Every Saturday night there is a Campground Program at Cumberland Gap Wilderness Trail Campground. These have been a fun addition to our activities over the summer. We have attended two of the programs and led one. Rachel, our Bat Education intern, leads a Night Hike every other week. She does the same walk and talk …
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Wilderness Road Campground at Cumberland Gap
During our four months at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Tom and I will be staying at the Wilderness Road Campground. We have never stayed in a park campground at the places where we worked before. The closest we got was the Paiute campground next to Pipe Springs. The Wilderness Road Campground has 154 sites …
Northern Kentucky RV Park in Dry Ridge
Although Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is only 350 miles from Columbus, Tom and I decided to break our trip into two days. Our first night out we stayed at Northern Kentucky RV Park. Leaving a house for four months takes a little more work than just packing up the RV. Instead of being in …
Sea Island: Everything We Dreamed?
After six years of living seasonally on St. Simons Island, Tom and I made it to Sea Island for the first time. Was it everything we dreamed? Yes and no. Sea Island is a gated, private island next to St. Simons. You can only go to Sea Island if you own a house, have a …
Georgia, We Finally Made It
Tom and I got a late start to Georgia, but we finally made it on January 9. It was one of our easiest trips down. By leaving a week later than usual, we didn’t get stuck in the usual awful traffic jam going from South Carolina to Georgia on I-95. We missed all the snowbirds …
Oakdale KOA in Oakdale, Wisconsin
After our hike with Laurie and Adam, we had to make tracks to get to Oakdale KOA before dark. Visiting with them was a priority, but September was winding down. Most campgrounds in Wisconsin close at the end of the September and some close right after Labor Day. Fortunately the Oakdale KOA was still open. …
Apostle Islands Area Campground
After visiting the National Lakeshore, Tom and I spent the afternoon and night at Apostle Islands Area Campground. Despite the name, the campground is not related to the National Lakeshore, except for the location in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Apostle Islands Area Campground is a large and quirky campground located at the south end of Bayfield. After …
Copper Harbor, Tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula
As soon as I saw Copper Harbor, Michigan, on a map, I wanted to go there. I love to follow a road to its furthest point and imagine living there. What must it be like to, literally, live at the end of the road? Copper Harbor is as far north as you can go in …
Baraga State Park in Baraga, Michigan
Most of the state parks in Michigan are absolutely stunning, wonderful places to stay. Baraga State Park is not one of them. In fact, Baraga State Park was the only thing on our Michigan trip that was a disappointment. We would eagerly return to any of the other state parks where we stayed. Baraga is …
Soo Locks Campground in Sault Ste. Marie
When our time at St. Ignace was up, we headed further north to Soo Locks Campground in Sault Ste. Marie. This was the shortest distance we traveled between campgrounds, so we took our time leaving the campground before heading north. Sault Ste. Marie was the largest town we would be visiting, so we all stopped …