North Carolina - Myrtle Beach State Park
This post will squarely focus on the Myrtle Beach State Park, as in the four nights I booked for us there I only ventured out twice from the park. Once to go shopping as we needed groceries and new hiking shoes (great outlet mal - Columbia delivered) and the second time to ride my bike as the bike trails in the park are limited.
I also have to admit my review on the Park itself will be a bit jaded as our arrival was such a nightmare. However I do want to point out the trails are beautiful and I was able to ride my bikes on some of them. Of course the beach was nice but even that took a bit of a walk compared to other State Parks on the coast. Many campers actually drove their car to the beach parking lot. We did enjoyed walking on the Dock and watching people fish from it however.
Now to our upsetting arrival:
I am still trying to get to terms on why it is so difficult to comprehend what the qualification for Big Rig Friendly is! When I made the reservation I checked my go to Apps as in RVLife and Campendium and I admit both let me down on this one (not the first time when it comes to the Big Rig Friendly Option). And this can seem like me whining but I just wish there was a definition as to what is a Big Rig. For us, 40’ feet is not a big rig but larger size. Anything over 60’ feet should be considered Big Rig. Now I also had a handicap, as I was unable to use Google Earth as the campground was heavily treed, so I had no visibility of the access roads or the site.
To make this story shorter the site promised to be 70’ feet long, it was however super narrow as in 15 feet, lined by trees. The access road was equally narrow as in 12 feet. In no form could we back in as our turn radius needs obviously more space then that. So after trying several times and stopping traffic we were finally offered to drop and park Lou somewhere else. The park hosts were of no help what so ever. They sat in their pickup while I had to redirect traffic and try to help my husband back up.
So this stop was not a highlight for us but we still got to see new scenery and we can say we been to Myrtle Beach, a check mark I guess 😉
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