Tall trees close over the campsite loops at Newport News Park, and most sites along them put a grill beside a concrete pad. These woods are where a Hampton RV week sleeps. Each loop has its own hot-shower and restroom building, so the kids learn the path there by the second evening and nobody queues for the rig's one bathroom. The motorhome stays leveled and plugged in from the first night to the last, because the places worth seeing are short drives up the road: the Yorktown battlefield, the Colonial Parkway, and Jamestown at its far end.
The city runs 188 campsites in the park, most of them with electrical hookups (Newport News Parks and Recreation). That plug keeps the air running through a sticky Tidewater afternoon, so a family comes back from the battlefield to a cool rig and dinner on the grill. If it's just the two of you, a smaller rig from the Virginia campervan listings handles the same week with less to back in.
Hampton's own waterfront fills the days off from colonial history. Fort Monroe's stone walls and moat stand out on Old Point Comfort where the bay meets Hampton Roads, and Buckroe Beach is a stretch of Chesapeake sand with gentler water than the ocean side. Both are easy outings from the campground, with the rig left on its pad.
Yorktown and Jamestown on the Colonial Parkway
Yorktown makes the natural first day from this side of the Historic Triangle. The battlefield where Cornwallis surrendered spreads across open fields and earthworks above the York River, and the Colonial Parkway leaves from there along the water toward Williamsburg and on to Historic Jamestowne, the island where the English colony began.
The Park Service's safety page for Colonial National Historical Park bars motor homes, buses and vehicles over 5 tons from the Historic Jamestowne Tour Loop Drive and the Yorktown Battlefield tour roads, as of October 2026. The same page lists the parkway's tunnel at Williamsburg, a 1,190-foot bore built in 1942, at 10 ft 4 in at the curb line heading toward Jamestown and 10 ft 6 in heading toward Yorktown, with 14 ft 8 in only under the overhead lights. Check the rig's height against those numbers before planning any parkway miles.
The workable plan leaves the motorhome hooked up at Newport News Park and gives Yorktown one day and Jamestown another in a car. Families whose towable was delivered to the site by its owner already have one parked beside it.
Williamsburg's private RV parks work the same Triangle from the west, and that week lives on the Richmond RV page. The rest of the state's rig trips are on the Virginia RV page.