Dobbins Lakeside Campground

I stayed one night on our way to Nashville. They now accept reservations. I agree with earlier posts that it could be a really nice CG if some funding was put towards improvements! Seems most sites were taken by homesteaders and it needed general cleaning. Cindy was very helpful in helping me find an open site. When I arrived on a Sunday there was a motor home in my assigned site which had obviously been there a long time so I just took a nearby empty one and called her number to let MWR know. Base Security was great about meeting us at the back gate for entry and even escorted us to FAMCAMP . I would return for a another overnight stay on my way somewhere else.

New Rate as of Jan 2019 is $16 night. They are in process of changing from no reservations to reservations accepted. Currently no laundry facilities. Great location for Atlanta activities. 

I was TDY to Dobbins for two weeks. Although I didn't go there as an "RVer" I love to RV and like to scope out the FamCamps on different bases for future use. This one has huge potential! Lots of tress and shade next to a beautiful lake across from the BX. I walked thru it almost everyday and a couple of time at night and each time it seemed deserted. No one outside camping, just RV's. All the sites where taken, yet I felt alone. At night it's a little scary. That place gets dark, even with the RV's, there's no noise at all. I didn't know what to make of it.

Was stationed on the base while on active duty in the Navy for several years and came back to visit family in the area over the Thanksgiving week. I called several times to speak with the manager(Terry) about an opening because they were full and wont take reservations. After calling back on Monday as instructed he said he would have one spot the next day but it was first come first serve. So I drove all day from JRB Nola campground to get there before the office closed only to find out, he was not there that day and the young lady in the office had no idea if they even had room because she hadn't been over there yet today, it was 1500. She said go look and see if there is room, I went over and the people had never left so there was only one spot that was conned off saying reserved, I inquired about this spot and was told they were coming back. I insisted on a place to stay for the night even if it was the parking lot and she called the manager and he said to give me the spot for the night and check back in the next day, which I did and turns out the people never paid so I got the spot for a week. Now to the BAD part! the camp ground seemed abandon very few people moving about, I thought maybe because it was Thanksgiving week I did see one guy and said he had been living there for 3 years, when I seemed surprised he said thats nothing, see that 5th Wheel, they have been here 15 years! He said with the exception of me and 1 other everyone had been there over a year. There are sites marked 14 day only yet this policy is not enforced. The Mens bathroom only had 2 working showers out of 4. One of which had a shower head chest high 5'. Positive note was free laundry, one washer and dryer. The RV sites are not level, you will need lots of blocking to make it work. I left the campground early and went to the world famous Navy late site at lake Altoona, same price, but worth the drive to and from Acworth GA. I am sure the problem is funding but the Airforce really needs to do something about policy and clean up the campground and update the electrical service to 50 amp. 

We drove our car to Dobbins AFB and decided to checkout the famcamp.  As I read the reviews about the famcamp, I can't help but wonder what kind of camping facilities these people consider nice. The only one I agreed with was the 2015 review.  With a little sprucing up, the campground could definitely be a place you'd want to return.  Most of the RVs, if not all, had been there long term.  One of them had plastic bins stacked as high as possible and on the ground half covered with a tarp.  If the base is going to let people live long term (which shouldn't be allowed), there should be rules established to keep the famcamp looking good.  RVs should be washed on a regular basis and residents should get a storage unit rather than stacking their belongings around the RV.  We stopped at an RV Park in California in 2014 that had both long and short termers.  All the long termers were around the outside perimeter and everything around the RV was well maintained, other than being told the outside perimeter was for long term, you would never have guessed.