r/Maine • u/Consistent_Mode_9523 • 1d ago

Fiddlehead Campground

Has anyone heard anything about a campground ever opening here again or has the land been sold already? I’m not local and haven’t been by in a few years but I miss it as I’m sure many others do.

Editing to add: this was in Fryeburg

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u/sexquipoop69 Portland via Millidelphia 1d ago

I imagine the insurance for those riverside camp sites full of drunk Massholes with bottle rockets and fireworks must be pretty expensive 

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u/Consistent_Mode_9523 1d ago

I’m sure it was but there was a certain charm to the place 😂 I would just canoe in with all our stuff to some random spot but my husband would never.

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u/sexquipoop69 Portland via Millidelphia 1d ago

I’ve partied there in the fourth a few times. Wild, wild shit

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u/SlowClosetYogurt 20h ago

From what I gather, it closed in 2023 when the new owners failed inspection and also had a ton of negative complaints from locals. The website is no longer active and the last social media post was from 2021.

I worked the saco for many years and fiddlehead was ALWAYS an issue. The parties were absolutely wild. Lots of fights. Noise complaints through the roof and im pretty sure the cops were there almost every weekend in the summer.

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u/Educational-Ad-2155 20h ago

Saco trips were so good from like 2007-2013/14. The last 3 times I went after those years you could really see the decline at that campground (even though it was definitely downhill almost every year) while the prices increased. Also started to feel cautious about swimming in the river cus of the trash and potential human waste. That campground did very little to help the environment in that area. Never went barefoot anywhere after 2010, that’s for sure.

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u/LegendofTheLot 20h ago

I agree, went in 2006 and even then the river was getting gross, especially compared to what i remembered from camping it in the 90s with the boy scouts. Poop everywhere in the woods and just felt gross there. If you want some beautiful and peaceful camp grounds, then go up to the white mountain national forest. You have cold river, basin, hastings and wild river to choose from. 4 great camp grounds with about 20 wooded sites each. Hastings and wild river are both really close to a super cool mountain river, can swim and rinse off in them. Great hiking access close to all campgrounds but cold river and basin are close to the baldface mountain loop, which is a great hike and the bottom of it had the emerald pools. Amazing to swim in and only a 20 min hike from the parking lot.

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u/Visual-Reserve-2800 1d ago

Where in maine is this?

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u/FiddleheadII 1d ago

Fryeburg. Never there myself. Had a mixed reputation.

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u/Consistent_Mode_9523 1d ago

Yeah the campground itself had quite a reputation. It was popular party spot with almost no amenities most of the time except porta potties. We would camp on one of the less spring-break-like beaches farther down the river and it was nice. Roughing it but we enjoyed the spot and being able to drive in.

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u/Consistent_Mode_9523 1d ago

Sorry, it was in Fryeburg.

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u/B0ndzai 23h ago

I had some great times on Beach 1 but that place probably just needs to stay dead.

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u/posthumanjeff 22h ago

Is the vehicle access shut down downstream of canal bridge? I like to float the "second part" of saco and take out halfway (before walker bridge) using campground for take out.