nomad297 wrote:
Pinch Pond looks great. That's exactly the type of place we like.
We have been to Lake In Wood and Otter Lake. Lake In Wood is a little too sterile for us, but Otter Lake is a little more up our alley. Otter Lake is more wooded and natural than Lake In Wood, where there seems to be a surveillance camera everywhere you look (and don't look), like inside of some of the gnomes to keep tabs on who puts what into the dumpsters -- a little creepy if you ask me.
Please keep the suggestions coming.
Bruce
I can see why that seems a little weird, but there is the other side of the story. I build homes in eastern PA. I have constant problems with people who believe that any dumpster is a free place to dump anything they need to get rid of, since "nobody really minds" and somehow there is no real cost involved. Often they are so confident that this practice is totally acceptable that they even toss out their personal info. like mail. When I contact them and ask if how they want to handle it. With a choice of removing their illegal dumping, or me handing their contact info. to the state trooper while he files the report, many are amazed that I would be such a jerk over a little garbage. What they don't understand is that their small pick-up load of stuff they gathered from the shed, is going to cost me $80-100 to get rid of.
In the case of this place, and other campgrounds, that have no option but to have strict policies on only allowing limited amounts of household trash generated while staying at the facility. Unfortunately it's necessary because of a limited number of idiots who don't care. I'm sure there is more than one campground owner who had issues with seasonal renters who decided that "garbage day" at their home is Friday night, when they load up the week's trash and fill the dumpster at the campground on their way in. After all, they can cancel that $20-30 month curbside garbage pick-up since it's "free" at the campground. Believe me, the same quality individual who stuff your dumpster with a yard of stuff from home, is the guy who will absolutely deny doing it, until he sees himself on a security camera.
I also know several rural Pa. campground owners that have a difficult time even finding anybody to provide trash service, as there is little profit for a hauler running a garbage truck twenty miles from civilization, to empty a few small dumpsters, seasonally.
