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This Thanksgiving, we camped at Island Resort Campground in Newark, Maryland.
We didn’t deep fry a turkey like we did last year, but we had just as good of a time, if not better!
Our campsite #82
View from our campsite:
view the campground map HERE
Cello and Hooch were VERY interested in all the ducks and geese on the lake!
We had an awesome sunset each night as well!
This campground was super-clean, and the campground staff couldn’t have been nicer!
We decided to take a break from dock diving, and visit Annapolis since we had never been there. We decided to stay at the Washington DC/Capitol KOA.
This campground was well taken care of, the bath house was super-clean, AND they had a great doggie play area with agility equipment!
The campground staff could not have been nicer – and every employee that rode by on a golf cart stopped to say hello to the dogs, and give them a treat! The friendliness towards dogs here is unbelievable! The drive to Annapolis was about 15-20 minutes.
We stayed on site 11:
We would definitely stay here again!
For Cello’s dock diving event in Virginia Beach, we camped at Holiday Trav-L-Park in Virginia Beach, VA.
Although we were at the dock diving event all day and didn’t spend much time at the campground, we did observe that this campground was clean, and that the staff were very helpful and nice.
Holiday Travl-L-Park is situated very conveniently near many historical attractions, and outdoor activities.
May 2015: site 322 (stayed here for Shipps Corner’s Back to the Splash Sock Diving Event)
June 2015: Site 268 (Stayed here for Mid Atlantic Regional Dock Diving Event ant Shipps Corner)
May 2016 Stayed on site 321 for The Empire Splashes Back event at Shipps Corner with Lager and Rita!
We camped at Frontier town Campground in Berlin, MD for Cello’s Pooch Palooza dock diving event. I have to say – this may be one of my favorite campgrounds!
I can’t wait to go back!!
This campground boats a theme park, water park, crabbing docks, arcade, restaurant (with excellent food!!), saloon, miniature golf, horse back riding, water park, and a “High Ropes” obstacle course suspended in the air in the trees!
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We stayed on site “Red 14” (Z 16) – and it was AWESOME! The only other site we saw that was slightly better view than ours was Z 16.
Our site, Z 14:
The site was on the water, was very large, nicely landscaped, and had a very nice stone fire pit.
View from our bay window:
Around the campground…
This is the first campground we’ve been to that had a Saloon!!
Inside the Saloon:
Jail Birds:
No, Brian, no one is coming to bail you out…Cello, maybe…!
Real Jaws movie prop at the campground!
This is the view just a few steps away from our site:
“High Ropes” obstacle course in the trees:
This campground was fun, beautiful, and just minutes away from SO many great places like Ocean City, Assateague, and the quaint town of Berlin, MD!
Both Lager and Rita camped here as well the following year!
We camped at Atlantic City North Campground for Cello’s second dock diving contest ever held at the Ocean County Gunning and Decoy Festival. We chose to camp here again for the same event in 2014.
Our campsite (#107) in 2013:
Same campsite (#107) in 2014:
…This time with Hooch!
…With our 5th Wheel in 2015 (now with Lager!) and 2016 (now with Margarita!)…our last trip with our 5th Wheel before trading it in! 
Margarita enjoyed her walks at Atlantic City North Campground:
Margarita is learning to “adapt” to the GLAMping life:
Whiskey stayed here in 2018 for the first time!
We stayed at the Saugerties/Woodstock KOA, located in Saugerties, NY for Cello’s dock diving event at the Dutchess County Fair.
The hosts could not have been nicer at this KOA! They met us at the gate (even though we arrived after hours) and led us to our campsite.
We stayed on site #32:
This campground also had a lot of amenities:
We would definitely stay here again!
Round Top Campground is located in Gettysburg, PA. We stayed at this campground for Cello’s dock diving practice hosted by Chesapeake DockDogs at Detour Winery.
This campground has some great theme-based weekends planned for their campers. The weekend we stayed here it was “Christmas in July!”
Our campsite at Round Top was spacious. 
Round Top Campground was recently voted Good Sam top rated RV park for 2014. This park offers many amenities to their campers such as an Olympic size pool (with separate kiddie pool), store/gift shop, 18-hole mini golf, horseshoes, volleyball, basketball, shuffleboard, laundry room, game room, and outdoor movie theater, just to name some!
This was Hooch’s first camping trip… and he was a happy camper!
Looking at the AAA magazine one evening, an article caught my eye about a small town in Virginia ranked one of the top 20 small towns in the United States…Staunton, VA. After doing some research, and having never stayed at a KOA before, we decided to give Staunton/Walnut Hills KOA a try for our annual Easter camping trip. Not only was Staunton/Walnut Hills KOA in close proximity to the town of Staunton, it is also located between the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountain ranges on the site of a former walnut plantation…pretty awesome!
Our campsite was right on the lake, and was spacious and clean.
Around the campground…
We are the third camper in from the left.
The campground had a fenced-in dog run, so of course we broke out the “Chuck-It,” and let Cello run like the wind!
The sunsets we saw from our campsite were amazing!
We got to see and do some really incredible in and around Staunton, which you will see in upcoming posts!
