Virginia RV Travel: Sea to Mountains

For the RV enthusiast with a taste for variety in their travel, Virginia offers a veritable cornucopia of venues, sights, and attractions, along with plenty of quality locations to park you and your RV to rest up for the next day.  From the shores of the Chesapeake Bay to the Shenandoah Valley to the Cumberland Gap, Virginia has it all.

Just twelve miles north of the 13-mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel—an experience in itself—is the Cherrystone Family Camping Resort.  The resort offers the visitor 300 acres of waterfront beauty on the Chesapeake Bay.  Back across the Bridge Tunnel is Norfolk, VA—home of the world’s largest Naval Base—which has historic sights that date from the early days of America through the present.

The American Heritage RV Park provides accommodations that are within ten miles of Virginia’s Historic Triangle—Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown—sites of the first English settlement in America, the first and longest running legislative body, and Washington’s victory over Cornwallis that secured our independence from England.

Our nation’s capital is a short ride away via the Metro, the light-rail service for the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, when staying at the Lake Fairfax Campground in Reston, Virginia.  Lake Fairfax, operated by Fairfax County, Virginia, is unique and somewhat of an oxymoron:  outdoor camping in an urban surrounding.

Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley has many natural attractions, e.g., Natural Bridge and the Luray Caverns, as well as many significant Civil War venues, e.g., the town of Winchester, New Market and the Virginia Military Institute.  The Shenandoah Valley KOA, situated between the valley towns of Staunton and Verona off I-81, provides easy access to these and other sites in the upper valley.  Farther down the valley on I-81, closer to Lexington, VA (home of VMI) and the city of Roanoke, RVers will find a welcome home for the night at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone™ at Natural Bridge.