Summer Road Trip - Where are you heading?

[beacher]

Our summer road trip will be to the Eastern High Sierras.  I'm hoping to catch a couple late season trout, (Largemouth Bass is OK too)!   We will be near Bishop, Mammoth, June Lake, Tom's Place, and Bridgeport.  Perhaps we will venture over the Tioga Pass to visit Yosemite for a day, (once I fill my gas tank in Lee Vining for about $6.75/gallon). :p

[campdaddy]

We will be in Rocky Mountain National Park the first week of August.  We will be staying in a National Forest CG in Stillwater CO.

Originally Posted by campdaddy
Our road trip destination this year will be Watoga State Park in W.V. for just over a week. We'll be there in mid July but the sites have power so we'll have the A/C. The Greenbrier River, a bike trail, the Cass Rail Road, Civil War sites, should be great fun for the family.

Kelly, I'd really be interested in hearing about your stay at Wilderness SP when you get back as that's one of the places we're thinking about for next year's road trip; that and Sleeping Bear Dunes. Maybe even yet later on this year if we can make the time.
 
Sleeping Bear Dunes and Porcupine Mountains are both excellent.  Porcupine Mountains offers a lot of trails, bring your hiking boots.  We were there in 01 and the only showers were in the CG at the eastern end of the park.  The other CG is 25 miles away at the western end of the park.  They had a nice new shower building at the west CG that they couldn't use.
 
Don't miss the old life saving station at Sleeping Bear Dunes.
 
Bob

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Sleeping Bear Dunes is a real nice park.  Clean, nice size sites and enough to do.

If you have a canoe or kayakes, a trip down the river is worth it.  When we did it, the salmon were running and it was quite a site.

Very nice area around the park.

Campaholics and GeneF Thanks to both of you  for the good reports on these parks. I'm pretty sure we will visit one or both within the year or two.

[Jestercat]

We'll be staying fairly close this year, but plan a trip to the east coast (Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick) next year.

July 1st at Mikisew Prov. Park for Canada Day (I'm shooting the fireworks show)

July 24th-27th, Santa's Village in Bracebridge

July 27th, Samuel De Champlain Prov. Park for Road Hammers concert (part of Mattawa Voyageur Days - I'm shooting the fireworks for that as well)

August 16th-19th, Marineland - Niagara Falls

And more to follow I'm sure!!  

Can't wait!!! :p

[azpopup17]

We have spent amost two weeks in the camper and have loved it.   All the campgrounds have been great.  It actually snowed in Yellowstone at Flagg Ranch.  We woke up to about 3" on the ground.  Our travels included two nights in a hotel to brake up long drives.  

Zion - 2 nights at Ferber RV resort, great location next to the park.  Can get a free shuttle right into park.  Was a little hot during the day, but cooled down at night to perfect temps.  Can get a site right on the Virgin river.

Yellowstone - 5 nights at Flagg Ranch, great location (2mi from Yellowstone), campground is in the forest, you are surrounded by trees, plenty of shade (not that we needed it).  You have a real dry camping feel with the hook ups (20 amp only).  Expect to drive about 16miles for real groceries.  Restaurant was so so.  Oh just to note you have to keep all items with an odor (food, toiletries etc) in your vehicle at night and when you are away from camp to avoid attracting the bears.  You cannot keep in a tent or PU.  This was a bit extra work but not a big deal.  
 
Black Hills SD - 3 nights at Rafter J Bar Ranch (Ranch section), great location close to Mr Rushmore, Custer, Crazy Horse.  Best layout of all the campgrounds we stayed at.  Good spacing of sites.  Site was surrounded by trees.  Showers were the smallest of all the sites.  

Other than a minor plumbing leak, noisey furnace fan, and bunk fan with a case of infant mortality, the camper was great.  The first two nights at Yellowstone were below freezing so the furnance ran almost no stop both nights.  This was our first experience with RV sites, and a positive one at that.  

Hope your camping experience this summer has been great...we are hooked and look forward to the next trip.