Carr Point Recreation Facilities

A couple of notes: The reservation number on their brochure is 401-841-3283. The info number produces nothing of value. The hours show 0900-1800 but these are not correct. The hours are 1200-1700. Although the phone rings in the Marina office that is open until 1/2 hour prior to sunset. See https://www.navymwrnewport.com/programs/28fabad3-c7f9-4bc1-bdca-467c94a79096 I have called multiple times, left message but no call back. The office , as the showers and laundry, is in the marina next to Gate 1. All of the sites slope toward the bay but flatten at the end. Site 6 is really sloped. Suggest the motorhomes pull straight in to face the water. This means that your water/elec will pass under your coach.

Great view and spacious sites for $20 a night! Cons: no sewer hook ups and the water coming out of tap is rust colored, we used our full water tanks for drinking plus filtered through a Berkey filter system. Pros: great location to see sites of Rhode Island, beaches ( recommend 2nd beach) and seafood! Set GPS to take you to Walmart in Newport or you may get sent onto ridiculous small streets that are a nightmare to maneuver with a trailer or 5th wheel! 

Little has changed from last year, except for 2 items. One is just an awareness issue and the other is an inconvenience. (1) They just added 4 dry camping sites, OK, but they marked the space between them with the 4' concrete parking lot bumpers and placed them about a foot off the road edge along with wooden posts with site numbers. It adds some challenge to back out of sites # 4 & 5 without catching a hitch or the back of your RV on one of them. My neighbor took a ding out of his car hitch. (2) Is an issue at Melville Dump Station. It used to be a circular drive where you pulled in the the entrance, went halfway around, dumped and then pulled out and back on the road. Now there are new sites there and the dump station was relocated along the back fence. You have to do some jockeying around to get lined-up (dump on driver's side) and then unless you want to run 30+ ft of hose, you are nose in with a building/parking lot on your passenger side. There were cars in the lot when I was there and no way out except to backup first. I had to unhook my tow, do all that and then re-hook on your way out. If you can, delay hooking up your tow until after dumping and just do it once on the way out. If all else fails, you are pointed at the long-term area entrance so you could enter and go around the park to come back out.

Anthony at the gym is now in charge of Carr Point. Things seem a little more organized so maybe we'll see some improvements. It didn't appear that any maintenance had been done on the gravel pad areas since last year; thin to no gravel in places with weeds growing through. Grounds are kept mowed and trash is routinely picked up. The bay view is good from the RV, but the shoreline tress/shrubs are starting to obscure it if you're sitting at the picnic table. If they had sewer this would be great. Police do make occasional cruise-bys into the park in the evening. 

We attempted to stay in May 2018. We called numerous times prior to our arrival no one ever answered we left messages no one ever returned a call. But we kept going. On arrival there was no one around, called again finally someone answered. We were told they don't open until May 22. When asked if we could dry camp again told they were not open. When asked why no one returned calls we got no response. We have stayed at many military camp sites always treated very respectful and courteous not here. This is to bad we will not be back and remember one ah s..t whips out 100 at-a-boys. It is not far to bases on the cape or Hanscom. 

No amenities such as restrooms, showers, laundry or wifi, but the scenery is absolutely the greatest - right on the water. Well maintained, clean park, spacious sites, and such friendly staff! There were only two other campers there at the time. Nice place.