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Campground Review of Skidaway Island State Park
May 22, 2024
This video is a Campground Review of Skidaway Island State Park in Savannah, Georgia. A coastal Southern jungle, Skidaway Island is rife with history, and a fantastic place to camp. In this video: 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - History & Activities 1:53 - Campsites 3:21 - Amenities 5:09 - Scenery 6:05 - Hiking 7:15 - Wormsloe Estate Brought to you by LakeHub. We are sharing the joy of lake life! Learn more at https://LakeHub.com
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What's up my friends? It's Simon from LakeUP. I'm out here with a campground
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review of Skid Away Island State Park in Savannah, Georgia. Now, we're going outside
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of comfort zone here. We are not on a lake, full disclosure. We are on a body of
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water. We have a river, we have marsh, and then not very far away we have the
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Atlantic Ocean. This is an awesome, awesome state park. I have been so
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pleasantly surprised. I mean, this has to be the coolest state park I've ever
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stayed in, and I've stayed in state parks coast to coast. Now, this is my first
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time staying on the East Coast, but as of right now I have stayed in state parks
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coast to coast, and this has the nicest facilities with awesome campsites. All of
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them are awesome. All of them have everything you need, and look, it's a, it's
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like a rainforest. It is beautiful. Everywhere you look it's beautiful. There
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are awesome playgrounds. There's all kinds of cool stuff we'll get into. This
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is a fantastic place to camp. I'll tell you why. So first, let's go through the
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numbers. So, Skid Away Island State Park, we're in a really, really cool historical
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area. Really early colonial settlements around here. You know, all the cool things
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really close by. Downtown Savannah is 15 minutes, maybe. We just, we just went to
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the beach. That was about 30 to 35 minutes, and there's all kinds of cool
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you know, hiking and biking and paddling and boating and all kinds of stuff
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around here. So there are 87 campsites here. That is plenty. It's, it's booked up
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this weekend, but it was not, there were plenty of spots when we booked several weeks ago, and, and so I don't feel like this books out all the time
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especially when it's been raining every afternoon. It seems like it's a pretty
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reliable thing. So, you know, people are kind of hunkered down a little bit for
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the little bit in the afternoon. You get out and play in the morning. You get out
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and play in the evening, and right now, I'll turn around, got a little sunset
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behind me through the trees. Some, some kind of mist. All the rain's kind of
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dropping from the, from the leaves still, and it is 72 degrees. It is very humid
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but it is absolutely comfortable, especially from what I've been experiencing across the South. As far as hookups at the sites, it's a mixed bag
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There are not any rural sites that I have seen, so everything has at least
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water and electric at your site. There are sites with full hookups, you know
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maybe, say, a little more than a dozen, maybe 15, something like that. A lot of
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them are pull-throughs for big rigs. Those have sewer right on site and
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everything else, 50 amp service. There is a dump station for you RVers, and if you
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have kids, there are several playgrounds. Also, I have to say, the restrooms are
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absolutely top-notch. They are cool-looking buildings. They're well maintained. You could tell that they're freshly painted, and just a, just a
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really, really, really great experience in the restroom for a state park. I mean, the
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standards, you got to bring down a little bit for state parks, but this one
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this one's up there. Really fantastic. Bravo, state of Georgia. As you can see
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behind me, this is, this is a perfect example of a pad. So you have the, you
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have, like, the kind of gravel, sandy, sandy gravel pull-through. A little
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little U action, so easy in, easy out, off the road. Hookups are on the roadside, and
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so that just makes it, gosh, that's, for pulling a camper in, I mean, it doesn't
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get any easier than that. You don't have to back anything in, and it's already level
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I mean, we just pulled in, checked it, boom, level, good to go. And so setting up was just
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a breeze. I mean, I think we had a record time. It was like 45 minutes. Completely
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completely set up everything, pop-up camper. There's also, all of them have
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this kind of framed-in pad here. This could be, I mean, it could be, you know, a
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tent pad if you wanted to put more people on there. There's some people who have tents on them. You could also do, like, pop-up tent for when it's raining
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or what-have-you. Picnic area, barbecue, grill, whatever. So all the sites have
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this, and then they have this kind of a little bit of open space around them. All of them have that. So sometimes, you know, campgrounds are just a total mixed bag
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depending, depending on what the terrain around here is, but they've done a really good job of clearing out these, these, all these sites. They, they all
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look really fantastic. For the, for scenery, I mean, it is hard to beat this
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There are live oaks with Spanish moss hanging off of them. I mean, huge, huge
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huge, huge, huge ones like this one right behind me. They look so cool. Mixed in
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with, with some southern pines, like that one. Super tall. We've got, I mean, we've
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got, like, magnolia trees, palmettos. Here's some palmettos right here. Just really cool, really cool eclectic mix. Just exactly what you would imagine for
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this area. Exactly what you imagine for this area. And all just completely
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natural and just beautiful. Just, oh my gosh, it is gorgeous. Everywhere we look
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it's gorgeous. There's wildlife, there's, you know, deer kind of moseying through
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the camp. And it's just been a really great experience. If you're a hiker, if
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you're the hiking type, there are lots of trails. They're kind of on, they're on
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the riverside, so they're a little bit in, like, the kind of like the grassy marshland, like overlooking the grassy marshland and the river and whatnot. And
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so, yeah, it's kind of, there's some that are shady and some that aren't, right, so
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prepare for that. I was informed by the staff up front that this park is very
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pet friendly and so pets on leashes and you can go on the trails. There's
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there's a little one mile loop, which is great for little kids, or a little, nice
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little warm-up. And then attached to that, there's, there's what they call an avian
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loop. And so I'm sure there's some pretty good bird-watching out there, I would
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guess, by the name. And then there's another three mile loop, and that has a
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couple of old little historical kind of things. There's like a moonshine still
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and, and like, I think, a gravesite and stuff. So, so if you're feeling a little
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adventurous, want to get, get out there and kind of poke around and learn a little bit about the cool, cool history of the area, then go ahead and do that
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too. Really, really close by, like five minutes away, ten minutes away, is the
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Wormslow State Historic Location with, where you see a postcard from Savannah
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You have that long, straight, long road with all the 300 year old live oaks
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arching over and Spanish moss hanging off, and it just looks amazing, incredible
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awesome. That is very, very close to this state park. It's a different entrance fee
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They didn't let us use our pass, but, you know, a couple bucks, and then you can go
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explore the property, and it was, it's an old colonial site, so there's some, there's
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some ruins from basically, like, little, little residents and kind of a mini fort
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that was built out of, like, mud and clamshells and stuff. It was kind of
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crazy, and a lot of information about the history of the area. A little tiny
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museum you can walk through. All that's really close by and a great place to
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visit. We just did, did it today. That's it for Skid Away Island. Stay tuned for
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more lake reviews and other fun stuff having to do with boating and camping and
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all kinds of fun stuff. I'm Simon from LakeHub, and we will see you outside
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