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Day 118, Camp 28 - Chickasabogue County Park, Mobile, AL
Posted 03-12-2009 at 08:27 PM by Phantom
2009/03/09 (1 night @ $15 per nite)
Day 118, Camp 28
Chickasabogue County Park
Mobile, AL
NO PHOTOS RELATED TO THIS CAMP
I HAD NO DESIRE TO MAKE ANY HERE.
We sadly said farewell to Florida and drove West on Hwy 98 along the coast, then up onto I-10 and into Alabama. Another short pull of about 75 miles. We headed for Chickasabogue County Park, just NW of Mobile. ... (I have no idea how to pronounce it). It was in our 'Free or Cheap Campgrounds' book, but was neither. We were even sadder at having left Florida when we arrived here.
We missed the ideal turn upon entering Mobile on Hwy 10 and had to go back and drive through a less-than-lovely part of town. When we got there we had to wait a while for the attendant to get off the phone, check his extensive records to see if he had an opening, then tell us we could drive through and pick from 4 available sites he named. The place was 95% empty.... it was a Monday. We drove around and picked site #1... at the end of a straight asphalt road with little pull-through sites all along the way. There was a more private loop for tents and small trailers but it would have been tight to pull even our 19' trailer through. There was another loop for bigger rigs but we never went through it. We dropped the trailer and went to pay. It took about 30 minutes for the guy to figure 1 night at $15 + .50 tax + 2 bags of ice at $1 per bag. Geeeesh! Drove around the grounds and found the boat landing on Chickasaw Creek, it looked kinda polluted. The park was kinda set up for dirt-bikin' through the woods and frisbee golf! Went back to our site and found the end of the road was the County Sanitary Water Treatment Facility! The woods around the campsite were littered with plastic wrappers, bags, bottles, cans and God-knows-what-all kind of un-sanitary refuse. Yuk! The site was about 100 yards form I-65! (The whole campground was right along I-65). It sounded like a semi-truck drag race all night long. We left in the morning.
NOT RECOMMENDED !!!
NO PICTURES.
Day 118, Camp 28
Chickasabogue County Park
Mobile, AL
NO PHOTOS RELATED TO THIS CAMP
I HAD NO DESIRE TO MAKE ANY HERE.
We sadly said farewell to Florida and drove West on Hwy 98 along the coast, then up onto I-10 and into Alabama. Another short pull of about 75 miles. We headed for Chickasabogue County Park, just NW of Mobile. ... (I have no idea how to pronounce it). It was in our 'Free or Cheap Campgrounds' book, but was neither. We were even sadder at having left Florida when we arrived here.
We missed the ideal turn upon entering Mobile on Hwy 10 and had to go back and drive through a less-than-lovely part of town. When we got there we had to wait a while for the attendant to get off the phone, check his extensive records to see if he had an opening, then tell us we could drive through and pick from 4 available sites he named. The place was 95% empty.... it was a Monday. We drove around and picked site #1... at the end of a straight asphalt road with little pull-through sites all along the way. There was a more private loop for tents and small trailers but it would have been tight to pull even our 19' trailer through. There was another loop for bigger rigs but we never went through it. We dropped the trailer and went to pay. It took about 30 minutes for the guy to figure 1 night at $15 + .50 tax + 2 bags of ice at $1 per bag. Geeeesh! Drove around the grounds and found the boat landing on Chickasaw Creek, it looked kinda polluted. The park was kinda set up for dirt-bikin' through the woods and frisbee golf! Went back to our site and found the end of the road was the County Sanitary Water Treatment Facility! The woods around the campsite were littered with plastic wrappers, bags, bottles, cans and God-knows-what-all kind of un-sanitary refuse. Yuk! The site was about 100 yards form I-65! (The whole campground was right along I-65). It sounded like a semi-truck drag race all night long. We left in the morning.
NOT RECOMMENDED !!!
NO PICTURES.
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