We stayed at Thousand Trails Diamond Caverns RV & Golf Resort in Park City, Kentucky. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Convenient to Mammoth Cave National Park, and free with our membership, but rather unlevel.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-07-07
• Check out: 2024-07-12
• 5 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy, some rain
• High temps 82-90°F, lows 66-71°F
• Little wind, gusts to 19 MPH

Noise:

• No road noise
• Occasional distant train horn noise
• Minimal neighbor noise

Site:

• #503, back-in, gravel
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• Rather unlevel site; high in front and passenger side; back wheels would be off the ground, so used air leveling
• Gravel driveway about 65 feet long by 22 feet wide
• Immediate neighbor on passenger side; 50 feet to neighbor on driver side
• Picnic table
• No trees
• Unclean site; cigarette butts, bottle caps, etc.

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 60 PSI water, conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 15 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
• Verizon: 10 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 45 ms ping
• AT&T: 2 Mbps down, 0.01 Mbps up, 200 ms ping; unreliable
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: paid, not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Close to Mammoth Cave NP

This is an older Thousand Trails campground, and like most of the older ones, it needs some serious TLC. Most sites are seasonal/annual so there were only a handful of sites available when we arrived, with most of them being either too short or on a really egregious slope (or both). We found the one site that would fit us (503) but it was so unlevel we couldn’t use our hydraulic levelers and had to use the air leveling, which is less preferred. They obviously had some serious rain recently because there were a couple of sites showing extreme erosion and I worried about the stability of the terrace they were on. But for a short stay to visit Mammoth Cave, it was serviceable. We camped at Thousand Trails Diamond Caverns RV & Golf Resort in a Motorhome.

Tip for Other Campers: There’s a new Buc-ee’s not far away and Bowling Green has pretty much everything you could want….

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Utilities:

Air leveling, with the rear wheels raised as high as they can go (and jacks up):

Other sites:

Swimming pool:

Playground:

Mini golf:

Clubhouse and quiet room:

We probably won’t stay here again, though it’s hard to argue with free.

We stayed at Little Beaver State Park in Beaver, West Virginia. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A nice state park near New River Gorge National Park.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-06-23
• Check out: 2024-06-30
• 7 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy, some rain
• High temps 77-88°F, lows 55-64°F
• Little wind wind, gusts to 21 MPH, sheltered by trees

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train horn noise
• Negligible neighbor noise

Site:

• #19, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind and in front of coach
• Somewhat unlevel site, high in front and driver side; used hydraulic leveling
• Gravel driveway about 100 feet long by 10 feet wide
• 20 feet to neighbor on front/passenger side; 30 feet to road on driver side
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• Tall trees
• Clean site

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, very conveniently located
• 80 PSI water, conveniently located
• No sewer

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 6 Mbps down, 12 Mbps up, 60 ms ping
• AT&T: 1 Mbps down, 0.1 Mbps up, 90 ms ping
• Verizon: 15 Mbps down, 4-6 Mbps up, 38 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Dump station

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Good base for New River Gorge

This is a nice state park conveniently located near New River Gorge National Park and not far from the freeway. A word of caution, however: the road to get to the park and the roads in the park are not for the faint of heart, whether you have a small or big rig. The way in from the north is slightly less heart-stopping but still not ideal. Site 19 was a pull-through with a steep driveway and a relatively flat area about halfway, which was just perfect for our 40′ motorhome and tons of room to park our tow vehicle either in front or behind. We camped at Little Beaver State Park in a Motorhome.

Park campground and trail map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Completed another row of National Park stickers:

A lightning storm during our stay:

This site didn’t have any sewer connection. After a week, our gray tank was at 71%, and black tank at 63%:

Squirrel:

White-Marked Tussock Moth caterpillar:

Other sites:

Office:

Registered campers only:

Playground:

Cabin:

Bathrooms:

We’d be happy to stay here again.

We stayed at Codorus State Park in Hanover, Pennsylvania. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A last-minute booking, but not a great state park.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-06-07
• Check out: 2024-06-09
• 2 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy
• High temps 78-79°F, lows 56-60°F
• Negligible wind, gusts to 19 MPH

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train horn noise
• No neighbor noise

Site:

• #102, back-in, asphalt
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• Very unlevel site, high on driver side and back; unable to get completely level; used air leveling
• Asphalt driveway about 55 feet long by 12 feet wide
• 30-90 feet to neighbor passenger side
• Driveway on driver side
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• Tall trees
• Clean site

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 75 PSI water, conveniently located
• Loose sewer connection, somewhat conveniently located (2 10-foot pipes needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 4-8 Mbps down, 0.1 Mbps up, 50-100 ms ping
• AT&T: 50 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 45 ms ping
• Verizon: 10-25 Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up, 50 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Narrow, twisty roads and sloped sites

This park is not big rig-friendly. The roads are twisty and narrow, with many low trees. We were in site 102, which was incredibly sloped front-to-back, so we dealt with living on an angle for our two-night stay. You could place a marble at one end of the motorhome and it would have rolled to the front unaided, this is how bad it was. An interesting quirk of this park is that they have “pet-free” areas where you’re not allowed to camp with pets. I never did see any explanation of this policy and it didn’t make any sense to me since people were walking their dogs through the “pet-free” area anyway. So, if you’re camping with pets, be sure to double-check what the rule is for a site before you book it, because the ranger at check-in will call you out if they think they see a pet with you. We camped at Codorus State Park in a Motorhome.

Tip for Other Campers: Atomic Dog Cidery near Gettysburg has good food and cider. Just be careful if you want to purchase some cans to take home, as the park has a strict “no alcohol” policy and your nosy neighbors will comment on it even if you’re not drinking it….

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

The site was very unlevel; we couldn’t get level with hydraulic jacks, and this was the best that our air leveling could manage:

Water tank behind our site:

Other sites:

We won’t stay here again.

We stayed at the DC branch of National Indoor RV Centers in Manassas, Virginia.

Not a campground, but an RV service center. We arrived on a Sunday, and left on Friday, sleeping in our coach each night, and going out exploring or waiting in their customer lounge during each day.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-06-02
• Check out: 2024-06-07
• 5 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy
• High temps 82-86°F, lows 58-64°F
• Little wind, gusts to 22 MPH

Noise:

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

Site:

• First night a very unlevel pull-through site on gravel
• Subsequent nights a somewhat unlevel back-in on concrete next to the shop
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• We used air leveling all week

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• No water
• No sewer

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Campground Wi-Fi: 200-220 Mbps down, 195 Mbps up, 8 ms ping
• T-Mobile: 60-70 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up, 32 ms ping
• AT&T: 30-70 Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up, 83-126 ms ping
• Verizon: 12 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
• Starlink: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpster
• RV servicing

An interactive map:

Our first site, rather sloped:

Nice that they provide electrical hookups:

Closed entrance gate; they provided a link for us to open it so we could arrive on Sunday, and go out in the evenings:

The NIRVC building; this is I think the smallest NIRVC facility:

Others have vast indoor storage, but this one just has some outdoor storage and RVs for sale:

Side of the building:

Around the back, where the service bays are:

On the second and subsequent days, we were parked outside one of the service bays:

Synchronized lift devices:

Where’ve you been? Locations of other NIRVC branches:

The foyer:

The customer lounge, where we waited most days:

As I said, perhaps the smallest NIRVC branch, but also the newest, I think. Waiting in the customer lounge wasn’t super fun, but we just worked on our laptops as usual. And sleeping in our coach each night was easier than moving into a hotel or Airbnb for the week, as we’ve done on some previous occasions.

We’ll probably be back again next year for the annual services.

We stayed at Homestead Campground in Georgetown, Delaware. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Another last-minute change, to avoid going through narrow tunnels and roadworks. A very nice, quiet campground, mostly permanent sites.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-05-28
• Check out: 2024-06-02
• 5 nights

Weather:

• Mostly sunny
• High temps 74-82°F, lows 52-65°F
• Little wind, gusts to 20 MPH

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train horn noise
• Negligible neighbor noise

Site:

• #E44, pull-through, grass
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
• A little unlevel site, high on front and right; used hydraulic leveling
• Grass site about 80 feet long by 30 feet wide
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• No trees
• Mostly clean site

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, fairly conveniently located
• 50 PSI water, fairly conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
• AT&T: 105 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up, 70 ms ping
• Verizon: 25 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 42 ms ping
• Campground Wi-Fi: 8 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 20 ms ping
• Starlink: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage pickup from site
• Pools
• Weekend food trucks and live entertainment

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Nice park, loaded with weekenders

This campground mainly has permanent seasonal sites where residents come down for the weekends during the summer. There were very few folks around during the week, but everyone came “home” from Thursday to Sunday. The campground has lots of activities every weekend. The “transient” sites were all nice long pull-throughs. We camped at Homestead Campground in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

A gift when checking in; water and kettle corn:

An interactive map:

Our site; since we booked the day before we arrived, we could see that the row was mostly empty, and booked a site with empty sites on both sides; it’s nice to have space:

Utilities:

A bunny on our site:

Paladin was most fascinated:

Other sites:

Mostly park models:

Pond:

Splash pad:

Adult pool (they also have a larger family pool):

Events:

Games:

Ball field:

Idle unpopulated koi pond:

A nice campground.