Campfire Wood

The bag at Bayley's is $10 and it does burn good. There are plenty of places around though, just take a drive. Have fun, love that area.

It's been a couple of years since we have stayed at KOA Boston, but there was a house about a mile past the CG on the right that sold firewood on the side of the road. Can't promise they are still there, but it was a lot cheaper than buying the bundles from the camp-store.

kjyoung24 wrote:
So I think we have decided to camp at Bayley's Campground in Maine and the KOA Boston/Cape Cod when we visit Mass.

With this said...anyone that has camped at these campgrounds, where is the best and cheapest place to purchase wood for campfires?

Consider using wood pellets. There's a place here in Maine that makes cages (for lack of a better word) made of stainless steel mesh. Repose Fire Logs: http://woodpelletlogs.com/ Fill the cages with pellets and they'll burn like regular firewood. Best part: you can haul pellets from state to state (I use big buckets like the ones chemicals for swimming pools come in, or drywall buckets), and they run about $4/40-pound bag. You'll do a lot of burning to go through 40 pounds in a weekend, and if you don't, which we never do, you just take them home for the next time. Make sure you get hardwood pellets.

I remember Bayley's selling big burlap bags of fire wood,(that was 8 yrs ago) burned well too. Lots of campgrounds in the Old Orchard Beach Area...and lots of people selling it on the side so you shouldn't have a problem locating some.

Mike

No specific information about those locations, but generally I've found it a lot cheaper to buy from folks in the neighborhood. Most times they'll be set up on the roads within a mile or two of the cg. Buying at the cg is usually overpriced, and often green.