If you want to set down roots befor setting out to explore, the town of Williamsburg has a half-dozen RV parks and campgrounds. I stayed in the beautifully landscaped Colonial Williamsburg/Busch Gardens KOA, which has spacious RV sites with full or partial hookups, a laundry room, a heated pool and a well-stocked convenience store and gift shop. A half-mile away, the Williamsburg/Colonial KOA offers similar first-class amenities.
From the campground, it's a five minute drive to the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center where you can purchase admission
Some Colonial Williamsburg "patriots" share a historic document with visitors (top, left). Gardens provide colorful accents in season. Two excellent campgrounds are available close to the park. Visitors are invited to lend a hand as costumed carpenters reconstruct outbuildings.
tickets,watch a 35-minute historical film and pick up a map and scedule of the day's events. If you're traveling in a mini-motorhome, as I was, in the spring or fall, you migh find parking space on South Boundary Street at the edge of Colonial Williamsburg. But your best bet in the summertime is to park in the large lot outside the visitor center and hop aboard one of the shuttle buses for the short ride to the Historic Area.
The only way to really explore Colonial Williamsburg is on foor. The 173-acre Historic Area, which includes 88 original buildings as well as hundreds of reconstructed buildings is only a mile long and a mile-and-a-half wide.