Fort Benning has two primary FamCamps. One is in Destin, Florida and we stayed there last month in Rosie, our Airstream trailer. The other is across the river from the Army post. Technically, Fort Benning is on the Georgia side of the river and its FamCamp is on the Alabama side. It is about a ten minute drive to go from the FamCamp to the Fort's gate if you want to go there.
The major camping apps all say this campground has WiFi and the people in the office said that a vendor had about 30 more days to complete the WiFi installation. That conflicted with what we saw as we drove to our assigned site as we saw no evidence that anyone was installing a WiFi network. Several campers in the park told us that the office people have been saying the campground should have the WiFi system operational in a few weeks for the past two years. That was bad news because we had an unworkable one bar from AT&T on our iPhones.
While there were many shaded sites in the campground, unfortunately the site we were assigned was full sun on a very hot day. We were glad that it had 50 amp power and that allowed us to use both of Rosie’s air conditioners.
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| Rosie in the hot sun |
The campground itself was well maintained and nice. It had a swimming pool and a great playground for the kids. It also had a marina where you could rent kayaks and fishing boats.
We never knew what the real time was while there. The campground was on the line marking the eastern and central time zones. If our phones were talking to cell towers on the Georgia side of the river, they displayed Eastern time. If our phones were connected to cell towers in Alabama, they were on Central time. We could set our phones side-by-side and they displayed different times.
Fort Benning is a major training base for the Army’s basic training, advanced infantry training and for jump training. Jump training is parachute school for what the Army calls Airborne. This campground was close to the airport and the landing zone used for parachute landings. We actually enjoyed watching the planes pass overhead and circling the drop field.
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| Airplane used in Army "jump" training flying over Rosie |
We had planned to return to this campground in three weeks. We decided to cancel our reservations and possibly return when the weather was cooler.
Here are some specifics about this campground:
- There were multiple loops in the campground
- Our site was a back in
- Our site was "full sun"
- Our site had some space on both sides
- Our site was paved with asphalt and we needed to use leveling tools to correct a side-to-side lean in Rosie, our Airstream trailer.
- 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 this park
- The trash dumpsters were at the entrance of the campground. It was easy to walk there with your trash
- There was a bathhouse in the campground
- The park did not provide WiFi service
- AT&T provided one bar of 4G voice and data service over our campsite
- We were able to watch ABC and CBS using Rosie’s TV antenna. Digital channels seen were Bounce, Circle, Grit, ION, LAFF, ME-TV and THiS
- There were restaurants and shopping nearby
- This was a pet friendly park
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