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***NOTE: This post has been updated with all of the Trip Report links!***
We’ll be waking Axl Roads up from his winter slumber this week, but before we get into all those de-winterizing details (in a different post!), we wanted to share which state parks we have on the schedule so far for this year for Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Our qualifications for state park RV campgrounds haven’t changed since last year. We still need a pet-friendly spot with 30 amp electric service and hot showers with flush toilets. We can live without sewage or water hook-ups.
We’ll have additions as the season rolls on, plus we’ll be updating the Trip Report links as we write them.
Here are the parks where we have standing reservations:
- Sizerville State Park
Emporium, PA (northeast/central)
We’re headed to Sizerville State Park mainly to have a home base to visit Kinzua Bridge State Park in Mt. Jewet. Kinzua may not have the RV camping we’d like, but they do have the Skywalk, which we can’t wait to see!
✓ See the Trip Report.
- Sizerville State Park
- Poe Valley State Park
Coburn, PA (central)
This park is smack-dab in the center of Pennsylvania, and it has a few other parks close by that will be great for side trips. Central PA also tends to have really good ice cream stops.
✓ See the Trip Report.
- Poe Valley State Park
- Shawnee State Park
Schellsburg, PA (southwest)
This one is close to home, plus near Bedford, home of the very snappy Olde Bedford Brewing Company that we visited last year on our way to Cowans Gap State Park.
✓ See the Trip Report.
- Shawnee State Park
- Kettle Creek State Park
Renovo, PA (northcentral)
Close to other parks, forests, and wild areas deep in the Pennsylvania Wilds. I expect to see lots of wildlife here!
✓ Changed reservations due to RV repairs to Sinnemahoning State Park. See the Trip Report.
- Kettle Creek State Park
- Swallow Falls State Park
Oakland, MD (western)
Waterfalls. That is all.
Womp womp. Cancelled due to RV repairs.
- Swallow Falls State Park
- Hyner Run State Park
North Bend, PA (northcentral)
This will likely be Franklin & Hazel’s most favorite visit of the summer because it has a shallow, wide creek running through it!
✓ See the Trip Report.
- Hyner Run State Park
- West Branch State Park
Ravenna, OH
We’ll be using West Branch as a home base to visit Cuyahoga Valley National Park, just a little over a half hour away.
✓ See the Trip Report.
- West Branch State Park
- Holly River State Park
Hacker Valley, WV
This second-largest-in-WV state park is also near Audra State Park, an old favorite of our late dog Benjamin (pictured below, RIP!)
✓ See the Trip Report.
- Holly River State Park
Do you have any advice from visiting those parks you’d like to share?
Can you recommend any great places to eat or pit stops to stretch our legs out along the way?
Let us know in the comments below!
