Mashamoquet Brook State Park Tent Campground

Spent two nights here amidst some very nice weather and really liked it. There are two parts of Mashamoquet, and we stayed at the Wolf Den Campground. No power and no water, but the sites are spacious and very well-​kept. The bathroom was cleaner than most family campgrounds, with a free shower that actually had hot water! A truck drives around at night selling hearty firewood bundles for $ 5, and this is a great place for families where the kids can run through the grass, playing ball and doing general kid things. Should’ve brought the volleyball net!
We stayed in site 1, which was huge, and there are about 4 – 5 miles of hiking trails all accessible from the park, which was pretty cool. We did a 3 mile hike to the other side of the park, seeing some beautiful woods, climbing rocks, and then jumping into the very nice lake. I’d happily go back.

Mashamoquet Brook State Park has several services tied together, an RV campground, a park (w/​a picnic tables and a lake/​swimming area), and a tent campground. We recently stayed at the tent campground and I have to say I was pretty disappointed. Originally we booked site 55 which on the campground map at
looked a bit more isolated from the adjacent sites. When we arrived, we discovered that site 55 (as well as all the sites on the top section of the loop) butted up against a major road (route 44)– to the extent that you can watch the cars speed by at 60 mph. Back to nature, right? Considering that the state park area is a couple square miles, you’d think they could’ve pushed the tent campground away from the main road a bit more (though perhaps route 44 didn’t always have significant traffic). At any rate, this is the most unappealing aspect of this campground.
We were able to move to a more secluded site (if you need to stay at this place, I don’t think you can do much better than site 42 — it’s the most isolated from adjacent sites, set back enough from route 44 that only the sounds of the passing cars reach you), but overall I wasn’t thrilled with this campground. On the reserveamerica site, they advertise showers and other facilities, however we discovered that the showers were only located in the separate RV campground and we were told they discourage campers from the tent campground to use them, esp. during the weekends. [Not that I personally mind roughing it when camping, but other including families with small children may find the misleading facilities list to be a real problem].
Other than that, the outhouses were clean and well maintained, and the water pump was conveniently located and functional. They didn’t seem to be as rule-​oriented as some other state parks (For example, many state parks prohibit tying things to trees such as hammocks [yarg! why??] or prohibit consumption of alcohol– Neither seemed to be the case at this place)