Maryland State Parks · Maryland
Big Run State Park
Maryland State Parks · Maryland, United States
- Sites
- 25
- Hookups
- 25 no hookups
- Season
- Year-round
- Group sites
- Yes
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Restrooms
- Yes
- Pets
- Yes
- Elevation
- 1,549 ft
- Dark sky
- Bortle class 2
- Cell coverage
- T-Mobile none · AT&T none · Verizon none (carriers' 4G LTE filings to the FCC, 2025-12; not measured here)
- Lake
- Savage River Reservoir
- Nearest town
- Swanton
- Address
- 10368 Savage River Road, Swanton, MD 21561
- Phone
- (301) 895-5453
- Activities
- Camping
29 numbered sites are mapped one by one - the site map below shows each with its facts and pictures.
Site map
29 numbered sites are mapped one by one on the imagery, with the operator's own facts and pictures for each site where it publishes them. Tap a site to rate it, keep a note and add your own photos; press and hold the map for a pin of your own. Your ratings, notes, pins and photos are kept with the campground on your Saved list, the same list the camping map and the drive page keep.
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About
Big Run State Park, a small park on the Savage River Reservoir within Savage River State Forest in far western Maryland, offers 23 primitive family campsites (wooded sites 63-75, open-field sites 78-90) plus two separately-bookable group campsites: Monroe Run (up to 25 people, its shelter has electricity - the individual campsites themselves do not) and Creekside (up to 12 people). No showers or dump station confirmed on the park's own page - a genuinely primitive campground. Reservable through the Maryland Park Service's own ReserveAmerica/Aspira contract, hosted at parkreservations.maryland.gov (not a reserveamerica.com subdomain, though it runs the same underlying platform - confirmed live, "Powered by Aspira").
Fees
Campsite Non-Electric $11.00-$12.00/night; Group (Monroe Run/Creekside group campsites) $21.00-$56.50/night. Displayed rates are the vendor's own published BASE rates and do NOT reflect holiday/weekend/residency surcharges or a pet fee (Maryland applies these as add-ons rather than publishing a separate resident/non-resident base rate the way some other states do). Pets are allowed, but must be kept on a leash at all times.
Weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Typical low | Coldest night | Hottest day | Years with a night below 32°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 21° | -5° | 60° | 11 of 11 |
| February | 40° | 26° | 1° | 66° | 11 of 11 |
| March | 52° | 34° | 9° | 71° | 9 of 11 |
| April | 66° | 43° | 22° | 83° | 4 of 11 |
| May | 70° | 53° | 36° | 86° | 0 of 11 |
| June | 76° | 58° | 46° | 87° | 0 of 11 |
| July | 83° | 66° | 55° | 93° | 0 of 11 |
| August | 80° | 66° | 53° | 90° | 0 of 11 |
| September | 77° | 60° | 44° | 90° | 0 of 11 |
| October | 62° | 44° | 33° | 79° | 0 of 10 |
| November | 49° | 33° | 20° | 66° | 9 of 10 |
| December | 39° | 29° | 8° | 66° | 10 of 10 |
Mid-month figures from 2016–2026 of daily weather at this spot (ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0), in °F. Typical is the median; coldest and hottest are the extremes seen.
Nearby campgrounds
- Savage River State Forest · Maryland State Parks · 4 mi
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- Robert W Craig · Army Corps of Engineers · 9 mi · 69 sites
- Savage Highlands State Park · Maryland State Parks · 10 mi · 1 sites
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