of the woods. Bath house is close. Getting into the site was interesting. We had to pull into site 11 to back into ours  or drive the wrong way in loop because site was angled opposite direction. Site 11 is small but site 13 was a nice large site. This side of this loop was nice. Great area with lots to see. 

Beautiful

**Camp site(Tent camping)**

Camp site was pretty small and close to each other. The forest where the camp site was situated was beautiful. We were lucky enough to witness a spectacular light show put up by thousands of fireflies at night.  

It is Maryland so watch out for poison ivy when walking through bushes.  

  

**Facilities/ Amenities**

Bathrooms were clean.  

  

**Surrounding area**

Walking distance to the huge beach / lake. The area was overcrowded but maintained well and clean.

Deep Creek Lake is beautiful

Lots of touristy things around the lake, then you drive by lots of vacation homes on the lakeshore and then you pull into the camp and you feel like you are miles away from all that stuff.

Vibe: in crowded when we were there, but you get the sense it’s a summer hotspot popular with boaters

Spots: spots are fine, not tons of room between sites, but certainly okay. Semi-private

Cell service: good on Verizon

Overall: beautiful lake, lots of things to do in the area, camp feels like camping but close to markets, restaurants and more

Do stop at FireFly Farms for cheese and other goodies in Accident, MD


Tucked in a corner by a touristy lake

Very nicely maintained state campgrounds near many activities and restaurants, most notably Deep Creek Lake and Wisp Ski Resort.  We went in late June, and the weather was warm in the daytime and cool at night.  Perfect.  Although it was a bit crowded, it did not feel claustrophobic.  Great hiking trails nearby with some wildlife.  We’ll definitely be back. 

Everything You Need

Beautiful . The only thing that I didn’t liked was that were a lot of sharp stones on the bottom of the swimming part of the lake .