Great campground off the beaten path. Quiet, friendly campers, chirping birds, close to lots to do in the southern beaches.
There was a great chlorine pool with super clean bathrooms. People have said it is a salt water pool but the pool guy puts chlorine in it every morning, he said the gunnite is still absorbing chemicals. It is heated for those chillier months on each end of the hot summer, something to remember for our fall visit. The sunsets on the pool deck were stunning!
If you walk down the lane to the pond, dog park or disc golf park you can keep walking and see Beechland Farm. There were chickens, rooters, ducks, goats, donkeys, and horses. Please only look, DO NOT touch!!! - they belong to someone else. The dumpsters were located between the parks/pond and the farm - not a bad walk or a drive on the way out.
Other campers were super friendly and helped with recommendations about where to eat, shop, fish, sunbathe, play or visit. The campground was about a mile from downtown Manteo, which made bike riding pretty easy.
Beechland Campground was also within walking distance of the Bowsertown Boating Ramp. It has a channel that takes you out to the sound for fantastic fishing. There is a kayak company who hosts Bioluminescence & Full Moon Night Kayak Tours, they meet at the Bowswertown Boat Ramp. We did not get to do this, but want to make sure to add it to the list for next time.
The campground had wireless internet, which was fast and worked across the campground. There was no cable TV, so we had to bring our own streaming device for regular tv. There were about 3 or 4 PBS channels but the content repeated and got old seeing the same thing over and over.
There was a dog park that you can access through the gate on the lane towards the farm. The fencing around the park was high at the bottom, so our small dogs did not go for a run. There is a leash law in Dare County / Manteo, so we needed to keep the babies leased at all times. Throughout the park they had dog stations with poo bags for when we forgot or ran out of our bags.
For disc golf lovers, there were 2 stations set up near the pond. There is a 9 hole course at the northeast end of Roanoke Island. No pets are allowed and it is only disc golf, so no disruptions or waiting on pets to do their business.
The sound water was near the disc golf course at the northeast end of the island. We fished and dangled in the beachy area. The sound water was much warmer than the ocean water and we caught very different fish.
The Lost Colony runs every summer night until the end of August - the show teaches the importance of the area. It's a very unique outdoor experience with locals and students who come to Manteo for that production.
We reserved the NC Aquarium for a rainy part of a day and the Elizabethan Gardens had nice walking trails and beautiful native flowers.
The campground was really quiet. Most campers kept the volume down on stereos/TV's so we sat outside often in the evenings. We heard birds chirping and occasionally we saw a bald eagle or osprey flying back to the nest with fish.
It was a great vacation and we can't wait to be there again!