Our two night stay in Salt Lick has become one of the highlights of our trip this year! Outpost Campground was quiet, well kept, and we could toss a ball for Sasha from a chair outside our motorhome! A great place that shows the owners have a desire to constantly improve and impress.
However, duty calls, and we headed into West Virginia on Thursday, the 20th of May.
After stopping for a fuel topoff in Nitro, West Virginia, we headed south to Princeton, WV, a total of 217 miles. Interstate 77 is a tough road to drive, constantly climbing out of the “hollers” or diving into one. Turns are constant and the road surface is awful. Add to that the tolls every twenty miles (it cost us twenty bucks to drive 60 miles) and you can see why we were happy to pull into Brush Creek Falls RV Resort.
The park is set nine miles from the interstate on a narrow country road that has signs reading “may not be appropriate for large trucks” and “road ends 2 miles”. At mile 1.9, the park entrance appears and we bailed off a hill down into the park. Turns out the entrance road parallels the interstate and we’re only 100 yards away from it! The park is awkwardly laid out with narrow roads and close together sites, but is set in a nicely wooded area.
We had plans to meet friends in Princeton, but rv issues have prevented them from traveling. They are from this area, had family here, and have firsthand experience in the heart of the West Virginia coal mining area, and were going to give us a tour of an area and an industry that has fallen on extremely hard times. In lieu of a guided tour, they have provided us with a couple of day trips to take so we’ll start our virtual tour tomorrow.
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