Unfortunate campground

It's not funny!

gbopp wrote:
You should post the name and location of the unfortunate campground.
A few days ago there was a member looking for a CG where they could view trains.
What you consider 'unfortunate', may be a plus for others.
Please share.

True! Lemons? = Lemonade!! But we also when we first started our nomad life DW thought the best way to find a cg for the night was to follow the train tracks!!

To us, the biggest problem we have had with train noise was up on the Mississippi at a well-know COE campground. Entrance to CG had a crossing, well-equipped with lights and barriers. Middle of the night train driver sounds horn approaching crossing as in proper. Then, after passing the crossing, and directly beside, the CG, at 3:00 in the morning. he blows all the horns on what seemed like all the five engines! Must have thought some hard of hearing campers might be on the tracks. Or just jealous because of those folks enjoying camping while he had to work.

AT least the trains at Anvil Campground are mostly VRE commuters, and as such, are much quieter than most. But, they are fast, and expect all the crossings to be clear.

Never go out west in the mountains then.
Everything is close by in the valleys, railways, highways, rivers. Hard to get away from anything noisy.

Jim Shoe wrote:
Most property adjacent to railroad tracks/expressways is zoned "commercial". You'd have to be a pretty dim bulb to build a home next to existing tracks or expressways, so the property is probably cheap, especially in a town.
Anvil CG in Williamsburg is so close that you could slap hands with the conductor without ever getting up from your chair. Both KOAs and American Heritage are close enough to hear the trains, and they pass by fairly often. They're all headed to Hampton Roads, the largest sheltered deep water port on the east coast, surrounded by Norfolk, Newport News and Hampton.
BTW, if you time it just right, when you drive thru the underwater tunnel between Hampton and Norfolk, you can get run over by an aircraft carrier. :)

We stayed at Anvil when we visited Williamsburg in 2011 and even thou we live close to the railroad tracks at home it took a few nights to get used to the frequency at which they came by. At one campground in Ga. one time the tracks were hidden by trees so we did not see them when we checked in. It was not long before we knew they were there.....

Don't all parks have train tracks within a mile? We have even had trains near forest campground and Corp of Engineer parks. I don't think you are allowed to build a campground/rv park unless there is a train track somewhere close.

If they were steam trains I would pay big $$$ to be near enough to watch them go by. Diesels don't turn my crank, but I would rather listen to them rumble by than listen to dogs yapping, kids screaming, drunks partying or the worst of all is a small airport that gives flight instruction daily, every day.

Trains make sweet music just like diesel engines.

Most property adjacent to railroad tracks/expressways is zoned "commercial". You'd have to be a pretty dim bulb to build a home next to existing tracks or expressways, so the property is probably cheap, especially in a town.
Anvil CG in Williamsburg is so close that you could slap hands with the conductor without ever getting up from your chair. Both KOAs and American Heritage are close enough to hear the trains, and they pass by fairly often. They're all headed to Hampton Roads, the largest sheltered deep water port on the east coast, surrounded by Norfolk, Newport News and Hampton.
BTW, if you time it just right, when you drive thru the underwater tunnel between Hampton and Norfolk, you can get run over by an aircraft carrier. :)