Williamsburg, VA

[Jamiek]

Anybody know any great camping areas in Williamsburg, VA.  We will are going to do the Bush Gardens thing and would like a nice campground.  Full hook ups would be a plus.  Also can you recommend a site #?  

Thanks
Jamie

[ColemanCampingFamily]

Anybody know any great camping areas in Williamsburg, VA.  We will are going to do the Bush Gardens thing and would like a nice campground.  Full hook ups would be a plus.  Also can you recommend a site #?  

Thanks
Jamie

I noticed that you still hadn't gotten a reply, so I thought that I would jump in. A few months ago, someone had the same question on this forum (Mid-Atlantic) and they got some good responses. If you change the display options to include posts within the past 100 days, you should see the thread.

My suggestion, by the way, was to stay away from Anvil Campground if you don't appreciate the roar of trains at all hours of the night, or the sound of traffic 24/7. Other than that, a nice and clean place to stay, lol.

[SheBantam]

http://www.gonecamping.net/stories/newport_news2.html

Take a look at Newport News City park. It is on the same exit as the Army base (in the oppisite direction). about 7 miles from Bush gardens. Water/Electric sites, hot showers, with flush toilets and niced sized sites.

A number of years ago MAPCE had a Spring Fling Rally there.  MAPCE was aYahoo group, do not know if they are still around, have not ahd any posts from the forum for several years.  If it were not so far from Northern Delaware, I would go back.

[ge99ne]

I second the NN park reccomendation.  I didn't realise it was that close.  I live in Williamsburg not too far from the Anvil mentioned above.  I had a nice site on the water.  I could hear the trafic on 143, across the lake at night.  I would think the sites off the water would be quieter.  Probably the least densley sited camp ground I hit last year.  Oh and stay on jefferson (143) to get into williamsburg. I64 is backed up every weekend I've headed toward  BG from that direction.

[PattieAM]

American Heritage CG is highly recommended and is easily accessible to the Williamsburg attractions.

[kenpatriot]

We camped across the James River at Chippokes Plantation State Park, near Surry, Va. If you like quiet, this was the place.  Far removed from the over-crowded, over-priced Williamsburg campgrounds, but actually very close - to get to Jamestown/Williamsburg, you cross the bay on an auto ferry (10-minute ride). Two ferries running all the time, so never a long wait, and the kids have a blast feeding the seagulls off the back.

['tiredTeacher]

...  you cross the bay on an auto ferry (10-minute ride). Two ferries running all the time, so never a long wait, and the kids have a blast feeding the seagulls off the back.

T'ain't a "bay," it was the James River.

[kenpatriot]

T'ain't a "bay," it was the James River.

yep, you're right.  Leave it to a teacher to be so picky!  j/k.