Boone KOA - Boone, North Carolina (June 2019)

Our visit to Boone KOA didn’t get off on the proper foot. Our assigned site looked similar to the crest of a hill. Since Rosie’s door is at the rear, the domed shape of the site meant that there wasn't a safe way to enter or exit Rosie. (Rosie is our 25 foot Airstream trailer.)

Sign at campground's entrance

It didn't take long for them to move us to another site. The new site worked much better for Rosie.

Rosie in the campground

This campground wasn't on a main road around Boone. You really had to trust your GPS as it urged you to to head down some small mountain roads. We found the campground exactly where our GPS said it would be.

This was a campground that proudly wore the label family-friendly. The happy sounds told us that the playground was a popular gathering place for families with children. 

We were impressed with the campground staff. A boy about five years-old ran into the restroom while it was being cleaned. I overheard the woman who appeared to head-up the cleaning crew say that he looked like he really needed to use the restroom. She told the cleaning crew to step outside for a moment. That left a positive impression on me.

There were other examples of the friendly and helpful staff that we observed during visit. 

We drove from Boone to Damascus to ride bicycles on the Virginia Creeper Trail. We rode downhill on what was once an old logging railroad path. We were able to talk to several Appalachian Trail hikers and ate lunch at a trail side restaurant that was featured in a well known magazine for its chocolate cake. It was good, but I’m still partial to my mother’s cake.

The bike shop in Damascus

Getting the bikes on the trailer for the ride to the start of the Virginia Creeper Trail

Rail to Trail sign

The restaurant along the Virginia Creeper Trail

Speaking of eating, we also ate dinner at the Dan'l Boone Inn and had breakfast at Shatley Springs. Both served family style meals and were very enjoyable.

Dan'l Boone Inn

Sign at Shatley Springs

Breakfast at Shatley Springs

Becky samples the spring water at Shatley Springs

Here are some specifics about this campground:

• Our site was gravel and required leveling tools to correct a right to left lean
• The gravel road to our site was steep enough to cause us some concern both when we arrived and left
• Our site was a pull-thru
• Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service 
• Our site had a water connection 
• Our site had a sewer connection 
• The campground's sewer opening was uphill from our site. This is always annoying 
• AT&T placed only one bar of 4G voice and data service over our site 
• The park had WiFi, but it was mostly unusable 
• The park had clean restrooms and showers 
• Getting reliable TV service in the mountains is tricky. We mostly watched videos from our DVR

A fellow camper said that there was a cemetery just up the road from the campground that had an outhouse in the middle of it. We didn’t have an opportunity to check that out. We will add that to our “to do” list for next time.