Summer Road Trip - Where are you heading?

[GeneF]

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 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.

[GeneF]

Annual fishing trip next month in Northern NH for a week with two buddies.  Highlight will be a guided float trip down the Connecticut River.

They will be with me for a week and then DW and some friends will be coming up for another week.  I get to spend two weeks in one of my favorite places.

In July, it is the Eastern Rally in NJ.

August will take us up to Acadia National Park for a week with another couple.

Fall is still up in the air.  Depending on what gas prices do, it will be either a two month trip out to Montanan and Idaho OR a one month trip from Acadia up to Nova Scotia.

In Feb  2008, we will be heading down to St. Augustine for a two month snowbird trip.

[outofd]

Would love to take my pupup south to california and then to Las Vegas and up through Utah, OR and Eastern Washington. Have a Fleetwood Element Cobalt camper with air conditioning and pupup gizzmos. Wife says pupup in Vegas at 100 degrees will melt into the blacktop. While I could stay inside casinos etc during day, will I survive the nights. Anyone with experience camping at 100 degrees plus and would you do it again. thanks for any ideas, best wishes, Bill, Snoqualmie WA

[Azusateach]

Would love to take my pupup south to california and then to Las Vegas and up through Utah, OR and Eastern Washington. Have a Fleetwood Element Cobalt camper with air conditioning and pupup gizzmos. Wife says pupup in Vegas at 100 degrees will melt into the blacktop. While I could stay inside casinos etc during day, will I survive the nights. Anyone with experience camping at 100 degrees plus and would you do it again. thanks for any ideas, best wishes, Bill, Snoqualmie WA

I think you could keep your PUP cool with the AC & gizmos, but I don't think your fridge would be very happy.  Went to a TT campground just outside of Yosemite a couple of years ago & the temps hit the low 100's.  With my AC on full-time I was almost chilly inside (because I sure couldn't spend time outside!), but I didn't keep anything "significant" in the fridge.  Made for some interesting meal planning.  Nights in Las Vegas will be in the 80's so you'll pretty much run your AC 24/7.  Do you need to worry about it freezing up?  I've heard that it can be a concern, but don't know more than that.  

As far as I'm concerned, Las Vegas is best visited from 30,000 mi. up in, an airplane, especially in the summer.  Ugh.

[Morin]

We are planning a 7 Day camping trip to Brevard NC (Davidson River Campground).  There will be three families involved and will be our first trip most likely with our new to us PUP.

We have tent camped there before and now look forward to being off the ground (especially with DS 1 YR and DD 4YR).

[Campaholics]

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

[wernstriumph]

Our big trip this year is going out to Bitteroot Valley in Montana. We are taking 3 weeks( 4 or 5 days to get out there, a week to visit my folks and 4 or 5 days to get back). It's probably 6000 miles roundtrip including all the side trips. We've driven out there before, but never with the PUP.

[CajunCamper]

I wish I could tag along with everyone, it sounds like everyone is going to have a memorable summer. The only trip we have on the books so far this summer is a 5 day trip with our Coleman Santa Fe to St. Joseph State Park in Florida. We are looking forward to it.  

Here's to making memories and don't forget to take lots of pictures.

Happy camping

CajunCamper

[azpopup17]

We are at the Ferber RV park at Zion and are having a great time.  Need to spend more time here the next time since there is so much to see.  It has been getting up to the mid 90s during the day and cooling off to the 60s at night so not having AC has been ok.  Our site has a ton of shade which has also helped.  We will be at Flagg Ranch on Wed, the forecast looks to be on the chilly side with some thunder storms so we will see.  

One thing that has come in handy everytime we have used the camper is the BAL level.  This is a must for a PU.  

Skene

[cndlzrus]

We are heading up north to Mackinaw City for camping and doing the sightseeing of Mackinaw Island, the Soo Locks, maybe Tahquamena Falls. Staying for 5 nights and 6 days, which is alot for us, since we usually only do weekend trips.  This is our most distance pulling the pup too, a good 5 hour drive.  We survive this is our little 10 foot box, we will be a better family for it!

[robinsroost]

Hi everybody, first time to post just found Pop Up times recently and bought my pop up from here.   Our first trip will also be to  Wyoming, Yellowstone/ Tetons, Montana, and South Dakota and it looks like we are leaving the same time you are.   We are all excited, been practicing in the driveway and also camped in it for two nights when we drove to pick it up which was 12 hours away.  It will be so nice to get off the ground as we have always tent camped. Have a great trip/summer everybody.

[happpybooker1]

First trip has happened already: 6 days staying at Daisy SP in Kirby, AR. Did Hot Springs, Murfreesboro, & Mt. Ida
 
Second trip: 6 days at Grayton Beach SP, FL between Pensacola & Panama City. Plan to do the Naval Museum, a dolphin boat ride, and the beach!
 
Third trip will be 4 days at Garner SP in Concan, TX just to laze on the river. Coming back through San Marcos to go to Schlitterbahn there.
 
Assorted other side trips to be decided on a whim.

[kingdaddy]

we are heading to ingram texas for the 4th. stopping 2 nights at lake fausse state park in Louisianna on the way out, then staying 2 nights in Arkansas on the way home at Crater of diamonds state park on the way back. crater of diamonds is the only public diamond mine in the world. you can keep any thing you find there. the largest diamond ever found in N. America came out of this place. they find an average of 2 diamonds a day, i dont think i will find any but i am an Earth Science teacher and so i cant wait to relay the experience to my students. we will get back home to GA. and then the next week head up to new hampsire. staying 2 nights in pennslyvania on the way up at pine grove furnace state park and then staying in NH for over a week. may take the camper up to maine and stay a night or two then heading home, maybe 1 night in New York then for sure 2 nights in Virginia at Claytor lake state park. all in all this summer counting local Georgia camping which we have already done, we will have camped in 7 states and maybe as many as 9 if we do maine and NY. cant wait! yall have a great summer and stay safe.

[mklawz]

Porcupine... awesome.  Went there about 4 years ago and I'd love to make it back.  We camped in the western part of the park, I preferred it over the eastern.  We were lucky enough to get a site on the bluffs over Lake Superior.  Wow the sunsets.

CNDLZRUS - we also hit Tahquamenon Falls the following year.   Check out the little brewery they have there!    Then head over to Whitefish Point and visit the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and light house.  They have the bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald on display.   You can do both Tahquamenon and Whitefish easily in one day, only about an 20-30 minutes between them.

As for us, we just got back from the Warren Dunes S.P in sw'ern MI and we're going back there in the fall.  Wife is pregnant and due in November so we're staying close to home this year.

Short road trip for us this year ... 6 nights in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Porcupine Mountain Wilderness SP), D

[dkutz]

short trips...flying flags, buelton CA, Dogwood, CA, Morro Bay....so far.

oh and we are camping at my sons elem school this weekend...