Just a collection of my videos. All the camping videos are to help people pick camp sites that suit their needs. I wish all the campsites at Green Ridge state forest had walk throughs available on line. The only one I didn't get was at campsite 99. It rained torrentially as we were breaking camp and I never got the video shot. And we didn't stay at the official campsite but took the jeep to the top of the ridge and stayed at an alternate site which was so much better but you definitely need something like a jeep to get up that steep hill. Enjoy! Thanks for watching!
Myra, mom to a deaf Dalmatian and a weird Border Collie
I start the video on the road. Its not a heavily traveled road. But it is fully within sight of the road. Stategic parking can block some of that. Happy Camping!
have you been to site 84? down yonkers bottom rd… i wanna go, but unsure of road condition. i don’t wanna go halfway back only to realize i can’t continue with my camper, and not have a place to turn around
thanks for making all these videos, i'll be visiting this state forest soon and stumbled on your channel when trying to plan out what sites to camp at, and having video reviews has been great to save time figuring out which sites are flatter/ further off the road than others. super helpful, thank you! have you ever visited any of the northern sites 1-23? thanks!
Alright, you sold me on it! Ive been hesitant, afraid of food sticking and burning the bottom but otherwise. Its the perfect size, design and has a lid. I need it now!
It’s strange to me that these type of people are camping at green ridge. I’ve found several sites like this and it always pisses me off. Apparently the new thing is building and leaving toilets at the site….no respect for the forest these days.
strange that someone would pop by to ask if its taken...that would bother me. the rangers keep a log. i've run into freeloaders in sites i've reserved though, and thats incredibly frustrating. made me so disappointed last time, decided i think they should ban folks for freeloading on sites.
You're brave. Not sure if you're still camping much but green ridge has developed a problem with junkie squatters from Hagerstown moving in. Watch your six
roger that. earlier this year has issues down at 89 on Carroll... sketchy folks rolling by back & forth over and over again stopping with headlights on our site, gunshots up the road at 9-915pm, same jeep prowling our site till almost 1am. almost broke camp & rolled, but by 130-2am it finally got quiet. super sketchy for a few hours though. stay safe folks.
The site 66 shows it connects with the C&O towpath. Not sure how steeper accessible yet. I noticed the trail from thd C&O and saw that the C&O Explorer map app refers to the connection to Outdoors Club Rd (as the map shows). New to me.
Thank you for the positive review on site 38. I spent the last 2 nights on 38 and must agree it is a nice location. Happy to say it is only 10 min away from a fishing pond. Your reviews are great. Another thank you...Last year I stayed at 51 by the power lines. Great view of the stars at night. Please keep the Green Ridge reviews coming. They are Very helpful. DP
You are more than welcome and thanks for letting me know! Unfortunately this season I'm sidelined with a hip injury and can't tent camp. We are however camping in our, new to us, RV but I'm not sure people want to see that? I'll get back to my beloved dispersed camping as soon as I can but meanwhile Ferrari, the deaf Dalmatian, loves the new sleeping arrangements! And Fen the Border Collie isn't so amused that he has to be leashed or tethered in a campground that accommodates RV sites! We long for our hours long hikes through the woods just mushroom hunting! Happy Camping!
Hello! I love your videos. We are camping at Green Ridge for the first time this weekend. We also have 2 dogs that will be coming. I was curious if you know anything about Site 84? I found a picture an it looks beautiful and private, but not sure about how safe it would be with the dogs since it looks to be on a ridgeline, hard to tell from the one picture I have. Thanks so much!
Hi! Site 84 is not private and not on a ridge line. It is at the bottom of Yonkers Bottom Rd at creek level. It stops at 15 mile creek. It has public access along the campsite for people to park and fish in the creek. Others won't stay the night unless they are on overflow camping. Happy Camping. My dogs and I will be way up in PA this weekend by Marsh Creek State Park in an RV.
@@DeafDalmatian Thank you so much, that is extremely helpful. I have no idea what picture I was looking at, they must have listed the incorrect site number. Thanks again and have a great weekend camping!
You have to start at headquarters, You fill in the info on the envelope you put your $10 per night fee and site # on and enter your name on the corresponding site number on the clip board with date in and date out. The clip board will show open site numbers. That is where you see what sites are taken or not. It is not free to just drive into a site and take it. There was a whole lot of pandemonium last fall about getting sites while the clip board system wasn't in play for a bit. But as far as I know it is back in place. Always best to go to HQ first then go to your site. If you have paid for a numbered site then if someone is there when you get to the site it is up to them to move. Its a beautiful area, regardless of the season and sites are far enough away from each other mostly to feel like you are in your own little world for a few days! You can go high, low, mid mountain, open site, heavily wooded site. There are almost 100 numbered sites, a few numbers are missing however and then they have non-numbered over flow sites for when they run out of numbered site such as hunting season last fall. Happy camping!
Well, yes and no. You can apply for a backpackers permit and stop at one of the very limited parking spots at a couple trail entrances and use that to traipse in and find a spot. You could sign up for a sight and pay your $10 a night fee but just park in the camp site and bushwack to a more remote area. The problem is the forest is peppered with private land so you would have to be careful in doing so. If you go when it is full they will tell you to just pull over on one of the many areas that fit a vehicle or two that hunters use and try to make a camp site which you would have the opportunity to move away from the pull off and build up a site. They won't let you build a complete shelter. You can't cut down wood without a permit. But you could definitely use resources to aid in a bushcraft campsite. I've seen evidence of people trying skills at the back of a campsite or removed from the main area. There are many sites that are remote enough that the surrounding area really is your private playground to do whatever is within the rules of camping there. You just have to watch out during hunting season, because the place crawls with them driving at high speed on the remote roads and traipsing everywhere in the woods. Just be safe and thoughtful and you too will love what green ridge has to offer. I'd just take a 'dummy' tent to put in the campsite to show it is occupied and then move further away from the actual site. Just be super mindful of fires.
@@DeafDalmatian thank you so much for the reply! Are there any other locations in western Maryland or close to this area where I could do what I’m looking for?
I plan to camp there in a couple weeks. I hope we will find a spot without issues! Did you get here on Oct 30th? I hope the crowd will die down by then
I was there the 22nd thru 27th. Thursday afternoon by about 4pm there were 4 campsites left. That's when the overflow situation kicks in and it's a free for all. Get your permit, find a site and dig in! Enjoy!
I really liked 51. I love the view from both sides back towards the road, and the secluded nature of the site. I love seeing your reviews and videos of them! That being said, everytime I've tried to get it recently it's been taken haha.
I got up to green ridge last thursday night. Pretty late. It was fairly packed already. Approxiantely 80 out of 100 sites already taken. We grabbed site 38. A good sized site with privacy. As I said we arrived late (11pm). When we pulled up to our site 38 there was a tent there. We had to get out and calmly explain to the camper that we had already paid for this site and there wasnt any other place for us to go considering how packed it was. Plus it would have been a 40 minute round trip to go back to headquarters and look for a different spot. Since it was late we let them stay at the site for the night, but knidly ask them to vacate the next morning becuase we had other friends joining us. Thats the first time that has ever happen to me but it seems to be a reoccuring incident. Not sure how the forest service can control it though.
I love that you are still making these videos! Unfortunately I have moved out of Maryland and back to Michigan, so now Green Ridge is about 8 hours from me. I'm sure I will get back there again some day though!
I always appreciate the videos! Thanks for posting. I've read recent reviews that people are just driving around looking for open sites. I know the office is closed, but are they still using the sign up sheet at the office?
@@DeafDalmatian that is pretty aggravating. It’s a huge forest and to pick a site and have someone already there would be very annoying. Hopefully I don’t run into that issue.
Thank you always for the reviews! We visited Green Ridge for the first tome last week after seeing your videos and we LOVED it. We stayed at campsite 65 and enjoyed the view a lot. Do you know any other site that has a great view like 65? Doesn't have to be facing the Potomac River. Thank you!
Yup, that tarp looked like 'ole droopy drawers'. I reset it twice. Finally threw my hands up! I'll work on it in the fall when I get back out again. I've blocked off time for 3 trips in October and November. Seems to be a learning curve in getting the tree spacing right and the pitch right. Since my through hike is postponed a couple years I've got time to work on it!
Good to see you back on making review videos! We came across your videos at the beginning of the quarantine restrictions and became obsessed with Green Ridge. We took two day trips to drive around and visit all 100 sites when the state closed camping. When restrictions were lifted, we went camping for the first time there and chose our favorite site that you reviewed....#36! And it did not disappoint! I really want to try 66 next but my husband is concerned about the lack of privacy if people are parking at the bottom of the road to pick up a trail. Did you find that to be true?
Please look on a map located at the DNR site. It will show you where the camp sites are in relation to the Potomac River. The only sites very close are the ones at Bond's Landing. They are all together in a small area. Site 66 has a back trail that leads to the C&O Canal path also. Site 99 is kinda close but no real access to the river that I know of.
