Wild Mare Horse Camp

There aren't many spaces there and two of them were blocked off, I don't know why. Also there were two other spaces occupied with people that had no horses. A number of the stalls were in terrible condition, they were worn down deeply and had it rained there would have been a terrible mess. The parking was unkept and dirty, there was garbage all around the outskirts of the space we had, this attracted racoons which upset our horses and one of them suffered a laceration as a result of one racoon. The days we were there we only saw the camp host once, then just to put paper in the latrine, he and she never bothered to speak to us. I have spent many hours maintaining trails and horse camps so I resent those that use the horse facilities when they have no right to. Wild Mare is mismanaged about as poorly as possible. Go somewhere else.

LOVE camping here, however, I do not recommend if you have long-haired dog. Tons of burrs in my Cocker Spaniels coat....he's going to be shaved on 8/30! But love the campsite and nice to be able to take the horses.

The camp is easy to get to and located in a quiet area of the recreation are. Only wish was a trail map. We were told that you can ride all over, but you will have to figure out where you are going and how to get back(GPS?). We took the 3/4-1 mi well marked trail to the beach.

Always a pleasure to visit, ride, and camp at WIld Mare :)

The camp itself was nice. Though there was not a wheelbarrow available for manure. Definitely bring your own. The noise from the OHVs can be heard constantly all day and late into the night. There were a couple homeless taking up a few spaces (unauthorized and unpaid) as well as a few creepers emerging from the woods into one of our campsites. This is not a camp our group will return to.

The first night i stayed in space 7. the next place space 8 had a large loud group of homeless camp set up barking pit bull dogs, yelling profanity. up all hours until 2:30am. lots of vehicle traffic. very disturbing. The second night i moved to space 5, but the homeless camp moved to space 7, next to me again. so we left earlier than planned and would have liked to have stayed our entire time. The Federal parks dept. crew where top notch. very kind and as helpful as they could be, their hands unfortunately were somewhat tied. The homeless is a Statewide issue so I don't know why I thought I could have escaped it during a family outing. I would Love to help out, in anyway and work for the Parks department if ever you are hiring?

It was a great place the only thing I had a complaint about is the camper before me just put their waste on that outside of the stall and didn’t take it to the waste area

I knew I needed to plan on coping with mosquitoes. I brought bug spray, fly sheet, fly mask, and a camping vehicle with screens on the windows. This camp is near wetlands with mosquitoes. Is there a way to inform potential campers to be prepared for coping with mosquitoes?

I'm looking forward to new metal corrals planned for installation over the winter.

I observed several camp sites in this horse camp occupied by people without horses or any stock. It seems a better screening process needs to be implemented to make sure those reserving a site for horse camping has horses (or other equines). Possibly requiring a check box for size of the camper's horse trailer? And, or number of stock? Or, both?

Lovely location & campground however occupants in 2 sites next to me had +/- 8 constantly barking dogs until owners went in late evenings. Are there no limits to # of dogs at sites? Owners were just as bad as dogs since they would yell at them everytime they barked. Ridiculous. I nicely asked them to control dogs right next to me in outside kennel but they did not seem it was a problem. The mosquitos were too much for the horse they attacked him thru insect repellent. Only a blanket protected him. Never had fellow equestrian campers so blalantly distrupt entire campground experience.

Not a good horse camp. Majority of the sites are filled up with campers with no horses. Sites 3, 7 & 8 have large sharp rocks in the pens. Occasionally a park person stops by just long enough to throw some TP into the restrooms. There is a constant roar of ATV's that you hear all the time from the campground. The mosquitos are very numerous, only using OFF on my mule kept the mosquitos away. I liked the riding but I won't be going back.