Allaire State Park Campground — Attraction in Howell Township

Beautiful grounds and camping area! The brush is green and inviting, and you get your own picnic table and grill/fire pit for the duration of your stay. The only parts I didn't enjoy were the showers and bathrooms. No way do they disinfect or clean; the amounts of mold all over the walls and floors and the amazingly strong and ever present smell of fresh urine was enough to make my stomach turn each time I came within walking distance of the building. Someone does come in to mop up excess water, but that's it. It is a public facility in fairness, but wow, it would take first place in a science fair for sure. Also some of the other campers (scary dudes) made the toughest neighborhoods in NYC look like fairyland. Lots of families and couples, friendly enough, enjoying themselves, but the long scraggly beards dudes, blasting death metal, fatigues, and any time day or night always just sitting in beach chairs watching you, no hey folks, how are you. Just watching you, making you imagine racks with their catch of the day; it's your worst tv drama come true. I had a great time, grateful to wake up alive every morning, and having not grown an extra toe or finger in that shower and...

Overall we had a good weekend. The campsites are kind of close. It's great for families, first time campers or a short get away. The road, 524, is very close to the campground. Its almost like camping in your back yard.. Some sites are tents only. Others are campers or cabins. The cabin, or shelter as it's called. Has a very nice wood burning stove. Which works great. Two double bunk beds with plastic foam mats and a privacy wall for one of the bunks.. Our door would not latch so anything could push it open, unless we locked it. The campsites are nice. They come with a fire ring, grill and decent picnic table. However spray yourself will bug repellent... The chiggers are extremely bad here, worst I've dealt with. Bring your own firewood. They charge $6 bucks for a small plastic bag of wood. For two nights it will run you about $100 bucks. They do have bathrooms and a public shower inside the bathroom. We decided not to use the showers. There is a no dog/pet policy so made arrangements for ours... Upon getting there everyone had their fir babies. We will not go again. However may this help you to be prepared if you...

Beautiful area however very difficult without hookups. We thought it would be ok for 3 days but it was rough!

Pet-friendly sites in one large open loop-no privacy however very large sites and space in between. Heat and rain…thank goodness for generator however have to turn it off at 10pm. Was excited to see mowers but they stayed far away from campers-so our surrounding grass remained high.

Lots of kids working-in both office and driving around in trucks-no knowledge of where to fish. Resorted to a little pond with lots of sticks and no fish! Never did find the Manasquan River.

Must drive to village-go to bakery & general store. Take little tour of historical center-so interesting. They could make this so much nicer. Had to move to turkey swamp park for hookups and sanity in the heat and rain! Not...