An older campground in dire need of an upgrade. Dump station is the worst I have experienced. Sites are small, mostly dirt and and a real mess if it rains. Bath houses are old and have green slime growing on some walls. Playground is rutted and not really safe. Electric is inadequate. Water comes from numerous shallow wells, some with openings at top to allow contamination to enter. Nice store. Great launching ramp for boats. Nice waterfront. Motivation by owners to upgrade is possibly low due to being the only waterfront campground on the lake. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
We made a last minute decision to try this campground with the motorhome and the boat. From the previous reviews, we were a little concerned, but decided to try it for ourselves. We didn't have any problems at all. Our site was a level pull-thru. Very quiet, clean campground, although I can only imagine what it is like during the summer. The seasonal sites around us were kept up with. The staff were very nice, even letting us park the boat and truck in a vacant site. We will return. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Asked for a Level full hookup site and was promised it was level. Got there and the hookups were on the wrong side! I thought they were standard! My fault, I should have ordered the European version of my trailer. Oh yeah, I forgot, sewage flows up hill too! Asked for another site and got an electric and water site. Parked trailer and the hookups were 50-60 feet away. I parked as close as I could but it was still that far away. Oh, the neighbors had taken over our picnic table and were blaring music and partying (they were about 17-18 yrs old and there with a 65 year old man as the chaperon). So we moved back to the original site (all that was left near friends). It was so unlevel that we had to scavenge for boards just to put my Lynx levelers on. Also, had to dig a hole for the tongue jack to be low enough to level. You have to be careful as not all sites are trailer or RV friendly. Only some will take trailers and RV's but there is no way to tell without looking first. There was a mean man driving a lightless golf cart around yelling at everyone after 10pm. Where is he at 8 am to stop the seasonals and their power tools! The place was filled with big partiers and when we asked some to be quiet because the little ones were asleep they asked is it 10pm yet! We said you can go be loud back at your own site! We were there with friends that rented 8 cabins and had been going for 10 years. One guy had his tackle box stolen from the porch of the cabin. They decided this was the last year as the place has gone down hill. One bath/shower house for the whole campground that was not very well maintained. Not to mention the Boy Scouts, Indian Guides and YMCA groups! To put that into perspective, about 85% of the campground is water/electric! The positive is that the lake is great! They should sell to a corporation that would put some money into it and make it really nice. If you have a boat and tent this place is great! I hope Lake Anna State Park puts RV sites in! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
My husband and I camped at Christopher Run Friday, June 25th. The campsites are too close together. No privacy at all. Campers were packed in like sardines. We brought our boat and kept it in the water by our campsite, tied up to a dock. The dock
was so old, it was falling apart. It shook and boards were loose. I was afraid to walk on it. The port-o-potties were filthy. The campground has about 200 campsites and only ONE shower/restroom facility. About 10 p.m., my husband went down to our boat to make sure it was still tied up properly and he caught two young boys in the act of stealing flares from our boat! We couldn't report the theft since no one was in the office. We decided to leave the campground since we didn't feel we could leave our belongings behind safely while we went fishing the next morning. The campground has a rule about quiet hours beginning at 10 p.m. The rule is not enforced. Children were running around our campsite yelling and screaming still at 11 p.m. when we finally finished packing to leave. Several adults at the cabins were drinking alcohol and being extremely loud as well. Again, no one was in the office at that hour, so we couldn't report it. Unless you're into the loud, party scene, I don't recommend Christopher Run campground. We camped here in a Truck Camper.
Review Rating
[ 3 / 10 ]
2003
$25
We live in Fredericksburg, VA and went to Christopher Run in March 2003 to check it out for possible future use -- NO WAY. The place is a dump to be quite honest, this is mainly due to the garbage-quality RVs stored and/or permanently camped on the property, and to the lack of area maintenance. Other than the physical space, it looks nothing like the brochure. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Review Rating
[ 3 / 10 ]
2001
$25
Located on Lake Anna. After reading the review in a camping magazine, we were expecting more than we found. Review said that this was a gated campground - not so. The sites are fairly small again contrary to review from magazine. Be extremely careful not to ask for a site close to the water! There are two sites that border the boat ramp (we had one of these sites and these sites in particular are very small with absolutely no privacy!! We finally pulled our van in front of our camper as much as possible to try to give us a little privacy. This campground caters to fisherman (which is not a bad
thing - we like to fish, too), and boats are come and go at all hours. The bath house nearest the lake has no hot showers apparently it is there mainly for the boaters, but the other bath house (can't remember if there was more than one more) is a pretty far walk, uphill. There is no pool, however there is lake swimming with no lifeguard. Canoes are available for rent. Camp store is expensive (we were overcharged for a couple items that we purchased - money was refunded when the error was pointed out). The no on the clean restroom is based on the restroom closest to our campsite. Restroom ran out of toilet paper on Saturday morning and wasn't replaced until Sunday. Personally speaking, we won't go back even though the kids had a great time fishing. We camped here in a Tent Trailer.