CAMPING/GENERAL INFO

GUIDELINES

RULES OF CONDUCT

Alcohol is prohibited.
Adult waterfront supervision is required.

WEATHER

Storm conditions vary widely in central Virginia. Call manager for update (804) 769-0368.

DOGS

Kindly leave your dog at home.

BICYCLES

You may bring bicycles to ride along dirt & gravel roads.

CANOES, KAYAKS, MOTOR BOATS

You can bring canoe/kayak for waterfront access; for some groups boats may be provided.
The law requires a life jacket for each passenger.
Children must paddle with an adult.
Want to bring a motorized boat? Notify manager: (804) 769-0368. There is a boat ramp a mile away in Walkerton; minimal donation fee.

TRASH REMOVAL

Please remove all refuse.

PARKING

Tent campers park in designated area before dark.

CAMPFIRE SAFETY

When campfire is burning an adult must be present.
Extinguish campfire or assign a fire-watcher when you go to another area.
Annual Fire Ban Feb. 15 – April 30 before 4pm open air fires are unlawful.
Half–hour before final exit please extinguish campfire.

OFF LIMITS

Areas marked by barrier fences, locks, signs.
Main house & yard.
Quarry next-door.

MISCELLANEOUS

A MILE AWAY IN WALKERTON

Scott’s Exxon (804) 769-4275 (Mon-Sat: 6am-8pm, Sun: 12-5pm) – fuel, diesel, propane, kerosene, ice, pay phone, deli, homemade food, kwik-mart

GROCERY STORE

Food Lion at Central Garage (Rt 360/30)

FOOD: TAKE-OUT & DINE-IN

Walkerton (Rt 629)

Scott’s Store: breakfast & lunch (Mon-Sat: 6am-2pm)

Central Garage (Rt 360/30)

Burger King
Subway
Dominos (no delivery)
7-Eleven, Valero
Restaurants Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Ripley’s

Aylett (Rt 360)

KJs Exxon: breakfast & lunch (Mon-Sat: 6am-2pm, Sun: 8am-2pm)

SPRING 2012 NEWS

Cabin area steps and dock lead to the beach.
Bald eagle nest is visible from the hiking trail.
Little dock area is a good place for sandy play at low tide.
In 2011 Hurricane Irene ‘left her calling card:’ a downed hilltop tree is now a popular climbing spot while many other large trees cross portions of the hiking trail.

CAMP WHITEHALL RIVER INFO

THE MATTAPONI [matta-po-NIGH] RIVER

is tidal fresh for nearly its whole length.
grows brackish (salty) close to West Point where it joins the Pamunkey [pah –MUN-key] River to form the York River.

CAMP WHITEHALL . . .

has clean fresh water.
has a sandy, muddy river bottom.
has no crabs or jelly fish.

PART OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY SYSTEM

Whitehall is around 70 miles above the Chesapeake Bay, a river mile or so above Walkerton, about eight miles below Aylett.

CAMP WHITEHALL TIDES

The water level drops four feet between high and low tide daily.
Walkerton experiences the highest average vertical tide range in the entire Chesapeake Bay system.

VEGETATION, WILDLIFE, etc.

pickerelweed, marsh grasses & plants, cattail, great blue heron, bald eagle, osprey, waterfowl, river otter, eastern painted turtle, beaver, raccoon, opossum, muskrat, green tree frog, peepers, mussels
large yellow pond lilies dormant during the winter gradually appear and by summer grow into vivid green lily pad beds forming islands and hugging the shoreline

CHANNEL DEPTH 10 – 15 feet in the middle of the river

AT HIGH TIDE IT IS . . .

6 – 7 feet ~ off the end of the dock/channel-side
4 – 5 feet ~ off platform/channel-side
2 – 4 feet ~ along upriver shoreline
2 – 3 feet ~ along little dock, downriver

FISHING

LICENSE

Required for adults (2012 fee – $23) Online (Visa/Mastercard) www.secure01.virginiainteractive.org/horf/

SPECIES

catfish, bass, perch, sunfish, pickerel, crappie, bowfin, carp, gar, shad, walleye, eel & others

TIPS

use minnows, worms, artificial lures, eel
fish an hour before/after high tide

LOCAL FISHING RESOURCES

	LICENSE ($23)	NIGHT- CRAWLERS	MINNOWS, LIVE BAIT
JoJo’s Express Manquin (Rt 360) (804) 769-4868	x	x	x
Twin Rivers Outdoors Manquin (Rt 360) (804) 769-8763	x	x	x
KJ’s Exxon Manquin (Rt 360) (804) 769-1214	x(cash only)	x	x
Rayzway Exxon St. Stephens Church (Rt 360) (804) 769-3333		x
Scott’s Exxon Walkerton (Rt 629) (804) 769-4275			x(squid,shrimp)