Popular Summer Vacation Destinations for Campers
Each year, a large number of individuals make the decision to take a summer vacation. Summer vacations are decided on for a number of different reasons. Their main purpose is to experience excitement, fun, and something new. If you love the outdoors, you could choose a summer vacation destination that allows you to relax in your element.
When it comes to outdoor summer vacation destinations, most individuals make the decision to go camping. Camping is a fun, outdoor activity that many people enjoy. Unfortunately, when it comes to summer vacation ideas, there are many individuals who feel that camping does not qualify. This is simply not true. If you are interested in spending your summer vacation camping outdoors, you may be wondering what types of vacation destinations are available to you.
n the United States, camping is not as popular as it used to be. Despite the decline in popularity, a large number of individuals and families still enjoy camping. To tailor to those individuals, a large number of public campgrounds have been developed. If you are searching for a popular vacation destination, you are encouraged to examine public campgrounds.
When examining public campgrounds, you are likely to find that there are a number of campgrounds in or around the area that you live. This is because there are a large number of campgrounds in the United States. If you wish, you can make reservations with a local campground. For added excitement and a change of scenery, you may want to consider making reservations at a campground in another city or state.
Before deciding on a particular campground, it is important to examine the layout of the grounds. Unfortunately, a large number of public campgrounds have close corridors. This means that you and your family could be a few feet away from other campers. If you wish to experience camping, but privately, you may want to consider selecting a state park as your vacation destination.
Selecting a state park to vacation at is a fairly easy decision. The only problem with doing so is the number of choices that you will have. A number of states have at least twenty or more state parks. If you are interested in choosing a state park, you are encouraged to consider the amount of distance you are willing to travel. Since state parks are located all around the United States, you may be able to find a local state park. If traveling is not a problem, it may be a nice getaway to visit another area of the country.
Whether you choose to select a vacation destination at a state park or a public campground, you are encouraged to keep the on site activities in mind. Without a large number of activities, you could find that camping can easily become boring. You are encouraged to look for campgrounds or state parks that offer boating, swimming, hiking, biking, outdoor sports, and other outdoor activities. Most state parks and campgrounds will have a number of these activities, but it is still advised that you verify so ahead of time.
To learn more about the activities available at a particular campground or state park, you can individually search a number of these destinations. As previously mentioned, in the United States, there are a large number of states that have public campgrounds and state parks that allow camping. Popular camping destinations include Upstate New York, California, Oregon, Texas, and North Carolina.
In addition to being able to research a particular campground or state park online, you may be able to make online reservations. During the summer months, camping becomes fairly popular. To ensure that you are able to select the perfect campground site, you are encouraged to make your reservations well in advance.
If you’d rather be camping in the outdoors then why spend your summer vacation elsewhere? With a large number of summer vacation destinations available for campers, you are sure to enjoy your summer camping experience.
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camping, campers, summer vacation
Camping Just Got Sexier!
Michelle Waitzman from Love In A Tent has written a book called Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature and it’s looking to be a big seller once more people hear about it, so I’m doing my part in helping Michelle get the word out.
Don’t you just love that illustration?
Sex in a Tent is a new book that tells you everything you need to know (but were too embarrassed to ask) about throroughly enjoying the outdoors with a romantic partner.
It features stories from outdoor lovers around the world, who share their sexual adventures, mishaps and advice. Author Michelle Waitzman covers every subject from introducing newcomers to the outdoors experience, preventing a wilderness shouting match, looking and smelling sexy without a shower, and supplying lots of inspirational ideas for couple who want to combine their love of the outdoors with their love lives.
Once you’ve found your inspiration, Sex in a Tent also dishes up recipes for delicious alfresco meals, and gives you the lowdown on some of the most romantic places in the world to pitch a tent.
You can buy Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature here or you can pick it up at your local REI store.
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MeatStock - September 28
I’m just going to repost this here for people who don’t read my personal blog at Julie’s Journal…
I’ve been a total slackass today when it comes to writing about the weekend, and I got called out here. Damn them! I just wanted to catch up on my DVR tonight and “wash the grey right out of my hair.” Can you believe I still have not watched the season premiers of The Office or Desperate Housewives, and I’m sitting here with 1.5 inches of old lady hair showing on my head? It’s brutal and rough, and a good thing I don’t Vlog.
Because Michael and I are both slackers and didn’t pack until Friday night, we didn’t hit the freeway until 8PM, which means we rolled onto the dry lake bed right about 10PM. I quickly jumped out of the car to say hi to everyone I hadn’t seen since SoupStock, while Michael set up our spot on the playa. He found me about 30 minutes later (bless his heart) and the party started.
Ernie and Michelle were already there, and the Fancy was wandering around in his chocolate induced haze, with Skrinkle close behind. Man, I love these guys. They are such great friends. I am truly blessed in the friends department. We hung out with everyone, Ron, Violet, Amber, Captain Bill, Nate, Turtle, Indigo, Cameron, and a few others. I don’t remember everyone’s names, but they are all awesome in their own way.
I have to leave you with the watered down version of Part One…my hair is SCREAMING for color. Really.
Here are some pictures in the meantime…Pictures and more pictures.
MeatStock, DarkSkies, Delamar Lake, Nevada
Meatstock 2007
Back in April, we went to Soupstock, and I wrote about it here and here. This weekend is Meatstock, and we’re leaving Friday night for the whole weekend.
They are having this event a little further away than we are use to traveling, and it should take us about 2 hours to get to Delamar Lake, which is a dry lake bed, and a former landing strip for planes in the Cold War. It’s on BLM land, so it’s a totally free weekend, we just need to take out all we bring in, and leave no trace. Here’s a picture, just imagine a small little tent city in the middle.
Michael is making carne asada, which is always a good camping food, and from all the group emails it looks like we will be eating like kings. Ernie is bringing the must needed generator driven coffee pot as it’s suppose to be freezing all weekend long. It will be nice waking up to a hot cup of java.
No need for the Vegans to come out for this one. It’s all about bringing your meat for other’s to eat. (that sounds so dirty) HA!
Meatstock, Delamar Lake, Nevada, camping
Cave Lake State Park
There is a group of people at work that are going camping and fishing this weekend to Cave Lake State Park. I had never heard of it before, so I did a little research, and it to is on my list of must go places as soon as we can get back out in the wilderness.
Cave Lake sits 15 miles southeast of Ely, Nevada. The 32-acre reservoir at Cave Lake State Park is popular for trout fishing, crawdadding, boating, hiking, picnicking and camping. Sounds just like our kind of place! I dug around on Flickr and found some pictures to share.
Photo from iizrailevsky Flickr stream.
It’s just beautiful, and I am jealous that they are going. If I had worked here back when they planned it, I’m sure we’d be going with them. At least now I know who the campers are here, and we can plan some more trips in the future.
The Other Day I Met A Bear
Oh I just remembered a camping trip I took with a group of kids when I was around 11. We were all sitting around the campfire singing the typical camp songs. This time we were singing about the bear is the woods. You know it, right?
The other day
I met a bear
A great big bear
Away out there!
We didn’t know it while we were singing, but one of the parents had dressed up in a bear animal costume and popped out of the trees growling and chasing us. All us kids started screaming and running to our cabins. He scared the crap out of me.
It’s just one of the random things that popped in my head today that I thought I would share it. Now that I think about it, that was pretty messed up to scare little kids like that. LOL!
Red Rock Canyon
The weather is actually starting to cool down a little bit here, so I think we’re going to get out into nature tomorrow. I would like to see a couple movies this weekend, but the idea of home theater seating, just doesn’t sound as appealing as setting up a little picnic for the two of us.
We’re going to head to Red Rock Canyon, which is just on the west side of Las Vegas. When I’m driving into work everyday, I can see the beautiful red rocks shining in the sun and it always looks so inviting. I can’t wait to get up there! I’ll take a lot of pictures and share them over the weekend.
Indianapolis Camping
I never realized how many places there are to camp in Indianapolis until I was helping my friend search for a place to have her family reunion. She wants to have a giant camping party with her entire family next summer. I thought it was such a cool way to hold a family reunion that I just had to help her find the perfect spot. I found an entire website that has everything from camping locations to locksmith Indianapolis is a big place. I didn’t know it had so many things to do there.
I found her some really cool places that were listed under camping, so she’s going to be checking them out this weekend. The one that looked the most promising to me was the Indy Lakes. They have fishing and RV parking, and even really nice wooded trails to do some hiking on. Of course not ever living there, I’m not 100% if this would be the ideal location. I’m sure there may be an even better place. Do you live in Indianapolis? Do you know of a great place she could hold her camping family reunion at? Leave me a comment, because she’s going to be checking for suggestions. Thanks!
Indianapolis, Indy Lakes, camping
Planning Some Camping Trips
We went over to our camping buddies, Ernie and Michelle, on Friday night and we got to talking about our camping trips we did last year, and how we want to plan some more together this year. I can’t believe it’s July already, and I haven’t been out camping once! Michael went with the guys, but together as a couple we haven’t. It makes me feel like maybe I shouldn’t even be authoring a blog about camping! HA!
Their baby is a cutie, and he will be so much fun to take camping. He looks just like Ernie so we were giving him grief all night about the paternity test we were going to have done for him isn’t needed now. HEH! I think taking him camping though would be so easy. As a baby, they just lie in their playpen anyway, and he could get out and get some fresh mountain air. I think it would be fun. I need to look for baby camping gear, maybe a little camouflage swing or something.
camping trips, baby camping, kid camping
Striking Gold at the Hot Springs
We were talking the other night about our hiking trip into the Gold Strike Hot Springs that we did over a year ago. We had mis-calculated our water, and on the way back out the next day, we had completely ran out, with over two miles to go.
To say we were dying would be putting it mildly, but at about a mile left to go, we came around a bend in the trail, and found this bag of ice sitting on the rock. It was like we had struck freaking GOLD! We never did get to find the hikers that left that to thank them, but we sure appreciated it, whomever you are!
We are two people who love to go camping and hiking. We love the outdoors, and we are working on becoming as green as we can be.
