DeCordova Bend Park Campground

This is a nice free campsite. It has a few waterfront sheltered picnic tables with grills, but no fire rings anywhere in the park. There is a plumbed restroom, but the toilets are single piece metal affairs, think jailhouse toilets. On a cool evening sitting on one of them may give you quite a cold shock. There are a couple of places you can pull through with an RV, but primarily it is set up for tent camping.

A few words of warning: this is a popular party spot with the locals and the waterfront spaces can get a little raucous on the weekend. Also, the flood lights around the bathroom are incredibly bright and light up almost the entire waterfront. There is plenty of open ground towards the back of the park if you want a little more quiet and darkness, but it is farther from the bathrooms and there are no tables or grills.

Really enjoyed our stay here and will be back. Overall, the park has been quiet, with just a few tent/vehicle campers and fishermen. Weekends can get busy and very noisy, but most people have been respectful, keeping the noise/music down after 10pm.

This place is fairly well maintained, but sometimes campers leave trash unfortunately, and this attracts a bunch of vultures. I mean, a BUNCH.

I recommend camping under the trees, if your rig is 30ft or less, otherwise, you can park a larger rig out near the restrooms on the side of the road and in front of one of the covered picnic tables.

BRA only allows camping in any of their parks for 10 days every 30 days.

Easy to get to. We have a 38’ toy hauler so there are some places we can’t go. There are a few trees that are to low for rigs our size but you can basically park anywhere, we just pulled in straight from the gate onto the grass under nice shade trees next to site #3. We also pull our boat with another truck and had room for it too. It is dry camping. Most people had tents. There are bathrooms and the boat ramp is right there too. There’s a convenient store and dollar store just down the road.

Very bus place. Tons of boaters and the entire shore line is loaded all day with locals. As a traveler with dogs makes it hart to take you dogs to the water to cool off but most are weekend warriors so throughout the week should be less busy

Great water access. Clean. Bathrooms were ok. Good cell reception. Several others camping, including what seemed like locals having family reunions. Definitely would have stayed longer if we had more time.

Great water access. Clean. Bathrooms were ok. Good cell reception. Several others camping, including what seemed like locals having family reunions. Definitely would have stayed longer if we had more time.