campgrounds I like

This is a selected group of campgrounds.

Wonderful surprise – Ocean Pond cg

If you live near Jacksonville or Gainsville, FL, are you a lucky person. About a 45 minute drive north from Gainsville and 45 minutes west of Jacksonville is, in my opinion, the sweetest campground in Florida – Osceola NF’s Ocean Pond campground. Who would have thought there would be such a lovely national forest campground Read More >>

Caddo National Grassland – a well-kept secret

Several years ago Fred and I made a wonderful discovery – West Crockett Lake campground in the Caddo (pronounced Cad-OH) National Grassland (NG). Located in north Texas, above Dallas and on the south side of Red River seems to be pretty much undiscovered. Developed in the 1930s, Lake Crockett was built to provide the area’s Read More >>

Charles Waters Campground

in the Bitterroot National Forest and convenient to Missoula, MT, Charles Waters Campground combines rustic luxuries with some wonderful trails. The campground, once the outdoor laboratory for Dr. Charles Waters research on the life history and control of forest tree diseases, consists of a spur next to a large grass meadow and a loop passing through Read More >>

Charles Waters Campground, Bitterroot NF

Convenient to Missoula, Charles Waters Campground combines rustic luxuries with wonderful hiking trails. Favorites are the Dr. Waters Physical Fitness and Bass Creek trails. The first trail is 1/4-mile trail that meanders through a thick stand of pines and includes a variety of stations to exercise more than one’s legs. At the far end of the campground Read More >>