omarbrown

We live in Tennessee and love to go camping with our girls 11/13. We take a trip each year to Port St. Joe in florida and usually go to North Carolina to the mountains. We are looking for another interesting trip this summer. We would love to drive but are open to fly/rent a car/tent camp. We would like to stay in one location due the time spent setting up camp. We love the water and would love to take the girls somewhere interesting ie waterfalls, animals etc. We do not need restaurants and theme parks we love the family bonding time we have when we camp. I would like showers, elec, water. Any suggestions out there?????

SuCo27

Check into Assateague Island. You can camp right next to the ocean, on the beach. Assateague and Chincoteague are known for the wild ponies...which would be a delight for your daugthers, I'm sure.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/asis/camping.htm

KarinNp

We car/tent camp 4 times a year on Dauphin Island, Ala. They have sites just for tents (large enough for both your screen house and tent) with trees, water, electric, clean bath house, washer, dryer, playground, private white sand beach (you walk about 200 yards from your site thru a nature preserve) and a small camp store that sells ice. You can have a campfire but bring your own firewood. The price is very reasonable, make reservations. It is a gated campground and I have always felt very safe.

Close by is Fort Gaines, Alabama Sea Lab, fishing piers and Indian shell mounds. A ferry (car) ride away is Fort Morgan and the link into Gulf Shores, Alabama.

You mention summer, well it is HOT. This part of the gulf coast was effected by hurricanes and is back. A few restaurants, no MacDonalds . We usually go spring and fall. I have always felt welcome at Dauphin Island Campround (they have a web site) which is not always true for tent campers at some RV parks.

Karin

RedRock

If you are looking for something different in camping go West. Have you considered the Black Hills of SD and/or perhaps Yellowstone NP. We have camped both many times and they are our favorites. In the BH we are partial to Custer State Park and the Center Lake CG. For YS we like the two National Park CG's in the Lamar Valley or one of the Forest Service GC's just to the east of Cooke City. Our favorite there is Soda Butte CG (NF).

http://www.sdgfp.info/parks/Regions/Custer/custersp.htm

http://www.nps.gov/yell/

http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/gallatin/?pa...es/campgrounds

GoTravel

I would hate to camp on the beach in the southeast in the summer. It is hot, humid, and sand gets everywhere.

Have you looked at Maine?

http://www.campmaine.com/explore/region_info.php

ronkala

Head up to Virginia to camp and hike along Skyline Drive.

There is a KOA on route 340 between Front Royal and Luray. Also Andy Guess State Park, but not sure about showers. There are canoe outfitters in Bentonville (rte 340) and Luray. Do a twenty four mile overnight canoe trip from Luray to Bentonville on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River.

There is a national forest campsite on the left bank at mile marker 13 or 14 with a chemical toilet but no showers. The mountain scenery is spectacular and changes as the river twists and turns. There is only one serious rapid, class 2-3, which is easy to do when staying on the right hand side of the river.

Michael

If flying you might as well consider Yosemite.

travelgirl2

We love to camp at Acadia National Park in Maine. It's near the town of Bar Harbor.

joethekay

I am going to suggest the Indiana Dune Natinal Lakeshore park and camping area. You are on Lake Michigan with swimming and boating and only a short (1 hour ) train ride into downtown Chicago for those "city" activities and shopping.
http://www.duneland.com/camping/camping.htm