RE: Looking for Campground in Confluence or Ohiopyle area

Started by Tentcamp, Jun 04, 2003, 06:10 AM

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chip

Sep 28, 2003, 07:05 PM
 Greetings-
 
 Am planning a trip to western PA this summer and need some help if available...
 
 This will be a bicycle trip.  Tents and hammocks will be the sleeping arrangements of choice (Can t pull a popup on a bicylce.  Too much tongue weight.  And I m terribly afraid of sway.)  
 
 Group of us will be riding the Great Allegheny Passage from near Pittsburg, finishing near Meyersdale and are looking for a campground in the Ohiopyle/Confluence area.  Motor vehicle access a major plus, since we have a sag wagon carrying all the important stuff.
 
 We are looking for a place to put up for the night, and having trouble finding a suitable place.  Anybody got any ideas?  
 
 TIA...

Tentcamp

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Jun 04, 2003, 06:10 AM
 chipThere is a State Park Campground at Ohiopyle, it s a bit off the highway.  It s been years since we were there but we liked it, we were in a tent then.  It can get busy in the summer though.

reallygreen

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Jun 04, 2003, 08:59 PM
 chipWe stayed at Ohiopyle State Park for 3 days last July and loved it.  If we had been camping in a tent (like we used to do) instead of the PU, we would have taken one of the beautiful walk-in sites.  There is plenty of room to park your car and carry your gear to the sites.  The walk-in sites are large and will hold quite a few people.   We dry camped with the PU in a very large site and had lots of privacy.  If you are interested, I will get you the site numbers of the walk-in sites I checked out personally and the drive-in site we used.  It s a very pretty area and I hope to go back

Jo Ann

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Jun 05, 2003, 01:20 PM
 chipi was at ohiopyle cg this april and it was great...i was at site 50.  50 and 49 are between the shower and the camp host....they have electric...all the other electric sites are in another loop.  
 
 its a beautiful area.

chip

#4
Jun 13, 2003, 04:43 PM
 chipThanks folks...
 
 Looks like we may be leaning toward Ohiopyle State Park as the best alternative to the options we ve seen.

chip

#5
Jun 13, 2003, 04:45 PM
 reallygreenReallygreen--
 
 If you could give us a pointer as to the better sites that would be helpful...Something with trees so s the hammock boys can get themselves hung.[;)]

reallygreen

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Jun 15, 2003, 04:30 PM
 chipSorry it took me so long to answer, Chip.  I personally looked at walk-in sites 59 and 60 and sent friends there.  
 
 We were camping on non-electric pull-in site 11 and had lots of trees and privacy.  We had our pop-up and our daughter s huge tent and weren t the least bit crowded.  It was a very large site but I can t remember if it would handle a hammock.  We checked out electric site 134 and hope to try it sometime.  It, too, was a very large site.  I would go to the PA state park website and print out the Ohiopyle state park campground map.  Also, the reservation people are very helpful if you tell them what you are looking for.  
 
 Have fun camping!
 

chip

#7
Jun 28, 2003, 10:11 AM
 reallygreenThanks...
 
 That s what we needed.

Jo Ann

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Jun 28, 2003, 08:13 PM
 chiptheres also a path from the cg to the trail to confluence...its right before the first path bridge going into ohio pyle town.
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