today we're going to share with you a hidden gem of a campground that we found with views like that
hey y'all we're jimmy and lisa with Find Us Camping where it's all about the people
and the places people we meet while we're traveling along the road and seeing all the cool
places so today we want to share with you a place we found jimmy and i have been coming to the outer
banks i guess both of us since we were teenagers it's been a long time um not camping all that time
but coming to the outer banks and we've kind of gotten to where it's not all about the beach in
the sand for us we like the more laid back relaxed um i'm not a sand on my feet type of person and we
can still go to the beach so we have been coming down here camping and found a couple places that
are rather expensive and not all that um we're really kind of didn't want to do this video
because we don't want you well we want you all to come and enjoy it but we don't want you to take
care but we want there to be an opening when we want to come enjoy it there's only 13 spots here
for transients so yeah so this is um a site or a campground it's called the refuge on roanoke
island so it's actually in one cheese north carolina just across the bridge from nags head
so it takes you five minutes to get the next head from here so if anybody knows the area right into
the right into the middle of all the well from here to jeannette's pier it's five minutes so if
you're familiar with nag's head and outer banks you know jeanette's piers yet all the transient
sites back up to this water here um you can't really get in the water here but you can fish and
crab from the deck or from right behind your site there's a sidewalk that runs all along the edge
they have a swimming pool they have a really clean clean clean bath house this whole park is
really clean like the grass is mowed everything's well hold on about the grass there's one thing
that you're not supposed to do here we're gonna let ron here show you what you're not allowed to
do ron take it away don't talk on my grass so the reason you're not really supposed to park on the
grass you know we're lawn care people there is erosion problems anytime you're near the beach
because there's a lot of sand so we appreciate it even though he gave me a hard time the very first
time we came but not parking on the grass but we appreciate it we understand ron um
some people complain about it but let's be real folks i'd rather have the grass than my camper
washing away into the to the water because there's nothing there to hold to hold the dirt still so
it's important even though it's a pain like you can't have mats like your carpets out um i think
the rule is three by three is the biggest you can have out which don't get me wrong that's a pain
when you're trying to keep sand out of the camper on the ground so you know there's grass so it's
not so bad um it's important so just suck it up it's all good and it's worth it for the views and
for the clean clean campground they've got here um the annuals there's a lot of annual sites here and
like he said only 13 transient sites but everybody is super friendly and everybody's sites are super
clean grasses mode it's just a nice place it's quiet and again it's not in the hustle bustle
of the commercial area of the typical outer banks we're here on labor day weekend and you
can we're filming now right here in the middle of everything and you can tell there's no noise
i hear a couple people in the pool behind me kids out there fishing this morning so if
you want to relax and you want a nice beautiful sight this is it right here and oh there's more
you can't spoil it yet so they also have this huge deck and off this deck there's several walkways
out through the sound in the marshy areas this is a fish or a catch and release we have seen
somebody catch a huge puppy drum out of here maybe this isn't this isn't um i don't know that thing
was like this big no fishing story no fishing story that's it it was that big and then somebody
caught what was the other thing a hammer or uh a sheephead fish that's the funniest looking fish
ever he's cool looking but he's got like no worse human teeth it's insane you have to google it or
maybe he'll put a picture in it so the good thing is you could catch them they put them back in and
you catch them ron said there's fish in here been caught four five six seven eight times i don't
know why they need to keep getting caught because this area fills up when the when the water level
gets high like when there's a storm or something and then when it goes back down what's in here is
in here um because it's not the ocean anyway it's just a really nice place they also have a church
service on sunday mornings um it's just a small gathering here underneath the pavilion 20 minutes
yeah and it's a local preacher that that comes from before he goes to his church and preaches his
sermon he comes here so if that's something you're interested in that is something they have here
so the good news even though they only have 13 sites they're building another campground building
another one right down the road so it's not going to be backed up to this beautiful scenery here
it's more of the marsh area but they are um i think going to build a walkway out to the water
maybe i don't know it's still under construction we were fortunate enough to talk with margaret
who it oversees both of these um campgrounds and she let us go get some footage some drone footage
so it's over in manio so when you come out of nags head and you come across the bridge
left to go to wan cheese where we are right to go into manio and there's a farm um like the
man that owns and develops and you know made the campgrounds both of them he has a farm over there
and he's been here his whole life and so what's really cool about that is
he's got the farm over there there's some rescued animals they have a horse that was rescued from a
kill shelter they have goats chickens turkeys um even a guinea and the farm gives back to
the community so the eggs they get from the chickens they take to the food bank you know
just things like that um they also have some houses that he's built over there to help out
some of the local people that have been here all their lives and as it gets more commercial
like they've been renting their house like they've raised their family here and they've been renting
a house and now as things get more commercial people are selling those off as resort properties
and these people you know don't have anywhere to go their homes are gone and so he's got some
houses that he's building over there to make it more affordable for people to be able to stay
in the area that they've been in all this time i talked to him yesterday and one thing that he
is really doing out there that's pretty neat don't quote me on all the words on this because i didn't
don't i didn't hear everything but he is building a cabin out there one or two cabs on a little bit
at the new campus the new campground and if you're a disabled vet or you are a vet with disabled
children he is going to allow you to stay in his cabin at the campground for one week for free so
talk about giving back to the community i think this guy is doing a super super great job on
keeping the campgrounds up throwing us a nice place to stay and giving back to his community
which is really really cool means a lot um so we already loved this campground we found it
just as a fluke the last time we were here and thought yeah you know so please visit it but
don't visit when we're trying to get in it doesn't look really big but how bad could it be and we got
here and we loved it so we came back again labor day weekend uh and they're building the new one in
manio we can't wait for that to be complete it's supposed to be complete this year but
you know kind of how covets affected everything it's taking them forever to get their democracy
she had ordered the pedestals for the power back in like march and they just came and it's labor
day weekend so they just got here within the last couple of weeks so things are getting put
behind but they still do hope to have it complete in 2021 um and then once it opens we'll of course
book a stay there and get some videos so make sure you make sure you're subscribing to these
this this channel our channel um that way when we do get back over there and the new and the
campground is done you can check it out you'll be able to check it out and you'll see and hopefully
when it's done you guys can let us know which one you like better do you like the farmland or do you
like being up here to the next to the water i like the water side of it it's kind of a toss-up for me
because everybody that watches our channel should know by now that i'm a sucker for animals so
you know you're at the beach area even though you're not at the water and there's a farm so
yeah but give me the breeze coming off that water right there give me the view the sun comes up
right over there i'll take that any day over the i think either place is great it's going to be
cool at the new campground too so anyway if you are enjoying our videos please subscribe
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