Looking for a campground with a lot of amentities? Or a lot to do? Or instead perhaps just a period of peace and quiet? Our next destination offers a dose of what is usually a much needed dose of relaxation. East Bank COE (Army Corps of Engineers) Campground, a wooded waterfront campground on beautiful Lake Seminole near Bainbridge, Georgia, and Chattahoochee, Florida, is at the top of our favorite list. If you search on East Bank in the search box at the top of the right hand side of our blog site, you’ll find numerous posts about this campground that we have written over the past 12 years.

East Bank Campground is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) campground on the Georgia eastern side of Lake Seminole, near Bainbridge in southwestern Georgia.

The campground has approximately 65 numbered sites (most with water and 50 amp electric) arranged in three loops (A, B and C). The only amenities offered here are a bathhouse, coin operated laundry, boat ramp and courtesy docks, fish cleaning station and a picnic shelter. We stayed on site A03.

So our week long stay consisted of a few walks, a campfire almost every night, soaking up a few beautiful sunsets, and a trip to Costco in Tallahassee to stock up on supplies. We also enjoyed a delicious lunch at Don Julio’s Bar & Grill in Chattahoochee, FL where I had the combo fajitas (chicken and steak) served with rice, beans and Rob had the Chile Relleno. Both luncheon dishes were $9.00.

Although we’ve been there a number of times before, we drove up to the Jim Woodruff Dam, which sits just below the point where two major rivers meet and creates a third river.  The Chattahoochee River flows south from Georgia and Alabama, the Flint River flows south through Georgia. The Apalachicola River begins where the other two rivers come together. The dam holds back the water to form Lake Seminole, a 37,500-acre reservoir.

The project was authorized by Congress in 1946 and construction began in 1947. It was completed in 1957 and was named after James W. Woodruff Sr., a Georgia businessman who was instrumental in promoting development of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system.

At the end of our relaxing week long stay, we would head to another favorite campground. Stay tuned!