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Stony Fork (USFS) campground, off Rt77 near Wytheville (last stop for major services!). A little further on down I81 is Hungry Mother State Park. Sleeping in the car sucks you'd have room to stretch out and a picnic table and neither is far from the trail.
"Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Sleepin by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he wanta but he can't call me..."
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A little further on down I81 is Hungry Mother State Park
forgot about hungry mother...
that was the first night i stayed in a trip that changed my life (first time to smoky's---moved 2 years later down this way)..
and that's easy to get to from the interstate....
I usually just sleep in the car - small SUV - in the rest stops on the highway.
I do this as well when I drive everywhere especially across country. But I don't know if I've seen to many scary movies or what but man some of them rest stops are creepy! I always park all the up close to the bathrooms where there's lots of light. After all that's when you are most vulnerable when you're sleeping.
Always good advice. I stopped at interstate rest stops in Tennessee last month, and can confirm the following:Know the rules
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/...ist/489221002/
"The “rules” for Tennessee Rest Areas are: There is a two-hour parking limit"
Virginia law is equally unambiguous:
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/adminco...r50/section10/
" No overnight parking will be permitted."
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