This thread is a spinoff from the thread started by Billy Bob on his trip.
List no more than five of your favorite places that you have visited while on a camping trip. They do not have to be listed from most favorite to least favorite.
They may be a natural wonder or a commercial venture that you really enjoyed but it has to be something you have done on a camping trip.
Just thought it might be fun to have to think a bit about where we have been and what we have seen that we all have really enjoyed.
Arches National Park
CanyonLands
Crazy Horse
Badlands
Acadia
Yosemite (we go every year)
Yellowstone
Mr. Rushmore
Crazy Horse
The Redwoods (in Yosemite and No. CA)
Niagra Falls
Places I would like to see in the near future after I retire next year:
Grand Canyon
Civil War Battlefields
All the monuments in Washington DC & Virginia
Grand Tetons
See more of the US, Canada, and Mexico
etc, etc, etc.
Joan
Glacier NP
Black Hills/Custer SP
Yellowstone NP
Acadia NP
Any NF in Colorado!
Uh, where to start? Only five? Calstate listed six...
Acadia National Park
Grand Canyon (I prefer the North Rim - far less crowded).
Yosemite National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Yellowstone/Grand Teton national parks (only counts as one because the camper did not move :D ).
Prince Edward Island, Canada
If you notice this list is different from the other thread, it's because the question is different. I have enjoyed Acadia perhaps more than any other, and have been there at least six times. Should all Americans see it? That would wreck it for sure. I also believe there are large numbers of people who would simply never "get it" and shoud not waste their time.
Austin
Uh, where to start? Only five? Calstate listed six...
Acadia National Park
Grand Canyon (I prefer the North Rim - far less crowded).
Yosemite National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Yellowstone/Grand Teton national parks (only counts as one because the camper did not move :D ).
Prince Edward Island, Canada
If you notice this list is different from the other thread, it's because the question is different. I have enjoyed Acadia perhaps more than any other, and have been there at least six times. Should all Americans see it? That would wreck it for sure. I also believe there are large numbers of people who would simply never "get it" and shoud not waste their time.
Austin
Yosemite
Sequoia National Park
Yellowstone
Big Bear,our local mountains
Ronald Reagan Library and Museum-kids loved the Air Force One
Quote from: GeneFList no more than five of your favorite places that you have visited while on a camping trip. They do not have to be listed from most favorite to least favorite.
Great question, Gene ...
Arches/Canyonlands NP (the trailer didn't move ;) )
North rim of the Grand Canyon
Biltmore Estate
Glacier NP
Pikes Peak
I had a couple others, but I didn't visit them on camping trips ~
Kootenai National Forest (far and away my most favorite)
Gettysburg
The biggest challenge is narrowing it to only five! I agree, cool thread Gene.
- Great Smoky Mountain National Park
- Yellowstone/Grand Tetons
- Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah
- Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah
- Charleston, SC area
Holy Cow! Five is nowhere near enough.
Some pictures I've taken of most of these places (if not all) at: www.pbase.com/skipp35 (//%22http://www.pbase.com/skipp35%22)
Assateague Island National Seashore
Acadia National Park
Yellowstone
Grand Tetons
At any campground that involves my PUT friends, been to a few.
I won't list the others beyond 5 but I see a trend...... National Parks!!
Acadia NP
Kettle Moraine Forest SP, WI
Governor Dodge SP, WI
The whole group of state parks near Carbondale IL, only counts as one the tent didn't move.
Pensulia SP, WI
Bob
Hummmmmm, Hummmmmmmmm, Ok got it!
1. Custer State Park, The Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Deadwood, Wall Drug and Sturgis. Never moved the PU either!
2. Gettysburg
3. Adirondak Mts
4. Blue Ridge Parkway/Smokey Mts
5. Any place with good trout fishing!
Acadia NP
Shenadoah NP
Yosemite NP
Zion NP
Grayson Highlands/Mount Rogers NRA
We absolutely love the Grand Tetons and Glacier NP, but haven't made it camping yet.
Big Fry
1999 Palomino Pony
1. Fenway Park :)
2. Yosemite
3. Sequioa
4. Pismo Beach
5. Fenway Park - I love Fenway Park :)
This is fun ... :D
1. Alaska -- too many places to list
2. Banff/Lake Louise
3. Yosemite
4. Tetons
5. Rocky Mtn. National Park
And, somewhere I bet nobody else has been (unless you're affiliated with the YMCAs in the Fresno area) -- Sequoia Lake. Walking distance from the national park, privately owned, and one of the most beautiful places in the Sierras.
I won't list Grand Teton NP because it is in my signature, here goes:
1.Capitol Reef NP (Utah)
2.Denali NP (Alaska)
3.Craters of the Moon NP (Idaho)
4.Deadhorse Point SP (Utah)
5.Goblin Valley SP(again in Utah)
Been to Yellowstone and as they say "not so much..." we really hated fighting the crowds.
Many other places will be visited by the snoochie house. We are talking about doing our winter trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon this winter, and maybe Glaicer NP in Montana next year along with the anual Teton trip.
I have:
Mogollon Rim- Payson, Az
Oak Creek Canyon- Sedona, Az
Vail Lake - Temecula, Ca
Indian Hills- Tehachapi, Ca.
Any Lake Camping Places
Looking forward to: Yosemite & Sequoia---------someday
We haven't bee terribly far and wide, but these are our favorites.
1. Townsend/Little River Village CG/Smokies, Tennessee
2. Big South Fork NRRA/Bandy Creek CG, Tennessee
3. Cloudland Canyon SP, Georgia
4. Nathan Bedford Forrest SP, Tennessee
5. Moonshine Creek CG, North Carolina, close to Biltmore Estate
Larry
Good topic Gene! We haven't been to far west yet, someday we will get the time.
From the few place we've been I come up with this list.
1. North shore of Superior, Lake Superior PP, Ontario, Canada
2. Superior State Forest (on the shore) , Michigans U.P.
3. [size=-1]Monogahelia NF , West Virginia (not far from Spruce Knob)
4. Smokey Mountain NP
5. [/size]Ottawa National Forest, Michigans U.P.
Jamestown, VA.
The Mark Twain house in CT (the wh ole darn state of CT!!)
Yosemite, Yosemite, Yosemite...the first time is the just the most surreal feeling...
Carpenteria, CA (trains and all, great time kayaking and great little city)
And just the most wonderful place when I was young....(er), Disneyland. Met my hubby there when I was 14 and still get excited when I go ;) :D
There are no BAD camping places, but my favorite are:
1. Yellowstone/Grand Tetons
2. Maine - in general, Acadia included
3. BIg Meadows CG on Skyline Drive in VA
4. Badlands, SD.
5. Promised Land State Park, Poconos, PA
We also loved Utah NP's and the southwest, but we didn't camp there.
In no particular order
1) Prince Edward Island, Canada
2) Vermont almost anywhere in the mts. but especially fond of the area around Brandon.
3) Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
4) Savannah, Georgia- A beautiful pre-civial war historic district....liked it so much we bought a home there!!
5) Banif, Alberta, Canada - awsome!
Lots more places that definitely are right up there but these are the 5 that for some reason have made the strongest impression
Ummm, I could list the Blue Ridge Parkway as ALL FIVE for me! There are hundreds of things and places to visit and see along the way...
Ditto to a lesser extent for Skyline Drive/Shenandoah Nat Park...
Driving through the Mohawk Trail (Rt-2) in the Massachusettes Berkshire Mountains....
Calvin Coolidge State Park in Vermont, and the adjoining Coolidge Homestead and museum...
The Historic Triangle/Colonial Parkway (Williamsburg, Jamestown, & Yorktown)...
Hmmmm, this is tough but here goes.
1. Lakeport State Park just norh of Port Huron, Michigan. Great beach.
2. Douthat State Park here in Va. Great fishing and no cell phone service!
3. Loft Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains here in Va. Peace and quiet.
4. John Pennekamp State Park in Key Largo, Florida. Sea food and diving.
Tena
All in California:
1. (My secret campground that I never tell near Santa Cruz & Half Moon Bay)
2. Yosemite National Park
3. (Another secret campground at the Delta)
4. Half Moon Bay State Park
5. Fallen Leaf National Forest Campground at Lake Tahoe
Sorry, I have to include:
6. Sequoia National Park
7. Pfieffer at Big Sur
8. El Chorro at Morro Bay near San Luis Obispo
Sorry to break the 5 campground rule.