Campsite 84
Site 84 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, 1.9 mi unpaved, 20 min from HQ. The pitch sits 840 ft from the road.
- ModeledOut of earshot of the range, the interstate and the freight line.
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 Yonkers Bottom Road, which OpenStreetMap classes as a minor public road with an unpaved surface.
1.9 mi of unpaved driving stands between the last pavement and the site.
The steepest stretch of that final approach measures 10.4% on the elevation model, climbing 8 ft in total.
The pitch itself sits 0.2 mi from that road.
Measured
- Unpaved approach
- 1.9 mi
- Steepest grade
- 10.4%
- Total climb
- 8 ft
- Road to pitch
- 0.2 mi
Nearby sites
- Site 83 1.0 mi away
Upper slope, easy in, quiet.
- Site 82 1.2 mi away
Hillside, by a creek, rough in, quiet.
- Site 81 1.2 mi away
Hillside, by a creek, rough in, quiet.
- Site 80 1.3 mi away
Valley-floor, by a creek, 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.