Topsail new pads

Have a week there March 24 in site 139. Hope that one is done by then.

I am glad they are giving up on the concrete. Considering the weight they have to support and the sand foundation it would take a lot of pile driving and a lot of steel rebars to make them stand up over time. We were in one so bad, (I think 77) a couple of years ago that we had to use wheel blocking to raise the front wheels so that the jacks didn't lift them off the ground.

jplante4 wrote:

wbwood wrote:
Any pictures?

This is the only one I have that shows the site. It's site 33



This is the boardwalk down to the beach. It's about a mile walk, but they have a tram that runs 5 times a day..

Thanks, we've been there a couple times before, but was looking for pictures of the sites with pea gravel. Wondering what they look like. I imagine they will be more like the other 2 nearby state parks.

Sorry, I didn't get any pix of the new sites, but I did watch the process which I can describe.

After removing the old concrete and tar approaches, they hacked out all the roots under the sites. In a couple of the pull-through sites, they took trees down that were close, in another they left the tree and dog-legged the site around it. We'll see how that works.

The holes left after excavation were universally filled with water. They framed out the site using 6X6 PT timber, lap jointed and wooden pegged. I'm not sure how or even if they attached the framing to the ground.

Then they brought in some washed sand, but not beach sand. It was more course and it packed down quite a bit with compacters. The little Bobcat that they were using got quite the workout. The final grade of the sand was 3" below the framing.

Topped off with compacted pea stone, I believe it was 3/8. I saw a few of the new sites with motor homes and there were no ruts where the wheels went. As I mentioned, the drainage was excellent.