James River State Park

Gladstone, Virginia

We continue our journey southward as we head down to Florida for the winter.

This is a really nice campground. All the sites are pull-through with water/electric hook-up. There is an RV dump located at the campground entrance. $24/night for a campsite. Each campsite has a picnic table, fire ring, and lantern holder. The pads are wide for two campers.

The horses have large covered stalls. There isn’t any turn out area, but there is a nice wash rack with a concrete pad. Too cold for us to wash down the horses. Stalls are $10/night.

The trails are well marked. Trails are mostly wide and flat with hard packed dirt.

There are plenty of trails for a couple of days worth of riding.

We rode up to this equestrian vista point.

The view of the “Religious Range” was picture perfect, especially with the fall colors.

There was a hitching post and mounting block at the vista area so we could dismount and check out the view.

Ari snapped a picture of me.

We had two really easy trail rides here. Appomattox, where Lee surrendered to Grant is located about 30 minutes from here. There is a Tractor Supply about two miles from the site of the Old Courthouse. I drove to the historical marker. The court house is gone and only the fields where the last battle took place remain. Tractor Supply has been our source for grain and other equine supplies since we came east of the Mississippi.