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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We camped at Assateague pre-baby, but beware the flies and the potential for wind whipping sand around. We camped in the National Park, in the tent-only (no vehicles) section. One very important tip we were grateful to have read ahead of time: regular tent stakes are ineffective in dry sand. Longer ones help, but even better was anchoring the tent to grocery bags filled with sand that we buried and then tied the tent to (basically one bag in place of each stake). Make sure your rain fly is secure or you'll get a nice sand shower if there's any wind overnight.
I would bring some kind of shade structure that has netting all around it to keep the bugs at bay. I am told the bay side has more mosquitoes and the ocean side has more flies. We were ocean side.
Oh, and they are not kidding about the ponies being total hooligans. We had all our food secured in a tightly-closed cooler and they still knocked it around at night to see if it might tumble open.
The tent-only section of the National Park camping area had extremely limited bathroom facilities (unlit porta potty, cold shower, tap of potable cold water). If I were going with young kids, I'd probably go to the state park camping area that has nice bathhouses - I think the vehicle section of the NP may have also had bathhouses, but I forget. (Or perhaps things have changed since 2008.)

I'm totally not selling Assateague camping, am I? We did have fun![/quote

Ha! Not the OP but this sounds like a nightmare![/quote]

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