Open May 1 to October 31

A dairy farm that became a campground

Double G began as Gerald and Helen Glotfelty’s dairy farm in McHenry, Maryland, with trail rides on horseback and a Saturday night square dance in the upstairs of the barn. People enjoyed the dances so much that they began bringing their own campers to sleep in afterwards, parking them in the barnyard. That is how the campground was born.

The camp store is the old dairy milking building, where hundreds of cows were once milked. In the middle of it sits a small green plastic table, a hand-me-down from a couple who used to camp here. The family says all the problems of the world get solved at that table, but really it is where family is made. In summer it holds the pizza everyone eats on Friday nights.

The Glotfelty family standing together in a field with their white dog

Who ran the farm, and when

Three generations of Glotfeltys, from the first pony ride to the park you camp in today.

  1. The dairy

    Gerald and Helen open the stable

    Gerald and Helen Glotfelty ran a dairy farm in McHenry. As a young married couple they started with pony rides for children, then cut trails for horseback rides, then added hay rides and horse drawn sleigh rides. On Saturday nights they held square dances upstairs in the barn, the one the family now calls the round barn.

    Dancers began parking their campers in the barnyard to sleep after the dance.

  2. 1980s

    Denny and Warren take over

    Their sons, Denny and Warren, took over the business. They added D&W Storage to the grounds so that people enjoying the lake did not have to haul their boats home every week. They kept boarding horses for a while, but closed the riding stables.

    D&W Storage still sits on the same grounds.

  3. 1990s

    The brothers choose the campground

    The brothers decided to focus on the campground and storage, and stopped boarding horses. They also made the hard call to stop accepting tents. The tent sites became large full hook-up sites built for park models, and Double G Campground became Double G RV Park. The years after went into adding park models and keeping the grounds clean and appealing for families.

    RVs only, to this day.

  4. Today

    Warren, Addie and Gesse

    Denny passed away in 2010 after a battle with cancer, and he has been missed every day since. Warren began farming the fields soon after, along with his son Gesse. Warren and his wife Addie now watch their grandchildren grow up on the same land.

    Danielle and Chelsie Glotfelty are part of the family too.

The fields are still worked

The farm fields had been rented out for years, but Warren found enjoyment in the farm work and took them back.

Warren and Gesse harvest hay, oats and corn, and they grow sunflowers. Hay was first grown for the horses. Some of what you drive past on Mosser Road is crop, not lawn, and it is the same land the dairy cows once walked.

Bloom time for the sunflowers varies from year to year, so call the camp store at (301) 387-5481 before you plan a trip around them. Everything about the field is on Double G Sunflowers.

  • Gravel lane between motorhomes and fifth wheels on mown grass under big oak trees
  • Fifth wheels lined up along the lawn in warm evening light
  • The camp store, the old milking building, with its ice chest by the park road at dusk
  • The pavilion with black-eyed Susans in bloom and rigs parked behind
  • Park model with a sunroom, front porch and flower beds
  • Kids and families gathered at the pavilion beside the playground slide

“We've been staying a weekend at Double G RV Park for 3-years now and are already booked for the next year. It fills up fast!”

Jeremy R, Google review

Camp where the dancers parked

Family is the one thing that has stayed the same while the park changed around it. Warren and the family would love to have yours.