Overview
Owens Creek Campground offers families and individuals enjoyable primitive tent camping. Located just five miles from Thurmont, Maryland, in the rolling hills of Catoctin Mountain Park.
Recreation
As a primitive camping area, Owens Creek encourages visitors to use healthy doses of imagination while surrounded by the natural landscape. Nature hikes and campfire circles are popular activities. The Deerfield Nature Trail connects directly to the campground and is a 1.5 mile loop with a connection to the park's western system of trails. Browns Farm Trail is nearby in the Owens Creek Picnic Area and offers budding archeologists with a peek into the history of the area. This trail is also a youth friendly 'Track Trail'. For more information go to: www.kidsinparks.com.
Catoctin Mountain Park boasts 25 miles of trails.
Facilities
This campground contains 50 single campsites with a limit of five people, or immediate family, per site. There are no-hookups. Maximum 22' trailer length and RVs up to 30'. There are three pull through sites.
Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are available and centrally located in the campground. All sites are equipped with a tent pad, picnic tables, and fire ring. All tents must fit on the tent pads. Firewood is available.
Natural Features
The campground is surrounded by a rolling landscape, perfect for hikes of any level from easy to extremely strenuous. Owens Creek flows past the campground providing a peaceful setting beside a bubbling brook. Whether blanketed in snow in winter months, brilliant with color in the fall or blooming with wildflowers in the spring, Owens Creek offers beautiful scenery all year.
Nearby Attractions
Other National Park Service units in the area are: Antietam National Battlefield
www.nps.gov/ancm/index.htm 26 miles, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
www.nps.gov/choh/index.htm 28 miles, Eisenhower National Historic Site
www.nps.gov/eise/index.htm 20 miles, Gettysburg National Military Park
www.nps.gov/gett/index/htm 20 miles, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
www.nps.gov/hafe/index.htm 37 miles, Monocacy National Battlefield
www.nps.gov/mono/index.htm 18 miles, Appalachian National Scenic Trail
www.nps.gov/appa/index.htm , 8 miles, Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail
www.nps.gov/pohe/index.htm , 26 miles.
Other Attractions: Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo
www.cwpzoo.com , Cunningham Falls State Park
www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/cunningham.asp , Tourism Council of Frederick County
www.fredericktourism.org , Washington County Hagerstown, MD
www.marylandmemories.org/home.html .
