Maryland State Parks · Maryland
Savage River State Forest
Maryland State Parks · Maryland, United States
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Elevation
- 2,533 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
- Grantsville
- Address
- 127 Headquarters Lane, Grantsville, MD 21536
- Phone
- (301) 895-5759
- Activities
- Camping
About
Savage River State Forest, Maryland's largest contiguous forest at over 54,000 acres in Garrett County, offers primitive drive-to camping obtained via a self-service kiosk (available 24 hours at the headquarters parking lot, alongside shooting-range and fuelwood permits). No numeric site count, hookup detail, or restroom/shower/dump-station information is published on the forest's own page. New Germany State Park and Big Run State Park sit within this same forest complex. 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 $10.00-$11.00/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).
Weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Typical low | Coldest night | Hottest day | Years with a night below 32°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31° | 18° | -10° | 58° | 11 of 11 |
| February | 37° | 23° | -3° | 62° | 11 of 11 |
| March | 48° | 30° | 5° | 69° | 10 of 11 |
| April | 62° | 39° | 17° | 78° | 8 of 11 |
| May | 66° | 50° | 33° | 81° | 0 of 11 |
| June | 72° | 56° | 43° | 83° | 0 of 11 |
| July | 78° | 63° | 53° | 87° | 0 of 11 |
| August | 76° | 63° | 51° | 86° | 0 of 11 |
| September | 73° | 57° | 41° | 85° | 0 of 11 |
| October | 58° | 41° | 30° | 76° | 2 of 10 |
| November | 46° | 30° | 16° | 63° | 10 of 10 |
| December | 36° | 26° | 4° | 61° | 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
- New Germany State Park · Maryland State Parks · 3 mi
- Big Run State Park · Maryland State Parks · 4 mi · 25 sites
- Savage Highlands State Park · Maryland State Parks · 9 mi · 1 sites
- Deep Creek Lake State Park · Maryland State Parks · 9 mi · 105 sites
- Dans Mountain State Park · Maryland State Parks · 12 mi · 1 sites
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