Assateague Island Visitor Center — Attraction in Berlin

One of the most educational and visual visitor centers I ever visited. The center has bathrooms, museum, theater,and a gift shop. The exhibits & their information are fascinating. Assateague Island is famous for its wildlife preserve, beautiful seashore, nature, and wild horses. We collected a lot of information about where to go and what to see on the island. Children can embark on a scavenger hunt on the island and receive a wood badge after completion. A movie named Misty was filmed there and on my to see movie list. We spent two days exploring the island and the hiking trails. Tourist season is in mid April till the end of September and can be busy. If you prefer less crowds, off season is better yet some of the places around the island are closed.

We had a lot of questions and the rangers in the visitor center answered all of them. We got maps of the trails on the island and learned about the park’s rare bird, the plover. We bought a book to identify each of the horses on the island with the names of each horse and colored photos of all the horses. We were able to identify all the horses we photographed there. We were instructed to stay a bus length away from the horse and not to feed them. The movie about the wild horses in the visitor center was cute and funny especially how they shot vaccine & birth control injections into the horses with a gun from a distance.

The wild horses are everywhere and great to photograph. I loved how pristine the beaches were. To camp on the island is $40 a night. Vehicle permits are required to drive on the beach of the island. Admission to the park on the island will require that you pay $25 for your vehicle. Active duty military get free passes...

Great place to visit and bring the family.We originally went here hoping to see the famous wild horses that live on the island. We did get to see several that were along the sides of the roads that lead to the park entrances/parking lots. A park employee told us the chances of seeing the horses are better if you park in the National Seashore section (as opposed to the state park section of the park), so that's where we went. You pay a $20 fee to enter the lots for the "National Seaside" part of the park and can reuse the parking pass for 7 days. Unfortunately, once we actually entered the park we didn't see any horses, at all. We weren't disappointed though, bc there's still lots of things to do. There are some moderate trails you can hike on, you have access to the beaches and can swim, sunbathe, and even surf fish. If you do want to surf fish, you do need a MD fishing license, w/a stamp for bay/coastal fishing. All in all a great place, but if you're going, make sure you can go for more than one day if you want to get your money's worth and up your chances of seeing the horses. Oh...and everyone we talked to said do not try to approach the horses, as they are wild and have a tendency to charge at people when they get too close. The park recommends at...

Wow what can I say about this place . My wife and I decided to go visit this island to see if we can catch a glimpse of some wild horses that roam the island . And boy did we ever,the horses were walking on the road and on the beach just eating grass and doing what they do and they could not care less that we were there in aww . We went on a Tuesday morning. About 11 am and it was already getting crowded traffic did build up as people just like us wanted to take pics of the horses.depending on where you want to park the fees are different if you choose the beach it’s 5 dollars per person . If you choose the hiking trails it’s 25 dollars per car and free if you walk or bike in . There is a bike rental. At the visitor center not sure how much it cost to rent a bike but then it’s only maybe a 10 minute bike ride to get into the park . I highly recommend you stop in here and visit this park you will be glad you did . I posted some pics from my car hope...