We were a bit anxious about this stop. I didn't pay attention to the name of the place, "Ashland ATV Resort". We figured we would wait to form our opinions of this campground.
The Big Walker Mountain tunnel was the longer of the two, and this was what it looked like going through them:
The longer of the two tunnels was probably close to 3/4 of a mile through the mountain, the second was about a 1/2 mile.
Most of the drive was good, Garmin followed the directions the campground staff texted us.
They did however forget to mention the many miles of winding roads to get to the campground, starting from the time we got off the main highway. They did not mention that the office moved recently, so we ended up driving even further on the winding roads, then decided to give them a call and provide our location. We did find the office and got checked in.
The campground is relatively small, mostly cabins and tent sites, with a few RV sites. It had rained here the day before, so the site was a bit muddy getting setup, but we were successful. Behind our site was a small creek that actual had a tiny bit of water running through it.
We had to deal with rain during our short stay. We were going to drive into a little town to visit the store, but after the winding roads Carol was happy to stay home. One of the days I headed into town to get fueled up for the next leg of the journey. While I was in town I hit the local grocery store for a couple of needed items to make chaffles.
On the way back up the mountains I was able to enjoy the clouds on the mountains.
The bottom photo is on the road back up, and the top is at the campground.
Because we didn't go anywhere, I played Suzie Homemaker and made parmesan chips and chaffles.
Something Carol and I noticed was the abandonment of the area after the mining companies left. The few people that still live in the area appear to be a tight-knit community of small unincorporated towns. When we were leaving we saw a neighborhood working together to built something for one of the residents.
This visit to West Virginia was the final state needed to finish our trip through New England and Mid-Atlantic regions.
The only states left to complete our map are Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
Before we left we had a visitor come and enjoy our presence, or more likely our truck's presence:
We made a decision to leave the campground a day early, not being ATVers there wasn't much to do without driving down the 15 miles of winding roads. Our solution was to call our next stop and see if they could get us in a day early... prayer answered... so we packed up and headed to Tennessee.
This was a nice campground, especially for ATVers.
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