We were surprised when we arrived at Meaher State Park. Three years ago, we noticed the gate was too close to the road. That meant your trailer was still on the road while opening the park's gate.
This time the gate was moved farther inside the park. The result was that even "big rigs" could safely enter.
That wasn't the only thing that was different this time. The number of campsites appeared to have doubled since we were there last time.
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| Rosie among friends at Meaher State Park |
The new camping loop looked like a parking lot. Any trees in that area were cut down to make the campsites. On the positive side, the paved sites in the new section were generously wide. Also, the bathhouse in the new area was very nice.
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| New section of the campground |
One of the disadvantages of the new section was road noise. Perhaps the noise will be less when the trees grow back. The park has plans to plant 150 trees in that area.
Meaher's is a relatively small state park and does not appear to be a destination type park unless your goal is to spend the day fishing. We noticed there were a handful of people constantly fishing from the pier or boardwalk areas.
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| Fishing pier at sunset |
The primary reason we wanted to camp in Meaher State Park was to watch our grandson play baseball on his “kid-pitch travel ball" team. Needless to say, we were very proud watching him bat, pitch and pick-off a base runner on second base trying to steal third.
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| Our grandson about to hit a double |
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| Our daily visitor on the boardwalk trail |
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| Look carefully and see the horned owl in this tree |
We saw several alligators in the water while on our walks. They ranged in size from three feet to probably eight feet or larger.
We saw several rabbits while on our walks. They seemed to be used to people because they did not run away as we continued our walks and came very close to them.
We were surprised to see a horned owl in a tree. Of course, we saw the normal birds found along the water.
We may have set a record for the number of Airstream trailers in the park during our visit. We saw seven Airstreams including an Atlas and two Interstates.
Here are some specifics about this campground:
- There were multiple loops in the campground
- Our site was a back in
- Our site had some shade
- Most sites had some space on both sides
- Our site was paved with asphalt and we needed to use leveling tools to correct a side-to-side lean in Rosie
- Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service
- Our site had a water connection
- Our site had a sewer connection
- The trash dumpster was in the middle of the campground. It was easy to walk there with your trash
- There was a bathhouse in the campground
- The park provided WiFi service
- AT&T provided 3 bars of 5G voice and data service over our campsite
- We were able to watch ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS using Rosie’s TV antenna. Digital channels seen were Antenna-TV, Comet, Charge!, ION, Grit, ME-TV, Rewind, Roar and Story
- There were restaurants and shopping nearby
- This was a pet friendly park
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| Rosie at Meaher State Park |
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| Selfie with our son and his family |
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| Rosie at sunset |
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| Eating out at a Cajun restaurant |
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| Sign at the start of the fishing pier. |
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