Grandview Sandbar Campground — New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
Mystic S.
Reviewed May. 3, 2023

The space itself is great, trains not so much

This is an exceptionally well maintained camping area. There are 2 separate pit toilet bathrooms with dumpsters, one by the dispersed camping and one by the main parking area.

There was a man in an official forestry truck cleaning and restocking the bathrooms everyday, including the weekends. The sites a have established fire rings, metal picnic tables, and hooks for food/trash.

It's first come first serve, I was the first one there, getting there around noon. 3 guys came in about an hour or 2 after me and they took up 5 sites. They must have had 15 or 20 fishing poles sitting on little rigs all up and down the river bank. So that kind of sucked, I heard many cars come in and turn around because these 3 guys decided that they owned the entire riverbank. They were nice enough though, and their behavior doesn't reflect on the campground itself.

The really bad thing is that there is a train station directly across the river. And trains will and do pull through every couple of hours 24/7. That includes during the night, yes. Ear plugs only did so much for me, as I am a tent camper with an inflatable sleeping mat, and the vibrations through the ground coming from the trains was enough to wake me up every couple hours. BUT! Such is life, and considering the toilets and dumpsters, not so bad

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  • Review photo of Grandview Sandbar Campground — New River Gorge National Park and Preserve by Mystic S., May 3, 2023
  • Review photo of Grandview Sandbar Campground — New River Gorge National Park and Preserve by Mystic S., May 3, 2023
  • Review photo of Grandview Sandbar Campground — New River Gorge National Park and Preserve by Mystic S., May 3, 2023