We just returned from a great weekend at New Point, camping with our Good Sams chapter. I have to see, we were a little leary about this campground due to the previous posts, but I'm happy to say that we were pleasantly surprised. The campground has new owners, which has improved everything. We were one row back from the sites on the Chesapeake Bay. The site was wide and level, but not all that deep. We had full hookups, but no cable or wifi. We did get about 10 channels with our antenna. The majority of the sites are seasonal, but are well-kept. There was a nasty taste and color to the water, but those in our group who had filtration systems seem to have no problems with this. There was a nice beach at the bay.....soft, white sand. Once I saw my first jellyfish (common at this time of year), I headed for the pool. Overall, we had a great time, and would definitely return. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

This campground has A LOT of seasonals, some quite grouchy. Very small sites, our tent was right up next to one of their rental travel trailers and I could hear the person in it snore! They also let a group of half drunk guys set up a tent site around 11 pm 2 sites down from us. I don't have to say how loud they were. On the good side, the beach is great and the bathrooms were clean. We camped here in a Tent.

This is a city owned campground and needs work badly. The restrooms and showers had either rusting or poorly kept partions. It needed mowing badly as the grass at some sites was waist high and the park was infested with ticks and chiggers. I would not rcommend this campground to anyone as it is in complete disrepair. I must mention that it did suffer a huricane in 2004, but the clean up work has not been done satisfactorlly yet. The employees are very friendly except when it came to mowing the grass and I received several excusses when I asked them to mow around the restooms and playground area. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

We found the overall condition of the campground to be in need of a lot of routine maintenance. The owners had the mentality to only fix things around the campground when they broke and preventative maintenance did not seem the least bit important. With the age of the campground there were many items I will list that we would rate as being very poor. On a scale of 100 and 100 being the best and 1 as the lowest, we would rank New Point Campground in the 25 to 30 range. On the good side, the campground was in a good location and had a beach that could be very nice, if taken care of properly. We must say everyone who was staying there was quiet and had respect for the other campers and when it came to the campground rules. We had no one be rude or obnoxious for the whole week. The following list of objections sure outweigh these good features. Owners, Prior to our trip I sent them numerous e-mails for information, but were just over looked and had to call just to get any information. They were friendly but couldn't provide much information of the surrounding area. We asked about their 4th of July activities, she couldn't tell us when they would start and couldn't find a schedule in the office. When reporting items needed to be repaired, most were ignored or just superficial corrections were made. Public restrooms, Were cleaned once a day and with 400 people in the campground, the two units got in a real mess by the next day. The showers had only one spring loaded faucet a person had to hold the lever to get the water, so a person had to take whatever temperature they had set the mixture at for hot and cold. Then you had to stand there without water while cleaning yourself and hold the faucet a foot over your head to rinse off. They had no seats or holders for your clothes, soap or shampoo, just one little hook to put all your clothes and towel. Even though the showers worked and tiles were in place the roof was rotting and shingles falling off. Just reflected how things were being kept up on site. Drinking Water, (This is my expertise and profession) We had to drink bottled water because the levels of raw water iron and manganese were way over the EPA limits set for water supplies. Drinking water iron levels were just over the Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) but once you add the Manganese to these levels, which were 20 times the MCL. The water left a nasty taste in your mouth that could not be hidden with tea or coffee. You could tell it was really high, because it left all the fixtures reddish brown. There are no chlorination facilities at this site, even though they informed me they chlorinated the drinking water. I tested the water myself and found no chlorine. I then check with the State of Virginia and confirmed the water had no chlorine. Pool, The pool was one of their prized facilities, because they actually removed the iron and manganese, but once again there wasn't much evidence of chlorine in the pool. To bad they couldn't put some of this water in the drinking water system! Miniature golf course, We couldn't understand why they spent so much time keeping the grass mowed in and around their miniature golf course, because a person couldn't golf if they wanted to. All the edges of the astro turf had come unglued and turned up so high a golf ball couldn't be putted if you tried!! All the holes were full of overgrown grass. Couldn't find golf balls or clubs either! Laundry, Don't expect to get very much laundry done without spending a fortune. The 2 washers and dryers were small and cost $1.00 a load. If they were like everything else, I wouldn't trust the equipment to get the load clean. Lot sizes, On the residential side ( campers fixed on site) of the campground they were spaced about 8 paces apart. If you are planning to only stay for a short period be aware these sites ranged from 3 paces to 8 paces between lot spaces, with the average being 5. Also, be ready to back into very narrow slots because of the number trees in the area, the hodge-podge set up of the sites and close quarters of all the other campers. Beach, The beach was really nice and was close, with a nice cool breeze coming off the Bay. Would have been nice if someone would have taken the time to clean it up!!! We found dead seaweed most of the time covering a large majority of the waters edge and one time it was 6 inches deep and covered the whole length. They just let it be washed away along with any or all the dead jellyfish. Boat ramp, The dual boat ramp look really too small for the size of boats being launched. The two ramps had a curb splitting them apart, which made them too narrow and looked too steep. We watched pickups or the boat trailers get their wheels hung up on the curbs and have to back into the water to get off the ramp. Some of the trucks had to be in fourwheel drive to pull the boat out of the water and one even burned his tires trying to get up the ramp. Docks, were just okay, but won't last too many years. If you plan to do any crabbing in the area, don't expect to get very many. We only saw people get a couple, so you would have to collect them over a couple days for just one meal. They say in their campground advertisement you catch them and we will cook them, don't think they expect too many people to catch that many. RENTAL TRAILER As I said before, maintenance was not a high priority. Air Conditioning For the whole week we spent at the campground the air conditioning was on its last leg. As soon as we pulled in the neighbor let us know the A/C was having a hard time starting, but would eventually start after clunking and banging a few times. This went on for the whole week but it never went out. This might have been the reason we never heard any noises from the surrounding area. The neighbor on the other side did lose his A/C on his last day in camp. Both times the maintenance just washed the filters and cleaned all the pine needles out of the units. Which appeared to be around a half-gallon of them from inside the AC housing. Still they don't get the hint do a little maintenance before they quit!! Lights, only half the light bulbs worked, guess no one checks things out before the next person show up. Hot water, this quit on us the last two days, by then we just gave up asking to fix anything. Windows, all the mechanisms to open and close the windows were broken, so we had to use the A/C. Stove/Oven The electronic spark to light the stove and oven didn't work, but no one had the insight to tell us upon arrival. When we ask for assistance to light these, we were treated rudely. Front step, this was bent and would almost cause a person to fall when leaving the trailer. Our four-year-old granddaughter never could get out on her own. Shower was one more item that didn't work. Bed was so worn out you had to wiggle around to keep the springs from poking you in the ribs or arm or other parts and yet the springs still poked you. TV antenna was broken and wouldn't move to get good reception and was hanging over sideways. The closets must have had mothballs stuck in them most of the year, so all your belongings stunk after just a short time. The mothball smell was so bad in the bedroom it felt like we were being gassed the first 2 nights. Then to top the whole thing off, we keep getting bug bites. From what I know they were either fleas or bed bugs. So as you can see our opinion of New Point Campground is far from favorable and we would like to warn others whom venture to the Mathews County, Virginia area. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.