hey y'all we're Jimmy and Lisa with Find Us Camping,
today you found us camping at the thousand trails lynchburg rv resort in gladys virginia
we do this every day and i'm still so amazed the closest big town that anybody's ever heard
of probably to this campground is lynchburg virginia which is home to liberty university
so a lot of people have heard of that um it is a very rural area it's in the mountains in
virginia it's a beautiful area and it's kind of like a lot of thousand trails parks it's
not in town it's kind of out away from everything way away from everything like lynchburg is still
about 20 minutes 25 minutes away um there is a food line right down the road so if you're
looking for a food line it's pretty close yeah and rusburg which is again a small town um so
basically this is just like she said like the normal thousand trails you have your guard shack
in the front coming in um the gate you have a gate code to get in here and then once you get in
the one thing this park has is this great big lake um there's a there's you can fish all around this
thing and there's actually a beach so they have a beach area for swimming um so i would assume you
wouldn't fish there and then right behind the beach area they also have a really nice pool
um basketball horseshoes pickleball tennis courts
i will say the pickleball and tennis courts they need a little help need a little attention that's
a good word attention um they do have a problem here in that a lot of parks that have a lake have
a similar problem that the land all you know feeds down to the lake so when it rains a lot
they have some drainage problems so the roads get rutted out and that kind of thing but it did rain
while we were here and the maintenance guy was out with the tractor grading the road um trying
to fix the damage that was caused by the rain and the last couple times we've been here this park
only had 30 amp full hookups i mean they also have 10 sites but there was no 50 amp they have since
started the whole park is not 50 amp yet no but they do have two sections one on either side of
the lake um that have some 50 amp sights now so that's wow that's good evidently since they
added these 50 amp they've had to cut some 30s out so it looks like a lot of sights here are bagged
i guess they can't run a lot of 50 amps in here and still keep the 30s so but i do think they're
still trying we talked to the manager for a minute the other day and i i think she's still trying to
upgrade what's here it's just you know it's not an overnight process um this campground is only open
may through october though so uh i guess because it's in the mountains they probably get a lot of
snow so they have to turn the water off in the winter so there's no camping here at that time
they did have a band what last saturday i guess i said dj friday night yeah they had
a dj or something we didn't come down because we didn't realize that we missed it on the calendar
but it was fourth of july weekend so friday night there was some kind of music we went out to walk
the dogs and we could hear music playing so there was something going on but then um saturday night
there was live music i don't know maybe it was saturday and sunday anyway i think fourth fourth
of july they had they had a lot of love band and they were pretty cool they did a good job and we
have been a couple thousand trails that still don't do anything on holidays or weekends so
at least they had some music going on here and some activities for the kids so there is a big
meetup room i guess if that's what you want to call it in the middle of that like
it's the pavilion and then the community room i think is what they call it at most thousand
trails um and there's like a little room in there that used to be an adult room but now
there's kids in there so they also have a laundry facility that's off of that same room
and then like over the weekend the kids were doing they had tie-dye t-shirts one
one day they were out on the pavilion which is attached to the building um doing that i
didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the other activities but i know they had things all weekend
but we don't have any kids that want to participate one thing they had was like a
race around this pond oh they did a bike race around the pond i do remember reading that maybe
something with fishing i don't know we're terrible because we didn't really pay attention but um
yeah they did at least have live music which was nice and
they catered to anybody like they were singing country music but the
the guy asked if people want to hear other stuff and they would play other things so in the middle
of this part behind the pavilion there is a spot for the kids to play there is a playground there
uh they see a tetherball there's tetherball there there's some seesaws there now for the playground
you have to be i think was 12 and under so you can't play like you usually like to play
so um all in all this park i wouldn't say this is in our my top ten i think it's a great park
i think it's a nice location and i like the fact that it's around the water and i understand they
can't control the drainage issues and the roots and the road and it's an ongoing thing
it gets kind of hard to come through here with a big camper when there's a lot of ruts in there
yeah there were a couple places i was worried about dragging my jacks and i didn't want to
rip them off so um there's that but all in all i mean we we it's in virginia so we do come here
probably not as frequently as some of the other parks just because we know it's rutted up and
up until now they didn't have 50 amp and if we wanted to come in the summer then we couldn't like
we're here july 6th 7th whatever it is it's 92 degrees outside so i do want my air conditioners
running sure so that was a plus i think it's a nice enough park i just think it's or a little
updating maybe that's a better word and if you're trying to call to get in here you need to keep
calling and calling and calling because it it gets tough to call here sometimes apparently
there's not a phone at the guard shack like when you come in which at most the parks we've been to
there is so it was hard to get in touch with the people at the guard shack you know i don't know
and the office is up outside of the guard shack um i didn't try to go up there but i had a hard time
calling i was trying to call in one day while we were outside seeing because i knew the gate code
had changed and i had a hard time getting in touch with a real live person to give me the code but
i don't think there's any back on any pull through sites i think they're all they're all back inside
they are all full hookup though which that's a plus but they're not all 50 amps so some 30s
a lot of 30s some 50s and then they have 10 sites as well now i will tell you one thing the
att cellular service here not great you can make a phone call but you're not doing a whole lot with
data here the data is super super slow here as far as verizon goes i don't know but at t is not
the best here so if you're coming here to work and you come here to work with the at t hot spot
you come in here to watch tv with the att hot spot you're not gonna make it with this one so but all
in all this park is not that bad i mean it's we still come quite often um we'll still keep coming
quite often and on a side note there's a pretty good mexican restaurant down in rosberg near the
food lion so we need some mexican food let's check it out so that's all we really have for this one
it's kind of i mean there's not a whole lot to park snot that big to really show you guys so
that's it been a nice show that's it so it's a nice park it's in the mountains there are a lot of
historical things around here too like appomattox county is here um roanoke's not too far of a drive
so like roanoke's got roanoke christiansburg so like radford university virginia tech are
all within a good drive um like you could do a day trip or whatever it's not hours away
and like appomattox county has a lot of historical things civil war stuff so if you're into that this
would probably be a good place to come so that's basically so if you guys are enjoying these
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