10 Great Private Parks for Family Fun
Arch View Resort and Campground in Moab, Utah, overlooks Arches National Park and is near Canyonland National Park, close to all the natural wonders of Windows Arches, Castle Rock and the Lasal Mountains. This full-service campground offers shaded, pull through sites, a swimming pool and modem hook-ups.

Camper Village at Cedar Point near Sandusky, Ohio, sits on a finger of white sand that reaches out into Lake Erie. Ride the roller coasters, eat cotton candy, dine in the historic hotel, fish the lake and play miniature golf in a full-service campground.

Best Holiday Trav-L-Park of Chattanooga is on a Civil War battlefield nestled in the Tennessee hills just off Interstate 75. Its the ideal headqueaters for sightseeing Chattanooga Chickamauga National Miltary Park, the Chattanooge Choo-Choo and historic homes and battlefields. The bathhouse is wheel chair accesible.

Cherrystone Family Camping and RV Resort on Virginia's Eastern Shore is 300 acres of natural beauty on the Atlantic Flyway. You'll see a wealth of bird life, swim in four pools, play tennis and miniature golf, launch your boat, play horseshoes and browse the gift shop.

Fort Wilderness at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, is a theme park for campers. Its on the free WDW transportation system that serves all the parks, Disney hotels, night life, and entertainment, but why leave? The campground has swimming pools, a petting zoo, pony rides, a roller blade trail, shows like the Hoop-De-Doo Revue and a great view of the nightly fireworks.

Camper Village at
Cedar Point, Ohio


Fort Wilderness at Walt Disney World, Florida


Colonial Central KOA
Williamsburg, Virginia
KOA New Orleans East/West in Louisiana have Mardi Gras and the French Quarter's historic homes and galleries at their front doors, and a back door on the incomparable nature show of bayou country. Take a guided tour by land, river or airboat. Play miniature golf. Swim the pools. And eat your fill of Cajun food.

Opryland KOA in Nashville, Tennessee, is not only handy to Nashville's music theaters and events, but hosts concerts of its own. Shuttle buses take guests to popular shows.

Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort in Newport Beach, California, offers a wide range of planned activities and has its own restaurant, "room" service, movies, bicycling, boating, bird-watching and sea kayaking in the bay.

Outdoor Resorts Pacific Shores Motorcoach Resort in Newport, Oregon, has a lighted pathway to the beach, supervised children's programs all summer and on Saturday year-round, family activities, shuttles to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, whale watching spring and fall, a view of the lighthouse at Yaquina Head, plus heated swimming pools.

Colonial Central KOA
in Williamsburg, Virginia gives families easy access to Colonial Williamsburg with its year-round events. Life in the community goes on as it might have when Williamsburg was the capital of the British colonies in the Americas. Come here to dine, dance, watch a court case or a wedding, take a lesson in candle making and, if you're naughty, get locked in the stocks. The campground has full hookups, swimming pools, a basketball court, nature trails and shaded sites. Call (800) KOA-7609.


This is an excerpt from the "How to Choose a Campground" article published in the Spring, 2000 issue of Roads to Adventure Magazine.