Weekend and holiday day-use reservations are now available for Gunpowder Falls State Park’s Hammerman beach area, Rocky Gap State Park, and Swallow Falls State Park As summer crowds return to Maryland State Parks, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is expanding its traffic flow management and park entrance system to help visitors avoid long entrance Read the Rest…
NOTE: This announcement has been updated with additional parks: Visitors planning to attend Greenbrier State Park, Gunpowder Falls State Park’s Hammerman beach area, Point Lookout, Newtowne Neck State Park, North Point State Park, Rocks State Park’s Kilgore Falls aream Rocky Gap State Park, Sandy Point State Park, and Swallow Falls State Park are required to Read the Rest…
The Maryland Park Service has successfully launched its new reservations management system, which provides visitors with a faster, more intuitive way to reserve campsites, cabins, mini-cabins, pavilions, and other amenities at 37 Maryland State Parks. All reservations made prior to the February 24 launch were securely transferred to the new system. Visitors with existing reservations Read the Rest…
The Maryland Park Service will launch a new, modern reservations management system on Tuesday, February 24 that will provide visitors a faster, more intuitive way to reserve campsites, cabins, mini-cabins, pavilions, and other amenities statewide at 37 Maryland State Parks. The new system represents a major upgrade to Maryland’s park reservations experience, featuring improved performance Read the Rest…
Maryland Park Service’s new day-use reservation system is working as designed to stop the frequent capacity closures that took place at popular state parks before the system was implemented in 2025. In the spring and summer of 2025, the Maryland Park Service launched the new system that requires visitors to make advance reservations on weekends Read the Rest…
Summer vacation season has arrived and millions of Marylanders are making plans to head for the great outdoors. Our public lands are ready to receive this annual influx with a little help from a logistical solution to a longstanding problem. For many years, the popularity of our public lands presented issues to be resolved: People Read the Rest…
UPDATE: The Maryland Park Service’s new day-use reservation system, parkdayuse.maryland.gov, is now in operation for five Maryland State Parks through the end of the summer season. Visitors to Point Lookout, Newtowne Neck, and North Point State Parks will be able to make day-use reservations beginning June 12 for the Juneteenth holiday, June 19, and then Read the Rest…
Weekend and holiday reservations required at the two parks starting Saturday, May 24 Beginning today, visitors planning to attend Greenbrier State Park or Sandy Point State Park for Memorial Day weekend as well as future weekends and holidays can make reservations at parkdayuse.maryland.gov. The Maryland Park Service’s new day pass reservation system requires all visitors Read the Rest…
