On Thursday the 26th I left my daughter's home in Winfield, MD on my way to Hawk campground (Federal Forest Campground). I was so anxious to get on the road because I had been delayed 3 days trying to finish up a Native American Dance Regalia order. I should have spent a few more minutes checking the actual driving directions before I left her home but I'd seen them several times already and thought I knew the way..
As it was I ended up East of Winchester, VA trying to get the directions on my iphone but it was trying to send me a direction I hadn't seen before, so I thought that I'd check the freecampsites.net website and even though I was able to pull up the website, their advertisement about their new RV dumps website was in the way and I couldn't get the info I needed to put into Mapquest.com.
So, I called my friend and he helped me by sending the direction to my phone. (Thank you my friend!!!)
It was at that point that I really wished I had a map or book to give directions!!! Technology was of no help, except when I was able to call my friend and he was able to help me.
I ended up getting to the Hawk campground about 5pm. I was the only one there and I'm still trying to get over the uneasiness of being along in a big ole forest. About dusk another single lady arrived and camped a few spaces down from mine. She left early the next morning so I don't know if she was in a tent or using her Prius as an RV like my friend, Suanne Carlson does.
I slept well, few mosquitoes, an overall good camping event. The road was well maintained gravel, all 17 miles of it. Yeppers, it was 17 miles from the nearest paved road. But its a logging road so its pretty well maintained for the loggers.
The bottom photo shows how wide the sites are, plus look at the gorgeous greens in those trees!!!.
