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Foss State Park Sunsets
As I promised from previous post, I was going to take additional sunset photos. I thoughts these were the best.
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Foss State Park Sunset Day 1
When we move to a new campground, we never know how great the sunset will be. At Foss State Park Oklahoma, our campsite was awesome sunsets. The picture below was taken the first night we arrived. I’ll take more with the sun a little higher in the horizon later in the week and post. I…
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Clinton State Park: White and Blue Trail
Lawrence, KS A nice aspect of Clinton State Park is that there are about 25 miles of hiking and biking trails between the state park and the neighboring Corps of Engineers Overlook Park. I walked on about 2.5 miles of the white and blue trails on the north shore of the lake. For the most…
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Pine View Campground WI to Brushy Creek State Park Iowa — Driving Directions
The drive was a fairly pleasant except for the horrible bumpety bump bump from driving on Hwy 21 leaving the Pine View towards Tomah. All other roads were in fairly good condition, and we were able to drive 65 most of the time. The only area with a few minor hills was in Minnesota along…
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Kickapoo State Park IL to Comlara Park IL — Driving Directions
Comlara is a McLean County park that is on Evergreen Lake. The park includes multiple fishing docks, boat rentals (including pontoons), monthly boat dock rentals, swimming area (currently closed due to microbe counts), campground, visitor center and many pavilions. The Campground sites are either non-electric, 30 amp or 50 amp. Water is hookups are available…
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Kickapoo State Park Illinois Site 85
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New Site Same Park & we have Turkeys!
We were scheduled to go to Clinton Lake State Park but decided to cancel based on feedback from other campers. Specifically, that the park has gone downhill over the last 4 years, dump stations closed and bathhouses closed. I called. As the person told us… only one of the bathhouses was open and it’s not…
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Stonelick SP Ohio to Findley SP Ohio — Driving Directions
When leaving Stonelick, the challenge was finding a path to the I71 that was acceptable. We drove multiple routes and decided the best option was going the same way we came in. The way we came in had no room to pull over and hills (Mackie became car sick). Looking at a map and google…
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Summit Lake SP, IN to Kickapoo SP, IL – Driving Directions
Indiana I70 and the road through New Castle to I70 are in HORRIBLE condition. We went an alternative routes even though it would mean more time on state highways to avoid I70. I465 is the bypass for Indianapolis. It has been under major repairs and in the southern part of Indianapolis. In some cases, only…
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Tap Water or Lake Water – please pick!
I decided it would be a fun challenge to determine if folks can tell the difference between Summit Lake State Park Tap water and Lake water. Please reply / comment on what you think is tap water. Next month I’ll update the post with details :-).