Greenbelt Park Campground

We were supposed to get a pull through but ended up with a back up spot which is no big deal. The bathrooms were not maintained well. There was a lot of brush and briars around the site. I found two ticks on my legs and have been diagnosed with Lyme's disease. I have caught it early on and I hope I will not have the long term effects.

I would insure you have plenty of protection. They really need to weedeat the area and spray.

The Metro station is close. The ranger suggested the walk but I was told by several campers that it is about 30 minutes. I would drive rather than walk and pay the daily parking fee at the Metro station. After walking DC all day it is well worth it.

We would camp here again but we will make sure we look out for ticks etc. Make sure you have shower shoes.

There is a lot of traffic noise being so close to town. Bring ear plugs for a better nights rest.

Overall we had a decent experience here. The camp hosts were friendly which is what made our stay enjoyable. The campground is beautiful and pretty quiet.

The bathrooms are sub-par and not cleaned regularly. Plan on wearing sandals into the shower and a smelly, dirty bathroom. This is a real bummer when you are dry camping with no hookups!

The roads are very poorly maintained with lots of potholes. Makes driving and parking campers a bit difficult and uncomfortable. The entire campground is in serious need of ripping out the roads, grading, and RE-paving.

Generally, it looks like most sites are not level or graded properly. Our site was in their system as “level” but our leveling system couldn’t lift the back end up high enough to get us level front-to-back. Even with a 2x4 under the rear levelers, we can’t get level. Many of the sites are parallel to the road and right on the side of the road...we are glad we didn’t get one of those sites and probably would have insisted on moving, or just left altogether if we got stuck with that.

Access to the campground is fine. It’s a 1.7mile road off the Main Street and the road is windy and paved OK but still bumpy and needs repair. Lots of potholes on the drive in.

Location-wise can be a bit deceiving. It’s technically only 16 miles from downtown Washington DC, but with the freeways you have to take, it’s easily a 45 minute drive each way. There is a Metro station (Greenbelt) only 7 minutes away and it’s a 25 minute train ride into the city. This is a great convenience, but make sure to add this to your budget! Parking is $9/day during the week and then you’ll want to budget for your metro costs each way also. Generally it cost us about $10 per person, round trip, each day, in metro fees.

The dump station is pretty far away from loop B, so it’s a bit of a drive for us and a very bumpy road to get down there.

We heard they are doing major renovations later this year and hopefully they will address these issues

We really enjoyed our stay here. We got a site in the D loop which is the best area if you want to get some sun for solar. Sites D138 thru D145 are in a some what open area with sun. Most of them are pretty level sites, but they are close together.

I saw some bad reviews on this place, but we thought it was nice. Clean campgrounds and bathrooms. Showers were decent. Dump station was fine with plenty of water spigots to fill up at around the park. Cell reception was pretty good as well. It is also close to the subway in Campus Park. It is about a 10 minute drive to the subway depending on traffic, or a little over a mile walk from the D loop. There is a convenient trail, the "Metro trail," that you can take from the D loop and will pop you out right by Campus Drive, from there it is .8 miles to the station. If you do drive its only $5.75 to park all day. From there you can ride the subway to D.C. in about 30 minutes.

The park itself was really nice this time of year. It was not very busy and really pretty with the changing of the leaves. There are a few trails located in the park. I did the 5.6 mile perimeter trail. You are guaranteed to see some birds and deer anywhere you go in this park. There is some distant road noise due to the park being surrounded by busy roads, but nothing to bad.

Good: cheap; $10 with senior pass. Close to Metro stops. We parked our 25’ motorhome at the Greenbelt station and took the train into DC. Not so good: poorly maintained park. Filthy bathrooms, like a year’s worth of spider webs filthy, but the water is hot. We went to the dump station only to find it overflowing, which is a first for us at any park of any type we’ve ever visited. They closed it later that day. Several closed sites due to tree hazards and generally crappy conditions. Must reserve ahead or I suppose you could drive in (there’s no entrance fee) and look around and then reserve online or via phone. In loop B anyway, go for a site inside the circle since many of the outer ones are sloped. We had excellent Verizon coverage.

Pretty big park with lots of open sites even with loops closed (late September). Generators running until 10p and started up again before 8am. Bathrooms were in need of cleaning but everything was functioning. We needed cell service for work and some sites were too low for a good signal. Cell coverage worked better for us in the 130 sites.

Place could use a few of our tax dollars to fix the facilities. Dry camping w/ access to showers & bathrooms. Dump station (1) at rear of campground. Some lots would have been cramped or a challange to level. We lucked into a decent area and the ones next to us.
Cell service was fine, nice to be in the woods, hints of the highway but not loud unless an emergency vehile passed by.

Reservation only; online or call in to call center.

Not a bad park if all you need is a cheap location to park you RV while visiting the sights of Washington DC.
We were there in October, so it was cool, with no evidence of ticks.

The walk to the metro seemed a bit far, considering we would be walking through the city all day, so we drove our truck to the College Park Metro, where there is easy outdoor parking (no height restrictions). It was great coming out of the metro, into our truck and back at the campground within ten minutes.
The campground was ok, but not great for a family to stay for a long period if not going into the city.
Lots of shade, so not good for our solar power.

My husband has an access card for disabled veterans, so we only paid half the rate (usually $20/night). It is a long winding road to get up to D loop, but it was beautiful and we would see up to 2 dozen deer at dusk on the drive.

Our site was very, very tight. So tight in fact that we got our awning caught on a holly tree while backing in :'( Our awning is destroyed, but that's more our fault (although the trees should be trimmed back).

It was very empty when we camped there in early December. The weather was great the entire time we were there. I was worried about ticks and signs warn of them, but it wasn't a problem for our 2 dogs (maybe because of the cool weather). Our dogs did get fleas after we left here though, which I don't think was a coincidence.

The park was totally worth it for us though, simply because of the price. You can fill up your water tank by the dump station. We parked near the bathrooms, but didn't use them. I checked them out to see how the shower was, but I couldn't get the water hot after running it for a few minutes. There was also exposed insulation in the shower stall, which I thought was weird.

College Park Metro Station is a 15 minute drive away and just $5/day for parking. The metro was such a convenient way to get into the city and very easy to figure out.