Great campground to stay at in Acadia National Park. No hookups at the campsites, but water is available at a few faucets located throughout the campground. With an RV you will have to drive to a faucet in the campground to fill your freshwater tank, few if any campsites are within reach of a faucet. Entrance is large and well laid out, but the campsites themselves are tight and can be difficult to get into. Low branches, trees at the corners of campsites, narrow roads. I consider it not big rig accessible, but a couple surprisingly large rigs were here: getting scratched up going through the campground. Dump station is well laid out. When you enter Acadia, make sure you stop at the Acadia National Park Visitor's Center. From there, take the Park Loop Road to Blackwoods, this allows you to avoid driving through Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor is a small and very tight tourist town that is not easy to navigate with a camper. There is at least one gas station in Bar Harbor, but it can be tricky to get into with a truck. Try to remember to fill up before entering the Acadia area. Once we got into our site, it was actually very roomy. Quiet campground at night, but some camper generators running during the day. (Please don't run your generator unless you really need to). Bathrooms were very clean, and had running water. Don't know why they don't have showers, but the private pay showers at the entrance to the campground were very nice. They are not realistically within walking distance, you will probably want to drive to them. Some firewood is available for free in the campground, but it was wet when we were here and the Rangers asked that campers don't take too much. We bought a couple dry bundles outside the campground to help our fire. Be sure to remember that you can explore most of Acadia at night. It is really neat to star gaze and hike at night! Blackwoods is within Acadia, but at one end. You can hike into the main part of the park, but the distances can be misleading, don't underestimate Acadia! It is big, and you may want to drive to various points to explore from. We will be returning here! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

We liked the pull through site as we didn't need to unhook. The restrooms were clean and well maintained. The sites are closer together than most western national parks, but everyone was friendly. We enjoyed the free firewood and liked walking down to the loop road, to watch the ocean. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

This is the park for access by walking. One can walk to the mountains or the sea. The trails are good to moderate climbs. The ocean at this end of the park is as Maine as one can imagine. Quiet, almost lonely, with rocky beaches emptied of crowds. If you enjoy walking this is the place to camp. Others have made clear the facilities. They are all good and the reservation service makes a planned vacation possible. There are no showers. We camped here in a Motorhome.

If you don’t have reservations for Blackwoods it is hard to get in with an RV. They only have about 40 RV sites but plenty of tent sites. Actually an RV 25feet and under could fit into many of the tent sites but in the last ten years they are not doing that. Blackwoods is near the parkway and Bar Harbor. There are hikes, walks, ranger talks out of the campground. The bathrooms and many of the sites have been updated in the last five years but still no showers but showers can be found outside the park entrance for a fee, open 24 hours. This campground is still one of our favorites. The trees and the sound of the waves on the rocks at night lull you to sleep. There is a short walk down to the cliffs and park road which is beautiful. One can ride bikes through the campground and take them on the carriage roads. LLBean provides free shuttles from the campground to the parkway, Jordan’s Pond, Bar Harbor and will drop you off even with your bikes to hikes and walks around the National Park if the bus is going that way. Rangers are nice but don’t take the time with you as the Seawall Rangers do because they are so busy. Blackwoods is open all year with limited services. Bar Harbor is expanding with more restaurants especially since now all these cruise ships are in the harbor. One day there were three ships in and one of them was the maiden voyage of the new Queen Victoria from England. Interesting people from the ships and so many campers traveling from all over the country staying in the campground. We camped here in a Motorhome.

I stayed at Site A53. You get assigned your spot when you arrive: so make sure you error on the side of a longer spot when you make the reservation. All spots were very close to one another. You are basically sharing the picnic, fire pit with the person next to you. Generators are allowed, but discouraged (it says to use them "sparingly" during the day). If you have a large RV or trailer you will find that the spots are rather tight to pull into. You can do it, but it isn't the easiest even though they are pull-through sites. The main goal in the campground was to fit as many RV sites on the area as possible. All in all, this was a good campground serving as a base location for going out and doing stuff (the whole point in a national park anyway). Everything was very clean and well maintained. My only complaint was the smoke from the fires. Because of the evergreen trees and people burning wood that wasn't 100% dry: there was a lot of smoke. So much so that you didn't want to open your windows. Although I didn't have time, you should definitely check out the other campground area: Sea Wall. I would think it is a little nicer being that it is a first come, first serve (no reservations). We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Stayed in Loop B site 37. This loop feel a lot different from Loop A, maybe it's the distance between sites, or tree cover, but once we were setup, we were comfortable. This is defenitely not a place for groups to enjoy a weekend since quiet hours are STRICTLY enforced. couples & small families however would enjoy this campground. Facilities were great. Showers are just outside the park on route 3, which was 1.50$ for 4 minutes. We camped here in a Tent.

Nice campground. No hookups. Quiet. Small rest rooms. No showers. We camped here in a Motorhome.

We were really disappointed with our campsite, A55. We have a 35 foot motorhome with two slides, the maximum length allowable in the park. Although the site was a pull-through it was incredibly difficult to negotiate, evidenced by two prior occupants who damaged the surrounding trees. We ended up camped with trees within six inches of either side of us. I believe that the NP should not advertise these sites as 35 foot. The length is there but not the width. Roads inside the park were paved but narrow with many low overhanging branches. This is a great park for a unit less than 30 feet, or for tent camping. Rate reflects senior Golden Age discount. The park has evening programs and a Sunday morning church service in a nice amphitheater. The Island Explorer buses run frequently into Bar Harbor and around the area, 15 minutes into town, 45 minutes back because of the loop roads. Using a commercial campground in Bar Harbor is actually more practical as the buses run through those campgrounds too. We camped here in a Motorhome.

We arrived late on Saturday so assumed we got offered what was left. However, was very satisfied with the site. Facilities were excellent. Pay showers are located off-site at campground entrance along route 3. 1.25$ for 4min, 2.50$ for 8min. Space between sites was good and check in was fast and painless. Don't think there are any bad sites here. Will stay here again. We camped here in a Tent.

No showers - pay showers at the entrance to the campground along the highway. Non-level sites. No water views. They asked for "sparing" use of generators which our next door neighbor did not comply with. This campground may be better suited to tent campers although there were a few motorhomes there. Dense shade. We camped here in a Motorhome.

Very nice no hook-up campground in Acadia National Park. We had site A56, a pull-thru, at the end of one row in the loop so we did not have a neighbor on one side which was perfectly sized for our 30 ft class A and toad. The sites are not overly large and not completely level (minor slope) but clean with lots of trees. The bathrooms near us were brand new and still smelled like freshly cut wood. The dump station was easy to access and had potable water for filling your water tank. Most of the sites in this campground are designed for tent campers but there were two rows of pull-thrus for RV's up to 35 ft. We were there over Memorial Day weekend and felt very lucky that the dreaded black flies we'd heard so much about were really not much of a problem and with the exception of Bar Harbor the area was not too crowded. Nice campground, great park. We camped here in a Motorhome.

This is 1 of 2 campgrounds in Acadia National Park. Blackwoods is located off the loop road near Bar Harbor and it is required to have reservations now from May 1 to mid Sept. You can take the chance and pull up and be placed on a wait list but you might have to move everyday. You have a better chance of getting in-in the Spring and Fall unless you make a reservation. There are no showers in the campground but some very close by. This is a great campground. We have camped here maybe 15 times in the last twenty-five years, usually for 5 or more days and sometimes for two weeks at a time. Now they have the Island Shuttle Bus which comes to the campground, which is free (thanks to LL Bean) to take you to different sections of the park and to Bar Harbor, Northwest Harbor and Southwest Harbor. Southwest Harbor is where the other campground Seawall is. Very pretty and first come first serve (only open May to early September). There is so much to do in Acadia: dirt bike trails on the carriage roads, hiking, ranger talks and hikes, beaches, tours out to some of the islands and a visit to Bar Harbor with its great shops and nice walk along the seashore. There are ranger talks at night with slideshows at the campground. To drive the loop you need to buy a pass for your car for $20 which is good for seven days. Lots to see and do and it is beautiful. Lots of wildlife. Visit the Acadia National Park site for more information. The campground is huge with two loops. The second loop where many of the RV's are: the sites are close but many are pull throughs. RV's can be placed in any loop though. Some of the upper loops have huge sites. You need to check your site out because one time we could not get into our site because it was too small and the road was muddy but that was only once in fifteen times. We love this campground even though it does not have showers. There are pay showers right outside the campground gate. There are hiking trails right from the campground. One of them goes down to a rocky cliff way above the ocean where you can sit and read and enjoy the day. (Be careful with small children though because at the rocky edge you can slip.) We have hiked this trail when our children were 2 and when they were 20: you just need to be careful. The last time we camped at Blackwoods we did encounter a problem with RV's running their generators for a long period of time in the morning, during the afternoon and at night. It was so bad that when one camper finally turned theirs off after 2 hours everyone around them cheered, clapped and hooted. This has never happened before when we camped here but I don't believe they have generator hours like some other National Park campgrounds do, also it was in October and not in the summer when it is warmer. Trips to Northwest Harbor are fun because you can go down to the boats coming in and purchase clams and lobsters right off the boat. A ride over to the Schoodic Peninsula on the mainland is a good days trip. It is part of Acadia National Park and the views are outstanding. Blackwoods campground had different rates depending on the season. The basic season runs from May 1 to October 31, then the bathrooms are shut down, but it is open year round. Check this out because this year they closed October 31, 2005 until May 2006 to make repairs in the campground. It is a great place and the kids will love all the activities. Ours loved the drive up the mountain at night to view the stars and the flashlight walks through some of the trails. There is a paper of the weekly walks, talks, activities, etc., at the visitor center which you can pick up. There is a pond for swimming and a few beaches around the island. I do not know anyone that has not fallen in love with Acadia National Park. It is a wonderful place to camp and visit. We camped here in a Motorhome.

A great National Park, could use some branch trimming for higher rigs, we are 12'6" high. I have found that they do not mind if you help out by trimming a little, I always carry a set of heavy duty branch loppers. Close to ocean but just in a great area. Staff are friendly and helpful but like most national and state parks are under funded and under staffed. I would stay here again, very quiet at night and has a cutoff for generators at 7:00 PM. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

Cost was $10 with golden age. We have never before stayed at this campground in Acadia National Park in Southwest Harbor. This campground is a first come first serve campground and closes September 30. It is in the peaceful area of Acadia National Park and the reason we had never stayed there before is that there is always a waiting line to get in but since we had reservations for Blackwoods the next day we thought we would take a chance that it would not be crowded in September five nights before it closed. We loved the campground. There are about 31 RV sites in loop C which was built just for RV’s. New bathrooms but no showers but they can be found outside the park for a fee. It is a walk away or quick bike ride away from the seawall in a beautiful area. Many of the campers there could not get into Blackwoods campground so came here and decided they would stay because they loved it. Hiking, biking, kayaking and a quick ride to Echo Lake where there is swimming. To get over to the parkway road and Bar Harbor it is about 30 minutes away. The night we were there they were giving away free fire wood because it was the end of the season. Nice campground with Ranger talks and walks and some of the friendliest rangers who will give you complete information about the park, free shuttles, hikes etc. This campground is not as busy in the fall as Blackwoods so the rangers have more time for you! Some campers stopped at the local grocery store in Southwest Harbor where they will steam lobsters for you on the go – our camping neighbors had lobster every night! We camped here in a Motorhome.

We camped at both Seawall and Blackwoods. Seawall doesn't take reservations but we drove in on a Thursday morning and had our choice of spots. The bathrooms here are bigger and more modern than at Blackwoods. The free shuttle takes time but enables you to travel anywhere on the island. The ranger program in the outdoor amphitheater was very good. It was a very quiet stay. We camped here in a Motorhome.

Great wooded sites. No showers located in the park, but there is a great store located down the road that offers showers, camping supplies and a seafood market. Note that electricity is not available and vehicles using generators are restricted to a seperate area of the park. We had a very enjoyable 2 night stay here, and met an interesting couple traveling from England. We camped here in a camper.