The Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos [Paperback]

Johnny Molloy (Author)

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If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia should be your constant companion. This is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. The Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in the Mountain State. Painstakingly selected from thousands of campgrounds from the mountains to the river valleys, each campsite is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness and cleanliness. In addition, each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map, making the campground a snap to locate. (6 x 9, 192 pages, maps)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897323173
• ISBN-13: 978-0897323178
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,775,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > Travel > United States > States > West Virginia

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great camping guide from Johnny Molloy, September 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Paperback)

I was anxiously awaiting the publication of this book for my May trip to WV. I picked a campground based on this guide, and once again I was not disappointed! The site was the best one I've camped at yet--very private, beautiful, peaceful, quiet--just as described in the book. The guide rates the campgrounds based on beauty, security, spaciousness, and quiet--four very important factors to me. It also describes campground costs, facilities, area attractions, and gives directions. I like knowing what the site will be like--fire ring or fire grate, picnic table, graded tent pad, etc. All of this information contributes to a great camping experience without unpleasant surprises.

This is the second great camping trip I've had thanks to Johnny Molloy. I also bought his guide to camping in the Smoky Mountains and was rewarded with another memorable vacation there. I will continue to use these guides to plan my camping trips, and I can't wait to see what the next published guide will be!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super book for WV Campers!, August 21, 2000

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Louise Johnson (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Paperback)

Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia

I just got back from the best trip! After sweltering most of the summer I decided to head for the cool mountains of West Virginia. A roommate in college was from there and suggested I go camping in the Mountain State. I found Johnny Molloy's book and away I went. I started in the south end of the state at Bluestone State Park. The lake was refreshing and the nights were much cooler than at home. After this I headed really high and went to Spruce Knob Lake, at 4,000 feet the highest campground in the entire guidebook. Oh, the weather was spectacular! I fished the lake and went hiking in the nearby Seneca Creek Backcountry. The trip to Upper Seneca Falls was idyllic. I tell you what -- I'm gonna try to get up there when the leaves turn, because West Virginia is the unsung outdoor jewel of the East. (make up name and place, someone from the South

Louise Johnson, Richmond, VA

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT STUFF, August 16, 2000

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Danny Walker (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best in Tent Camping: West Virginia: A Guide to Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Paperback)

Back when I was a youngster growing up in Columbus, Ohio my parents would often find relief from the heat by taking my family on monthly camping trips into West Virginia. I remember the shady trees and cool springs that were a second home to me, my two sisters and young brother.

Now that I have my own family complete with three young children ages 9,7 and 4 it is most important to me that they come to appreciate and respect the outdoors- especially W.V., where I spent so much time as a youth.

Of course, I remember the old campsites that I long ago visited; but my wife and I decided to explore more of the camping scene in W.V. While in a local bookstore, I came upon this camping guide of West Virginia by Johnny Molloy. This little treasure has been a great guide in our quest to search out new sites to visit.

This book is directly responsible for trips to Tomlinson Run (in the panhandle), Kanawah State Forest (near Charleston) and Bishop Knob (in the beautiful Monongahela National Forest). My wife and I hope to eventually visit all the camp sites in Mr. Molloy's book.

When I mention to the kids that we are going on a camping trip, I can't quite help but notice the thoughts of coming adventures and fun in their eyes and smiles. It reminds me of my brother and sisters some 25 years ago. Thanks to Mr. Molloy for his great stuff.

Danny Walker Columbus, OH