Mount Pleasant / Charleston KOA - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (October 2019)

The seventh stop on the 2019 WBCCI Southeast Coast Caravan was in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. This was just across the bay from Charleston.

The KOA sign at Mount Pleasant

We arrived about an hour before our scheduled time to enter the campground. We found a Costco about half a mile away from the park, so we stopped there and ate lunch inside Rosie, our Airstream trailer. By the time we finished eating, our campsite was ready.

Airstream trailers in the campground

It was easy to see that this was a well-maintained KOA campground. The park had gone all out and decorated for Halloween.

Decorations at the campground

This campground appeared to go "all out" for Halloween

Many southern cities have their own unique charms and Charleston excels in charm. What better way to see the historical district than from a horse-drawn carriage. Our guide was interesting and he knew many local facts and legends.

Our guide on the horse-drawn carriage ride

A horse-drawn carriage in Charleston

Our carriage ride ended next to the open air market in the historic section of Charleston. It was interesting to watch local craftsmen and women weave sweet grass baskets, something that was famous in that part of South Carolina.

Entrance to the Open Market

Our boat ride to Fort Sumter was interesting. We would have disliked be a soldier there because the fort was very small and the only thing on that island.

Fort Sumter

The fort’s design was similar to Fort Pickens, which is at another campground we enjoy visiting in Florida. The difference was that Fort Pickens was larger and it wasn’t stuck alone on a small island.

Next, we visited Patriots Point and the Aircraft Carrier Yorktown. This ship entered service during World War II until the Vietnam War.

The Aircraft Carrier Yorktown as seen from the ferry boat that took us to Fort Sumter

The Yorktown in the shadow of the bridge 

Flight deck on the Yorktown

Costco was our final stop in the Charleston area. We noticed that a tire on our truck was losing about a pound of pressure a day.  Costco found and patched the problem. 

Here are some specifics about this campground:

• Our site was a pull thru
• Our site was paved with gravel 
• We had to use leveling tools to correct a left-to-right lean
• 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 park 
• The bathhouse near our site was clean and well maintained 
• We were able to watch ABC, CBS,  FOX, NBC and PBS using Rosie’s TV antenna 
• We were able to watch TV digital channels Antenna, BUZZR, Decades, Get, Grit, ME-TV and MY-TV
• The campground provided basic cable TV service 
• AT&T placed one bar of service for voice and data over our site 
• The campground provided WiFi service that appeared to be overwhelmed

This campground was along a lake. It seemed that a sign was in front of every body of water in South Carolina warning that alligators may live there.

A hayride at the campground

The bridge connecting Mount Pleasant and Charleston

Selfie at Fort Sumter

Eating crabs in Charleston

Airstream trailers from our WBCCI Caravan in the campground