Cobscook Bay State Park

Arrived in the early off-season (after 14 September) at 1230 local time to find that all the "on the water" sites were taken. We were offered a selection of sites to look over before making a choice, but there were many other campers picking sites so we checked the map and rolled the dice on site 16. As a side note, like many parks, they will NOT allow small trailers like our teardrop on anything but an RV site and almost all of the waterside sites are "tents only". Spot 16, as well as the other sites along the same loop (14-20) was suitable for a large RV. The park does not offer electrical hookups or water hookups but has water spouts and simple outhouses EVERYWHERE, so all the sites we saw were fairly convenient. There is also a central restroom/shower/black water site near the entrance with more substantial restrooms available. Site 16 had a limited view of water through foliage, woody but secluded from all but one or two distant neighbors. All the roads in the park are well maintained with no noticable access issues. An easily-hikeable nature trail circles much of the park. One of us was able to make it in Birkenstocks, but sneakers or hiking shoes recommended. Strongly recommend driving or bicycling around the park at least once as there are some beautiful oceany spots that are picnic only. There was an unsubstantiated rumor that some of the group/picnic sites can be occupied by single RVs in the off season, but we did not try our luck as we were happy in spot 16. Overall, the park services and awesome on-site coastal access was enough to keep us entertained for two nights and looking forward to coming back again!

As others have said this is a beautiful state park with some really great campsites and even though we weren’t lucky enough to get one of the water front sites (some of them are reservation and some are first come first serve) we enjoyed our site a lot. We were in site 16 and could see the water behind the trees from our site, but if we walked about 50 feet through the trees we came out right to the water where there was a perfect rock in the sea grass for lounging and hanging out on.

The showers are hot and free but you have to push the button about every 10 seconds to keep the water going.

Firewood and ice are available for purchase at the entrance station.

We were amazed to have great AT&T service here, we thought for sure we would need our back up Verizon, but that data gets to be saved for another occasion!

There’s a short nature trail in the park that goes up to a view point- there are equally good views in other parts of the park but it’s a nice and pretty walk with some rock scrambling at the end.

We stayed here with friends do a few days. The sites are big and spread out. You have plenty of room. You do not have an ocean view from most RV sites but there are some day use picnic sites where you can be secluded and right on the shore with great views. We went to Quoddy Head state park and did a hike. Beautiful views from the cliffs of the rocky coast

Tucked along the forested coastline of Cobscook Bay, this campground showcases the true beauty of Maine. This is what you picture when you imagine camping. Although the sites have no hookups, it is well worth it to experience beautiful views, extra space, and privacy. Besides a few nice hikes in the area, this is the kind of place you visit just to get away and relax.

Pros:

• MASSIVE campsites, like the biggest we’ve ever seen. Most are pull through loops.
• Extremely private, felt like we were the only ones in the campground.
• Even if you’re not lucky enough to nab an ocean view, the forest sites are also beautiful.
• Although no hookups, there is always a water spigot a short walk away, and the campground also has pit toilets, shower house, dump station, dumpsters, recycling.
• Strong Verizon signal for work, video calls. We were pleasantly surprised! (9mbps down/4 up)
• Very friendly & helpful staff.
• Activities include clamming, short nature hikes, boat launch, and RELAXING!
• Pet friendly

Cons:

• no hookups
• Not near much, but who cares!

Summary of the RV sites:

• Best sites are 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 28 (best ocean views)
• 10, 12, 26 are the biggest campsites I’ve ever seen
• Would not recommend 14 - 18 - the peek at the ocean is not worth the lack of privacy
• Ocean views at the tent sites are dreamy. As most are a walk back you can’t really get away with a van/pop up in tent sites as much here.

While in the area we recommend:

• Tide Mill farm (Saturday’s)
• Reversing Falls
• Cutler Coast public reserved land trails
• West Quoddy SP
• Lubec Brewing, Water St Tavern, Monica’s chocolates
• Helen’s (Machias)

We reserved the site in the early summer. We wanted a site right on the water and this did not disappoint. I felt it was the best site with the most open view of Cobscook Bay. The site was level and plenty of room for our 2003 Winnebago Sightseer. Very quiet and relaxing. The breeze coming of the water was soothing. My daughter and I watched the Kingfishers hunting and later viewed the large full moon rise up out of the horizon.

We stayed here 3 nights 16,17,18 July 2018. There are about 10 RV sites on the water and #4 which was a walk up site was the best in our opinion. There is a island you can access from site 4 at low tide. Just know that the tides rise and fall 12 to 18 ft. In this area. This park is close to Campobello, the place Franklin Roosevelt stayed as a kid and later in life in the summer for vacations. It is also close to Quoddy State Park which is a light house and park on the eastern most point in the US. Also on the way to Campobello you can stop in Lubed Maine the eastern most town in the US. We were getting our cell service while at site 4 from Canada. We had 3 bars. The showers are near the entrance so we drove the truck to take showers. The view here was just amazing for someone from Florida.

Beautiful natural setting with many sites best suited for tents. Sites here are variable to say the least and VERY popular! All the staff were great! Very well kept campground but this is still a campground with pit toilets and not the newer variety which is so open and clean. There are also mosquitoes in evening and morning and that’s the only reason why I didn’t give it a 5 star rating. There’s also a nearby hotspot and power to charge devices at the maintenance building, which was much appreciated! This is a tidal area, so you are either looking out on wet sand/mud or water. T-Mobile got service from Canada.

This park was one of the best parks we have stayed at in Nth America. Although there is no power and water the quality of each site and the solitude more than made up for the lack of hookups. Our site was large with manicured lawns surrounded by bush and a fire pit.

Close by to the site was a water tap and the generator hours are very generous. 8.00am to 8.00pm. They have drop loos dotted around the camp ground if you wanted to use them and we checked a couple out and they did not smell.

There are critters around including a 40 lb Raccoon who was terrorizing tent campers looking for an easy meal. He never visited us although we wanted him to so we could photograph him. If you like humming birds they are regular visitors to the site as well.

Verizon pre Paid phone did not work but Verizon Internet did on 4g.

The rate includes a $25.00 booking fee.