{"id":10000,"date":"2021-04-20T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2022-01-23T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:50:27","slug":"tn7-hop-5-ringgold-ga-to-walland-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/tn7-hop-5-ringgold-ga-to-walland-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"TN7 Hop 5: Ringgold GA to Walland TN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN7 hop 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My home in Ringgold was the Battlefield Campground and RV Park<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is that I wasn’t very enchanted by this park and got the sense that it wasn’t very well managed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,4,7,5,16,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ga","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-places-tn","category-tn7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10896,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}