where will you find us camping today
hey y'all we're jimmy and Lisa with Find Us Camping and today
you found us camping at harborview rv resort and campground in colonial beach virginia
this is a thousand trails park and it's not one of the biggest parks
um but it is currently under new management and we spoke with the manager today and it seems like
she has big plans big ideas yeah so this is this we said this is not a big park it's actually a big
park there's just not a lot of sights um when you see some of the drone footage you'll when
i go over top of it you'll see that right here basically right here behind us is a great big
spot for huge fields all kinds of rvs we were here one year and a plane actually landed here
this is a small plane it wasn't a big 747 but i think it used to be an old runway i think that's
what somebody said one time yeah i don't remember so the park is pretty big like there's this field
and then the woods in the background and then on the other side of the trees there's another
field and there's a fishing pond over there um so there is a lot of room here it's just not a lot of
sights but what that does mean is if they decide to expand they have the room to do so so we'll see
just like every other thousand trails you know you you come into your your front gate
this one doesn't have a gate like the rest of them do as far as the arms come down you kind
of just pull in and you go up to the main office and they will ask you to escort you to your site
of course we have since we're 45 foot long there is smaller sites here they're not
all huge sites but there is one row here that is basically pull throughs
um which makes it easier yeah it makes it easier for us to get our camper in and out of so i do
believe she said though that all the sights here are 30 and 50 amp so that's always point and they
don't charge extra for 50 amp because some of the parks we've stayed at recently it's like three
dollars a night i think some places it's even five dollars a night for 50 amp which isn't that big of
a deal but it's nice to come someplace that they have both and there is no up charge for it a lot
of people complain no i would say complain a lot of people say when we do our campground tours that
there's no trees this one is in the trees quite a bit i mean it's i don't know of any sites here
really that are don't have some some shade so but along with that some of the thousand trails parks
we've been to that have trees the branches are way lower yeah they haven't maintained them so
branches hang down and scratch your camper or this trees are on the corner of the site it makes it
hard for you to pull through back in whatever i will say that they've done a good job here
although there are trees and there's plenty of shade getting into our site was a breeze and
getting out is going to be equally as easy so that the trees either through luck or through
maintenance have been kept so that they don't drag the edge of your camper and it's not going to make
it difficult for us to get in and out of our site which is always a plus so just like every other
thousand trails that you've seen us do videos on they have all the same amenities they have the
the big pool which is nice they have a huge pool here even the deep end is like 10 feet deep
which is not something you see very often anymore most pools like they get up to five foot that's it
so as a kid that grew up in the pool i like that there's a deep end that you can get into
there is a smaller type of putt-putt looks like they kind of keep up the putt-putt pretty well and
it looks like there's a new set of basketball nets goals they have like a full-on basketball court um
a grass volleyball court but then in that area where the basketball court is
it's got um i don't know it's like a hard plastic mat is what it's over asphalt or concrete old
concrete or asphalt but that whole area down there they have basketball
they have mini golf they have a huge on the ground checkerboard f tetherball
and i think there's a shuffleboard court there was some other thing up there on the ground
i'm not sure what it was it was like four corners it was a square divided into fourths
i don't know what that is but i'm sure it's some kind of game because it was marked out
on the ground just not something that happened so just like most of the other thousand trails
they still have all the same games that you see park to park to park to park so there's
nothing really in this campground that is over and above except for the you know the sites are sites
are actually bigger here than some of the other sites are really nice and again the trees being
maintained and located in a great place um it's a plus for me because that's always a battle at
thousand trails parks i'm excited that there is a new manager here and that she seems really excited
about doing big things that makes me happy because so many of the thousand trails parks
aren't that way so i'm excited for her and excited to come back maybe next year um or later in the
fall and check out and see what's what's happened we did go through the bathrooms so of course you
can see the bathrooms here they have cute little camping shower curtains yeah they have campers on
them and have little you know like take a nap relax enjoy something they're pretty clean one
i went into little things in life one i went into was pretty clean they're not super big there is a
laundry mat right behind the the pool area i think it's in the same building yeah so the building up
front when you come in where the office is um on one end they have like the store check-in there's
not much of a store but she did say that they're trying to that's something else she's working on
um her office there's another office and then there's a room on the back that's over by the pool
that's i think probably used to be an adult lounge that's not politically correct anymore
so but there is a room that has like books and puzzles and things like that and then right off
that is the laundry facility the other end of that building is like uh i think we're here one
year they had an ice cream social so that's where that happened um i think it's one of those places
that you can use or rent i'm not sure how it works like if you're having a family reunion
or a birthday party or something i know that that's what that room is used for i just don't
know if you can use it as a member if you have to pay for it and then down by our camp site is this
huge outdoor pavilion with picnic tables yeah one year they had a dj out here and the dance and all
that kind of stuff was right here which was pretty neat at least it's out of the rain if it rains and
right now it's sunny and hot outside so i know the video is a little dark but we had to find
some kind of shade because it was brutal out here sounds like it's thunder made it's not a storm um
also in the past when we've been here this is the area where if they do like a cornhole tournament
or something well that's right i won that one year yes yes he did um but they'll do that here in the
grassy area and then people brought snacks and food and stuff and had it here under the shade
and we've been here before that they had a member generated and this has been a couple years back
they hung um projector he had some sort of mat to project on and put his projector out there
in the field shined it up here and they played like rio or some family movie and everybody was
out on their blankets or in their golf carts on towels lawn chairs whatever to watch the movie so
that's something fun they can do here all in all like i said when you're here you can go
into colonial beach there is a beach somewhat in there i wouldn't call it the beach like you
know virginia beach or one of those but it's a beachy area and it's a golf cart that's only what
30 minutes away i think it is i don't even know if it's that far so yeah that's a a day drive there's
a lot of little shops and um i don't think they're antique shops but little beachy shopping boutiques
several ice cream shops in town um and then this campground also so there's the pond over there
but then down at the other end there's also a pond a fish and pond i don't know that it's a fishing
pond i think it might run into the rivers over there and there's a marina right next door i don't
know if you can really use the marina i don't know how you can use the last time we were here
they did let us come over there and put our kayaks in the marina used to be part of the campground
but as though i guess thousand trails bought it it's not part of the campground anymore so i know
you can do some things over there some things you can't so kind of be careful if you go over there
i think worst case scenario if you had a boat or a jet ski or kayaks you could go put them in and
then bring your truck and stuff back over here they were nice enough to let us park there the
time that we put ours in but that's not a given so don't assume so right now there's not a whole lot
we can really show you about this campground it's kind of like i said it's the campground
is huge but this the amount of sights are small so the staff was very friendly though we really
enjoy coming here it's kind of quiet it's off the beaten path a little bit it's a good place to come
and relax and unwind um sit by the pool if the weather is right sit outside if the weather's
right we probably should have gone to the pool today because it's brutal very hot and humid
um but on a cooler day like in the fall just hanging out at your site would be awesome it's
a good place to relax it's not a big busy city area as you can see right now there's no noise
it's quiet everybody's i guess inside because it's hot but since we've been here one golf cart went
by it's kind of quiet if you guys are enjoying these videos there are a lot more out there look
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away and scream we're trying to go we're trying to go west next year love to go west but probably not
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do you want us to check out let us know that if we can fit it into our plans we'll definitely do that
we have a couple new more big campgrounds coming up soon in a couple more weeks so hopefully we
get some different ones besides thousand trails but you know somebody's frugal over here and
they don't like to spend a whole lot of money so we should try to stay in the thousand trails
network so command said consistently cheap no it might have been frugal consistently frugal
i don't think that's what it is but if you guys have questions about thousand trails we are more
than help happy to talk to you guys and put them in the comments below because somebody knows the
system pretty well we've been in the system for many many many years we use the system a lot so
it's not necessarily cheap now that i think about it it's just this i would like to spend as little
as possible to park my rig to sleep so that i have more money to spend going out and doing
fun things checking out restaurants or fun things to do in the area i'd rather spend my money there
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my mind so just sit with me talking to the night until the morning building cat
mystery i don't think i ever want to go come closer next
tell me try to find another way to say this but i think i think we were meant to be
oh we were meant to be oh we were meant to be alone we were meant to be so just
i think you were meant to be with me talking to the night until the morning building cat
mystery i don't think i ever want to go come closer next
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