Our time was up in Charlotte NC but we will probably return soon as there is much to do and explore. Our next stop will be at Jordan Lake Poplar Point Campground for a few weeks. Thankfully it was another wonderfully uneventful drive so we actually pulled into the park a bit early.
Arriving early was our hope in order to avoid the rainstorms predicted. Little did we know this was another of those parks requiring a strict check-in time so we were directed to the parking lot at the beach where we had to sit in our rig for an hour and a half before finally passing muster. It was rather annoying as we drove over to see our site and it was empty but we did as we were told. We set up quickly as of course the rains arrived at that moment!
We will be in the Raleigh NC area for a good while since we plan to spend some time with our daughter and her family which of course includes our newest granddaughter, Allie! Our plans are to have fun at the lake during the week and spend the weekend with them since both parents work. Brooks actually works from home so spending weekends together seemed to be the best plan.
Poplar Point Campground State Park was a COE park when we first stayed here but it has since been turned over to the state to manage. We have the same large site but now sites cost a great deal more than before and aren’t (in our opinion) as well kept.
There are tons of great disc golf courses nearby and our first challenge was to revisit one of our favorites near Pittsboro NC. Rock Ridge Park Disc Golf Course plays really long and is as the name says quite rocky! It is also wooded so if you don’t like hitting a few trees then this isn’t the course for you.
We enjoyed playing the course once again. Well, except for the one time I threw a disc off track and encountered a resident of the woods, an eastern rat snake. This fellow had just recently fed upon either a large rodent or a small squirrel and didn’t want to move from the trail. So, I said, no problem and went a different route,
With a weekend coming up we are looking forward to seeing family once again…
Heyduke -- Is Jordon Lake still requiring its campers to be back at their campsites by 8:00 pm otherwise the gates will be locked and then campers after 8:00 pm will not be able to return to their sites? I sure hope they have changed that.
ReplyDeleteWe were hoping to come up next week to help get our granddaughter, Megan, settled in her apartment for her senior year at University of NC at Chapel Hill and bring up the camper. But the restrictions on Jordan Lake closing the gates at 8:00 pm is a real bummer.
No the gates are no longer being locked according to what we were told by the gate attendant.
DeleteThanks, heyduke.
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