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Post edited 7:26 pm – May 25, 2011 by Karsty

MY FIRST CAMPING TRIP

Here is a picture of my first camp site. Located in Niagara County, New York … just a hour drive from my house. 

Niagara County Campground Resort. – http://www.niagaracamping.com/index.html

I'll add a review of the campground in the appropriate thread after I have been here for a week or more. I have booked the site for a month and will be here periodically throughout the month.

Post edited 3:44 am – January 14, 2012 by kayaknut

Post edited 3:44 am – January 14, 2012 by kayaknut

Karsty said:Hey Mike … what's on the left rear corner of the roof?? My first thought was a TV satellite dish.

That is the Maxx Air fan.  It mounts overtop the existing vent cover, which can be left up all the time.

Post edited 2:04 am – August 3, 2011 by Woodie

Here's the 14RB in the almost empty Grand Canyon Caverns camp ground.

Post edited 9:41 pm – August 10, 2011 by Mike Magee

Bigjohn, I see your awning supports are out on the ground.  How is that done?  This is news to me, the guy walking me through the RV never said anything about being able to do that. Not that I even used the awning once on my recent 2.5 week trip to Montana, but it would be nice to know how to do what you did.  I thought the supports had to stay attached to, and angled out from, the trailer's side.

Here's a photo of the Escape at Glacier Campground west of Glacier National Park.

And here is Lake McDonald, from the Apgar (west) end.

Strange … your trailer looks identical to mine. LOL

Love the picture of Lake McDonald. Have to mark that down as a place to visit in my travels.

Karsty 

Karsty, I have to admit that I tweaked the lake photo to darken the sky and improve contrast.  But Glacier is definitely worth spending time in.  I'd rank it up there with Yosemite, only far less crowded.

Here is Avalanche Lake.  It's about a 2 mile hike (each way) but it sure is pretty.

Here's Many Glacier Hotel with some beargrass (the white flowers) in the foreground.

This deer came strolling right through my campsite, munching on leaves and beargrass flowers, quite unconcerned about myself and the folks I was chatting with in the next campsite… the deer just walked right between us as we snapped photos.

Thanks.  Glacier CG was quiet with nice grounds.  Didn't go into the restrooms but everything else looked clean and well kept.  It was not much more money than the national park CGs, but smaller and lots more amenities. 

I rode my bike around at Apgar and that CG is just as pretty, just no hookups.  But if there it's easy to roam around the 'village', walk down by the lake, etc.  The second evening I ate my dinner, read a bit until close to sunset, then drove back into the park to enjoy Apgar some more and see how the lake looked in evening light.  Got myself an ice cream cone (huckleberry!) and sat looking out over the water for a while.  It was very peaceful and uncrowded at that time of day.  They don't even man the entrance booths that late, I just drove right in.