The conventional wisdom about the Bar Harbor Oceanside KOA is that it’s an amazing campground….if you can get one of the oceanfront sites. So we dutifully got online the first day reservations opened up to snag one, and it was well worth planning for. Waking up to that view every day was incredible, we loved […]
Quechee/Pine Valley KOA: Campground Review
Generally when we’re looking for a campground, we’re looking for one near some attraction or national park or whatever. But this time our main objective was to be close to Dave’s parents’ house in West Lebanon, NH. If someone were looking for a campground near our house, they’d be hard pressed to find one closer […]
Croton Point Park: RV Camping Near NYC
Travel dates: June 4-9, 2018 If you’re looking into your RV-friendly campground options close to New York City, the first place you’ll hear about is Liberty Harbor, just across the river in Jersey City. After that, people mention Black Bear Campground, 60 miles north of Manhattan, and a couple of KOAs that are even farther […]
Lake Fairfax Park Campground Review: Great Option near Washington, DC
Travel dates: May 29-June 1, 2018 I think of Washington, DC as right up there near the top of the list of cities you’d rather not get anywhere near with a car, much less a giant RV. Given this, there are a surprising number of reasonable campground options near the city. I mean, you’re not […]
Falls Lake State Recreation Area, Rolling View: Campground Review
If you want to go see lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center, you’re going to need a campground to stay at, right? Right. I remember at some point I was having trouble finding a well-reviewed RV park near Durham, but now I can’t figure out why. There are several different State Recreation Area campgrounds in […]
Philadelphia South KOA: Camping with KOA
Thanks to KOA for hosting our stay at the Philadelphia South KOA! I was not otherwise compensated and all opinions are my own. Visiting big cities with an RV often means either staying an hour or so outside of the city and doing a whole lot of long drives in to see all the attractions […]
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park Campground Review (and Dallas, briefly)
Travel dates: July 21-24, 2017 It’s here! It’s here! It’s the very last post about our summer 2017 cross country road trip! Except I’m going to do an indexing kind of post so people can find everything easily now that they’re all written. Because there are a lot of posts. Dallas is getting short shrift […]
La Hacienda RV Resort Review and Hanging out in Austin with Friends
Travel dates: July 17-21, 2017 Austin was our last long stop on our 2017 road trip. From there on, we had a series of overnight stops and then home. So it was lovely to be able to pause here for a few days, see a great city, and hang out with friends. Our friends, Kristi […]
Fort Davis and Davis Mountains State Park (but not a Star Party)
Travel dates: July 15-16, 2017 When the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX popped up one month in our See America calendar (affiliate link), we thought it looked so cool that we rearranged an entire leg of our summer trip to make time to go see it and attend one of its Star Parties with telescope […]
Brantley Lake State Park: A Campground Review and a Very Flat Tire
Travel dates: July 13-15, 2017 To get to the campground at Brantley Lake State Park, you have to drive about six miles off the main highway, down narrow, little traveled roads surrounded on all sides by rabbits of both the living and dead varieties. I don’t know how many of those miles we drove with […]