Lake Somerset Campground - Westover, Maryland ( October 2019)

We felt as if we were entering a time warp when we pulled Rosie, our 25 foot Airstream trailer, into this campground. It was like being transported back in time about 50 years.

There were lawn knick-knacks and doo-dads everywhere. A few of these were pirates, pirate ships, a wooden Indian and covered wagons around the lake. The campground also had a miniature golf course and a huge playground. Similar to everything else in this campground, the playground looked like it was from the 1950s.

Entering this campground

The pirate on-duty

Ship wreck

You cannot walk around this campground without thinking someone found an amusement park garage sale and bought the place out. 

Check-in didn’t go smoothly. I was told the price was $15 more than the figure I was given when I made reservations. Come to find out, the unexpected $15 was the deposit on a gate pass. Since we were not planning on unhitching, we didn’t need a gate key and saved the $15 fee. 

Speaking of the check-in process, all the campground wanted was the fee. We were not asked our vehicle’s license tag numbers, given a campground map, no list of rules and no lecture about what happens to troublemakers. We were verbally given a site number and told we couldn’t miss it. He was correct because we found it.

Suzy on a walk near Rosie's site

An online description of this park said that it had 100 seasonal sites and 30 sites for pass-thru campers. The seasonal area of the campground was packed. For some reason this campground had a bumper crop of old, dilapidated trailers. There were only two nightly campers in the park while we were there. 

Halloween must be a big deal in this campground. A surprising number of sites were decorated with ghosts and goblins. 

Here are some specifics about this campground:

• Our site was a pull-thru 
• Our site was paved with dirt and we needed to use our leveling tools to correct a side-to-side lean
• Our site was lined by rows of mature trees on both sides, which required us to be very careful upon exiting
• Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service
• Our site had a water connection 
• Our site had a sewer connection 
• There was a dump station in the campground 
• The restroom and showers near our site were dated but clean 
• We were able to watch ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS using Rosie’s antenna. We also saw digital channels Bounce, Court, Grit, Ion and ME-TV
• AT&T placed two bars of 4G service for voice and data over our site 
• The campground did not provide WiFi service 

Photo op?

Suzy is in the slammer

The horse and wagon next to the lake

The wooden Indian