Dobbins Lakeside Campground

Stopped here for a few days to break up the drive back home from KY. Nice little campground! Dobbins AFB is a small reserve Air Force base. I've stayed at several military campgrounds, and they tend to be either 1) an open field with spots, or 2) more of a campground feel. Dobbins has more of a traditional campground feel. No commissary but there is a PX and a Class 6 on post. Reading other reviews, I was expecting worse, but we had a great time. There's a great playground within short walking distance that's suitable for little kids, and plenty of bike riding area if you have older kids. Close proximity to Atlanta, so we went to the Georgia Aquarium during our stay and toured downtown, also visited Kennesaw where we found the Southern Museum of Locomotives and Civil War. The loop is somewhat hilly but not excessively so. We found backing into our site and setting up to be simple. The dump station requires a hard right turn to pull out, so if you have a particularly long RV, it might be tricky. The large majority of sites were quite nice. We stayed on site 17 and had no complaints but would recommend against site 16 (it had standing water on the concrete pad that never drained the entire time we were there).

As we were embarking to PCS to Fort Campbell, this was the halfway point for us. You arrive at gate 2 on Saturday, called the Air Force SPs who promptly unlocked the gate for us to come through. We didn't have to wait but about 3 minutes before he arrived, and instructed us how to get to the FAMCAMP. Once you get there you will have to go to Bldg 558 which was down the road from the RV park in order to pay for the space. We drove through first to get a feel for the park, first it's small and quaint, I was a little worried about pulling our 31foot Travel trailer with our F150 it was tight but we pulled it just fine. After making the circle we headed to find bldg 558. The gentleman was extremely nice, and quick. We paid the $12.00 and headed to our spot, backed in and hooked up. The park is heavily shaded and across from the BX which was nice, as they had a subway, barber shop within walking distance. The lake was brown because I'm assuming the heavy rains that had been going on. The proximity to family we had in Marietta was amazing and we will definitely use this again when visiting Atlanta. The next day I used the showers and they were extremely clean, and the amenities were nice. I was surprised and expected less because of the reviews but for me this was nice.