Camden Hills State Park Campground

The climb up Mt Megunticook is fairly steep & rocky but worthwhile. The view of Camden from the Mt Battie look-out point is very good.

Great campground if you want to visit the Camden area. Several good hiking trails right in the park. About half of the sites have water/electricity, the rest are dry. No sewer. Half the sites are reservable, the rest are first-come-first-served. There are only a few sites that can accommodate larger rigs, so if you have a big RV it would be best to make a reservation. Cell service was okay, but only in the front of the park. Further back there was no service. There is wifi, but it was very slow. Sites 55-59 and 61-63 are in a field, all of the other sites are wooded/shaded. Bathrooms were very clean.

This is a nice campground with a mix of wooded and grassy sites. About half the sites have electric and water hook-ups, and the other half are dry camping. There is an on-site dump station, lots of freshwater spigots, and free hot showers.

The park is located on a large parcel of forested land covered with hiking trails that offer the most amazing views of the ocean beyond. Outside of the park, we discovered the cute New England seaport town of Camden, and a nearby lake perfect for kayaking.

Despite all the good, there was an incident that unfortunately pushes my rating of the park from a 5 to a 3. Without going into all the details, let's just say that my husband fell into a large (2-3') hole covered with a rotted piece of wood next to one of the water spigots. He sprained his foot pretty good and is lucky the injury wasn't worse.

The way that this hole was covered was extremely negligent, and the response we got when the incident was reported was not very satisfactory.

While we would return simply because we like the area so much, I simply can't give it a glowing review based on what happened and how they handled it.

Nice state campground close to the charming and very popular Camden.

This is one of only two state campgrounds with any campsite services, namely electricity and water. No sewer, but they do have a dump.

The campground can be a bit loud as you are close to route 1. But you are at the base of Mount Battie which provides spectacular views of the Camden, surrounding towns and coast. There is lots of great hiking right from the campground.

Campsites are spacious and quiet. Pet-friendly on leashes. Water & electric available, Dump site on location. They have showers as well no charge, we did not use them so I am uncertain how they are. There are hiking trails, you can walk across the main road to the other side of the park to view the ocean.
Wifi is free
The campsite has a fire ring. Firewood is for sale.

Large almost level site. Easy access from highway but still quiet. Bath house was clean. Free WiFi ok. Lots of great hiking trails.

Rate includes out of state and online registration fee. That added $10 per day to the site cost. Our site had NO hook-ups.

This is a beautiful area and the park had a lot of hiking and great views.

Most sites seem to be un-level. We had to move to a different site (1) for the last night and it was 10" front to back out of level.

Sites include options of : grass field, mostly to partly shaded or in the trees with full shade. The roads in the park at one time were paved but now crumbling from disrepair. Some of the sites back right up to the trash dumpsters, huge pile of sand and rock or the dump. Be very careful in site selection.

Really like this area but at $45 a night, I feel that it was overpriced.

The campground really isn't the draw here. Yes, it's way overpriced, but you'll find that all over New England - other sites in the area will set you back $70-80 a night and are much tighter. Sites are fine - they need some leveling, and some are better than others. The real draw here is the location though. You're within walking access to a good 40 miles of trail, some that end in incredible ocean views, you're right across the street from the ocean where you can picnic on a hill, sit on a bench or stroll the short trail, and you're about 10 minutes from downtown Camden, which is a great little harbor town with lots of amenities. It pained us a little to cough up this much for electric and water, but New England RV camping overall just comes with a little higher of a price tag. We'll make it up boondocking out west in the winter!

A note on sites - we stayed in 107, which on the surface seems like a crappy site (very close to the entrance), but we wound up liking it because there were only 3 sites in the loop, which meant we had the whole cul-de-sac to ourselves for a good chunk of our stay and no one else walked or biked through it since there was no reason to unless you were staying there.

This is a good location to exploring the Camden, Rockland area and all that coastal Maine has to offer. The campground is easily accessed right off HWY1 and there's a lot of hiking trails and scenic points throughout the park. The grounds are kept clean and the power / water was solid with no issues.

We struggled here with 2 things. 1 was connectivity. Working from home requires me to have solid internet service. Even with a booster, ATT and Verizon were incredibly slow to the point of not being able to rely on for Skype conference calls etc (1mbU/1mbD). Without a booster, I had no ATT service and Verizon was barely 1 bar.The campground offers free wifi and when that wasn't bogged down with other users, it was fast. But during peak times in the morning or any time after early afternoon, everyone else got online and the wifi would at times be unusable. So for this reason, I would not camp here again. If you don't rely on solid internet service then you don't care about that. The 2nd issue we had was the sites are very un level. We stayed in the open field area where the sites are more big rig friendly and they were still quite un level. You need blocks here for sure even in those sites. The inner sites also looked to be very un level. OTA channels were also really bad with only 4 PBS stations coming in and out on occasion.

The bathrooms are very clean and showers were strong and hot. Since this park doesn't have sewer, having plenty of good showers was a good perk. I never had to wait as there were plenty of showers for everyone. They are individual rooms (not in a shared bathroom) so I also appreciated that.

The area cannot be beat for shopping and dining and just overall sheer beauty. The staff was also very friendly.

The Clean Bee Laundromat right up the street was a good choice. Very clean and affordable prices.

We reserved a site back in February for a late June 2-night stay. We arrived to check in and were told the site we booked had been changed. No one knew why and they proceeded to put us in the grassy field area when we booked a wooded site. Staff was very unhelpful at trying to get us a new site so we left and stayed elsewhere after all. Would NOT recommend this state park. Beautiful Camden location but lousy service.