{"id":3439,"date":"2015-11-03T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2015-11-03T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:50:58","slug":"the-campground-at-james-island-county-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/the-campground-at-james-island-county-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Campground at James Island County Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site 29 at James Island<\/p><\/div>\n

We LOVE<\/strong> Charleston. We have already resolved to return for a longer stay. We need to invest at least another week to explore it to our satisfaction.\u00a0 I will follow this post with several more about the city.\u00a0 This one is focused on our home for the past 5 days: The Campground at James Island County Park<\/a>. It is a relatively small campground – about 100 sites – on James Island, just over the Ashley River from downtown Charlston. It was about a 10-minute drive to the center of the city. Very convenient.<\/p>\n

And very comfortable. The sites are HUGE<\/strong>. The photo on the right shows our site (#29).\u00a0 We not only had room for the RV\u00a0and the truck, but could have parked about 7 more cars on the site (there is more room in front that you can’t see).\u00a0 This is possibly the largest campsite we have ever had.<\/p>\n

The park itself is huge – probably over 500 acres.\u00a0 It has, besides the RV campground, a primitive (tenting) campground, at least four shelters which can be used for group activities, athletic fields, a fishing dock, a climbing wall, a meeting\/game room with a lending library\u00a0and\u00a0a large office staffed by very friendly park employees.<\/p>\n

\"Grace<\/a>

Grace taking a dip<\/p><\/div>It also boasts one of the largest and nicest dog parks we have seen anywhere.\u00a0 It may rival the dog park at Balboa Park in San Diego in size. And, unlike, Balboa’s dog park, it has beaches where dogs may swim.\u00a0 Needless to say, Grace availed herself of the opportunity to take a dip.\u00a0 Multiple times.\u00a0 Rusty did not.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The dog park from the opposite shore<\/p><\/div>\n

The park is also host to the “Festival of Lights”, a holiday tradition in Charleston. The park roads are lined with hundreds of figures outlined in lights. Some are animated. Most are relatively small, but some are huge – like the 25-foot tall owl that marks the entrance to the campground. The festival was just getting set up – it doesn’t official open until November 13 – but portions of it were lit every night we were in the campground, as the setup crew tested the lights. The owl was lit every night. It was impossible to miss the entrance to the campground.<\/p>\n

This was a great place to stay. If you are coming to Charleston in an RV, this is the place!<\/p>\n

\"Owl<\/a>

Owl at the campground entrance<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We LOVE Charleston. We have already resolved to return for a longer stay. We need to invest at least another week to explore it to our satisfaction.\u00a0 I will follow this post with several more about the city.\u00a0 This one is focused on our home for the past 5 days: The Campground at James Island … 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":[4,5,40,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-rvparks","category-sc","category-sts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-Tt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","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=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}