Twin Lakes RV & Camping Resort

We stayed at Twin Lakes RV & Camping Resort in Chocowinity, North Carolina. (Campground Reviews listing.)

An Encore park, mostly full of full-timers and seasonal sites, but with a section for transients.

Dates:

  • Check in: 2024-05-12
  • Check out: 2024-05-24
  • 12 nights

Weather:

  • Partly cloudy, some rain
  • High temps 73-81°F, lows 52-65°F
  • Little wind, gusts to 28 MPH

Noise:

  • No road noise
  • Distant train horn noise
  • Some neighbor noise

Site:

  • #D13, pull-through, gravel
  • Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
  • Level site; used hydraulic leveling
  • Gravel driveway about 75 feet long by 10 feet wide
  • About 20 feet to neighbors on both sides
  • Picnic table
  • No fire pit
  • Some tall trees, but not providing any privacy
  • A lot of trash around the site

Utilities:

  • 50 amp power, inconveniently located
  • 40 PSI water, inconveniently located
  • Good sewer connection, inconveniently located (3 10-foot pipes needed)
  • We did park more forward than most people, though; utilities were at the rear of the site, so we could have been closer
  • Water was shut off for a couple of hours during our stay due to a broken pipe elsewhere in the campground (not a big deal, since we have our own water tank)
  • Interestingly, the sewer is actually an underground holding tank, that is pumped out periodically

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • T-Mobile: 14-17 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 65 ms ping
  • Verizon: 20 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 56 ms ping
  • AT&T: 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 51 ms ping
  • Starlink: not used
  • Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

  • Garbage dumpsters
  • Pools
  • Package delivery to office

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Water, water everywhere, but not a beach in sight

If you’re looking for a place to stay so you can visit the Outer Banks, keep looking. If you’re looking for a place to stay with nice waterways and fishing but not an actual beach, this place is good for that. It’s a nice campground with water all around and lots of seasonal/annual residents. There’s one main area where they place the “transients,” and it’s okay. Our site was not huge, but it was large enough for our 40′ motorhome and tow vehicle, with room for our table and chairs on the side. We camped at Twin Lakes RV & Camping Resort in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

The utilities were at the back of the site, and we parked at the front, so I used two 25 foot water hoses and three 10 foot sewer hoses (it’s good to have extras):

Utilities

Utilities

The sewer was actually a holding tank, periodically pumped out:

Pump trailer

Trash collected from around the site; worse than typical:

Trash

A bunch of aerial photos of the campground and environs, via my drone:

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Entrance:

Entrance

The gate requires a magnetic card for access (which is more convenient than a code, as most places do):

Entrance

Dumpsters near the entrance:

Dumpsters near the entrance

Office:

Office

They had some flooding a while back, so were stil working on restocking the store:

Restocking the store

Swimming pool:

Swimming pool

Playground:

Playground

Bathrooms:

Bathrooms

Dog park:

Dog park

Clubhouse:

Rec center

Clubhouse

Ice and water machine:

Ice and water machine

Other sites:

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Another playground:

Another playground

Boat storage:

Boat storage

Boat storage

Canal

Another pool:

Another pool

Geese:

Geese

Geese

Other sites

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There were lots of squirrels roaming around:

Squirrel

Squirrel

We’d be happy to stay here again.