While camping is not exactly an every-day occurrence, tents can and do get blown over or drenched in extreme weather. Wind and rain both have the potential to ruin the tent camping experience. A cabin, on the other hand, has a foundation, solid walls, a roof, and isn’t going anywhere. The truth is that you can go camping without necessarily sacrificing your comfort.
Cabin camping is the best way to experience the great outdoors, and you'll be amazed how fast your kids will put down their phones to spend time with their family. Camping in Northern VA is one of the most unique vacation experiences available, and the state's many campsites will have your family coming back for more. Here's a list of our top 10 campgrounds with cabins in Virginia:
Bull Run Regional Park, located in Centreville, Virginia, offers 1,500 acres of natural space and amenities for hundreds of activities and outdoor adventures for everyone. Bring your family to Atlantis Waterpark for a day of fun on the slides, reserve one of the huge picnic sites for a business outing, or spend a quiet weekend in one of the campgrounds or cottages.
Bull Run Regional Park, which hosts the Bull Run Festival of Lights, is home to miles of picturesque and historic hiking trails, including the trailhead for the 19.7-mile Bull Run Occoquan Trail. Bull Run Regional Park is your spot to walk, play, swim, and explore. Rent a picnic shelter for your family, play a game of disc golf, or bring the kids for a day at the playground.
Pohick Bay is located in Lorton and features not only a waterpark but a bay with canoe, paddleboard, and kayak rentals. The park’s Pirate’s Cove Waterpark has a pirate-themed play structure featuring a 300-gallon dump bucket, waterslides, and a large baby pool with a clam shell slide. A truly unique camping in Northern VA destination!
You can bring your kids for a day of splashing and sliding at Pirate’s Cove Waterpark, spend a day on the bay with a canoe, paddleboard, stand up paddleboard and kayak rentals; or bring your own boat to our public boat launch ramp. Make a day of it by renting a picnic shelter or stay a little longer and reserve one of our cabins or campsites.
If you’re looking for a campground with cabins close to Washington DC, check out Prince Wiliam Forest.
Tent, RV, and trailer camping is available, but the historic cabin rentals are perhaps the most interesting. Four of the five cabin camps are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built during the great depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps as summer camps, they were also used by the Office of Strategic Services as a spy training area in World War II.
While you’re there, hike through the park’s 37 miles of trails with creeks, wildlife viewing, and historic sites. Bike on paved and gravel trails, fish in 18 miles of streams and man-made lakes, and bird watch for rare species of birds.
4. Wilderness Presidential Resort
If you’re looking for the best place to go cabin camping in Virginia, you can’t go wrong with Wilderness Presidential Resort.
Located in the heart of Spotsylvania near Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Wilderness, and just an hour’s drive from Washington DC, Wilderness Presidential Resort has tent and RV sites, as well as cabin rentals to meet your glamping needs. Only an hour drive from DC makes this one of the top 10 Cabin resorts near DC!
Wilderness also boasts one of our lists largest offering of amenities & activities from their Adventure Park Ropes course, to rental boats, 3 pools, Gem Mining, Escape Room, Mini-Gold, newly designed disc golf course and MORE!
Book a Lakeside Camp Cabin for lakeside camping with all of the comforts of home, including air-conditioning, television, kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms. Two bedroom cabins are also available with a hot tub to take your glamping to the next level. Glamping at it's finest!
5. Anvil Campgrounds
Williamsburg’s only campground with shuttle services. Only campground in the heart of Williamsburg! Big-rig friendly, pet friendly, family friendly, satellite friendly, best WiFi, cable, 50amp, first class utility pedestals, friendliest staff, paved roads, pull thrus, renovated restrooms with granite countertops, General Store, swimming pool, three playgrounds, arcade, basketball, handicap accessible, recycling, security, and beautiful rental cottages.
6. Gray's Point Camp
Stay and play by the Chesapeake Bay! There’s something at Grey’s Point Camp for everyone. Try your hand at fishing, crabbing, boating, sunbathing, swimming at the beach or one of the pools. Kids of all ages will love the splash pool and waterpark complex with water slides and sprayers! Recreational activities, theme weekends, train rides and live music keeps the fun going! Take a day trip into history with a short drive to Virginia’s “historic triangle” of Jamestown, Yorktown and Colonial Williamsburg. Along the way, browse through the many charming coastal towns.
7. Gloucester Point campground
Gloucester Point is a family friendly campground located near Gloucester Point Virginia Located in beautiful Gloucester County at the edge of both Hampton Roads and the Chesapeake Bay area, Gloucester Point Family Campground has the best of both worlds. Stay at the resort
to enjoy the rural beauty of the Severn River and spend your days fishing and crabbing or explore all the campground amenities and planned activities or take a short drive to any of the many major local attractions like Colonial Williamsburg, Busch Gardens and Yorktown.
8. Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Luray
Located amongst the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park™ Camp-Resort in Luray, Virginia, offers a breathtaking camping experience that the whole family will enjoy. This 73 rolling acres are situated close to the popular Luray Caverns and scenic Shenandoah National Park. When campers aren’t busy swimming and splashing at Yogi Bear’s Water Zone & Splashpad and zooming down our 400’ waterslide, they can enjoy the on-site mini golf, gem mining experience, arcade, pedal boats, fishing pond, two jumping pillows, daytime and nighttime lazer tag in the woods, outdoor sports, and playgrounds. All of the cabins and campsites take full advantage of the unparalleled setting and beautiful scenery that surrounds our park.
9. Emporia RV Park
The new Emporia/I-95 KOA Holiday offers campers an exciting list of amenities for their fun-filled Virginia vacation. Enjoy the sights and sounds of nature when you stay in a cozy Camping Cabin or take advantage of the full-hookup RV Sites. You can spend the day lounging by the pool, but if lounging isn't your speed, there's the Water Wars feature, along with the Jump Pad, to bring out the kid in everybody! There is plenty of fun to experience at nearby attractions like Pumplin Historical Park, Historic Petersburg, Lake Gaston, the city of Richmond and much more! Pool: Memorial Weekend - Labor Day Weekend.
10. Christopher Run Campground
Located on beautiful Lake Anna in Louisa County, Va. offering 200 campsites with camping cabins, deluxe cabins, full service loges, 38 full hookups, 42 water & electric (20/30A), 26 no hookups, 90 seasonal sites and 4 pull thru's, Christopher Run is the premier campground on the lake. In addition, our marina has 50 wet slips, 6 boat ramps, rental canoes, rowboats, scanoe's and paddleboats.
Amenities: Game room, pavilion, picnic shelter, group camping area, camper cabins, LP gas filling station, boat and trailer storage, church services (Memorial to Labor Day), public phones, snack bar, firewood, dump station, fully equipped camp store with live bait, laundromat and bath houses. Activities: swimming and excellent fishing in 13,600 acre Lake Anna, volleyball, horseshoes, shuffleboard and a playground.