Cape Ann Camp Site

Great place. Staff is very helpful and knowledgeable. Bring Quarters for showers. Clean facilities. 5 minutes for the beach.

We have stayed at this campground twice now and we will definitely be back. Other than the Patriarch of the family, the staff is very friendly and helpful. The campground is a bit rustic which is what we like about it, but at the same time, the facilities are fine, in fact they were installing new sinks in one of the bathrooms when we were there over the 4^th of July weekend. Some of the sites are a little close together but there are plenty of good sites with a bit more room. The owner that rides around in the golf cart and sits around the office is not good for their customer relations. He is unfriendly, rude and almost makes us not want to go back, but we decided to just put his rude unfriendly manner aside because his attitude is offset by the friendliness and helpfulness of the rest of the staff.

Great location and beautiful grounds. Felt like it once was a state park or retreat center. Sites for smaller rigs were a little uneven but felt very secluded. The restrooms could have used a bit of help and would have made it a 4 star review. Definitely not the place for a clean freak but if you are looking for beautiful grounds with a good proximity to lots of sights this is your place

What a great find love the site we have we’ll be back. Holiday weekend and didn’t have to pay a three day min. Beach down the road that you can ride your bike to.

We had a smallish classB, 21′ long. Almost all the sites are wooded, most sites pretty level and deep enough. Enough space for our 9×9′ tent beside the coach. Staff in the office are friendly and helpful.
Don’t forget your shower flip flops for the showers as floors are questionable. Showers have hot water, $.25 for 5 minutes, bring quarters.
Sites have tables, fire pits. Place was not full when we were there. Place was quiet in the evening and night.
Needs attention:
— trash only in central locations, should some barrels out by campsites, or bathrooms
— site signs not clear, how about painting the site number with arrow on the grey electrical boxes,
— the record keeping needs help, the office suggested sites, yet they were occupied,
— random checks re showers working– one wasn’t, and toilet paper supply, almost ran out, no second roll in the dispenser,
— power wash the picnic tables and stain at the start of the season would be good.
I enjoyed the rustic sites, just felt a little more maintenance was needed to improve the experience.

I have mixed feelings about this campsite. We’ve been to many over the years (2 adults, 2 children).
The camp has a lot going for it– topping the list is the friendly and helpful staff. Also high on the list is the family friendly style– you won’t find any partying college kids here. The store is well stocked and if you do need to leave camp for anything, stores are located nearby.
On the downside the sites are relatively small and packed tightly together in comparison to some others we’ve visited. Due to the nature of the topography of Gloucester level ground is hard to come by and larger tents can have difficulty finding a suitable spot.
We’ve had a great time here and can see ourselves coming again. It just doesn’t make the top of our list. Nor the bottom.
P. S. Be careful of poison ivy. It was abundant at our site and all adjoining sites.

We have been going to Cape Ann Camp Site for over 8 years. Yes, you do need to bring your own rake to clean the site and were okay with that. Our group has grown considerably in the last few years. The staff is very helpful.
They have made many improvements in the main bathrooms over the past year.
We did have an issue with other campers with several bright lights shinning in our site, which was rectified within minutes.
I would not consider going if you plan on partying etc. They enforce «quiet» time.
All in all I think it’s considered a family camp ground. You also get a discount at the local beaches which is helps; the beaches are expensive on the weekend!

My girlfriend and I had a great time camping out in a little tent at this campsite. The sites are a bit close together so that might be more of a problem when it’s busier, but we had no problems and found the place to be plenty clean. The people who run it were very helpful with figuring out what to do and where to go around the campsite.

Happy to find a weekday carcamping spot so close to home — convenient for our activities, like kayaking and exploring with the dog. Our campsite looked over the Jones River Salt Marsh and we put in right across the road, kayaking the day away along the beautiful Annisquam and Gloucester coastline. Yes, the campground is a bit dated, with rocky gravel roads. And the sites are a little close together. But the flush facilities are clean and lit, they sell firewood (don’t bring your own and risk disease to surrounding forests), and the people running the joint are friendly and helpful. Tent sites and zillions of RV spots, although how they maneuver around I can’t tell you.
I wish I could say we didn’t have to clean our site when we got there (really campers? only amateurs leave dirty diapers and litter!!!), and that there weren’t the requisite party boys that I had to scream at around 2am.

Perhaps we were lucky, but we got to pick a site overlooking a beautiful tidal marsh. I guess one man’s «swampy reservoir» is another man’s tidal marsh. Generally we prefer to camp in a more secluded spot, but the view we had from our trailer was well worth the lack of trees. Staff was very friendly and made some great recommendations for local food.

The location is kinda odd. It’s not exactly secluded, and there were a ton of RV’s compared to tenters. It’s across from a swampy reservoir, not a beach. The camp site itself is a decent size and had some conveniences. The shower facility was pretty nice as well. It’s a quarter for 5 minutes.
We had no issues in terms of reservations. I called ahead to confirm that our party might be arrive past the 8pm check-​in time, and the lady said that 9 pm was fine as long as we called while on the road to tell them where we were.

They forced you to make reservation for Sunday night if you try to camp during weekend. On their website says call in
3 days if you want cancel. Because of the rain, We called Wednesday, that’s 3 days from Saturday. The manager told us that if we want cancel reservation we need to call a week early. She also told us cancel fee is $ 26 but on their website it says $ 20. (see above photo, I am sure they will change their website after read this) After we point out the mistake, she get very annoyed because she was in front of 5 customers while on the phone and said she will still charge us the $ 26 and then ban/​hang up the phone on us at the middle of our conversation.