Campsite 49
Site 49 is one of the primitive, first-come campsites scattered through Green Ridge State Forest in western Maryland. The drive in is rated “Gravel road”.
- Booking
- None. Sites are first come, first served.
- 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.
Easy in, quiet.
- ModeledGravel road, 4.7 mi unpaved, 31 min from HQ. The pitch sits 449 ft from the road.
- ModeledOut of earshot of the range, the interstate and the freight line.
- CommunityRight by the road.
Official Maryland DNR Modeled from USGS elevation, OpenStreetMap roads and the sun Community reported by campers
Gravel road
Forest gravel. Fine in a car, taken slowly.
You arrive on Jacobs Road, which OpenStreetMap classes as a minor public road with an unpaved surface.
4.7 mi of unpaved driving stands between the last pavement and the site.
The steepest stretch of that final approach measures 9.4% on the elevation model, climbing 130 ft in total.
The pitch itself sits 450 ft from that road.
Measured
- Unpaved approach
- 4.7 mi
- Steepest grade
- 9.4%
- Total climb
- 130 ft
- Road to pitch
- 450 ft
How campers describe it
- Near road
Roadside site; chimney structure visible from camp.
Field note from campers who have stayed here — not an official description, and conditions change.
Nearby sites
- Site 48 0.8 mi away
Upper slope, rough in, quiet.
- Site 50 0.9 mi away
Hillside, easy in, quiet, secluded.
- Site 47 1.0 mi away
Upper slope, rough in, quiet.
- Site 46 1.4 mi away
Hillside, rough in, quiet.
Provenance
Everything on this page is derived from open data at build time. None of it is anyone's opinion, and none of it was measured on foot.
- 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 terrain-RGB tiles at zoom 14.
- Roads and watercourses come from OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed ODbL.
- Sun times are computed from the NOAA Solar Calculator equations against that measured skyline — when the sun clears the ridge, not when an almanac says it rises. Figures are for 2026; they shift by a minute or two from year to year.
- Campsite coordinates come from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources campsite GIS layer.
- Character tags and field notes come from campers, and are the only thing here that is a judgement rather than a measurement.
- Availability comes from nowhere, because there is no source for it. See above.
Greenridge is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources or any government agency, and the forest's own rules always win.