118 miles via I-75, TN 68, US 411 and US 321. Cumulative tow miles: 811. Truck miles: 298. Cumulative truck miles: 1177. The extra truck miles were due to the trip to Blue Ridge and my tour of the Chickamauga battlefield.
Finally, I am off of I-75. I chose to use the TN 68 exit, which was not the fastest route, because it had fewer turns and avoided some of the very narrow roads that exist near Walland.
There are a lot of trucks on the TN section of I-75, and a lot of hills. That made for a lot of lane switching. But it was a problem-free trip that took just over 2 hours. When I got to my destination my reservation couldn’t be found. We finally located it – for tomorrow! But it got straightened out and I got set up before 3pm.
My home in Ringgold was the Battlefield Campground and RV Park. I don’t know why they had to include both “campground” and “RV park” in the name because it is just an RV park – no tents in sight. This was obviously a KOA at one point, my first clue being its address: KOA Drive.
This park is built on a hill and the roads are both curvy and steep. Many of the sites are not level. Mine wasn’t too bad, but the front jacks were nearly touching the ground when I got the RV leveled. The park claims to have cable, but I found no cable connection on my site. Not a big deal as I was near a major city and was staying for just 2 nights. The real annoyance came when a staff person knocked on my door and asked me to move the truck because they were going to be sealing the blacktop. I had to move the truck a few sites away, to the bathhouse. I thought I would have to back out of my pull-through. That turned out to be unnecessary because they unblocked the roads by 10:30am, just in time for the 11am checkout.
The bottom line is that I wasn’t very enchanted by this park and got the sense that it wasn’t very well managed.