foolhaven

Boondock spot. Cute, small camp, nice trails near a “lake” for fishing. Fall colors were amazing. Lots of families.

Just some caveats that may concern some people:
Pit toilet by the entrance is atrocious. There’s another in the cabin loop that was fine.
The rv allowed sites on the creek side have signs that say they may flood in heavy rainfall. Didn’t see that on the reservation site.
**Coming from highway 70, google maps had me going through some windy, narrow, hairpin turns. Come to find out, it was routing me away from some road construction on route 60. DONT LET GOOGLE REROUTE YOU! It was so bad I was cursing the whole way hoping I wasn’t about to hit a dead end somewhere. Had my fridge bust open on a 15 mph hairpin that I was going less than that on. Absolutely bonkers. Leaving, I took 60 and was just fine.

I stayed late October. The campground was about half occupied. The road in is well paved and marked. Bathrooms and showers were some of the cleanest I e seen at a campground.
The trails are a little short, but they are absolutely gorgeous! Nice colors in the trees and shrubs. I rode my bike over the trails easily, even the grassy ones. So peaceful water views of the Rappahannock River. Dump station is conveniently located on the way out.

Mid October stay, so there were few to no tent campers. Very quiet and private this time of year. My site was level (56) and fairly private with the fire ring situated in the very back surrounded by shrubbery. I couldn’t see anyone else’s fire from our location and there were campers on either side.
The trails were beautiful with loads of mushrooms popping up everywhere. It’s very hard to believe you’ve just pulled in off a main surface road to get here. The small loop trail by the camp store (which was very well stocked, if expensive) was decorated with spooky decorations for Halloween.

The downsides were:
🔘The water spigot was nearly impossible to get open or closed. I kind of pulled my back on it.
🔘The person at the camp store gives you a code to get in and out of the gate when you check in. My code didn’t work, and it was after hours when I was trying to come in on my last night. VERY inconvenient! Make sure to test your code during store hours if you plan on leaving at all.
🔘It’s a little expensive.