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Curlew Pond Campground — Myles Standish State Forest

5 Reviews

About

State Park

Myles Standish State Forest offers plenty of year-round activities for the entire family. If you’re looking for a place to camp, swim, or explore the outdoors, this southeastern park is for you.

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Location

Curlew Pond Campground — Myles Standish State Forest is located in Massachusetts

Directions

Located in southeastern Massachusetts. From the North: Take Rte. 3 south to exit 5, turn right onto Long Pond Rd. (west) and continue for about 3 miles to the park entrance on the right. From Rte. 495: Take Rte. 495 to exit 2 (South Carver) and the intersection with Rte. 58. Take Rte. 58 north on Cranberry Rd., follow signs. From Southeast: Rte.3 north to exit#3. Left off of ramp. Right onto Long Pond Rd, 2 miles forest entrance.

Coordinates

41.89334606 N
70.69493199 W

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Access

Drive-In
Park next to your site

Stay Connected

WiFi
Unknown
Verizon
Unknown
AT&T
Unknown
T-Mobile
Unknown

Site Types

Tent Sites
RV Sites

Features

For Campers

ADA Access
Trash
Picnic Table
Firewood Available
Phone Service
Reservable
Showers
Drinking Water
Toilets
Pets
Fires

For Vehicles

Sanitary Dump

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General Info

Reservations

(877) 422-6762

Roberto A.

Traveler

Reviewed Jul. 13, 2021

Family camping

Awesome location for family’s lots of space and things to do friendly service.

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Month of VisitAugust

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Emmanuel O.

Scout

Reviewed Jul. 6, 2021

Your neighbors dictate your experience here

The park employees are great and the pond itself is nice. The restrooms were decent, too. But if your neighbors are a pain they will be so close to you that they will ruin your trip. We had a beautiful spot but no chance to unwind. If day drinking to loud music surrounded by even louder foul-mouthed campers of all ages is your idea of a good time, this is your place.

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Month of VisitAugust

Timothey S.

Legend

Reviewed Jul. 31, 2020

Has good things ... has not so good things

We just completed our stay here at Curlew Pond. Long time listener first time camper here.

Pros:

1. All the sites are basically on the water. It's great. The Reserve America / DCR site map is wildly inaccurate (never experienced that before) and shows our site not at all near the water so it was a great surprise to be RIGHT on the water. I added a photo of an accurate map of the layout.

2. It was quiet, may be due to covid with less occupancy, but we were very pleased with how quiet it was … even with all the children enjoying themselves, it was very peaceful.

3. Bathrooms seem new and are clean and well maintained.

4. Showers also seem new and are private room showers.

5. Despite the upcoming cons, we had a nice time and would probably return.

Cons:

1. The showers are clean and private but, unless I am just inept, they seem to have one temp setting (push button operation) and that setting is scalding hot. Like for real, it steamed up the whole room almost instantly and it was too hot to actually use. I truly could not understand it. I left covered in steam and sweat - it was literally a steam room … in July. Not cute.

2. The sites are VERY close to each other with almost no privacy / trees to your left or right. Due to Covid, the sites on either side of us were empty but otherwise it would have been alarmingly close.

3. There seems to be only one water spigot for the whole camp site. You can get water from some the dish clean sinks though.

4. There was an ice cream truck that did rounds a few times a day. I'm not a monster who does not like ice cream but … the music took us our of the element a bit.

5. This is not exactly a con … more of an observation: They have a very rigid and not quick registration process. This may also be due to Covid but you might want to be prepared for that possibility.

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Heatherly S.

Scout

Reviewed Jul. 9, 2020

It depends on your neighbors

Curlew pond, K loop

This beautiful, shady state park has a variety of sites. Because the map is deceptive when it comes to the locations and spacing of sites, I definitely recommend driving around and looking at the different areas if you have the opportunity.

Several years we were able to have a site right near the beach at Curlew pond, and had wonderful experiences. Other times on the kayloop we felt like we were squished in like sardines.

your experience also depends on the people that are camping around you. We have had amazing, restful experiences with friendly neighbors, and times when we were surrounded by partiers.

because it is a very large state park campground, the DCR rangers do not come around as frequently and are not as strict as we've experienced them to be at other state campgrounds. This means that there was very little regulation of partying and noise.

No electric or water hookups at Curlew pond.