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:
An interactive map:
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):
The sewer was actually a holding tank, periodically pumped out:
Trash collected from around the site; worse than typical:
A bunch of aerial photos of the campground and environs, via my drone:
Entrance:
The gate requires a magnetic card for access (which is more convenient than a code, as most places do):
Dumpsters near the entrance:
Office:
They had some flooding a while back, so were stil working on restocking the store:
Swimming pool:
Playground:
Bathrooms:
Dog park:
Clubhouse:
Ice and water machine:
Other sites:
Another playground:
Boat storage:
Another pool:
Geese:
There were lots of squirrels roaming around:
We’d be happy to stay here again.
