In Beautiful West Virginia For A Few Days

We left Lake Hill Campground in Ohio around 10:30 on Thursday, drove through Charleston, WV and took I-64 and I-77 south through a lot of construction. We stopped for fuel and it was a slow trek.

After $19.50 in tolls for our motorhome and toad, we passed by Beckley, WV and approached the exit for Camp Creek State Park.

During our drive, I had been trying to find places for us to stay the next few days on our way to Myrtle Beach. With us being ahead of schedule, we could slow down a bit. I was targeting the Winston-Salem/High Point area, but our timing isn't good. 

The Dixie Classic Fair is going on at the fairgrounds in Winston-Salem, and the Oak Hollow Campground in High Point where I wanted to stay is full due to the upcoming Fall Furniture Market. Add the fact that nearby Wake Forest has a home football game on Saturday and campground options are quite limited.

We have reservations at Myrtle Beach State Park during the RV show next week, but the camping is now booked for the few days prior. And I won't pay the prices for the other Myrtle Beach resorts.

I knew the Mash Fork Campground at Camp Creek had plenty of openings for tonight, but there was only one site available for Friday night and none for Saturday. I booked Site 2 for the two nights that were available and we would either 1) hope for a cancellation for Saturday, or 2) move to a non-electric site in one of the other park campgrounds for a night.

We pulled in around 4:00, and it took just a couple minutes to get checked in. As we were unhitching the Jeep to back into Site 2, the camphost, Pam, came outside and stopped us. She made an executive decision and decided to give us Site 12, a long pull-through site that they hold out of the reservation system. Like Site 2, it's an electric-only site, but we could have it for all three nights. As we say over and over, just be nice to people and you just never know what dividends might come from it.

For Pam's kindness, we gave her some Alaska salmon fillets.

We got parked in Site 12. It's a huge, paved site, and we could easily fit another RV in.

 

 

It sits right next to the creek although the creek is pretty dry right now.

 

 

I got the LaFumas out, and then the Blackstone, and we had a lovely afternoon in this pleasant campground.

 

 

 

 

Surprisingly, we have a decent 4G Verizon signal AND they have free Wi-Fi, unusual for a state park, but we're starting to see a little more of it.

As I mentioned yesterday, a third of the sites are electric only ($26), a third are water/electric ($29), and a third are full hook-up ($33). There are a couple places to take on water, there is a dump station, and there is a laundry on the back side of the bathhouse.

It's only a couple miles off the interstate (the access road is quite narrow), but it's very quiet.

 

Later, I ended up booking the last site available at Tanglewood RV Campground in Clemmons, southwest of Winston-Salem, for Sunday through Wednesday night. We have friends near there, so we'll stay a few days before making the final trek to Myrtle Beach.

All these years, and we still don't make advanced reservations very often. This week it almost got us, but we still had some Walmart options and a few other dry camping spots where we could stay, so it wasn't that big a deal.

In the evening, I grilled some chicken and Linda prepared veggies for dinner. Then it was just a combination of doing some website work and streaming a little baseball and football before bedtime.

The next couple of days, we'll just be hanging out taking it easy. Until next time.

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Comments

[Gene Siesky]

W.Va turnpike raised their prices. I paid $12 for just my car to get through 3 toll booths. It is cheaper if you buy the I Pass. I liked MB State Park. South of there, going towards Charleston, are two plantations. You can tour the outside of the houses and grounds for free, but you will need the Jeep as the road in is a bit sandy.

[Janna]

All those years and you don't make reservations--you guys are our kind of campers! We never make reservations--I bet in our years of RVing we made reservations only a handful of times. We would rather camp in a Walmart parking lot than make a reservation yet we have friends that won't start the wheels rolling until a years worth or reservations are made. To each their own.

[Bill]

Camp Creek in WV is such a pretty little CG. Really enjoyed it. No problem, IMO, getting a larger rig down the road. An easy stop off I-77 through the mountains.

When one considers what it took to build the 4 lane highway through those mountains I gladly pay the tolls which are a LOT less expensive then almost anyplace else we've been and needed to use toll roads. The WV turnpike, which is now signed I-77, was built long before (1950's) the interstate system and has been upgraded over the years. Much better now.

Back when it was called "88 miles of miracle" by those who lived there.

[Dennis and Janet]

Hello Howard and Linda. We just arrived at Tanglewood today as well. I have been reading your blog and following you ever since the very beginning of your fulltime adventures. We have now been fulltime RV’ers for about 2 1/2 years and would like to thank you for the inspiration! Hopefully our paths will cross this week! We’re in the Newmar Dutch Star in site 3 . Stop by if you have a chance!