D.C. Campground

[tstryk]

When we went to Washington, DC about 20 years ago, we stayed in what I believe was a KOA with huge wooded pull-through sites. I can't find it again in my searches - does this campground ring a bell with anyone?

[tstryk]

Here are a couple pictures of the campground if it stirs any memories:

[ford_truck_guy]

I have only stayed at Cherry Hill Park... No reason to stay anywhere else.. Large, clean, close to all , shuttles pick you up at the park for tours...

[Campforever]

You are talking about Aquia Pines RV Resort in Stafford VA. Have been staying there since 95 about once or twice a year. Nice park, tell Everett hello.

[dennis1949]

we have stayed at the KOA at Frederksburg Va. next time we stayed at Cherry Hill Rv park
When at the KOA we rode the Virginia railway express into DC

[Dutch_12078]

We stayed at the KOA in Millersville, MD to visit friends in Pasadena a couple of years ago. It was about equidistant to Baltimore and DC, but I have no idea if a train station is nearby, but they do have some wooded sites.

[Bumpyroad]

jplante4 wrote:
This one maybe? Stayed there 2 years ago. Nice park with new concrete slabs. They have a shuttle to the Metro.

yes, that is no doubt the one he had in mind.
bumpy

[Teacher_s_Pet]

When our daughter lived in the DC area for 6 years during college and after, we stayed at Little Bennett Regional Park in Clarksville MD. We opted for this after fighting the traffic across the top of DC one time to go to Cherry Hill. At the time Little Bennett was much quieter due to less traffic noise and on our way in from the west. Plus it was less than 1/2 the price of Cherry Hill and still is.

[Cougarnewbie]

Jim Norman wrote:
DC area, Cherry Hill is an excellent place, not cheap, but very nice, well organized and has good connections to the Metro.

Duncan Family CG is south of DC, excellent place to visit Mt. Vernon and the southern end of DC.

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[DutchmenSport]

tstryk wrote:

DutchmenSport wrote:
Don't know about KOA, you might be thinking of Lake Fairfax Park (Fairfax County - campground).

I don't think that is the place, but it may be. I am sure it was a KOA because it was the only one we ever stayed at. Is this place close to a train station? We were able to park and take the train in for sightseeing every day.

As I remember, yes. We drove to the closest train station and rode to the Mall. Looking a the current Metro maps on the Internet, the end of the gray line (Weihle-Resten) Click here is the closest station on the Dulles Access Road (highway 267), and according to the maps, looks like it might be less than 3 miles from the campground to the Metro stop.

[jplante4]

This one maybe? Stayed there 2 years ago. Nice park with new concrete slabs. They have a shuttle to the Metro.

[tstryk]

DutchmenSport wrote:
Don't know about KOA, you might be thinking of Lake Fairfax Park (Fairfax County - campground).

I don't think that is the place, but it may be. I am sure it was a KOA because it was the only one we ever stayed at. Is this place close to a train station? We were able to park and take the train in for sightseeing every day.

[Jim_Norman]

DC area, Cherry Hill is an excellent place, not cheap, but very nice, well organized and has good connections to the Metro.

Duncan Family CG is south of DC, excellent place to visit Mt. Vernon and the southern end of DC.

[DutchmenSport]

Don't know about KOA, you might be thinking of Lake Fairfax Park (Fairfax County - campground).

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We stayed there for a week many years ago with our pop-up. It was a great spot, as it was only about 2 miles from my wife's company headquarters (at the time, in Reston, VA) right after a company merger. WE got to visit the headquarters building, one of the few from Indiana who actually got to see it. This was a real treat.

It was also a good spot to branch out and re-discover Washington DC. I was Stationed at Fort Belvior, Virgina right after my wife and I got married, and both our kids were born at DeWitt Army Medical Center on Fort Belvoir. We went back and look up all the places we lived, (both on post and off), and went back to Manassas, VA and saw the house we lived in for about a year after I got out of the Army.

The campground, back then, was very nice (in my opinion), and can only have improved since then. I remember the water park there, and we spent a day there too. The kids had a great time. We (adults) had a great time, and it was because of the campground that made it all possible.

[Bumpyroad]

probably the KOA between Balt and DC, yes, last time I was there it fit your description. it is NOT the one inside the DC beltway.
bumpy