Lake Anna State Park Trip, Spotsylvania, VA

When? May 11-12, 2013
Where? Lake Anna State Park, Livingston, VA or Spotsylvania, VA
Cost? $38.60 (after taxes & all)/night
Hookups? Water & electric
Type? Standard water & electric (no sewer at any sites - dump station)
Site #? 28
Check in? 4pm
Check out? 3pm
Characters? Heather & Jon (and Team Z!)
Weather? 70s during the day, 50s at night

We headed to our storage unit, got everything hooked up and ready to roll. Then the decision... get on I-95S or take backroads down as far as we could before getting on? We decided to just get on and sit in traffic. We'd be putting in just about the same amount of time once you took lights & local traffic into play. It took us just over 2 hrs (for a trip that should be just over an hour!) to get to Lake Anna State Park.

Welcome to Lake Anna State Park

Once there, we pulled into the reservations office and got checked in. There was an older lady doing check ins and a man named John, who served as our "camp host". We were told to find any open spot from 26-46 and pick whichever we wanted.

Site for the night. Each site had a table & fire pit with grill grate. Some sites had a tent site as well.

We settled into spot 28 and went about getting set up. This trip, we only had to level side to side. Super easy now that we have it all figured out. After getting all set up, we wandered over to the beach (by way of a walking path) to pick up my triathlon race packet for the next morning. We stopped by the Team Z tents and chatted with a few people. 

Path to beach

Team Z village

Kinetic Tri setup

The deceivingly calm Lake Anna

Map of the park with the trails

After all of that, we headed back to the camp site and started on dinner (wild mushroom chicken sausage and Annies's mac & cheese). We ate outside and just chilled the rest of the night. We played a few games of "Take it Easy" and called it a night. 

Just before we went to bed, we heard a weird noise in the trailer. Turns out, it was raining! It was the first time we've been in the trailer with rain. It rained off and on all night. It was also the first night that we've needed to use the AC. If it hadn't been raining, we probably would've slept with the windows open. 

The next morning, we got up around 6:45 and got ready for the day. I had a 9am race start, so we had an "easy" breakfast of oatmeal. I got a few things ready for the race and we were headed over (via same walking path as the previous night) to the race.

First tri of the season done!

After the race, it was so nice to be able to head back to the trailer for lunch and a shower. It's the first time I didn't have to sit in the car to get home to shower. Points for camping with the trailer! Once we were done cleaning up from the morning, I started packing our bags & getting ready to head out.

We were hitched up and ready to roll around 2:30. We headed over to the dump station, dropped off the trash, and got to dumping. This process took about 30 minutes. We let the flush in the black tank run for a while this trip. While we were doing this, a male blue jay found the truck and kept flying between the door & top of the mirror. He kept running into the mirror thinking it was another bird. I was amused (probably too much). Jon was busy having water fun of his own. 

All in all, a great trip. Would love to go back here for longer!