The park is an a working farm donated to the state in 1969. There are two campgrounds, A & B. We stayed in A which appears to be the older of the two camp sites. Camp A's showers and bathrooms are a bit dated, but very clean. The camp sites are HUGH, there is enough room to park small campers, pop-up and Class B style RV's and one can put TWO tents on the provided pads. Water and electric (30 amps) is provided.
Site B is a bit more updated, brick building for shower and bathroom and a laundry room. All the RV sites are paved ( Site A's are gravel) and 50 amp service is provided.
There is a Huge pool, 2 ft to 12 1/2 feet deep and a small camp store located here as well. For sightseeing one can visit the working farm, museum, animals and the old plantation home. If you get bored with that you can go to the visitor center to look at the fossils found along the James River. By the way if you like to hunt for fossil's you can do so along the river, but you can ONLY keep the sharks teeth.
This time of year ( June) you can leave the park and go pick Blueberries about a two miles down the road at College Run Farm. We have done this for a couple years now. Sandee makes jam from what we pick.
All in all a great camping trip. OOOO yes, while I was in the Pod one night getting ready for bed around 8pm, Sandee was outside reading at the table when a raccoon decided he/she wanted to take a stroll though our camp. The raccoon came within arms length of Sandee and when she talked to him/her it just kept on walking. The next day I saw wild turkey and deer in the camp site. Plus all sorts of birds, woodpeckers, cardinals etc.
We had a nice time at this campground.
R-Pod hooked up to the truck in camp
Park entrance
Park museum
Donkey's near the museum
James River near visitor center
No comments:
Post a Comment