Wild Mare Horse Camp

We stayed at both Horsfall beach & Wild Mare. We spent weekend nights at Wild Mare to avoid the OHV noise at the beach. Nice camp in the trees, with corrals for those with horses. Not sure how horse trailers and campers with TVs fit in here though. The sites are large, parking pads, smallish. We have a 22 ft. Class B camper and it came close to filling site 5. Nice trail out to the ocean, right from camp, across the dunes. We also enjoyed hiking the BlueBill trail up the road, & hiking in the Sandtracks picnic area. BlueBill campground looked very nice, but it was closed when we were there.(For the season, or COVID? Not sure.)

This has been my favorite place for many years but unfortunately the number of people who have no other place to go have started to cruise thru looking and or checking to see if anyone is in camp has really increased...with no camp host things tend to disappear when everyone is out riding. I am now bringing non riders along just so I don't lose things out of my campsight. The ride is still fantastic and the trails are well maintained.

We had a great time! However, it was unusual to have neighbors as campers without horses and no one enforced that rule. Bathrooms almost ran out of toilet paper in the women’s restroom and it wasnt cleaned daily like a state park. Other than that we enjoyed our stay. The wooden pens could use an upgrade to panels though.

Wild Mare is a very peaceful part of the dunes. Due to its proximity to the lake the mosquitoes can be a nuisance, so bring bug spray.

Wild Mare is a great place to camp. Cell service is better in some direction than others. Unless it is raining or the wind is blowing expect mosquitoes.

Campground was well kept. I didn't realize we booked it on an "ATV takeover" weekend so lots of dune-buggy noise from the other campgrounds nearby but that didn't really bother us. We didn't have horses so I can't speak to that aspect but the bathrooms were clean/stocked, the camp hosts came around twice, and the sites are large enough and spread out that we weren't bothered by our neighbors. The beach is a short walk up the road or I believe accessible by a horse trail that we didn't attempt.

Only real complaint about this place is the mosquitos which were large, persistent, and plentiful. Definitely bring some heavy-duty bug spray and anticipate being swarmed. We stayed in late June. Patchy cell service; drinking water on site. Overall, good experience.

Our group really enjoyed this camp site! I've rated it at a 4 out of 5 because of its close proximity to the ohv sand dunes and the amount of noise that comes with being so close. There are also many positives about the campground. The sandy trails were so fun to explore. The vaulted toilets were well cared for, the campsite were clean and the hosts Brenda & Annie were so good about explaining the rules and checking up on the campground.

My grandchildren and I had a wonderful experience with plenty of quiet time. The park hosts were friendly and very helpful. I am thankful to have places such as this one to spend time with family outdoors.

Terrible staff and facilitys

The campground is nice. When you make your reservation online be very careful because it is confusing and you may not end up reserving as many nights as you believe you did, this happened to atleast 4 groups including myself and the park rangers don't care they will refer you to the reservation company that really doesn't care that their reservation system sucks. Also be prepared to camp with the homeless campers who are allowed to camp here even though they don't have horses, this campground is supposedly reserved for people with horses but again camp rangers will not enforce this I personally feel a group of horse people should go and camp in the normal campground with their horses to make a statement.