Delaware Seashore State Park - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (October 2019)

The Delaware Seashore State Park is in the shadow of the Charles W. Cullen Bridge on State Highway One. I’m not sure who he was, but I think he would have been very proud of his bridge. It is visually stunning.

The bridge

The bridge backdrop tends to overpower everything else about the campground. Sites tend to be very close together? OK, but look at the bridge! Sites seem to be too short and rigs longer than 25 feet may struggle to fit within the allotted space? True, but that’s some bridge!

The bridge at night

There are two camping loops in this park. One is on the north side of the inlet and the other is on the south side. You have to cross the bridge if you want to see the other loop. I’m not sure if there are any differences between the two, but we were in the south camping loop.

Sign at the south side of the bridge

The weather tried to steal the show while we were in this campground. We saw sustained winds in the 20-25 mph range and gusts near 45 mph the entire time we were there. That made opening Rosie’s door challenging at times. (Rosie is our 25 foot Airstream trailer.)

Rosie near the bridge

Rain accompanied the wind. This was more of light showers than a driving rain. It didn't matter because the precipitation mixed with cool temperatures made going outside an adventure. 

The third weather factor was the flood. The flood?

A trip to the dumpster on our last evening was cut short when I noticed that water was flowing over the roads and under trailers only four sites away from Rosie. 

Several campers in the flooded area were outside and visibly concerned about the rising water. That was only the prelude to the flood on the morning we left the park. 

High tide is flood time

I noticed the salt water from the inlet was rapidly rising while walking Suzy, our Yorkie, that morning. We decided to quickly hook Rosie to our truck and to take down the utilities in case the salt water reached us.

High tides, a full moon and an offshore storm all combined to create the coastal flooding we experienced in that park.

The surf on the beach

This was the second time we had to pack up Rosie because of a flood. The first time was when a river we were camping next to in West Virginia flooded. That campground was under 10 feet of water a few hours after we hurriedly left. This flood wasn’t as severe as that, but we didn’t want to pull Rosie through six inches of salt water as we left the park. 

Our choice was to wait for the water from the inlet to recede. By the way, the water made it to the trailer parked two sites from us before it started retreating.

Rosie exiting the campground

But through the wind, rain and floods, we could always look at the bridge. Wow! What a bridge.

Driving over the bridge

Here are some specifics about this campground:

• Our site was a pull-thru 
• Our site was paved with asphalt 
• Our site was level
• Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service
• Our site had a water connection 
• Our site had a sewer connection 
• There was a dump station in the campground 
• The restroom and showers near our site were clean
• The showers had annoying push buttons for service. That meant you had no control over temperatures and had to push the button about every 10 seconds for another stream of lukewarm water
• We were able to watch ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS using Rosie’s antenna. We also saw digital channels  Grit, Get and ME-TV
• AT&T placed two bars of 4G service for voice and data over our site (Our phone reported that we were on 5Ge. Nice try AT&T, but I know our phone is incapable of working on 5G)
• The campground did not provide WiFi service 
• There were laundry facilities at most restrooms in the park
• There was a camp store in the campground. It had a vending machine that sold live bait

Live bait from a vending machine?