Memorial Weekend

[yrusoslo]

Hi, Looking for where you are going this Memorial Weekend?

[travelnutz]

BarneyS,

Sounds like you are near West River Rd area. We'd camped, trail motor biked, snowmobiled, canoed, and even horse backed the area several times around the Brown Bridge Dam, Scheck's Place, Forks, and Ranch Rudolf area and got to know it quite well. Very nice large forested fun area. Of course, that was when we were younger and the joints worked better! Fond memories...

[Dutch_12078]

We'll be boondocking on a paper company tree lot in the southern Adirondacks with our two daughters and their SO's. Our permit only allows one RV, so they'll be in tents this time. There are only three permits still active for a couple of hundred acres of woods, so we don't expect to have any neighbors. No new camping permits are being issued...

[TheBreu]

BarneyS wrote:

TheBreu wrote:

BarneyS wrote:
We will be up at our sons private family campground in the woods of upper Michigan. Our favorite spot in the whole world! 🙂
We will go up on a Wednesday and probably come back a week or more later. No crowds and the roads are not packed.
Barney

This looks nice! What area in northern MI?

Up in the Traverse City area. My two sons and I put in three full hookup campsites and another 30amp electric site for grandkids with a popup. They get water from a Y on one of our hydrants.

Also there is a large pole barn on the property for keeping the dirt bikes, 4 wheelers etc. My oldest son keeps his trailer in the barn during the winter. We also put in a nice pistol shooting range
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The pictures were taken a couple of years ago before the grass had really started growing. It looks like a beautiful park now and is surrounded by state park land and backs up to the Boardman river.
Barney

That's awesome! gorgeous area up there. We are headed to Young State Park for the week leading up to Labor Day and then to my bosses property in Vanderbilt for that holiday weekend. I LOVE northern MI, but the problem is, so does everyone else! lol

[BarneyS]

TheBreu wrote:

BarneyS wrote:
We will be up at our sons private family campground in the woods of upper Michigan. Our favorite spot in the whole world! 🙂
We will go up on a Wednesday and probably come back a week or more later. No crowds and the roads are not packed.
Barney

This looks nice! What area in northern MI?

Up in the Traverse City area. My two sons and I put in three full hookup campsites and another 30amp electric site for grandkids with a popup. They get water from a Y on one of our hydrants.

Also there is a large pole barn on the property for keeping the dirt bikes, 4 wheelers etc. My oldest son keeps his trailer in the barn during the winter. We also put in a nice pistol shooting range
.
The pictures were taken a couple of years ago before the grass had really started growing. It looks like a beautiful park now and is surrounded by state park land and backs up to the Boardman river.
Barney

[rhagfo]

Well DW and I will be spending the Memorial Day weekend hosting the freshly repaved Dairy Creek West loop in LL Stub Stewart SP in Oregon. This will be the last year of 'Retirement Preview" next year We will full timing and likely hosting where ever. :B

[rhagfo]

BarneyS wrote:
We will be up at our sons private family campground in the woods of upper Michigan. Our favorite spot in the whole world! 🙂
We will go up on a Wednesday and probably come back a week or more later. No crowds and the roads are not packed.
Barney

:M

Wow!!!
Very nice and private, it is what you make and want it to be!!!

What else can be said!!!!

[DSDP_Don]

Both our daughters have TT's and since they're still working, they like to get away for the Holiday weekends with the husbands and kids. We'll be going locally to an RV park near Solvang (Danish town in Buellton, California)

[TheBreu]

BarneyS wrote:
We will be up at our sons private family campground in the woods of upper Michigan. Our favorite spot in the whole world! 🙂
We will go up on a Wednesday and probably come back a week or more later. No crowds and the roads are not packed.
Barney

This looks nice! What area in northern MI?

[BarneyS]

We will be up at our sons private family campground in the woods of upper Michigan. Our favorite spot in the whole world! 🙂
We will go up on a Wednesday and probably come back a week or more later. No crowds and the roads are not packed.
Barney

[fireman41]

Had to use a vacation day to get Sunday off. And back to work on Monday.

So it's camp back yard at mom and dad's house. Brother and sister are coming up so it's all good.

[malexander]

We're going to Branson, MO. for 4 days.

[beemerphile1]

YnotTurbo wrote:
I am not one to stir the pot, but I think the question was where are you going, not who is staying home. LOL

You are correct, so how is this? I will be going to Camp Backyard RV Resort. :B


Campgrounds are crowded enough on regular weekends without having all the amateurs out on the holiday weekends. Drunks, noise, crowding, chaos, no thanks.

[Dixiecamper]

We are mulling over the prospect of camping at Sardis Lake (Mississippi) not far from our house. There is a COE first-come, first-serve campground there and we may go the Wed. before and try and get a shady spot. The state park campground that takes reservations and is next to the COE has been booked for a while. Wouldn't normally go on such a busy weekend, but will be starting a new job soon and this may be my last chance for an extended weekend camping trip.

[mike102]

Were heading out on Thursday and coming back on Monday and were staying at Long Beach RV & Camping Resort going to hit up the yard sales...:)

[Itching2go]

Brown County State Park in Southern Indiana. Being retired, we typically avoid camping over the three summer holidays unless we find ourselves in the middle of a road trip. But this time, we'll be group camping with a number of others in the family who aren't similarly blessed. As for the crowds, I kind of enjoy the busyness of a campground filled with kids for a change. Reminds us of camping when ours were that young.