Lums Pond State Park Campground Delaware
Lums Pond State Park Overview
Lums Pond State Park is a large, wooded state park in Bear, Delaware, centered around Lums Pond, the state’s largest freshwater pond.
Lums Pond State Park Campground offers 63 campsites each with full hookups, a paved parking spur, table, fire ring and grill. There are also 10 tent-only sites, 2 yurts and 4 horse campsites.
The seasonal campground is generally open early March to late November. Amenities include potable (drinking) water, flush toilets, laundry facilities, hot-water showers, trash collection (dumpsters) and an RV dump station. Cell service is poor in the area. The park also has a camp store, playground, picnic/day use areas, but ramp, fishing piers and a visitor center.
Lums Pond State Park – Area Recreation & Activities
The park is a particularly good destination for campers and outdoor enthusiasts who want a variety of activities in one location. Lums Pond provides opportunities for fishing, kayaking, canoeing and other non-motorized boating, while approximately 17 miles of trails wind through hardwood forests, wetlands and around the pond. The park also has picnic areas, sports facilities, playgrounds, an off-leash dog park, disc golf and a nature center with live-animal exhibits.
One of the park’s signature attractions is the Go Ape Treetop Adventure Course, where visitors navigate elevated obstacles, swings and zip lines through the forest, including sections that cross over the water.
There is no swimming allowed in the pond, but watercraft rentals are available.
You may also be interested in Elk Neck State Park.
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Amenities
- BBQ Grills
- Boat Launch/Ramp
- Boat Ramp
- Boat Rental
- Camp Store
- Campsite Tables
- Cell Service Poor
- Concession Stand
- Concessionaire
- Drinking Water
- Dumpsters
- Equestrian Facilities
- Equestrian trail
- Fire Pit
- Fire Rings
- Firewood Available
- Gift Shop
- Grills
- Group Pavilion
- Hiking & Biking Trails
- Laundry
- Nature Store
- Pets OK
- Picnic Tables
- Playground
- Restrooms (Flush Toilets)
- RV Dump Station
- Showers
- Sports Fields
- Trash Collection
- Visitor Center
- Watercraft Rentals
Activities
- Biking
- Bird Watching
- Boating
- Boating (non motorized)
- Canoeing
- Disc Golf
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic Sites
- Horseback riding
- Mountain Biking
- Nature Programs
- Nature Trails
- Photography
- Picnicking
- Stargazing
- Volleyball
- Wildlife Viewing
Bear, Delaware 19720
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Campsite Types
- ADA
- Camper Van
- Equestrian
- Full Hookup
- RV
- Tent
- Trailer
- Yurt
# of Campsites:
68
# of RV Hookup Campsites:
6
Campsite Vehicle Size:
35ft. to 50ft.
Season:
March 1 – November 30
Elevation:
75
Dump Station:
In Campground
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Worst camping experience I’ve ever had. We had 9 people, all family who hadn’t seen each other in a long time, getting together to start our own cousins family camping tradition. The camp sites are barely in the woods, some are just a plain field. The sites were pretty big but for some reason they only allow 2 tents per site. Obviously they’re just trying to squeeze groups like ours for more money. There is no privacy, and the atmosphere is not conducive to the wilderness or to family fun. Planes and helicopters constantly fly over, making lots of unnatural noise, and the park rangers patrol the place like a prison. They drive big SUVS around the camp sites every 10-15 minutes after it gets dark, shining their bright headlights into the campsites. It is a complete atmosphere killer. Apparently quiet time is 10:00 pm, and at literally 10:02 we had the park ranger harassing us because we were conversating and having a good time. He snuck over to our site unannounced and just whips out his mag lite and starts shining it on us and harassing us and started accusing us of drinking and searched our coolers. We are all in our 20s and 30s, and we were being treated like teenagers. He was condescending and arrogant, an extremely unhappy person in general. He threatened to kick us out of the camping grounds, despite having already paid ahead for 3 nights. I’ve never seen anything so absurd on a camp grounds and I’ve been camping my entire life. All he had to do was say, “please keep the noise down”, but he turned it into an entire fiasco over nothing. I will never return to this “camping grounds” and I don’t recommend it to anyone that enjoys fun or camping.