Wow - Spring and summer went way too fast.

[RandK-M]

Sad day, I just booked our last weekend of this year, which for us will be the last weekend in September. I would have liked to get a mid-October weekend, but our favorite local campground is all booked up.

The time sure did fly by. It doesn't seem that long ago I was plowing snow with my ATV!

Ray

[RandK-M]

We have one last weekend for the season booked for the last week of September. I wanted to get one in October, but they're all booked up at our favorite close by campground.

After that it will be a thorough cleaning, winterizing, checking the roof seams and looking forward to spring.

Ray

[3LittleDucks]

I was just looking into campground availability for the rest of the month, and am surprised at how many provincial ones are already closed for the year. Will have to look elsewhere...

[loulou57]

3LittleDucks wrote:
It sure did. Our first camping trip was the 1st weekend in May, we went out every weekend except one, with a 4 day & 12 day trip mid summer. Hope to continue well into October, but will depend on availability and temps.

It really does not matter the tyoe of weather.We will go when we feel like it.

Today we are to be a hot 34C or 93F and then for the rest of the weel between 11C and 15C or 50F and 60F. Now that is confusing weather.

[Oasisbob]

Here in Oregon our camping season gets really good after Labor day . Weather is great and crowds thin. Yes, time speeds up during those wonderful summer months.

[drenjoey]

The summer flew by, but we're just happy we had two nice camping trips this year (a week in Old Orchard Beach, Maine........ and a week in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
We also had the chance to initiate one of our granddaughter (4 years old) to a weekend of camping, and then our twin granddaughters (4 years old also) to another weekend..........and they all loved it and want to do it again next year.
We are now planning another weekend with another grandchild at the end of September.

Never a dull moment camping with kids and we love it.

Dre

[3LittleDucks]

It sure did. Our first camping trip was the 1st weekend in May, we went out every weekend except one, with a 4 day & 12 day trip mid summer. Hope to continue well into October, but will depend on availability and temps.

[dadmomh]

Here in West TN we really haven't done "summer" this year, which is fine by me. That usually means 99/99% and we've only been in the 90's a handful of days. Gotta love those 80's. It seems like the season for camping, though, is flying by and we can't seem to catch up. Spring saw our annual FL baseball thing, then 2 weekend trips. Then deciding to sell the ROO and move to a TT....that took a chunk of time. We don't camp over holidays, so take those out of the list of possibilities. Did a week in N'ville and 2 really squeezed together very short trips that we enjoyed, but came back more exhausted than we were when we left. Looking at the calendar, next weekend is the last in Sept. We really need to get some Oct camping in and maybe one in Nov. Hoping that this pleasant summer won't mean payback time this winter. Afraid Rocky is feeling unloved....the ROO got to go out a lot more than we have this season. Can we get the world to spin just a bit slower for a while so maybe we can catch up?

BTW....NOT gonna buy the pink stuff yet....don't want to think about that right now.

[galexander]

Just seems like it was Memorial Day, now Labor Day is around the corner.
Will be getting ready for some winter camping in the near future, but for now, it is still Summer Time and lots of camping left to do.
Everyone enjoy the rest of the season.

[fla-gypsy]

Dog Folks wrote:

fla-gypsy wrote:
Summer is still in full blaze here

But the OP is in New York. You have to feel sorry for him. Summer is a designated Tuesday in that area. LOL

LOL

[Dog_Folks]

fla-gypsy wrote:
Summer is still in full blaze here

But the OP is in New York. You have to feel sorry for him. Summer is a designated Tuesday in that area. LOL

[fla-gypsy]

Summer is still in full blaze here

[PAThwacker]

Eastern US has slim to nill opportunity to boondock for free.

[DesertHawk]

Yes, it has. I'm just now getting our Scamp ready for a first camping trip using it this year. Things just seemed to happen to keep us from getting out with it this summer.

We were in Alaska for 3 weeks in July & had a Marvelous Time & we were able to do 9 days in a Rented Aliner Camping Trip while there.

Hope to do some fall trips with the Scamp this year. Haven't done that yet. But our Fall would be later in the year than yours in New York. May try some winter trips as well.

Never have to do any personal snow plowing here in Las Cruces. A few times the city & state might have to, but not very often. It's been many a year since I have even had to sweep or shovel the sidewalk or driveway here in Cruces.

My son does plenty of snow plowing with his ATV in Alaska.

It's a shame you have to book a site to camp. Never much for booking places. Usually can find a spot down here pretty easy. Some places, weekends might we harder, especially holiday weekends. Try not to go then. Usually one can find a place to hang out in the woods or by a lake & especially at a more desert environment sites.

May the Winter Fly by as well. On second though, all this time flying by will end up getting us closer to our graves too soon. Ha!

PAThwacker wrote:
Eastern US has slim to nill opportunity to boondock for free.

Oh, I really wasn't talking about boondocking for free. There are gobs of those places for sure out this way. Some of which I was thinking of at first would be dry campsites or just water/electric. A few might have full hookups. Many of the private would have full hookups.

There are quite a number of nice state parks, many nat'l parks, some BLM campgrounds & a few COE campgrounds & a wide gambit of nat'l forest campgrounds. Then there are many private ones scattered about & an occasional 'Indian' casino which has campsites.

Back East there are So Many More People which changes Many Things including camping. Also more humidity which can make having AC a priority and without having substantial elevations to flee to when the weather heats up.

But yes, we have a lot of BLM land which often offers dispersed camping as does the many nat'l forests.