Campgrounds Visited

We’ve visited many campgrounds across the United States.  

When selecting our accommodations, I typically try my best to find National or State campgrounds with electric.  I enjoy the more natural feel and elbow room of these parks.  I prefer to stay away from the typical RV park with full hookups.  While I know some people like all the bells and whistles amenities, it’s just not the experience I’m looking for in my typical outing.  Of course there are some exceptions depending on what the options are and what the intent is.  And although we don’t need all the extras, I am pretty spoiled and needy of electric whenever possible.  I do enjoy having AC and microwave available for our use.

Below is a list of the campgrounds that we have stayed at organized by state.  I hope to write about some of them at some point in the future (I really should have started documenting long ago…lots of past travel I would love to catch up in writing about some day).  In the meantime, I’ve included a few notable points for some.

Arizona

Grand Canyon Camper Village

California

Del Norte Coast Redwood State Park – Mill Creek Campground

The big old trees and stumps made for some very cool and unique camp sites.  

Georgia 

Skid away Island State Park

No early arrival allowed, even though our site and most of the campground was vacant.  

Iowa

Rock Creek State Park – Rock Creek Campground

Kansas

Gunsmoke RV Park

Maine

Acadia National Park – Schoodic Woods Campground

This was one of the cleanest campgrounds we’d ever visited, because it was brand new when we visited in 2016.  We did get a note of scolding for having Christmas lights on our awning left on all night.

Maryland

Assateague Island National Seashore – Bayside Loop A

Lots of mosquitos, flies and horses

Massachusetts  

Dunes Edge Campground

Winter Island Park

Interesting set up, in city marina with cool old buildings, fort and lighthouse

Michigan

Harrisville State Park

Hartwick Pines State Park

Harvest Village (Harvest Host)

Holly State Recreation Area

Ludington State Park

Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore – Platte River Campground

Straits State Park

Sterling State Park

Tawas Point State Park

Traverse City State Park

Wilderness State Park

Van Buren State Park

Minnesota

Myer-Big Island State Park – Big Island Campground

Lots of mosquito repellent is a must

Missouri

Mark Twain Cave Campgrounds

Mill Creek

Campground on a lake and close to Branson.  But prone to flooding.  We got an alert just days before arrival that our reservations were canceled due to flooding.  I quickly called and snagged one of the only sites dry and available.

Watkins Mill State Park

Nebraska 

Lake Mcconaughey State Recreation Area – Lone Eagle

Nevada

Lake Meade RV Village

New Mexico

Oliver Lee Memorial State Park Campground

Villanueva State Park Campground

New Jersey

Liberty Harbor RV Park

Just a few blocks from subway station for easy access to NYC.  Within a couple miles of the New Jersey docks for the Statue of Island boats.  It’s a parking lot in a marina, but actually pretty cool atmosphere in that you can see the NYC skyline and statue of liberty from the site, especially at night.

New York

Four Mile Creek State Park

North Carolina

Cape Hatteras National Seashore – Oregon Inlet Campground

Cedar Point Campground

Hatteras Sands Camping Resort

We were scheduled to stay at Cape Point Campground, but arrived to find it completely under water.  Hatteras Sands was accommodating to our last minute needs.

Ohio

Cedar Point’s Lighthouse Point Campground

Oregon

Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area

Wooded sites, close to highway.  Nice easy hiking trails 

Rhode Island

Melville Ponds Campground

No early arrivals allowed.  We had to unhook and leave trailer in a lot across the street while we explored and killed time until check in time (although our site was vacant)

South Carolina

James Island County Park Campground

South Dakota

Badlands National Park – Cedar Pass Campground

Beautiful views, pull over sites.  We could hear bison right up next to us while sitting out in the dark at night

Texas

Palo Duro Canyon State Park

So many great hiking trails and “Texas” musical at outdoor venue on site

Walmart Parking Lot – Canyon Texas

This was a last minute improvisation when we felt uncomfortable setting up and staying where we had planned to in Oklahoma….so we just kept driving to 2AM, to the Walmart closest to our next reserved campground.

Utah

Dead Horse Point State Park

Beautiful views and located right between Arches and Canyonlands

Vermont

North Beach Campground, Burlington 

Virginia

First Landing State Park

Sherando Lake Recreation Area Family Camping – Meadow Loop

Washington

Seaquest State Park

Wooded sites very close to Mt St Helen Visitor’s center

Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park – Fishing Bridge Campground

Very much an RV park feel, sites are very narrow and mostly concrete, but when at Yellowstone, how much time do you really spend at the camper anyway?