Barrington County Park

Pros
Hot and cold showers if you’re willing to shower in pretty gross public bathrooms that no one maintains, but hey it works and it’s free.
Pretty friendly ppl, there were few rvs that have been there for quit some time, one even has a rooster 🐓

Cons
Half of the park is flooded,
Which brought all the bugs, so we had our fire going throughout the day to keep them away.

We planned on staying longer, but the main road started to flood today, so we packed up our stuff and left, didn’t want to get stuck. We spread the word that more than half of the road as you turn from the cox road onto the dirt road is flooded but it didn’t alert them too much 🤷‍♀️ We didn’t want to get stuck or flooded.

Sherif told us that it’s not a good idea to camp there this time of the year because the water will only rise even higher. SO STAY AWAY FOR THE NEXT 2-3 weeks

I did listen to the previous review and type in “fort Barrington road” instead of following directions to the park. The road was still rough, but the previous review mentioned GPS would take you down a one way that ended at a dead end and they could hardly get their RV out. We only stayed here for a day, left before the night. There were TONS of bugs and the road to get there was just so bad that since we had to do a store run we thought it wasn’t worth it to do it again. Not bad for a free campsite! Without the mosquitos and bees everywhere, there was a small lake view, bathroom that was quite dirty, but worked. And there are cold showers which we didn’t use.

(If you’re going here please read the bottom of this for very important direction information)

So first off this place is beautiful. We went in the off season (November). We all have colored hair and tattoos, the locals were absolutely friendly, and we stayed in a weekend, no noise to be heard. This place was stunning with Spanish moss draping the trees, the river is stunning and the showers aren’t THAT bad. We met an amazing dog Maggie, Tanya and Ed were nice
Neighbors. We would have stayed Much longer if we could have.

If you have Verizon most of the time you won’t have enough data to really stream or “surf” the web. You will be able to send messages fine.

GETTING IN AND OUT

If you have a big rig and it just rained a lot. The road leading there and much of the park is SAND. This will turn to slick and sinking mud. Def appraise before venturing.

Your GPS WILL LIE. It will take you in a NARROW one way back woods rd. If you’re on orchard or cemetery road turn around. We kept going thinking we were close and at the end it was fenced off. We could BARELY turn around and it scratched up our RV.

You was COX rd SW to BARRINGTON rd. It’s a very easy dirt road. ANYTHING ELSE IS DANGEROUS. again COX rd SW to BARRINGTON

Finally. I can’t believe this place is free. Bring a kayak. It’s perfect there.

We would have stayed longer.

County Park and boat ramp, 7 day stay limit, a handful of picnic tables, flush toilets and showers. Historical location of Fort Barrington from 1751, held by the Spanish, British and American armies up until the civil war. Little remains of the original fort destroyed by years of floods. listed on the historical registry
See our video review of this park!
Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJMxV6SdmE

If it was not a washboard road to get there, I would definitely give 5 stars. But to get there is around 3-4 miles at 10-15miles/hour. If you take your time, it's worth it. We spend a night there on March 26th, a really great place. Lot of space can accommodate all type of rigging. Some spots are good for solar. Bring your firewood. Flush toilet, shower(!), garbage cans, my first time in a free campground with all this services!

I stayed one night and had no issues. The bathrooms weren’t too bad. They had what they needed, and were very clean for a free camp site. This was on a week night in October, so there were only maybe two other people there. So it was very quiet and isolated (We used tents). The only thing I would warn is that there are TWO entances. If you use GPS, it might try to take you down a very rough road. Don’t take it unless you know your car can get down it. There’s a separate dirt road that’s very easy to get down (it’s just a bit up the road from the rough entrance - it’s just a flat dirt road). I recommend taking that one. Be sure to fill up on gas as well. This area is isolated, but beautiful.

We stayed here and loved the free cold showers and boat dock. However unless you're a boater or fisherman there really isn't much to do. The road in is long and really wash boarded. In the week it was peaceful, and we went on the river with our boat. At the weekend it got really busy with kids drinking and playing music, plus flying the Confederate flag (which may bother some people). Some other local people showed up, who were friendly, but really drunk. This place is a good spot if you like fishing, or want to recharge for a couple of days, but try to avoid the weekends.

This is a large campground area that you have to drive about 4 miles of sandy washboard road to get to. The road wasn't to bad, but if conditions were worse it may become a issue. We made it easy enough with our 28 footer towing the car. Once you reach the beautiful campground there are plenty of areas you can set up camp in sun or shade.

The campground has a boat ramp and dock, bathroom with toilets, running water, and showers, which sometimes has hot water. There is a water spigot on the bathroom building you can use to fill up, but the water is not the best quality. I drank some and lived. There are also trash cans spread around. The Altamaha River is right there. Where we set up camp we were about 30 feet from the waters edge. The fishing here is fantastic and a lot of locals use the boat ramp. You can also swim or paddle the river as well, but beware there are snakes and alligators around.

There is not much around this area so be sure to bring what you need or its a 50 minute drive to the nearest grocery store. There is no dump area here either. The cell service and wifi were spotty. Sometimes it worked pretty good, sometimes not at all. You could usually get a call out, but our hot spot wifi was slow.

I would have gave this area 4 stars if it wasn't for the not so friendly locals. Most of the people we met were nice and civil, but the second day we were there some guy drove by in the morning around 9 AM in a maroon car and yelled at me to go back to California, due to my license plate. I was just standing there minding my business staring at the river drinking my coffee, so I didn't provoke him. Then when I turned to look at him in a bit of culture shock he yelled he would come back with his bow and kill me and my dog. So this put me on edge a bit, and I would have to say he wasn't the only one who didn't want us there. Many times people pulled there trucks up between us and the river to fish, and were right in front of our door.

I would recommend if you do camp here and your not a local, don't take a prime on the river spot. I think that pissed people off.