RV travel guide
Sussex County
County seat Georgetown, 936 sq mi across Delaware. Everything an RV traveler should read before rolling in — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that actually matters.
The county in brief
A traveler's read on Sussex County
Cape Henlopen State Park is the oldest publicly-accessible park in the United States — designated as a public park in 1682 by William Penn for the use of all Delaware citizens, predating any other US public-park land tenure by 190 years. The park's 5,193 acres protect the Delaware Bay's mouth, the World War II observation towers built to spot German submarines, and the only beach in Delaware that accepts dog access year-round.
Sussex County wraps Rehoboth Beach (the most-trafficked Delaware beach destination), Bethany Beach, and Fenwick Island. Cape Henlopen SP campground accepts rigs to 40 ft with electric hookups and is the canonical state-park RV-friendly base on the Delaware coast.
RV travel intelligence
Read the land before you roll in
The three things that shape an RV trip here — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that trips travelers up.
Dispersed camping
low
Low — mostly private or developed-only
Scenic drives & state byways
Coastal Highway DE-1 · Brandywine River Byway
Ordinance note for RV travelers
Delaware Seashore SP and Cape Henlopen SP enforce 14-day max stay; Rehoboth Beach prohibits overnight RV street parking.
Sourced & cited
Every fact traces to an official source
Population and land area from the US Census; ordinances and park adjacency from county.gov, the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service.
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Go deeper around Sussex County
1 cross-linked peers across PickRV's places catalog — siblings, parks, public land, cities, and the parent state hub.
Parent state hub
Delaware on PickRV
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Nearby & related
Keep planning Delaware
Sourced costs, campground directories, and the places worth a detour — the next layer of Delaware trip planning.
Delaware rules · last verified 2026-05-10
- State rental tax
- 0% · not collected by PickRV
- Min driver age
- 21+ std · 25+ Class A
- Gravel roads
- Allowed — disclosure required
- Generator quiet
- 22:00-07:00
Your next step
Seeing Sussex County from a rig
Camping here runs mostly to developed sites and private land, so hookups and a reservation matter more than boondocking range.
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