Barrington County Park

Watchout for the puddles!

I got stuck in one puddle that was just a couple of inches deep. The problem was a big hole in the middle of the road/puddle (knee deep)

Water entered my camper van and was all over the floor
I had to call a towing company to get out.

I visited the site again 2 days later and found somebody else stuck in the same hole, so I figured I warn visitors here!

Don’t take my rating seriously. I have never seen the camping area. Just here to warn people and this app forces me to rate it.

This was a wonderful find. There is a 3 mile rough road to get to the site. Once there you will find dumpsters, water, a dump, and about 10 campsites, some have tables, most don’t. The interesting thing is that there are crosses for people that have died randomly placed throughout the site. I found this fun and spooky. The river/swamp also added to the spookyness. The water comes up to a few of the campsites so it’s a beautiful view out your window. I didn’t make reservations and it doesn’t seem like they have a reservation system.

No big complaints other than a noisy generator. I camp host was friendly. Bathrooms were clean enough and had toilet paper, though only one ply. The roads coming in were very wet and kinda muddy but maintained. I drive an gen 2 Honda CRV and had no issues. Not terribly buggy for the swampy part of Georgia. Overall a good enough place to camp during my cross country road trip.

This place is very simple, basically a field with some spots indicated with picnic tables and fire rings. There’s a bath house that was cleaner than expected.

There are no real rules, and so my evening was ruined when an RV came in and turned their generator on and left it on ALL night. Their lawnmower sound ruined the quiet of an entire campground. If you have a generator, be considerate to others. No one wants their solitude ruined by this noise pollution. If you can’t “camp” without one running all night, maybe you shouldn’t be out there at all.

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!