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For peaceful mountain camping come to the Buckhorne Country Store and Campground
near Douthat State Park just 1.6 miles from exit 27 off I-64.
FREE WIFI High Speed Internet is accessible to all campers throughout the campground !
From jct I-64 (exit 27) & Rte 629: Go 2 mi N on Rte 629.
3508 Douthat Road
Clifton Forge, VA 24422
Ice cream has always been the talk of the camp ground! And I was so happy with my play dough option!
We always stop here for ice cream. Kids love it and so do we. Staff are always great. Only place I know to great real Hershey's ice cream.
I stayed at the Buckhorne Campground a week ago. I am rating this small, family run campground 5 stars because they have earned it! The owner, a retired school teacher of 39 years is truly a man of character. He truly cares about you having a relaxing time and is not looking to price gouge anyone. The prices have been updated on the website and are now accurate; $30 for non-electric,$40 for standard electric/water,and finally $50 for electric/water/sewer hookups. The facilities within the campground are excellent for a family run campground. They completely renovated the Men's rooms as they previously had negative reviews, they have wifi if needed and it works just fine, and the park is small enough to easily walk through it. They have 39 flavors of Hersey's ice cream and VERY reasonably priced too with a triple scoop in a cup only being $5 at the time I went! The owners daughter runs the restaurant and, once again also priced extremely well. I was able to get 16 wings, and 3 things of blue cheese sauce for right around $10 (try finding that price on bone in wings anywhere else). The items in the camp store are of course slightly higher than Walmart (they still have to make money) but very reasonably priced for a small convenience store. I firmly believe the owner and his daughter (both run this place) are genuine, hard-working, good people and you should give them a shot.
Oh! One final thing I did not discuss, location. The location is probably 1-2 miles from Douthat State Park, just as quite, actually I thought it was quieter due to how small the park is, and you have internet if needed. Also I failed to previously mention all campsites with electric/water have Shentel cable hookups as well! Try finding that somewhere else at this price.
In case you're curious of how the price lines up with Douthat State Park. As a VIRGINIA RESIDENT the state park will run you $35 for electric/water (no sewer,cable, or internet available at campsite) and $25 for tent camping with no hookups available. The prices are only that of a $5 difference for so many more amenities. For the price and even if you do not use all the amenities simply to have them available to you makes this campground well worth the money. I fully plan on making this campground a regular stop on my list of places to camp this year.
We stay in SunBeard's Lodge in Douthat State Park every year. Buckhorn Country Store is our go to place for ice and other items we may have forgotten. We also go out here for ice cream at least one time during the weekend. Very convenient and great service here.
This campground is easy to get to, clean and the staff are very friendly. We went camping here in a tent for 3 nights. Our site had electricity and free wifi. We are normally deep woods, secluded site campers with no amenities so it was a nice perk to have electricity. It was a bit uncomfortable for us to be so close to the RV'ers (and I mean the nice man in his trailer had his door open and a perfect view of us and our campsite! - That is odd for us!) It is a small campground but relatively quite. Will stay here again if we come back to the area.
