This video is my visit and review of Rudd's Creek Recreational Area Campground.
All right, behind me is where you check in. When you arrive just pull up to the stop sign, and they'll
bring you forward, and you just can sit in your car, and pay the fees, and you're in the campground.
All right here I am. I just arrived at Rudd's Creek Recreation Area, where I'm
staying at the campground. So I'm going to take a look around, and show you all what I see here.
Okay, that is my campsite that i've been given.
And as you see, it comes with a picnic table, some kind of table, and a fire ring.
All right, so let's take a little walk.
And it looks like I'm just about the only one here in this section of the campground.
They consider this the primitive section.
I think they consider this the primitive section, because there is no electricity
at any of these campsites. But for the price I'm paying I really don't care, because I have
the lifetime senior pass for the park service and the other areas with the government runs.
This campsite's only costing me ten dollars a night. So you can't get much cheaper than that.
All right, over there that is the nearest bathroom to my campsite. As you can see
it's pretty primitive, from the outside. It's a men and women's share.
And that's nothing to write home to.
Okay in front of me we have a beach area.
This looks pretty cool.
It looks like they have a little area with picnic tables here.
Let's walk down to the beach.
That's what I call gumballs on the ground here.
Oh this is interesting.
They have life jackets here that you can borrow, interesting.
Yep, whole bunches of life jackets you can borrow.
okay
Swimming your own risk, there are no lifeguards here.
And it's not a bad looking lake out
there.
Of course that's highway 58 in the distance.
Not a bad little beach.
That's not too bad of a little beach they got here.
But since the temperature is going down in the 60s
for most of my visit here, I doubt I'll be doing too much swimming in the lake.
So let me walk back to my campsite now. It's really peaceful here you can hear the birds.
Well I'm car camping at Rudd's Creek, and everything's set up in the car. So all I
have to do is relax and enjoy the evening, and I'll let you all know how it went in the morning, later.
Later that night I went back to the beach and sat and read a book
until the sunset. It was quite a relaxing experience.
I'm here in the car now. uh Ready to get some sleep. What's really weird is there are like four
large birds and we're talking eagle size out there. That they seem to have a disagreement up the
top of the trees. So they are making some really weird noises as they jump in and out of the tree
and flap their wings at each other. I guess they're trying to impress each other
and establish whose boss. I don't there's no air breeze out there tonight, so
these screens on the windows are not letting a lot of cold air come through. So it's fairly
comfortable in here even though outside the temperature is now dropping into the low 60s.
But I think it's gonna be all right. I just hope those birds out there calm down.
What's really kind of strange is where I am right now in this campground,
there's a section here with about six campsites and a little grouping.
I am the only person in this grouping. So you feel like you're really alone. There are two other
campers quite a bit further that way, and I saw a group of about two campers the other direction, but
quite a ways away. So I can't hear them talking or anything so you wouldn't even know they were there.
The only noise I hear are those crazy birds out there.
Who'd have thought that the birds would be making so much noise.
so uh
I guess it's about time for me to just say goodnight. Y'all take care bye.
Well morning. Last night I slept pretty good.
Got cold in the middle of the night, but put my hoodie on and I was fine again.
it's nice being here with uh no one else
nearby. I've pretty much got this section of the campground all to myself. it was really nice
having no one around, because there was no noise last night, except for the birds and the trees, and
you can hear a little bit of highway noise from the road, because this campground is
right next to highway 58. I mean it's not right up on it, but it's close enough that you can hear
uh the sound of the traffic coming across the lake.
This is kind of a low light situation in the morning. So I don't think you can see me real
well in this car but I wanted you to be able to see the uh background behind me. And I don't
know if this uh camera's audio is good enough to pick up the birds in the background, but it's
really nice to hear the sounds of of them out there. Now last night I can look up through the
sunroof of the car here, and I could see up into the trees. In fact right now I can see up into the
trees. So that makes this uh car camping experience pretty good. And like i say this car mattress
that I got from Luno. It worked really well it was comfortable last night,
and this was the first time I've tried this car camping. So i think i'm going to try it again,
because it works and coming here on a weekday. Checking in on a Monday.
It's really nice that nobody else is in this part of the campground. Now where they have
electricity there's a lot more people over there, but that's a ways away from this spot.
So I don't think i'm gonna get places that have electricity, because
I kind of like being out here by myself. It's kind of neat. Well I'll get up in a few minutes. I've
been laying here because it's just so comfortable. I'll get up and get ready to start my day of
doing genealogy research at the courthouse and checking out the historic sites that are nearby.
All right, later gang. All right I'm up,
as you can see
there is no one around.
I pretty much have this campground section all to myself. so
Take a little walk.
I realized that i did not get any pictures of the bath houses, that are located around
the campground. At these bath houses they have showers and toilets
in a better environment. So I thought I'd just let you look at the lake while I talked about it.
Now here is an example of a campsite with electricity and water. You can pull up to this
location and plug whatever you need to right into this outlet.
So this is what I do not have at the campsite where I'm at.
Well check it out. This campground has a boat ramp. You can actually bring
your boat and launch it here. I'm going to turn this around and let you take a look.
I guess this explains why I've seen so many boats tied up to the shore around here.
Looks like people bring their boat with them. Go camping, then go out fishing.
That's not a bad deal. Of course me, I don't want to drag a boat all the way out here. But
it's nice to know in case that's something you want to do. Another day of running around
and doing my history stuff, and genealogical stuff at the courthouse, and
I have come back to the campsite and I have a new family that's moved in at the campsite next
to me. So I decided to switch around my car a little bit, so I get out the door opposite
their campsite, so they don't think I'm kind of walking into their campsite. That would be kind of bad. So
my car is reversed from last night, so I'll see how it is to sleep on the other side of the car.
Other than that it's been a great day of running around
I went and saw Fort Christanna. It's a fort that was built in
1714 and was used until 1722 by the colonists, and i'm gonna make a video
about that. So be on the look out for that. So with that I think I'll say good night.
All right checking out is really easy. All you have to do is bring your
park pass that you have in your windshield, and you bring it over here
and you just
drop it in the box, and now
I am all checked out. And I'll say farewell to this place.
Now if you leave later in the day, you just drop your pass at the window, on your way out.