Weekend at a "dry" campground
What a difference it makes staying at a "dry" campground. P J Hoffmasters park in Muskegon, big NO ALCOHOL signs everywhere, I was kind of impressed. I didn't notice them when I stayed a few years ...
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When I saw the title containing the word "dry", I originally thought the OP was talking about CG's without water. Pretty common in some places around the west.
We ran into total alcohol bans in the Canadian NP's this year. Applies to their "long weekends" of which Canada Day is one.
Prohibition on firewood is getting quite common all around as too many "bugs" are being transported in infected fire wood.
Having been in and having forest fires burn quite near to my house and cabin in the past, I'm am not at all against fire bans either when conditions aren't appropriate (I know it's not what the OP said, but someone else did bring it up). One time many years ago, we were out mountain biking when a fire (caused by an unattented campfire) blew up and burned 10 square miles in 10 hours. We had to ride 8 miles of trails and then roads back to the camper. We could look out into the forest beside the trail and road and see the fire paralleling us just yards down the hill. Very, very scary. Dying in the fire was not the way we wanted to go. Most of the area where we had been riding was totally burned by the next morning. Mony of those trails and camping areas remain closed today.
I've had to evacuate our cabin twice and had three large (50,000+ acre) fires burn near my former house in the Front Range. Because they were so visible from our street, people who had been evacuated from their homes would park in front of my house and look with binoculars to see if their houses had burned yet. Very traumatic and heart wrenching to watch.
We rarely have a campfire and then it's usually late fall when we've already started to have some precipitation and we're just plain cold. A campfire really isn't "a vital part of the camping experience" considering what the consquences can be.
We ran into total alcohol bans in the Canadian NP's this year. Applies to their "long weekends" of which Canada Day is one.
Prohibition on firewood is getting quite common all around as too many "bugs" are being transported in infected fire wood.
Having been in and having forest fires burn quite near to my house and cabin in the past, I'm am not at all against fire bans either when conditions aren't appropriate (I know it's not what the OP said, but someone else did bring it up). One time many years ago, we were out mountain biking when a fire (caused by an unattented campfire) blew up and burned 10 square miles in 10 hours. We had to ride 8 miles of trails and then roads back to the camper. We could look out into the forest beside the trail and road and see the fire paralleling us just yards down the hill. Very, very scary. Dying in the fire was not the way we wanted to go. Most of the area where we had been riding was totally burned by the next morning. Mony of those trails and camping areas remain closed today.
I've had to evacuate our cabin twice and had three large (50,000+ acre) fires burn near my former house in the Front Range. Because they were so visible from our street, people who had been evacuated from their homes would park in front of my house and look with binoculars to see if their houses had burned yet. Very traumatic and heart wrenching to watch.
We rarely have a campfire and then it's usually late fall when we've already started to have some precipitation and we're just plain cold. A campfire really isn't "a vital part of the camping experience" considering what the consquences can be.
