Cobscook Bay State Park Campground - Dennysville ME Camping

Preview: Cobscook Bay State Park comes the closest of any park in this book to providing the remote, oceanside, wilderness feeling of island camping without actually traveling to an island. There are numerous waterfront sites here, and all are spectacular and dramatically beautiful. Since there are so many of them, you have an excellent chance of scoring one of these pristine sites. When you do get a waterfront site, you’ll bear witness to the extreme tidal swing in this area. In fact, the name Cobscook is from the Maliseet and Pasamaquoddy Indian dialect for “boiling tides.” The change in tidal depth runs from 24 to 28 feet! Be extremely careful if you venture out onto the mud flats at low tide to dig up some clams (which is perfectly legal, by the way, up to a peck a day). When the tide turns, it comes racing in. There are several tent-only areas within Cobscook Bay State Park. As you may well imagine, these are the spots you want. Cobscook Point, Broad Cove, and the Harbor Point areas are reserved for our tent-bound brethren. The other areas here are fine, but the tentonly areas are superb.
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Duration: 106 sites
Best Time to Go: May 15 - October 15
This travel guide comes from:
The Best In Tent Camping: New England Guide Book