Mason-Dixon Historical Park

As I was studying our planned route on the AllStays Camping Application, I noticed a campground listed as "Mason-Dixon Historical Park" that wasn't far off our route. I checked their website, and it listed rates for tents and "campers" - that always makes me wonder whether they are *really* set up for RVs, so I called and left a message asking them to call me back. Meanwhile, we set off driving on Friday, September 21, from the Wheeling, WV area toward the Morgantown, WV area, via Washington, PA.

The route that the Garmin was recommending to get to the Mason-Dixon Historical Park seemed a bit out of the way, so Dwayne checked it on Google Maps - we decided to get off where Google recommended, but quickly ran into several routes in the town where there were weight limits of 10 tons (Miss Doozie is 26 tons) - so we got turned around and back to the interstate.

When we got into West Virginia, we stopped at a rest area and found that they had a dump station --

Not only a dump station, but fresh water fill available too!

As is normal, the water at the dump station is indicated for rinsing only. I don't really know whether there is anything impure about it, or if they just figure that people will use the faucet to rinse their dump hoses and therefore don't want the next user to think that the faucet is clean.

We decided to go to the Walmart in Morgantown and leave Miss Doozie there while we took the Jeep to the Historical Park. As we were getting settled at the Walmart in Morgantown, WV, my phone rang and it was a guy from the Mason-Dixon Historical Park. He clarified that their "camper" parking was just in association with festivals or other events going on at the park, and not really for public camping. Good to know... we headed off in the Jeep to find our way to the Historical Park and were very happy that we had not taken Miss Doozie on the route that the Garmin recommended - there were no weight-limit issues, but LOTS of low trees that would have caused us problems.

In the Jeep though, we made it to the park...

We were happy to find recycling bins at the park - we had been carrying recycling in the Jeep for over a week and were glad to get it unloaded!

It was a pretty park.

There were a couple of information boards with information about the park:

Although I have heard of the Mason-Dixon Line all through school, I never knew the origin of its name.

On Saturday, September 22, we continued east on I-68, eventually re-joining I-70 in Maryland.

We stopped at a rest area / scenic overlook in Maryland.

The route we took led us right along the northern borders of West Virginia and Maryland, just south of Pennsylvania. We headed to Hagarstown and spent the night.

On Sunday, we got to visit with cousin John Bayles and with Regina's family, Sarah, Jim, Vincent and Mary Margaret and Charles (I forgot to get pictures!), before heading to the campground in Reston where we were going to spend a few nights.