Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Lake Anna SP 11/9/12 – 11/11/12


This place is ginormous!  Not sure I love that about it. It feels too spread out. There is a longish trek to the bathhouse because there were no close camping spots left.
 
 
On the plus side, the bathhouse is nice, the sites are big, and we got our first pull through spot with the camper—which was HUGE.
 

The trails vary from really nice to ‘huh? there’s a trail?’ The markings need to be redone. There are not nearly enough. We actually got completely lost on a trail that sort of ended, and another unmarked trail took up where the first stopped. Thank goodness we had our (new) GPS and had set a way point. Yay for technology!
 
The lake is pretty and extremely big, but very busy and allows big boats with gas engines. It’s probably not really great for kayaks, although it was too cold for us to try.

 
 
 
On Saturday we hiked part of Glenara Trail from the campground to the Visitor’s Center. Then we tried to hike Fisherman’s Trail and went off trail for an extra mile or so (see above) Then we hiked the Railroad Ford Trail and the Old Pond Trail. Our total mileage for the weekend was around 4.6 miles, and we found 5 geocaches along the way. Ollie was completely worn out when we were done.
 
Park Rating:
C         8 (big, some nice in the trees, but some really wide open)
B          10
W        8 (lake, huge)
H         8 (needs trail marking!)
R          0
0          5 store and visitor’s center
S          3

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