Shenandoah Valley Campground - Mt Jackson

We stayed here one overnight just passing thru on our way back home in Tennessee. Had a full hookup pull thru lot. had no trouble with water/electric/sewer. Glad my Rv is only 25 feet as I had to pull most of the way thru to get level, but not to difficult. After hooking up cable I found that most channels were snowy. I think they just chain each site from a splitter to the next site. Since we were second from the end farthest from the office the signal was weak. We switched to over-the-air HD and found something to watch. Didn't really notice the noise from I-81, but it was a rainy Saturday night, so not much traffic.

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Easy on/off I-81. Friendly, helpful hosts. Very reasonable prices for full hookups in October. Love the wi-fi and cable. Traffic is loud from I-81, but great one night stop. Back sites could be a little more level, but I have seen worse. Although we have no pets, this is a pet friendly campground with lots of walking area. We did not use the facilities other than the office to check-in and that was very attractive and clean. Going to visit New Market Battlefield from here; only 3 miles away. Shenandoah Caverns next door.

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One-night stay; requested reservation in the morning and stayed that night. We camped in a lower pull-through site where the trees are tall. It was very quiet, no road noise - but poor cell connection down here. Particularly enchanting if you like bunnies by the score. The sites are wide but many are short; and there is a terrific variety, from primitive camping to full hookups and 50 amps. Wifi worked well for us. Staff was pleasant and efficient. Will come again if we're ever back this way (home is in Albuquerque.)

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A fairly new campground and thoughtfully laid out. Grounds were neat and appeared to be well maintained. The picnic tables were great – easy seating for all. Nice fire-rings at each site. Very nice pavilion and pavilion area with porch-type swings, horseshoes, etc. Other than the central pavilion, there is absolutely no shade. Although wifi is not important to some RV’ers, the strength of my 802.11g wireless signal at my site was okay. My site strength showed -54dBm. When tested very, very early in the am and obviously not busy, Speedtest.net showed less than 5 Mbps down and less than 1Mbps up (0.5 to 0.8 Kbps). (the provider is Shentel) Cable TV service was super. Excellent picture on all 24 provided channels. Restroom\showers are posted as closed for cleaning from 11 am to 1 pm however I saw no action in that regard. After a 3-day post-Labor Day stay, the same clutter, etc. remained on the floor of the men’s restroom. Biggest negatives that I encountered were the relentlessly loud 24-hour I-81 traffic noise, no shade, and the slope of my pull-thru site. Depending on your assigned site, you could have a very close proximity to the I-81 south lanes – approximately 300 ft or less. Every site on the north side of the park appeared to be very much like mine – that is, nicely covered with grass & gravel, but the ground sloped very noticeably toward the south AND toward the east. My site, which looked about typical, was sloped almost 5 inches for every 10 feet of RV length. There was about 2-4 inches of side to side slope. Most every rig is different so the slope may or may not be a factor for you. There are no pads or carpeting permitted on any grass so with a pull-thru site about 11 ft. wide, you can forget any carpet under most of your awning.

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I really think that the ones who gave this park a bad review are expecting too much. If you are going camping and still want ALL the luxuries of home, then buy a coach that has it all. this park is a great place to go and get some peace and quiet. the staff is great and helpful. They will do what they can to make your stay as best as it can be. The wifi is sporadic but if your camping, why do you need it? Disconnect folks and enjoy the great outdoors. Some of the sites are not as level as some would like, but that is something to expect at most parks. It is a tight fit to drive through the park with a big rig. The road to the park is a narrow winding road. It is a state road and not a park road. We've been here twice and will be there again.

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This is one of our stop overs as we winter travel i read the other reviews to each his or her own, I have never had them problems at this camp ground. I will go back to this camp ground.

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I made reservations for a pull through site for four nights. I was assigned P6. I have a 37 foot Class A motorhome. It was impossible to level on this site with the levelers fully extended and the front tires off the ground. I went to the office and asked to be relocated. Staff was uncaring and refused. I returned to my motorhome and began calling other campgrounds looking for a site. I had to remain in the area due to a wedding. As staff was directing another camper to a site he noticed my wheels were fully in the air and offered a back in site. The site was barely long enough for my motorhome and still far from level but I had no option. Hooking up was another experience. I used every length of sewer hose I owned and stretched it to the max. The cable tv only worked the first night. The balance of the stay had more units in the campground and no tv and occasional Internet. Sleeping in this campground is not an option. My rear bedroom was only feet from the guard rail of the interstate and the traffic noise was unrelenting. In nearly 40 years of camping this was my worst experience in a campground.

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had extended stay here and read other reviews.... shade trees? trees less than 12 foot tall....I found the camp to be well laid out and parked in the pull thru section... easy hook up to electricity, water, sewer, and cable 15 channels. Staff seemed very friendly and helpful... have they changed the staff? Wifi worked great, but due to the lack of campers.... I probably was the only one on line... the camp is within walking distance of the caverns and other attractions.... I enjoyed my stay...

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We reserved campsite on Oct 7th, 2015 for the night of Oct 24th for one night and were told there were plenty of campsites available. Received an emailed confirmation that day with campsite #B-22 shown on the reservation confirmation. When we arrived and had checked in, they put us in B16, stating they had the right to change sites at will (which is stated no where on their web-site or reservation confirmation). We were escorted to our site, but then were stopped short and were told to pull into B5 instead (another on-the-fly change). We backed in, begin to hook up, and more problems began to arise. The campsite's utility hook ups were at the road, and the hook ups on our camper were at the back. We stretched our electrical cord all the way out (25') and were able to reach the utility pole, barely, leaving our truck in the street. Water was not a problem. Sewer, though was another challenge. Our bathroom is on the the back of the camper and the campsite sewer portal was at the front. With all 4 of our pieces and all the connectors we had, we were able to hook-up the blackwater sewer, but unable to connect the grey water because we ran out of sewer hose and connectors, which has never happened to us in our entire camping career. Same issue with cable hook-up -- cable connection on campsite was at the road, but cable connection on camper was on the back and not enough cable to reach (needed about 50ft). At one point, just after we pulled into our campsite, we were asked to move our truck so another camper could get by. We had not even been given 10 minutes to get our truck disconnected from the camper!!! This was a very poorly designed campsite, as most campers' utilities are either midway or in the rear of the camper. Every other campground we've stayed at have had utilities located either midway or near the rear of the campsites. Several more campsites in the campground were designed like this as well. The man camping next to us had the same issue and couldn't even pull his very large 5th wheel camper all the way into the campsite. I spoke to one of the staff members (an apparent manager) soon after we arrived about this issue, and he seemed unconcerned. I went back up to the office to speak to the staff again, after we had finished trying to hook everything up, and were told they would refund our money and we could be on our way. The most obvious fix would have been to have moved us to another campsite that would have better accommodated our camper hook-up needs (the campsite was less than 1/2 full), but no such offer was made after either conversation. The IDEAL solution would have been to have better matched our camper's needs to the correct campsite from the beginning (again, the campground was less than 1/2 full), but for some reason this concept appeared to be a challenge to the staff working that day. The staff as a whole appeared to be very incompetent, unconcerned about their customers needs, RUDE, and unprofessional. Will NEVER stay here again, nor will we ever recommend this campground to anyone else. Additionally, the campground is adjacent to a major interstate and is VERY noisy. Not sure how they expect to stay in business if they are this unconcerned about accommodating the basic needs of their paying customers. Maybe that's one reason they were less than 1/2 full, and the other campgrounds in the area were completely booked.

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Very nice campground. Spaces nicely laid out with shade. Were there for one night. Easy in and out and close to I-81. Lots of wild rabbits so watch if you have dogs. Very pretty stream and waterfall on site.

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