Salisbury Beach State Reservation

It's all about location here - situated on a peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean, Merimac River and Black Rock Creek. Lots of opportunity for walking, beaching, fishing and more. Very lovely here.

But the campground itself is tolerable, at best. Fairly closely packed back-in sites with shared power pedestals and water spigots. Some are too far away to reach without extensions. Sites range from 50A, 30A and 20a sites - but the electrical uncharge is the same for all.

So don't expect too much feeling of privacy here, or feeling like you're in a well maintained campground. It definitely has an older run down feeling to it.

Charges are a base fee ($22 for residents, $27 for non), plus $4 for water and $6 for electric (not optional). Then a $2 trust fee.

All and all, not a bad stop. But also not a favorite.

It's all about location here - situated on a peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean, Merimac River and Black Rock Creek. Lots of opportunity for walking, beaching, fishing and more. Very lovely here.

But the campground itself is tolerable, at best. Fairly closely packed back-in sites with shared power pedestals and water spigots. Some are too far away to reach without extensions. Sites range from 50A, 30A and 20a sites - but the electrical uncharge is the same for all.

So don't expect too much feeling of privacy here, or feeling like you're in a well maintained campground. It definitely has an older run down feeling to it.

Charges are a base fee ($22 for residents, $27 for non), plus $4 for water and $6 for electric (not optional). Then a $2 trust fee.

All and all, not a bad stop. But also not a favorite.

Camped here in our 27' RV. Enjoyed the bike paths and time on the nearby beach. We were amazed at how quiet the campground was at night- probably due to alcohol being prohibited. It is a bit crowded and very little shade but each site has its own small tree. Most sites had electric and water hook up. We needed a long hose to reach the water spigot for our site. Great for a beach campground.

The park location is great: salt marsh, Merrimack River, Atlantic Ocean. Long flat beach to walk on at low tide.

And that's the best thing about this place. It is understaffed: on a saturday when the park was full up, there was one office person, no park rangers, and so no crowd control or anyone to enforce any type of regulation. So the site right next to me has a long trailer, 2 trucks, a car, and a boat. I literally have the boat parked about a foot from my trailer. Quiet hours are not enforced at all either, so don't expect things to quiet down till midnight. With care and maintenance, this would be a great park. As it is now, I won't be back after this trip. Mass should do better than this for $48/night for out-of-state campers.

Bath house closest to me was rather old & had push button showers (no quarters). You had to keep pushing the button every 30 to 40 seconds & hope you still had hot water when it turned back on. I believe they are in the process of updating one of the other bath houses.

My first site was too far away from the water & electric connection. I asked to be moved and it was handled perfectly.

I thought it was a bit expensive for a state park.

4 dump stations was a plus. Check in process was a bit slow, even with a reservation.

Great camping at the beach. Walking distance to beach. Water/electric only but four lane dump station.

I only like going here because the bathrooms and showers are good, and it’s walking distance to the beach. The complaint I have is that we had people behind us that had a big party. The quiet hours I believe are 10pm-7. I have little ones that had A hard time sleeping. The campground after a certain time allows anyone to go in to visit other campers. After I called several times. They finally said something. There’s no alcohol allowed on the grounds and they were definitely drunk. I know from the past that they use to tell you that you had to leave.

Helpful and friendly staff at the campground. Easy parking with plenty of space around the site. The only drawback is no septic. But they have a good dump station.

If you like any sort of privacy or relaxation, this place isn’t for you. We had inconsiderate neighbors all around us. Kids running through our camp site. The only pro to this place is the bathrooms. Other than that, overpriced and will not be returning.

We paid the non-resident rate - which came out to ~$73/night for water and 50A service walking distance from the beach.

This is a busy, mostly open camping area with scrubby trees plopped here and there. There is no privacy between sites.

All RV sites have 30/50A and water - but be ready to employ extension electric cords and extension hoses for water, depending on your site. The hook-ups in MA State Reservations are... interesting.

There is 4 lane dump station at your disposal.

This is a quiet park - IF your neighbors decide to participate. While you cannot hear the ocean, you also cannot hear road noise (other than inner park road noise).

There are a lot of skunks here, but they are pretty used to people being around and we never smelled them. The gulls will assail your garbage within 10 minutes of leaving it outside.

Because it's nestled next to a salt marsh (and a river, and the beach) it sometimes stinks to high heaven of salt marsh.

The walk to the beach from the rear of the campground is about 1/2 miles; from the front, it's closer to a 1/3 of a mile.

The shower house is not the best, but it's usable. Bring shower shoes. Be ready for a cold shower; sometimes it's hot, sometimes it's not.

We didn't note too much management of the place; at one point our neighbors parked their boat across another site (and then were gone), and when that camper arrived they were unable to get into their site and it was just a... conundrum. It seems they eventually found a park attendant who put them in a management site and the boat just.. stayed. Weird.

The center of Salisbury Beach (town) is pretty dead at this point - a few pizza shops, sometimes open fried dough places, and a few arcades whispering of times past - but the beach itself remains nice - and access form the state park is some of the best.

Verizon can get pretty congested here; AT&T is a bit better, but not much. There is a Starlink cell in the area, but it was full the entire time we stayed at this park.