Adventure Park Insider—Salisbury, Md., July 17, 2025—The new Salisbury Camping and Adventure Park opened on Memorial Day on the site of the former Sandy Point Girl Scout camp. The 47-acre site houses a treetop challenge course and other activities along with several camping options. The aim is to provide the same sort of outdoor fun the former camp did—just to a wider audience.
Co-owners Gina and Jim Yannatelli conceived the project in 2022, when the Girl Scout camp that closed during Covid came up for sale. It took the pair three years to get the project permitted and completed, including the maintenance needed to repair the form camp’s facilities.
To date, according to the Yannatellis, the challenge course has been the main attraction. The course, 34 to 52 feet above the ground, includes a variety of obstacles and zip lines. It was built by Challenge Towers.
Other activities include volleyball, gellyball (think paintball but with softer gel beads), and walking trails. According to the Yannatellis, axe throwing and more activities could be coming. “It keeps evolving, what we want to do,” Gina told the Salisbury Daily Times. “I think it will always be a work in progress.”
“I always knew I wanted to figure out a way to bring kids and outdoor play back,” she added.
To that end, the park is offering three, three-day day camps for kids ages 7-11 this month.
Its camping and party facilities set Salisbury apart. Aside from tent sites, camping options include treehouses and cabins. The treehouses are built on stilts and nestled in the forest, 10 feet or so above the ground. The cabins have a solid roof and screened-in sides. Both these accommodations have electricity. There are bath houses with restrooms and showers in the tree house and cabin areas which are open to all visitors.
Two other facilities, a lodge and a pavilion, round out the park. Both are available for rental by groups and weddings. Though the park has just opened, it has already hosted teambuilding groups and birthday parties, Jim Yannatelli told Adventure Park Insider.
While staffing can be a challenge for a seasonal business, especially in a rural area, the park is fortunate in this respect—all the employees, except for one former Sandy Point staffer, are Outdoor Education majors at nearby Salisbury University.
