A place to visit again

On the morning we left Lake Norman, we kept our scheduled appointment at Camping World of Statesville, NC. 

You may recall that we had been having problems with the front landing gear on our 5^th wheel Trailer. Those 2 legs on the front of the trailer are what lifts the trailer up and off the of hitch and then levels the trailer for living. It uses a powerful 12-volt motor and a gearbox to do its job. Mine has a problem which was diagnosed by a capable technician, but they didn’t have a part. We took the part number and hope to get the part and fix the problem now that we are stationary here in Georgia. 

We got on our way south from Camping World late morning and arrived at the Core of Engineers campground about 4:00. 

Hawe Creek Campground is on 70,000-acre J. Strom Thurmond Lake which boasts 1,000+ miles of shoreline. There is excellent boating, water skiing, swimming, fishing, hiking and picnicking opportunities and a campground with 34 electric sites, most of which are on the waterfront. Flush and vault toilets, drinking water, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp are available. 

Wildlife, including southern bald eagles, migratory waterfowl, wild turkeys and whitetail deer, is abundant around the lake which is said to provide some of the best fishing, hunting, and water sports in the southeastern United States. Anglers fish for largemouth bass, bream, crappie, catfish and striped bass. The large lake offers endless boating, water skiing, jet skiing, canoeing and swimming opportunities.

Imagine laying on your back looking up the tree.

The convenient, pull-through campsites are flat, level, spacious and done in fine, granite gravel. It was great to have electricity for air conditioning after a few nights without up at Lake Norman. This is a place we will definitely revisit for a longer stay! 

Sadly, this campground closed the weekend after we departed. It doesn’t make sense to me that you would close such a great campground in the south of South Carolina at the end of September when it could stay open for another month or two if not all year. Oh well, I should know by now that government decisions don’t always make sense.

Our next stop after Hawe Creek was to be in central Georgia, but that’s not what happened. Come back to find out what Mosey’nMillers did instead.