Over the fourth of July this year we traveled to Redwoods National and State parks in Northern California. As we started to research this trip we quickly found that Crescent City shot fireworks off over the ocean near the Battery Point Lighthouse. Living in a landlocked state, this was simply something that we couldn’t pass up and so the trip planning began. Knowing that we wanted to be in Crescent City on July 4th, we started to build out our itinerary and…
After a few good seasons with our Keystone Hideout, we decided it was time to upgrade. After a bunch of research and dizzying comparisons, we landed on the Winnebago Minnie Plus 27BHSS. This rig was the exact combination of features and design we were looking for with very few compromises. The flipped floor plan, I call it the “L”, was very attractive to us. It changed it up enough to make it feel like something totally different. This floorplan is available from…
While exploring Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills, the Rafter J Bar Ranch served as a great base camp. The campground is good sized with over 150 sites and several cabins. Everything is broken up into several loops over what I would estimate is about 70 acres. So needless to say the campground has a much more open feel and you don’t feel all that cramped. In fact, the sites that we had while staying there were equivalent to many of the federal…
In our recent trip to South Dakota, we stopped overnight at the Red Desert Rose campground in Rawlins, Wyoming. The campground was about half way along our route and we all figured it would be a good place to hang our hats for the night. The Red Desert Rose is not much to look at but had a nice, but dated, playground and a large dog run. The roads were all dirt/gravel and there was not a tree in sight….
There are a lot of different types of camping out there. You can visit your favorite private campground and partake in various amenities or head out to a national forest and enjoy nature. Regardless of the location, the time camping with your family is an investment in memories. Over Memorial Day we headed to Payson Lakes which is located in one of the National Forests about an hour from our home. The sites in the campground have good separation and there…