Hidden Haven

 October 18, 2024

Hidden Haven CG site C9

Smithfield, NC

I guess you could say this campground is named appropriately...at least the 'hidden' part.  It is a new campground that doesn't even have an office yet, much less a rec room/club house.  Pam's GPS didn't recognize the campground name or even the address.  We had updated our maps before departing in July so Momma was able to program the GPS using the campground name but.....we knew the campground was located off hwy 70 .....but when we took the turn off 70 indicated by the GPS, we wound up at a building that luckily for us had a drive all the way around the building so we could get back out onto 70.  After consulting our phone....Google Maps..... we continued to the turn that led us to a sign for the campground which led to more confusion.  We were entering a crossroad with a sign for the campground that stated 'straight ahead' with an arrow....so we continued straight ahead.  Then we realized that the sign was angled and if we had appoached the intersection from the road to our left, we could have continued straight ahead.  Traveling on the road we were on, we should have made a right turn.   $*%#*!!^*

So....we located a church on a corner lot about a mile down the road with a nice empty parking lot allowing us to enter and exit, getting us turned around without too much inconvenience.  

Okay, so now we are at the campground and there is no office sign.  We had received several emails from the campground, comfirming our payment and welcoming us.  It would have been helpful if they had included a site map so we could locate C 9 and C10 seeing as there was no office to pick up a map.  After riding through the park, we finally located our site but of course we were approaching our pull through site from the wrong (exit) side of the site....so around the loop one more time. 

We had stopped and fueled up just before arriving for our overnight stay, but Dad was beginning to think he just might have to fuel up again after taking the 'long' route with all the turn arounds before landing.  (Okay, so he was exaggerating in his frustrated state of mind)

The campground has sod between the sites but the site base and roads consist of a fine gray powder on top of a hard base.  Messy stuff as it drifts through the air when driven on and stirred up as well as sticking to soles of shoes to be carried inside.  Yuck!!

This is definitely a campground that has made an impression that will stick with us of a while!!

I'm Chloe