Camping

Horos
Horos Posts: 4,519
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I searched and the only threads I found about camping were about camping out for GA. I also didn't want to infringe on the National Parks thread,

I got at least two or three times a year. The last few years I've been renting old fire lookouts. Secured one this morning it'll be the 8th I've stayed at. Here it is.


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  • amethgr8
    amethgr8 Posts: 766
    we are taking our travel trailer to Nashville an STL would like any recommendations for nearby, nice or otherwise cool campground to stay at...
    But that is awesome
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  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,490
    Camping: it's in tents!

    Horos, that looks pretty fun. I think I've seen similar things available in the Canadian rockies.
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  • amethgr8
    amethgr8 Posts: 766
    darwinstheory said:
    Camping: it's in tents!

    Horos, that looks pretty fun. I think I've seen similar things available in the Canadian rockies.
    I agree but we have the trailer, he didn't have to ask twice, so that's our accommodations. All campgrounds in both TN and MO look pretty reasonable.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,381
    You can just poop over the railing.
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  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,490
    amethgr8 said:
    darwinstheory said:
    Camping: it's in tents!

    Horos, that looks pretty fun. I think I've seen similar things available in the Canadian rockies.
    I agree but we have the trailer, he didn't have to ask twice, so that's our accommodations. All campgrounds in both TN and MO look pretty reasonable.
    I think you missed the joke there. The clever play on words I used. :)

    I have a pop up camper, but would really like to have a travel trailer instead. I would be far more likely to use it more often then.
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  • amethgr8
    amethgr8 Posts: 766
    Oh, yea, I missed that. Lol.  I'm such a serious dork sometimes
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    darwinstheory said:
    Camping: it's in tents!

    Horos, that looks pretty fun. I think I've seen similar things available in the Canadian rockies.
    Yes, please. 
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited January 2020
    At 6 months, my baby girl woke to the sound of gentle rain on our tent. Her eyes were amazed with wonder at this new sound. While I beheld this treasured moment, she the raised her arm, moved her little fingers, equally as astonished, as if saying, "And whoa! I have a hand!"
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    Jason P said:
    You can just poop over the railing.
    It is usually a bit of a walk to the toilet. I have a video of the walk at another I've been to. I have peed off the rail as has the grandson.
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    We do a couple of tent trips as well.

    The lookouts are really just a fancy place to gather and sleep. Thunder storms came in the first time we went it was pretty cool. None of them have water so you always have to pack that in.
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    I camp a few times a year! Nothing beats sitting around a campfire.




  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    This was my granddaughter's first lookout last summer. She was 6 months.
    And my grandson at the same one. He's 8 and this year will be his 4th lookout.

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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    I'm too inept to post a video but here's a link of Fall Mountain that the wife and I went to last year.

    https://www.facebook.com/mike.horos/videos/10220280992000903/
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  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,490
    edited January 2020
    That sure does seem pretty awesome! How do know where to find these places? I'll be in California early this summer. Likely in the Yosemite/Sequoia area. It might be pretty cool to experience staying in a similar type of place.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,765
    edited January 2020
    Horos said:
    I searched and the only threads I found about camping were about camping out for GA. I also didn't want to infringe on the National Parks thread,

    I got at least two or three times a year. The last few years I've been renting old fire lookouts. Secured one this morning it'll be the 8th I've stayed at. Here it is.



    I've wanted to do that for years, ever since reading Edward Abbey's novel The Black Sun:

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,203
    I get out at least once a year. Usually NW Connecticut or PA near trout town USA.  My kids hate it. 
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    I can't wait for camping season!

    @Horos
    How hard is it to get/book one of those lookouts?
  • JojoRice
    JojoRice Kennesaw, GA Posts: 4,554
    I go camping up in the North Georgia mountains every year for some trout fishing.  Love catching them and eating them. 
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    darwinstheory said:
    That sure does seem pretty awesome! How do know where to find these places? I'll be in California early this summer. Likely in the Yosemite/Sequoia area. It might be pretty cool to experience staying in a similar type of place.
    mca47 said:
    I can't wait for camping season!

    @Horos
    How hard is it to get/book one of those lookouts?
    I find them at recreation.gov. There's more around the country but I've only looked into OR so far. Most only accommodate 2-4.

    You have to reserve them six months in advance. They get booked the second the window of availability opens. It's worse than going for concert tickets because only one person is going to get it. This one took three weeks of trying each time it opened up.
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    Here's some pics from tent camping at Crescent Lake last year.
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