Camping at Delaware State Park-Run the Other Way

We have only camped in one Delaware state park so far, so this blog post is currently very short but will expand in the future!

Delaware Seashore State Park

3/7 Do not take your reactive dogs here.

This campground is a parking lot with very small sites, no fire pits, pet limits, car limits, noise, and pretty much all the things that I do not enjoy about a campground for this reason, it only gets a 3/7 on the Spots and Brindle Campground Rating Scale.

I originally booked sites here because my friends and I wanted to do a fall camping trip and we could not get our usual spots at Assateague State Park. One of my friends has a lab, the other has a beige rescue, and my husband and I have the 4. Each site had a limit of two dogs, so I booked three sites for us to make sure all the dogs would fit. Each site also had a one car limit, another reason I had to get everyone an individual site for each couple.

Later on, I switched one of the sites so that my husband and I could bring the camper, but that was lucky because when we got to the campground, one of the tent sites I had rented was under water anyway.

When we pulled in, a storm was starting up so we were trying to find out site in the dark, in the pouring rain. My husband was mad at me because I had insisted we head out to the campground from NOVA even though we knew these storms were coming in...and now we were trying to find our postage stamp site in the dark and in the pouring rain-Chris's favorite.

We got set up and hunkered down for the night and went exploring in the morning. The site itself was very small and had no trees or shade or anything to block sight lines except for the giant RV's that sandwiched in our little pop up. There was also no fire pit.

The path along the inlet was a beautiful and a very satisfying, sniffy walk for the dogs, but we only had two of them with us that weekend (and they were our least reactive). If we had the whole pack, we would not have been able to do this walk since it was a multi-use trail being used to its fullest. There were walkers, bikers, fishermen, and of course, other dogs, and not a place to try and take the whole pack. If we tried to jump off the trail, there were sand spurs, so it's really a place best enjoyed with one dog or no dogs. Besides the trail, that was the end of the benefits for my dogs. When we tried to get to the ocean beach, there were signs banning dogs during the prime season, which I has assumed was over since we were camping in late September, almost October, but it was not. We went anyway and sat in a far corner of the beach, hoping we wouldn't get in trouble. This was not ideal because we had a pregnant lady with us and we didn't want to be too far from the bathrooms but at least we were out there.

When we got back to the sites later to cook, we had to use a communal fire pit. This was fine since we had a big group and we just took over, but if there were other dogs or people there, we would not have been able to hang out or cook.

At night, we were lulled to sleep by the drag racing that occurs on the bridge next to the campground. Even though it's a pretty bridge, bridges mean cars, cars mean noise, and this particular bridge was very noisy due to the drag racers.

Overall, if you wanted to hang out on the beach, and get food, and ride your bike (but not hang out at the campsite itself), this could be the campground for you, but it's not an enjoyable place for quality time with your reactive dogs.

The bridge was actually very cool.

There are many state parks in Delaware, though, and we look forward to trying out more of them. Which Delaware state park campgrounds have you enjoyed camping with your reactive dogs?