Oct 24 & 25 Sunny 80 plus
We had an extremely hard time finding a mainland campground that we could use as a base to ride the Outer Banks, that suited what we were looking for. After a few hours of searching the internet and scouring all our campground guides I remembered reading an article in Motorhome magazine about Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina. Then it dawned on me that is very close to where we want to be so I found the magazine in our drawer ( yes I keep them in papercopy and we have them stashed in the motorhome - much to my husbands chagrin).
Ah ha there is the article and they reference staying at the Croatan National Forest campground called Cedar Point. I never think to look at State Parks and Army Corp Engineers and National Forests..... giving myself a kick.... I need to start looking at those. You can reserve but we decided to pull in with a first come first serve hope to land a site as they keep 5 available. The price is basically a donation to the forest of $17 a night and you leave it in an envelope box - which is on your honor - no one checks! At this price it was perfect for us to leave on a ride overnight and stay at a hotel without incurring a lot of dollars. There were 40 sites, all paved, all electric hookups and a few with water, no sewer. We even got the only pull thru!!!
Now our only concern is that Hurricane Sandy is on its way to the coast but it looks like we have a window of really nice sunny warm weather 3 days before it will hit,,,, which means we will leave and do our ride and be back to get the motorhome and be out of here before Sandy comes!
We had an extremely hard time finding a mainland campground that we could use as a base to ride the Outer Banks, that suited what we were looking for. After a few hours of searching the internet and scouring all our campground guides I remembered reading an article in Motorhome magazine about Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina. Then it dawned on me that is very close to where we want to be so I found the magazine in our drawer ( yes I keep them in papercopy and we have them stashed in the motorhome - much to my husbands chagrin).
Ah ha there is the article and they reference staying at the Croatan National Forest campground called Cedar Point. I never think to look at State Parks and Army Corp Engineers and National Forests..... giving myself a kick.... I need to start looking at those. You can reserve but we decided to pull in with a first come first serve hope to land a site as they keep 5 available. The price is basically a donation to the forest of $17 a night and you leave it in an envelope box - which is on your honor - no one checks! At this price it was perfect for us to leave on a ride overnight and stay at a hotel without incurring a lot of dollars. There were 40 sites, all paved, all electric hookups and a few with water, no sewer. We even got the only pull thru!!!
Now our only concern is that Hurricane Sandy is on its way to the coast but it looks like we have a window of really nice sunny warm weather 3 days before it will hit,,,, which means we will leave and do our ride and be back to get the motorhome and be out of here before Sandy comes!
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