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Campsite 30
975 ft southwest-facing ridge crest
Site 30 is one of the primitive, first-come campsites scattered through Green Ridge State Forest in western Maryland. It sits at 975 ft on a southwest-facing ridge crest, with White Sulphur Pond 0.7 mi southeast. The drive in is rated “Rough road”.
- Booking
- None. Sites are first come, first served.
- Fee
- $10 a night for a standard site, $20 for a group site, paid at headquarters. Maryland DNR.
- Check in
- Sign the sheet at headquarters when you arrive, then go to the site.
- Is it free tonight?
- This page cannot know. The app shows what the sign-up sheet last showed, with the photo's age.
Ridge-top, rough in, quiet.
- Modeled975 ft, southwest-facing ridge crest.
- ModeledRough road, 7.8 mi and 19 min from HQ, 1.6 mi of it unpaved, 16% grade on the way.
- ModeledWhite Sulphur Pond 0.7 mi southeast.
- ModeledOut of earshot of the range, the interstate and the freight line.
- CommunityRoom for a pop-up.
- CommunityChecked on the ground: photographed at the pitch (the date was not recorded).
Modeled from USGS elevation, OpenStreetMap roads and the sun Community reported by campers
A photograph of this site
Hours of direct sun
The tallest ground on this site's horizon stands 3.2° above level, to the southeast.
On the March equinox direct sun reaches the pitch at 7:20 am and leaves it at 7:12 pm: 11 h 54 m of it, against 12 h 12 m of daylight on an open horizon.
| Date | First light | Last light | Direct sun | Open horizon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March | 7:20 am | 7:12 pm | 11 h 54 m | 12 h 12 m |
| 21 June | 5:58 am | 8:24 pm | 14 h 28 m | 15 h 2 m |
| 21 December | 7:54 am | 4:46 pm | 8 h 54 m | 9 h 26 m |
The ground
The elevation model puts the pitch at 975 ft, on a ridge crest tilted about 3.4° to the southwest.
Within the 1.2 km square sampled around it, the site stands 197 ft above the lowest ground in that square, which lies 0.4 mi southeast.
The nearest mapped water is White Sulphur Pond, 0.7 mi southeast.
Nearby sites
- Site 29 407 ft away
Ridge-top, rough in, quiet, secluded.
- Site 31 1983 ft away
Upper slope, easy in, quiet.
- Site 28 2069 ft away
Ridge-top, rough in, quiet.
- Site 32 0.8 mi away
Valley-floor, by a creek, easy in, quiet.
How to choose between them · All 100 sites
On these shortlists: Quiet · Open sky · Sunny · All shortlists
How campers describe it
- Pop-up camper OK
When the ridge takes the sun
- 20 MarchSun off the pitch at 7:12 pm, 16 minutes before sunset
- 21 JuneSun off the pitch at 8:24 pm, 24 minutes before sunset
- 22 OctoberSun off the pitch at 6:12 pm, 16 minutes before sunset
- 21 DecemberSun off the pitch at 4:46 pm, 10 minutes before sunset
For tonight, with the moon, darkness and the overnight low, open Site 30 in the app.
East of Cumberland the National Pike was a chain of turnpikes paid for largely by Baltimore banks, with milestones counting the miles to the Baltimore courthouse.
The National Pike through Flintstone and over Town Hill · 1806–1950s · about 1.5 mi from this site, at Hobart Walinger House
US 40 Scenic and MD 144 follow the old National Pike. East of Cumberland it was not the federal National Road, which began at Cumberland and opened in 1818, but a chain of state-chartered turnpikes paid for largely by Baltimore banks, with milestones counting the miles to the Baltimore courthouse. Together they made one road from Baltimore to the Ohio. Through the Cumberland Narrows, the milestone nomination says, passed 'over half of the emigrants and freight' of the early westward migration. Flintstone grew along it. The Flintstone Hotel is said to have been built about 1807 for John Davis, a large landowner, and was an inn by 1850 for road travellers and visitors to the mineral springs; tradition names Lafayette (1824), Henry Clay and Theodore Roosevelt as guests. A writer in 1882 recalled 'such endless cavalcades of coaches and wagons' and droves of sheep and cattle that 'blocked the way for miles'. Railroads later took much of that traffic. When cars came, the State Roads Commission rebuilt the pike in Allegany County between 1911 and 1915, set a concrete water trough marked 'S.R.C. 1915' by a spring below Town Hill, and replaced wooden bridges with concrete ones, among them a slab bridge over Snib Run (1916) and an open-spandrel arch over Fifteen Mile Creek (1917). Garages, gas pumps, Shipway's Restaurant and the Town Hill Hotel served drivers until later realignments and the National Freeway took the through traffic away.
What is left to see: Drive US 40 Scenic and MD 144 through Flintstone. The Flintstone Hotel and the houses of the Flintstone Historic District are private; see them from the road. The 1915 trough is on the north edge of US 40 Scenic west of Orleans Road; the 1917 open-spandrel arch carries US 40 Scenic over Fifteen Mile Creek at mile 40.8 of the DNR driving tour.
“Those who have participated in the traffic over that renowned thoroughfare are loth to admit that there were ever before such landlords, such taverns, such dinners, such whisky, such bustle, or such endless cavalcades of coaches and wagons as could be seen between Wheeling and Frederick in the palmy days of the old National "pike".”
J. Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland (1882), p. 1329, as quoted in the NR nomination Inns on the National Road
Sources (7)
- National Register nomination, Old National Pike Milestones (1975), in MHT file AL-I-B-077
- National Register nomination, Inns on the National Road, Allegany and Garrett Counties (1976), in MHT file AL-II-A-001 (Flintstone Hotel)
- MHT survey AL-I-A-090, State Roads Commission Water Trough
- MHT survey AL-I-A-083, Bridge 1036 (US 40 over Fifteen Mile Creek, 1917)
- MHT survey AL-I-A-050, Shipway's Restaurant and Garage
- MHT survey AL-I-A-002, Town Hill Hotel
- MHT survey AL-II-A-109, Flintstone Historic District
Provenance
Most of this page is computed from public data; the lines marked Community come from campers. The computed data was last rebuilt from its sources on 28 September 2026.
- Elevation, landform, slope, aspect, contours, the horizon profile and the steepest grade on the approach come from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), read from its elevation tiles.
- Roads and watercourses come from OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed ODbL, as mapped at that rebuild. A road can wash out or close after it.
- Sun times are when the sun clears that measured skyline, computed with the NOAA Solar Calculator equations. They are for 2026 and shift by a minute or two from year to year.
- The pin comes from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources campsite GIS layer.
- Evenings here are the same sun times, on four dates of the year: when the sun drops behind this pitch's measured skyline, against the open-horizon sunset.
- What happened near here comes from published history: Maryland Historical Trust survey forms, Maryland DNR, the National Park Service and the C&O Canal's historians, and the records themselves. Each story lists its own sources; a story appears only when one of its catalogued places is within about two miles, and the distance is measured, not estimated. All the history sources.
- The modeled view and the 360 are rendered from a 3D model of the forest, from the pitch, through a whole day in each of five seasons. The ground is the same elevation data plus lidar. Tree heights come from lidar; the species mix and tree form come from US Forest Service inventory plots in Allegany County, so no tree here was surveyed individually. The tent, table and fire ring are the same stand-ins at every site. When a photograph from the site, ours or one a camper sends, shows the model is wrong about where the pitch is or what the ground is like, the model is corrected and the 360 is rendered again. How the 360 is made.
- Character tags and field notes come from campers. They are judgements rather than measurements.
- Availability is not on this page because nothing publishes it. The app shows what the last photograph of the sign-up sheet said, and how old that photograph is.
Greenridge is independent and is not affiliated with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources or any government agency. The forest's own rules apply.