Picture Lake Campground

Ok. Pros- Decent little campground. Staff seems friendly. Prices are affordable. It's quiet and close to the interstate, with easy access off of a main road. Plenty of space to walk the dog, and access to a good size lake for fishing/kayaking. Lots of options for groceries and meals within a 5-10 minute drive. Cons-Men's shower house could use some rehab, maybe a good deep cleaning. Grounds could use a good cleaning, trash pickup. Lots of people not cleaning up after their pets, use caution when walking the grass areas.

I stayed at Picture Lake for a year (July 2024-July 2025) while working contract in Richmond. The staff was super friendly, always helpful, very professional. The campground was well kept. I was able to kayak on the lake. The pool was clean and well maintained. I had great neighbors (long and short term campers) I will stay here again if working in the area.

A fantastic place to stay! This is a lovely campground with great amenities, friendly staff, large sites, strong electricity, beautiful grass spaces and gorgeous views. I stated here in a large rig with a large group during our travels and volunteer work and was impressed by the park. The pull through was probably the longest I have ever seen and gave us ample space for our rig. The sunsets over the lake were a treat every evening. The park was quite and peaceful and the giant chairs they have for the public to sit in are really cool and relaxing. The staff, Megan and Kaylee and the owner were all very kind and warm. They bent over backwards to accomodate our stay and make it a wonderful spot to be. Thank you all! I definitely recommend this park. Our experience was 5 Stars.

Right next to Virginia Motorsports Park. I have not used the campground yet, but others (who have I am pitted near at the race track), told me good value, 10 bucks to use all the pool in a day you want...heard from them that improvements have happened recently there. Only negative I have witnessed with my own eyes as I woke up this morning and thought the day is all that dump truck activity to the N.E. of the campground in and out and dumping or picking up...must have been a hundred loads or more (I could not tell which to be certain), and the driving over dusty dirt or gravel roads at speed (I never saw any water trucks wetting the roads there where all those dump trucks were kicking up tons of dust into the air and it was blowing everywhere including into and through the campground, lake and even the dragstrip property...it certainly is an air quality hazard though in AZ or CA they would never get away with that kind of a mess without getting fined huge repeated clouds of constant dust (for hours on end at least from 9AM-3:30PM Tues. 9-2-25 and it was a constant fog of fine Grey dusty particulates in the air and polluting according to the other commenters their own campground customers amongst others.

Start out with the positives: full hookup, paved parking pads for your rig, even have paved spots for the picnic tables on the premier sites, privately owned, nice view of lake, nice pool, very nice seating areas by lake/pool (chairs are top notch composite material)l, location to VA Motorsports Park. The negatives: definitely not for family camping. Lots of construction workers temporarily living at the campground and cheap little cabins riddled throughout. The entrance isn't inviting, we passed it up bc I thought it was a landscaping/shed sales company. The playground, volleyball court, bathhouses, general store are not well maintained. No security to stop rif-raf from coming in... Was not made aware of the endless construction and dump trucks rolling through for expansion. It has potential but it would probably need to be emptied out, gutted, and re-opened under new ownership. That would probably be financially impossible for most, so it's probably lose-lose for current owner. But I would definitely focus on improving what's existing instead of expanding. Unfortunate bc we support privately held campgrounds, this is just one we will not be returning to unless I'm with a group of friends for a race weekend.