Often times, the national parks get the best territory and the states get leftovers. However, the…read moreShenandoah River State Park, down the mountain from well known Skyline Drive and its accompanying federal parkland, is by no means inferior. A rural drive leads to a visitor center, trails, an overlook, river access, and campgrounds. I had time for only a brief visit, but the views were majestic. It would be an excellent place to return for a hike. As with most of Virginia's state parks, there is a modest entrance fee, but I'm sure it's well worth it.

I travel and stay at a lot of parks during the course of the year, and I have only repeated a few…read moreof them. This location is incredible, rich with things to do, views to see, and adventures to have with enough time. The cabins are gorgeous, fair warning that there is no television, but honestly who cares?! I had great phone signal which almost never happens on these excursions, and I loved making a fire in my fireplace and sitting on the porch with coffee for sunrise, which I could see from Cabin 11. This cabin also was at the end and felt private, even though I could see my neighbors (who had set up Christmas lights! How fun!) There's also a wonderful hiking trail right by these cabins, 10 and 11, the Red Tail Ridge, that was semi-short (2.5 miles or so if desired to create a loop with Big Oak) and had views of the river and Shenandoah valley below!

The people running it were very nice. The location is great along the Shenandoah River and we opted…read morefor electricity even though we were tenting but the sites are very close together. You can see everyone and everything going on around you even though there are short fences between some sites. In fact, 2 camping neighbors kept coming into our site to get branches off the ground for firewood; very annoying. The bathrooms have a shower and toilet but no shelving to put your things, although there are two hooks to hang items. It's very dank and the faucets leak. Everything needs updating. They remind me of stalls to wash animals. I wouldn't advise going barefoot in the bathroom or shower.

If you plan to have a good time listening to music with friends after a long day floating the river…read moreI would NOT recommend you stay here. The taunting, intimidation with K9 force, threatened entrapment and arrest was enough to NEVER come back!!! 11mins past "quiet" hour (10PM) a demand, from unidentified individuals holding the reins of a German Shepard, to turn the music off came from the dark. Which warranted a simple response from the family being asked "I'll turn it down, but not off." Two minutes later, the individuals identify themselves as the owners while on the phone with the Sheriffs department requesting they escort this family off premise. All knowing the compromising position that would put this family in. I question the integrity of any small business owners who put their patrons in immediate danger as they did that evening Our incident was unwarranted and unprofessional! If all rules were enforced in the manner that was exemplified that night, NO ONE would be allowed on premise. I'll list the few rules breached during our stay; rowdy group loud until 3am, dogs off leash, generators being used, underage drinking & lastly underage children working... I would HIGHLY recommend you stay elsewhere, for the safety of you, your family & friends!

Very nice site. Staff were friendly. Sites are well maintained…read more I have a couple of recommendations. The dog park is nice, but it would be great if you had a trash can to throw away the poop at the site. Hope to be back again

Beautiful campground Laundry room was clean…read more It was a rainy weekend but the kids enjoyed playing on the playground when it wasn't raining It's a small playground but enough for our little ones The wifi worked fine There are some toys in the shop for kids to play with on rainy days The owner makes custom tumblers; I bought two, one of which she made custom for me. They are all beautiful! We would've stayed longer but the following weekend was fully booked so we are on the road again

I haven't been here in a couple of years, but I really do like this place. Massanutten Canoe…read morecompany is just a campground now - they no longer have canoe rentals/trips ever since the husband died (from what I've heard). Now the wife just rents camping spaces on the river. There are cows that graze past the campsites, and sometimes visit you during the day (one stole my friends keys right off the bumper of his car, and we had to follow him around for a while until he dropped them!) But as long as you are ok with the cows, they're ok with you. I think there are probably about 10-15 sites available, some are nicer than others. By nicer I mean less sticks and rocks, more cleared space, etc. These are drive-up campsites, this is not deep-woods camping! I've had fun all of the times that I've been (maybe 5 or so) and I'd love to go back. As far as I know they do not have a website, and they're sometimes hard to contact, but leave a message and they'll call you back. Its also a little hard to find, but I think its worth it.

One of my favorite places to camp! Huge camp areas right alongside the Shenandoah river. Beautiful…read morescenery as well. There are a few cows there but they don't mess with you. Over all it's a great little place to get away to!

they dont clean the bathrooms shit everywhere . it bad when the people paying money have to clean…read moreup everything new owners need to do better

Pam - the owner - is wonderful. She is a sweet old lady that is super friendly…read more We were planning to stay at a campground off of Skyline Drive. Turns out those were closed for the winter. So we started looking around, and ended up calling Pam way after hours. She was accommodating and had no problem with us showing up late without a reservation. This was late in the season, so we had the entire campground to ourselves. And it was beautiful. There is a bathroom on site, it's clean and well maintained. Pam also lives on the property. If you end up reserving a spot here - pick site 22 as it sits on the far side of the property and is somewhat more secluded.

This is a beautiful place to get away from it all. The River Run is beautiful and clean, very…read morespacious too. My Family really enjoyed this place l highly recommend it

We stayed here Memorial Day weekend 2018. This was our first time here and we loved it. The kids,…read moreages 11 And 12 met new friends and played all weekend with them, jumping in the river, manhunt/hide and seek at night, great memories! It was a busy and packed weekend of campers, all river-side sites were sold out but it so much fun being right on the river. Make reservations early-on to ensure riverside! We brought some tubes and went down the river several times. Kids swung from tree ropes/swings into river too! Staff was amazing, brought us down more wood and ice if we called for more and $ was extremely reasonable priced for wood and ice, not over charged a bit. We will be back again! We brought our 3 large dogs, no issues. Keep tied up and under control. No breed restrictions, everyone and their dogs behaved! I would rate 5 stars if there were public restrooms. I know this is a biggie for some people. No running water for showers, sinks or anything, just PortaJohns but they were clean! Bring an Xtra roll of Tp in case. As long as you are ok with that it's a good campground, on the river and for kids that can keep themselves entertainedor busy! Some nights the music could be loud from fellow campers but they tell folks that by midnight is "quiet-time". #Great time had by us all

Had a group of family and friends here from North Dakota and we did a tube float. Ages from 7-60…read moreeveryone enjoyed the time and the teens enjoyed swimming around and pulling our tube island around the river. Beautiful day and the staff at Downriver are awesome. Very informative and helpful

My group and I had the worst experience staying at Golden Rock Campground. It was so bad, we ended…read moreup shortening our trip from two nights to one. First, when we arrived, someone else had taken our reserved spot; they claimed their spot was taken so they chose ours right on the river. A young woman showed up finally convinced them to leave. That started an entire night of harassment. This specific group of campers played music at a volume I didn't know existed. A few from our group went and asked them to turn it down around midnight and were met with explicit language. We had to leave the campground to get service and call the camp host, who took almost an hour to show up. The group turned down the music while the host was there, but turned it back up the moment he left and played it all night long, while threatening to "take care of" us while we slept because we didn't give them our original campsite. The experience was absolutely awful. This campground does not have an onsite camp host and it takes forever for one to show up. They DO NOT comply by their own campground rules. There are tons of campgrounds in the area, do yourself a favor and choose a different one. Golden Rock Campground hosts are more concerned with campers who have been coming to their campground for years over the comfort of everyone else. We were issued a very partial refund but that did not make up for the awful experience.

Great family campground that is a first come, first serve location in the Shanandoah Valley. We…read morelucked out by getting a site on the river with a small waterfall behind our tent. We stayed for a week and although there were several small kids, noise level was minimal during the day and nonexistent after 9 pm. The camp host worked endlessly to keep the grounds free of trash/leaves on the main roadways and walking paths. There was a sheriff's vehicle that drove through periodically which was an added security. There are a variety of walking trails from easy to more advanced adventures. Sites are $10 off season and $20 for in season. They do have bath houses open for in season campers and several bathrooms that are well kept all year long.

This is a great place to take the family or just go alone and enjoy the out doors, there is…read moreprimitive camp site for the guys and gals that are up for roughing it and sites that have water and showers if you feel like relaxing a bit more. The trails in the area aren't difficult to hike at all even kids can do most of them. Passage creek is a great place to trout fish, but please make sure you have your trout stamp and national forest stamp for your fishing licenses. In the summer the creek is a fun place to swim and there is lots of history in the park go explore and have fun.

This is now a Spacious Skies…read more The good: beautiful sunset view from the pergola pull thru sites (#28). Immaculate bathrooms and grounds. Quiet. Close to the National Park. The bad: the flies. I've never experienced anything like this. It turns out the campground is surrounded by active farmland. The farmer sprays manure on the cornfield. This created a plague of flies. I suggest avoiding the campground during peak corn season and/or picking a campsite in the center of the grounds as far away from the fields as possible. It was unbearable and we had to purchase a net for our canopy and that still didn't keep them out.

It has changed to spacious skies campground It is a…read morebeautiful campground would've given five stars but the wifi did not work at all The spots were not easy to pull into (the pull through spots) The playground needs to be fixed up but my 2 year old still enjoyed playing on it They have 2 pools, a billiards house, the bounce pillow, and a few other things Plenty to keep you busy without wifi unless of course it's a rainy day