VA state parks

That looks like Stone Mtn State Park. (In NC of course)

What keeps me away is you can't reserve a specific site. So when I roll in late on a Friday evening, I can barely fit into a site that is left.

bukhrn wrote:

Oaklevel wrote:

Shot-N-Az wrote:
Two questions:

1. Are other fees staying the same?

2. Do these fees REALLY keep you people from camping in the state parks? I just don't buy that.

Haven't seen the other fees as yet but YES the dog fees were keeping us away...... as on a weekend it was costing us $10 more a night for a VA State Park with small sites, rather than a near by private park with larger sites & full hookups.

X-2, dog fees or not, we'll still stay away, as we get a better deal at the COE parks in Va. and they're just as good or better than the State parks.

We haven't camped in a Virginia state park, but if they can beat this NC state park for $25/night (including reservation fee) with water and electric, then we will have to give it a go.

PamfromVA wrote:
Starting 2014 are no longer requiring a dog fee for campers.

http://www.virginiaoutdoors.com/article/more/4750

Could not make it a link from my iPad...

You should be able to do a link from your ipad. I do it all the time. Click on the globe with the link and paste in the link.

Oaklevel wrote:

Shot-N-Az wrote:
Two questions:

1. Are other fees staying the same?

2. Do these fees REALLY keep you people from camping in the state parks? I just don't buy that.

Haven't seen the other fees as yet but YES the dog fees were keeping us away...... as on a weekend it was costing us $10 more a night for a VA State Park with small sites, rather than a near by private park with larger sites & full hookups.

X-2, dog fees or not, we'll still stay away, as we get a better deal at the COE parks in Va. and they're just as good or better than the State parks.

If I remember correctly,we weren't charged the fee when we reserved,we were told to pay at the campground.Some collected it some didn't.

Camping at a va state park could cost you over $35 a night if you had a dog. As oak level mentioned, you could easily go somewhere with full hookups, cable tv, swimming pool, wifi and etc for the same price.

Them charging extra for the dogs was a way to just make more money. Hey didn't care about there being dogs there or not. They used some complaints as a way to make more money.

Glad to hear they have changed it. I thought I had read that the camping fees would be a little higher, which is what they should of just done in the first place.

Shot-N-Az wrote:
Two questions:

1. Are other fees staying the same?

2. Do these fees REALLY keep you people from camping in the state parks? I just don't buy that.

Haven't seen the other fees as yet but YES the dog fees were keeping us away...... as on a weekend it was costing us $10 more a night for a VA State Park with small sites, rather than a near by private park with larger sites & full hookups.

Great. More campers and more dogs to contend with.

As I understood the original press on this the rates were going up for all campers at the same time. Doesn't matter to me, I still think their parks are awesome.