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How We Rate Campgrounds  

Where we rate a campground we think about the quality of the campsites themselves, considering things we find important such as shade, privacy, pad slope, obstructions, drainage, size and noise, traffic volume and speed.We also think about the quality of services and activities at the campground, including hiking trails, beach, pool, playground, visitor centre, store, hookups, helpfulness & friendliness of staff.

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2010

Riverside-Cedars Campground, Morrisburg, ON June 18-20             Our Photos
Nice park if a bit on the open side.  This time we got a premium water front site without hookups, in a quiet loop near the boat launch.  As always, an  excellent view of the lakers sailing past.  It's a short drive from Ottawa, at hair over an hour, lots of nice views of the St. Lawrence River, close to Upper Canada Village, the locks at Iroquois, Morrisburg, and many other nice spots.  Great biking in the area as well.  The goose poop wasn't so bad this time, but still a lot of geese around.

Coles Creek State Park, Waddington, NY  June 4-6                                  Our Photos
Site 74.  This park is still nice and clean with all those recent upgrades.  It's just over an hour from home, with a scenic view of the St. Lawrence River from the US side, with the lakers passing by just offshore.  We did some geocaching in the area and visited Massena.  (see two previous reviews below).

Cedar Point State Park, Clayton, NY, May 20-24                                       Our Photos
This park, located on the US side of the St. Lawrence River just west of Clayton, NY, was our stop for the May long weekend, aka the Victoria Day Holiday or the May Two Four.  The park is clean and well maintained, albeit a bit open.  If you want Ontario Parks privacy this isn't for you.  If you're with others, it's fine.  It was 2.25 hours from Ottawa, including the toll bridge, the border and the Johnstown duty free stop, so a nice short trip.  The nice thing is many sites have FULL hookups, at the low cost of $28US per night.  Incredible.  There are some tight waterfront sites.  Big enough for a large trailer but close to each other (think KOA), but would be a great place to relax and watch the big ships go by. .

Canandaigua/Rochester KOA, Farmington, New York, April 2-5 
Not enough parks open anywhere this time of year, yet this one was.  It turned out to be a beautiful weekend, the park is clean and well kept.  We had a site facing the nice little lake.  Some in our group did quite a bit of shopping in the area, some golfed.  I went for about a 40km bike ride on the Auburn and Lehigh Trails, which was outstanding.  No photos.

2009           47 nights & 13,000 kms (277 kms/night)

Singing Waters Campground, Old Forge, NY,  Nov 12-15
This was the sixth time we did a season closer with a bunch of guys.  No end of shenanigans, and very willing, uncharacteristic November weather too .   Our Photos

Cardinal KOA, Cardinal, Ontario,  Oct 16-18
Site C5.  Close to home for a Halloween trip.  Short drive, well treed for a KOA, jumping pillow, poutine truck. They put on a half decent Halloween weekend with a few activities, special effects and games.  BUT, we found the young man who works there consistently rude to the kids in our group.  And the owner came over later in the evening to ask our group to quiet down, even though we were sitting between two trailers in our group, and all the trailers around us were from our own group.  To top it off there was another group in the center of the campground that was much louder and clearly quite drunk yet the owner didn't say anything to them.  We won't be going back to the Cardinal KOA any time soon.  They're losing a lot of business with what is a large group of families we take there a couple of times a year, however we have all agreed that we will spend our money elsewhere, somewhere we feel welcome.     Our Photos
 
Green Lakes State Park, Fayetteville, NY, October 2-4
Site 108.  Pretty park, nice and green.  Little privacy and no separation between sites but fairly well treed.  Signage in general in the park is ok during the day but terrible for arriving in the dark.  Too small!  An easy 3.5 hour drive from Ottawa.    Our Photos
 
Charleston Lake Provincial Park, Lansdowne, ON, September 4-7    
Meadlowlands 162. This is a "large" site according to Ontario parks.  It's about 35' deep, so not really large by the usual standards.  The parking pad is angled such that the awning is just about on the road and the fire pit is around the back of the trailer.  With a 20-point turn we managed to get the trailer perpendicular to the parking pad so that we were pretty much parked with the back to the road and facing the fire pit.  The site description says nothing about vehicular traffic but it was quite busy on that road, moreso than in the other campgrounds.  Still, a nice campground.  No rowdies, probably because the wardens were out in car, on foot and on mountain bike.  Ontario Parks is getting better, I think.  However, someone did steal our "Slow:  Kids Playing" sign, so I'll have to make a new one along the lines of "Pay Attention: Teenagers Not Paying Attention!"  Otherwise, the biking, hiking, beach and kayking/canoing were excellent.  Within a short paddle there are lots of "jumping rocks" for some fun.  Our Photos

Driftwood Provincial Park, August 14-15, Rolphton, ON     
Site 78.  First time here and it's a gem.  Only 2.5 hours from home.  Two electrical loops that are well treed.  There are two waterfront loops as well, one being best suited to tents and small trailers, the other being suitable for larger trailers as well.  Good swimming, kayaking, hiking.  Swimmer's itch was an issue but we toweled off agressively, as suggested in the literature, and it was all good.  This is a spot we will definitely visit again. Our Photos
 
Tipper's Family Campground, Tweed, ON, July 31 - Aug 1
This was our third year here.  A long weekend, when the amateurs come out.  This time we had heavy metal blaring on the site next door.  When I asked them nicely to turn it down they did, for 10 minutes.  A complaint to the owner helped, but just for awhile; he was eager to get on it, but not to stay on it.  Even other campers complaining directly to the metal heads had little effect.  It's a nice little campground but this has turned us off, so we won't be going back.  Our Photos
 
Chutes Provincial Park, Massey, ON, July 17
Last one nighter before heading home.  First stop in n Ontario provincial park this year too.   Had site 18 in loop 1-59.  This loop backs onto the county road, so I recommend avoiding this loop due to the road noise.  Our overall trip was 10,000 kms and highway 17 across most of that part of Ontario almost until Ottawa wins the prize for the worst roads of our trip that wasn't under construction.  Why can't Ontario have a four-lane highway like any other civilized province or state?  The TransCanada across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were four lane and generally in great condition.  C'mon, Ontario!  And while I'm on this topic, why can't Canada call the TransCanada the #1 right across the country?  It should be the national highway, the mother road.  Our Photos
 
Munising Tourist Park Campground, Munising, MI, July 16
This was one travel day where our "wing it" approach didn't work so well.  It had been a very long day, it was getting dark, we were looking for a stop for the night, and the Garmin was coming up empty.  We had also neglected to pick up a Michigan tourist guide. Silly us.  But then we came across this place.  A little gem.  Nothing fancy, close to the highway but cheap.  Nice waterfront sites, although we couldn't get one.  It would have been nice to hang out there for a day.
 
Moorhead-Fargo KOA, Fargo, ND, July 15
Another overnighter.  Due to construction it was a long way around to get to this KOA.  The site we were given was rutted but there didn't seem to be anything much better available.  The site was a back-in so we had some trees as a backdrop.  When I asked if they had WiFi they said "yes" but didn't bother telling us the access code.  By the time I went back to the main gate around 8pm the place was closed for the evening.  Just didn't get the warm fuzzies about how this place was run.  Our Photos
 
Buffalo Trails Campground, Williston, ND, July 14
Pretty basic campground, a field with hookups, but fine for an overnight stop. This travel day resulted in the muddiest trailer and truck I've seen, thanks to road construction near the Montana ND border.  Good red, wet, mud.  Our Photos
 
Glacier National Park (St.Mary's Campground), July 12-13
We met up with our next-door neighbours for a couple of nights at Glacier.  The campground is a bit scrubby in terms of growth, but there are nice views all around.  The weather didn't cooperate so we didn't get around as much as we had wanted, but the Going-to-the-Sun road is pretty cool feat of engineering. 
    
On the way to Glacier we visited "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump", a very well organized centre detailed the long history of buffalo and buffalo hunting in the area.  Our Photos
 
Banff National Park, Banff, AB, July 8-11
On the drive to Banff we visited the Columbia Icefields and other scenic spots. Incredible views and vistas everywhere you turn.  While in Banff we spent time strolling the main street and enjoying the stores and restaurants, hiking in Johnson Canyon, took the gondola up to the top of Sulphur Mountain, took in three visitor centres, enjoyed the hot springs, hiked around Lake Louise, and took a trip into BC as far as Trail, which included a visit to Natural Bridge as well as the sprial tunnels interpretive centre where we lucked out and saw a train go through the spiral tunnels.  We stayed at the Tunnel Mountain campground and it was a pretty good spot. We wanted water and electric so that's why we chose the location.  It was much more treed than I thought it would be.  Sites are not pull thru or back in, but rather the pull off to the side variety.  Our Photos

Jasper National Park, Jasper, AB, July 6-7
Jasper, as we were told and were about to find out, is the quieter locale vs. Banff.  Rugged, beautiful.  We wandered the town on foot, drove up to the Miettle Hotsprings to enjoy the amenities, and saw lots of wildlife on the way.  Visited a variety of other scenic spots.  All we can say is scenery, scenery everywhere.  I love the mountains. We stayed at the Whistler campground.   Our Photos
 
Glowing Embers RV Park, Edmonton, AB, July 4-5
Between Brooks and Edmonton we got to cruise the Canadian Badlands as well as visit the world-reknowned Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller.  A fantastic place for all things dinosaur.  Once we were back on the main highway we were making good time to Edmonton until the skies closed in and we found ourselves in a hail storm. Interesting.  We later heard that there was a tornado in Red Deer about the time we passed through there.  Yikes.  The stop in Edmonton was mostly to check out the world's largest mall, the West Edmonton Mall.  It's quite something.  We also visited the provincial legislature and went to a street busker festival downtown.  The campground was ok as a place to sleep.  Very large, very busy and really just a big parking lot with trailers backed in to place.  A few trees for effect.  Not sure where the "glowing embers" part comes from because no campfires were allowed.  But certainly no rowdies at night either.  Maybe Ontario Parks should have a "fires out by..." rule too!  Our Photos
 
Kiwanis Campground, Brooks, AB, July 3
Signage to find the campground is poor.  We were starting to figure out that good signage in Alberta is non-existent.  Maybe they feel this is a way to keep the riff raff out or they like to mess with the tourists.  The campground is unattended so check in is at a kiosk and based on the honour system.  The surface is generally all large stones, with some trees between the sites.  Clean and well kept.  There are 26 sites, most pull-thru, some spots for tents and a small playground.  We got there fairly early, set up camp, then took off to spend a few hours at Dinosaur Provincial Park, to learn about the Canadian Badlands and the incredible dinosaur history in the region.  Woke up the next morning to a burst pipe so a quick trip to Canadian Tire and we were repaired and on the road without too much time lost. Getting tired of one nighters.  This sure is a big country to drive across.  Our Photos
 
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park, Moose Jaw, SK, July 2
The day involved passing through a really brutal downpour somewhere on the TransCanada, before passing through Swift Current, Regina and then Dog River, er, Rouleau, the home of the sitcom Corner Gas.   The breadbasket of Canada.  Bit of a letdown in Dog River.  There wasn't really much of the old set but you could drive around and see all the spots andther buildings seen in the show.  The "police station" is now an ice-cream and t-shirt etc. shop.  They could do more to draw in the tourists by having the main set in better shape.  Buffalo Pound was our official break from road-side campgrounds and KOAs.  What a great spot.  Good swimming with a pool and a beach, nice sites, canteen, and excellent vantage points to see some buffalo.  One place we would have been happy to spend a few nights.  But we had to press on.  Our Photos
 
On Canada Day we crossed into Manitoba at Emerson, MB and made our way up to the TransCanada to continue the journey west.  We tried to visit the Assiniboine Zoo in Winnipeg but it was way to busy to be parking a 53' rig, so we got back on the road and made our way to Brandon.  The spot we picked was this park, close to the highway, and on a pull-through site that wasn't level.  The place was pretty much full, and like lots of places, there were mostly seasonals who appeared to be working in the area for the summer.  The WiFi was really weak, so that was a bit frustrating.  Good prices though.  Our Photos
 
Bemidji KOA, Bemidji, MN, June 30
Convenient stop for a night but the place seems to need some sprucing up.  Mini golf course had us laughing it was so bad.  Staff was very helpful though, when I found out the axles were coming off the trailer and I needed to get some parts to do a campground repair.  Got to visit Akeley MN on the way, the "home" of Paul Bunyan.  At least a very large statue of him.  Our Photos

Hixton/Alma Center KOA, Alma Center, WI, June 29
Very nice relaxing setting, very well manicured.  Easy to see why it won some awards.  Kids said the pool needed a cleaning but I didn't check it out.  Nice place to relax after towing a trailer through downtown Chicago.  Note to file:  DW said we're never going through that area again due to the tolls. We must have paid $100 in tolls in one day, and stopped every half hour to fork over money.  Our Photos
 
Sandusky/Bayshore Estates KOA, Sandusky, OH, June 28
Long drive from Assateague!  A good stop for a one-nighter with the usual KOA amenities.  Lots of seasonals at this one (never could understand having a seasonal site at a KOA; different strokes for different folks, I guess).  The kids and I were in the pool when suddenly a youth group came into the pool enclosure and two people jumped in, fully clothed.  Yep, a baptism.  Talk about a full service KOA! 

Assateague State Park, Berlin, MD, June 25-27  
Camping on the beach with wild horses wandering freely.  Great beach, great surf.  It's no wonder this place is hard to get into!  Our Photos
 
Flying J, New Milford, PA, June 24  
Our first Flying J overnight stop.  Not a bad option for arriving at midnight and getting an early-ish start the next morning.    
 
Kettle Valley Railway Bike Trip, southern British Columbia Interior, June 4-9
For you cyclists in the crowd, here's a trip you might like.  I had the pleasure of returning to the interior of British Columbia to repeat a ride I did 11 years ago, on the old Kettle Valley Railway, one of the most expensive and challenging railroads ever built, and one of the most expensive to operate. The ride involved nine guys, four days of riding, two flats (one mine), two broken spokes, and 220 kms of riding in the dirt.  Of course there were lots of shenanigans, and lots of hard riding!

There were two of us from Ottawa, so we boxed up our bikes and flew to Vancouver and met up with four of our group from Vancouver, then drove the Coquihalla Highway over to Hope to hook up with three more of our group who came over from Victoria.  While in Hope we took the opportunity to visit the Quintette Tunnels, AKA the Othello Tunnels, a short series of five tunnels in a spectacular setting (the KVR construction engineer back in the early 1900s was a big Shakespeare fan so he named all the stations after Shakespearean figures).

From there we drove to Penticton and loaded the bikes and gear onto a shuttle van and got a ride south to Rock Creek.  We overnighted in cabins and B&Bs along the way, ranging from no star to maybe two star accommodations.  With little competition you get what you get.  And a hot shower and cold beer after a full day of riding some pretty rough terrain is all you want!  We stayed at places in Rock Creek, Beaverdell, McCulloch Lake, Chute Lake and ended in a luxury hotel back in Penticton and dined at a very find Greek restaurant on the final night to celebrate the trip, before flying Penticton-Vancouver-Ottawa.
    
The highlight of this trip is Myra Canyon, where there are something like 17 trestles and tunnels in a short distance, something like just like eight kilometers.  Myra Canyon is easily accessible from Penticton as a day hike or there are services that will rent a bike to you and even drive you to the canyon entrance.  If you're in the area it's really worth the visit.  I also liked going into the closed Adra spiral tunnel on the last day... 
    
These are some of the pix I took during the trip: 
         http://picasaweb.google.ca/Geodude19pnh/KettleValleyRailwayJune2009#
    
Here are some from three of the other guys on the trip:
         http://picasaweb.google.ca/pflugerh/KVR09#
         http://picasaweb.google.ca/Rick.Maddocks/KettleValleyRailTrailJune2009#
         http://picasaweb.google.ca/johncanyon/KVR2009#

Higley Flow State Park, Colton, NY, May 15-18                                            Rating: 5/5  
Loop C, site 49.  Another fine May Two Four weekend.  The weather was off but the friends were not.   Our Photos

Cardinal KOA, Cardinal, Ontario May 1-3                                                      Rating: 4/5 
Site C-1, Kabin K-1.  Close to home for a quick trip where we need to run back and forth from home.  DD#2 wanted a camping birthday so she and some friends got the trailer for the Saturday night while we moved across the road to a Kamping Kabin.  I don't think we'll be giving up the trailer anytime soon but all in all it worked out well, and was a great weekend with a few MFCC families:  Fiddich, Retired Alex, JD & Beastlet and Tripod.  As usual the staff at the KOA was friendly and went above and beyond the call of duty.  Our Photos
 
Grenville Park, Prescott, ON Apr 24-26                                                          Rating: 3/5  
First trip of 2009!  The forecast was for hot and sunny so we were pumped.  It turned out to be cool and very windy, and the odd moments the wind died down we were inundated by clouds of non-biting small insects of some kind.  They got all over everything.  I'm starting to think that weather forecasters should be on a performance pay remuneration system.  At least we got the kayaks in for an hour on the Friday night.  The park is mostly seasonals, was clean and well kept, has some nice riverfront sites but there's no real privacy.  Also lots of noise from the nearby international bridge (the whirring of tires steel grid roadbed).  All in all, a decent enough spot that would be a good place for a group of friends with trailers.  Our Photos
 
2008                          46 nights & 11,345 kms (247 kms/night)
 
Algonquin Provincial Park - Mew Lake, Whitney, ON Nov 6-9                         Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
This was the fifth annual Freeze Your BALs Off (FYBO) weekend, just for the boys.  Once again we had guys from Ontario, NY, PA, Illinois and even the planet Zeptar.  Perfect weather, great company.  A great way to close out the camping season!

Cardinal KOA, Cardinal, Ontario Oct 17-19                                                  Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Close to home for a Halloween trip.  Short drive, well treed for a KOA, jumping pillow, poutine truck, and owner and staff who go out of their way to please. They put on an excellent Halloween weekend with lots of activities, special effects and games.
 
Charleston Lake Provincial Park, Lansdowne, Ontario  Sep 20-21                    Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Look ma, no trailer!!!  This was a non-trailer trip.  It was a canoe/kayak overnight trip into the interior for Dads and oldest daughters. Beautiful park, excellent paddling, site was great.  We definitely have to do more of this kind of camping.  Keeps it real.
 
Webster Park Campground, Webster, NY, Sep 12-14                                    Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
Site 11.  This is a great little municipal campground, well kept and clean, nice sites. The sites are arranged around a single large loop with a comfort station and playground in the middle, making both easily accessible from most sites.  A fine weekend with a bunch of folks from the internet!
 
Robert Moses State Park, Watkins Glen, NY Aug 29-Sep 1                              ating: 5/5   Our Photos
Site River Road 41.  This sites were on the water, facing the Eisenhower Locks so we got to do lots of shipspotting.  Not very private sites but a nice spot for a group to spend some time together. The parks is well maintained, with some new work going on to spruce it up and expand it.  Huge beach, marina, visitors centre, and Seaway visitor centre at the locks where you can get close to the ships as they lock through.  Reasonably close to Massena for shopping.  And close to home for an easy weekend jaunt.
 
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canisbay Campground, Ont. Aug. 15-17                  Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Site 179.  Algonquin has no equal.  This was our first time to Canisbay and one of the few times we've been in peak season.  We did a lot of biking, found a couple of geocaches, did some canoeing and kayaking, and visited the new exhibit at Cache Lake.  The only irritant was radio noise from someone who felt they needed to share with the campground, and the park staff did nothing about it.  Oh, and one idiot who had to have his shiny new Rav4 locked at all times, but had no problem unlocking it 100 times a day along with four beeps every time.  Some people are just thick.  
 
Tipper's Family Campground, Tweed, Ont. Aug. 1-4                                      Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Site 54.  Located just off highway 7, west of Kaladar and just before Tweed, about 500 meters off Highway 7 and on the Skootamatta River.  Selection of sites that are both dry and with water & electric.  Great quality sites, many on the river, some seasonals in there, friendly owners, the place is clean and quiet.  The river is a lot of fun for canoeing and kayaking since it's about 40' wide at best, lots of bends, and moves at a half decent speed.  Small beach and rapids for playing in.  Located about halfway between Toronto and Ottawa this is a good location.  The quality of sites is on par with the provincial parks, so this is an excellent alternative.  We stayed on a dry site this year.  They could do with more electric sites but still, all in all a nice place to camp.
 

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Summer Trip 2008.  The section below covers our summer trip for 2008.  We drove west via New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois as far as Missouri and Lake of the Ozarks, then visited Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland (for a few miles), back into Pennsylvania, then back into New York and home.  Here is our route map.
 
July 28       Robert H. Treman, Ithaca, NY                                                   Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
A one night stop so the kids could go swimming under the water falls.  Always fun, and a nice 
final night to a great vacation.

July 27       Williamsport South/Nittany Mountain KOA, New Columbia, PA           Rating: 2/5  Our Photos 
Pretty busy park.  Lots of activities going on.  The full hookup sites are in a circle and very  
open.  Near the noise of the central activity area.  We took a site in amongst a bunch of 
seasonals that had electricity and water and was very nicely treed.

July 25-26  Flatwoods KOA, Sutton, WV                                                       Rating: 3/5  Our Photos 
This park was either brand new or recently fully renovated.  Nice spot, well manicured, 
clean.  It is part of a hotel, so you get to use the hotel pool and hot tubs.  It's weird having
to check in to a campground at the front desk of a hotel!  Factory outlet shopping nearby.  
The area is scenic.
  
July 23-24  Natural Bridge State Park, Slade, KY                                           Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
This was neat.  There were two campgrounds.  The one we went to first seemed a bit too 
closed in, between the trees, mountains and rain.  The other one was a bit more open and
welcoming so we settled in there.  The hike up to the natural bridge was a good workout but 
well worth it - check out the pix.  The pool was also nice.  Overall a very scenic area.
 
July 21-22  KOA Prizer Point, Cadiz, KY                                                       Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
This is more of a resort.  It was stinkin' hot so we basically ran between the pool and the air
conditioned trailer during the heat of the day.  We had a nice waterfront site with a great 
view.The campground was clean, quiet and well kept with many excellent services including a large floating store and restaurant.  Free honey wagon too, the first day (too bad it wasn't on the last day).

July 20       Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Millington, TN                         Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
We stayed at this park so that we could visit Graceland.  It seemed nice enough but we 
found it felt a bit closed in and dark, due to the dense tree cover.  The cicadas were 
l-o-u-d.  There was a gigantic pool in the park but it was quite a drive from the  
campground.  Graceland, on the other hand was well worth the trip and it exceeded all our 
expectations bayyyyy-be!
 
July 18-19  KOA Hot Springs, Hot Springs, AR                                               Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
We stopped here to relax for a couple of nights, and used the time to tour the local area 
including visiting Bill Clinton's boyhood home, visiting the old hot springs and related buildings, 
etc.  The campground was again clean and well kept with full services, a nice pool and a good 
breakfast for campers.  Unfortunately the site we had was in a section nearest the Interstate 
and was far too noisy. After leaving the campground we also visited the Clinton Presidential 
Library in Little Rock.  Very impressive.  
 
July 17       Devil's Den State Park, West Fork, AR                                        Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
This was worth the long drive in from the Interstate (our trailer was too big to take the short route in).  It's scenic with lots of neat stonework, an excellent pool, sites with water and electricity for only $14 a night!
 
July 13-16  Lake of the Ozarks State Park, Kaiser, MO                                    Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
We camped with a group of fine people we met on the Internet!  People came from all over 
and it was great to finally meet some of the folks we'd been chatting with over the past few years.  The campground itself was beautiful, as was the surrounding area.  Lots to see and do.  At the campground our site was large and private.  The park was amazingly not busy for the middle of summer.  Lots to see and do in the local area.  Kids didn't like the swimming area
very much.
          
July 11-12  Indianapolis KOA, Greenfield, IN                                                Rating: 3/5   Our Photos 
This was a two nighter after two days of hard driving.  The campground is in a quiet setting 
with typical KOA sites.  We were assigned a site in a lower area.  I noticed evidence from 
spring flooding all around us and was disappointed it hadn't been cleaned up.  Two other 
friends that came in the next night were one row over, up a few feet higher and on nice 
grassy sites.  They lucked out because we had monsoon rains that night and our trailer was in 
about a foot of water at one point.  I thought for sure we were going to have to hitch up in 
the middle of the night and get out of there.  So if you stay at this KOA, don't camp in the 
lower section. Ever.  Otherwise it had a nice pool, good breakfast and not too far to shopping 
etc., for stocking up on provisions.
 
July 10       Westfield/Lake Erie KOA, Westfield, NY                                      Rating: 3/5   Our Photos   
KOAs make a great overnight stop, and this one did the trick.  Didn't take in much of the park 
or the local sights after a long day on the road.  Highway noise could be heard from the
Interstate.  
 
Summer Trip 2008.  The section above covers our summer trip for 2008.  We drove west via New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois as far as Missouri and Lake of the Ozarks, then visited Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland (for a few miles), back into Pennsylvania, then back into New York and home.  Here is our route map.   

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Logos Land, Cobden, ON Jul 5-6                                                                Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Site C4.  The trailer sites at this park make sardines look comfortable.  They have an awful lot of beautiful land available so they could really make things a lot nicer.  Even if the sites had electricity only, but were more spacious and private would be a huge improvement.  The tent sites are generally as nice as any provincial park, many if not all with hydro.  The park is well kept, and not noisy at all.  Roads are dusty and some people don't realize that when driving around (like anywhere).  The water park is good, especially for younger kids, with no shortage of things to do at reasonable prices.  Camping with full hookups (water, sewer, electric) was similar to a provincial park price.  We took our own kayak to explore the small lake as well. 
 
Watkins Glen State Park, Watkins Glen, NY Jun 27-Jul 1                                 Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
Site 85.  Another great trip to Watkins Glen for the Gathering at the Glen 2008. 
 
Coles Creek State Park, Waddington, NY  June 6-7                                        Rating:  4/5  Our Photos
Site 73.  This was our first trip back here since 2004, when we didn't think much of it.  Our review (below) said the facilities were aging.  This time we were pleased to see all new comfort stations everywhere, an all new water system, new entrance and gatehouse, freshly paved roads, new sites and a very clean campground overall.  They also drive around and pick up your garbage!  Wood was $3 for a milk crate full, so that's a decent price.  It's generally an open setting but that's fine with the bugs being bad this year.  It was neat being near the shore and seeing the lakers and ocean-going ships passing by.  Best of all, it was less than 1.5 hours from Ottawa!

Green Lakes State Park, Fayetteville, NY  May 17-19                                      Rating: 4/5  Our Photos 
Site 124.  Very nice campground, beautiful trails, lake, beach.  Near Syracuse for the shoppers, near Camping World too.  About 3.5 hours from Ottawa.   

Sandbanks Provincial Park, Woodlands Campground, Picton, ON May 11-12  Rating:4/5  Our Photos
Great campground once again.  This time we tried the higher 600s to the right, at the back side of Woodlands.  We thought we'd give the area a try just in front of the treeline.  

2007                          50 nights & 8,569 kms (171 kms/night)

Algonquin Provincial Park - Mew Lake, Whitney, ON Nov 1-3                            Rating: 5/5 
This was the fourth annual Freeze Your BALs Off (FYBO) weekend, just for the boys.  We had guys from all over southern Ontario, NY, PA, one from Chicago and one from California, all enjoying the brotherhood and bonding that can only come with 40 guys camping in Algonquin Park.  Scary, but fun.  What a great way to close out the camping season!  Our Photos

Cardinal KOA, Cardinal, Ontario Oct 12-13                                                    Rating: 4/5  Our Photos 
Close to home for a Halloween trip.   Short drive, very treed for a KOA (no undergrowth though), good pool and neat jumping pillow, and owner and staff who go out of their way to please.

Voyageur Provincial Park, Chute-a-Blondeau, ON Sep 21-22                           Rating: 4/5   Our Photos  
Site 404, Portage campground.  A nice fall campout with those internet people again.  The campground is still way too overgrown and has a shabby look about it as a result.  We still like it once a year or so for its proximity to home, especially after a summer's worth of long drives.

Webster Park Campground, Webster, NY, Sep 14-16                                     Rating: 5/5   Our Photos 
This is a great little municipal campground, well kept and clean, nice sites. The sites are arranged around a single large loop with a comfort station and playground in the middle, making both easily accessible from most sites.  A fine weekend with a bunch of folks from the internet!

Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Brighton, Ontario Aug 31-Sep 2                               Rating: 4/5   Our Photos 
Site 374 in the Trails End campground, same as last year.  The site had electricity added over last winter.  Great!  We found the traffic heavy for some reason, and people wouldn't slow down to keep the dust down.  Not considerate.  Our "Children Playing" sign way out on the road did the trick.  We'll move more off the beaten path next time, but the trails, beach, store, interpretive centre and visitor center were as good as ever.  Love this park.

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Summer Trip 2007.  The section below covers our trip around the Gaspe Peninsula (Quebec).  This was a two week trip through an area as beautiful as anywhere we've been in Canada or the US.  Here's our route map and itinerary.

KOA Quebec City, Quebec City, Quebec Aug 22-25                         Rating: 5/5 Our Photos
We were going to stay at Camping Municipal de Beauport but they didn't have a site for us for the length of time we wanted.  So back to our old standby, the KOA.  Nice base of operations for exploring Quebec.  This time we visited Old Quebec, the Citadel, the Aquarium, Montmorency Falls and Ile d'Orleans, and met up with the CampingManiac family from PUX, for a nice dinner near the campground.   They live not far from the campground.

Camping de la Republique, Edmunston, Quebec, Aug 21                  Rating: 4/5 Our Photos
This was our third time staying at this campground.  It's nice and clean, and well treed.  There's a swimming pool, fields to play soccer in, tennis courts, and an antique car museum. There's a bit of noise from the nearby highway.  We looked at Iroquois Campground in Edmunston and preferred the ambiance of Camping de la Republique.

Camping Moulin Rouge, New Carlisle, Quebec, Aug 18-20                                   Rating:5/5 Our Photos
The next stop was my mom's home town of New Carlisle.  I spent a part of every summer there as a kid, and I wanted my own kids to have a chance to visit this beautiful, historic and for me, memorable family town.  We stayed at Camping Moulin Rouge down near the water, a very nice little campground with friendly new owners.  On the way to New Carlisle we visited Perce Rock (got to experience extreme road grades on the way there too, but that was the last of them - phew!).

Forillon National Park, Gaspé, Quebec, Aug 13-17                                           Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Forillon National Park, at the eastern-most end of the Gaspe Peninsula is a gem.  Hiking, biking, scenery, swimming, beach combing, sea kayaking, whale watching, history -- it has it all.  It's one of those rare places where you need a lot more time than we had to see it all and enjoy it to its fullest.  It's also very un-touristy in terms of out of province visitors.  We saw very few licence plates other than from Quebec; a few from Ontario, the odd one from the other provinces and the very odd one from the US.  If you haven't gone to Forillon, go. You won't be disappointed.

Camping de la rivière Matane, Matane, Quebec, Aug 12                                  Rating: 2/5  Our Photos
This campground sounded ok, but it ended up being off the beaten path a few kilometers and wasn't anything special considering the multitude of small, quaint places to camp along the shores of the St. Lawrence.  When on the Gaspe, camp on the water.  There's no shortage of choices.  The rest of these pictures were taken along the road on the north shore as we made our way to Forillon National Park.  We experienced some brutally steep highway climbs and lots and lots of construction.

sCamping Municipal de Trois Pistoles, Trois Pistoles, Quebec, Aug 11                  Rating: 5/5 Our Photos 
We had planned to stay at the campground in Riviere-du-Loup but it was full, so they recommended this one about 30 minutes farther east.  It added to our long drive but it ended up being quite a nice and very clean campground, with lots to do.  The following day we toured around the Rimouski area and hiked the spectacular Le Canyon des Portes de l'Enfer and visited the historic maritime museum at Pointe au Pere, commemorating the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in nearby waters.

Summer Trip 2007.  The section above covers our trip around the Gaspe Peninsula (Quebec).  This was a two week trip through an area as beautiful as anywhere we've been in Canada or the US.  Here's our route map and itinerary.

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Sampson State Park, Romulus, NY Aug 3-5                                                  Rating: 1/5   Our Photos
Site 109 Loop 3.  The park has been built on an old military base.  While it has a lot of potential, being on the shores of Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region, it has a long way to go before it has any charm.  The staff there are overbearing when it comes to enforcing a lot of what appear to be silly little rules.  It just seems like a different place in comparison to any other parks we've patronized in the region.  GHo figure.  Traffic was always too fast in the campground as well.  The company was great, but this is one park I don't think we'll visit again.  It's also off the list for the PUX Gathering at Finger Lakes 2008.

Tipper's Family Campground, Tweed, Ont. Jul 20-21                                       Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Site 14.  Located just off highway 7, west of Kaladar and just before Tweed, about 500 meters off Highway 7 and on the Skootamatta River.  Selection of sites that are both dry and with water & electric.  Great quality sites, many on the river, some seasonals in there, friendly owners, the place is clean and quiet.  The river is a lot of fun for canoeing and kayaking since it's about 40' wide at best, lots of bends, and moves at a half decent speed.  Small beach and rapids for playing in (kids on tubes, adults playing in the kayak).  Located about halfway between Toronto and Ottawa this is a good location.  The quality of sites is on par with the provincial parks, so this is an excellent alternative.

Kingston KOA, Kingston, Ontario  July 13-14                         Rating: 4/5  (see photos from previous visit)Very clean and neat, convenient to Kingston, pool, playground, water & electric sites, mini golf, pedal kart rentals, etc.  Good base of operations. Friendly, entertaining and helpful staff. Far enough from the 401 so that you can't hear it too much.  Trains are distant too.  Good for the purpose (a hotel room!).

Algonquin Provincial Park, Achray Campground, Ont. Jun 28-Jul   1                Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
Site 7.  This was my first time back to Achray in many years, and the first time the family was there.  You get on to the Barron Canyon Road, between Pembroke and Petawawa, and after a few kilometers it turns to gravel and it stays that way for about 40 kilometers until you reach the campground.  Achray is a major departure point for interior canoe camping on the east side of Algonquin Park.

The campground has just 50 sites and is fully radio free, so it's very quiet.  All provincial parks should be radio free, in my opinion.  It would save a lot of grief for everyone.  

At Achray there is no cell coverage so you have to drive back to the Sand Lake Gate, about 20 kms, to the nearest phone.  There are no comfort stations but there are privies with flush toilets.  There are no electrical hookups but there are water taps.  And of course, no trailer dump station. 

The campground therefore is a perfect place to get away from it all! There are hiking trails all over. You can go to the spot where Tom Thompson painted his famous painting, "The Jack Pine", walk atop the spectacular Barron River Canyon, walk along the old train tracks to some nice spots, canoe/kayak around Grand Lake, Sutton Lake, hike or paddle to High Falls to slide down the chute, swim, play on the beach, visit Tom Thompson's Outside Inn right near the park gate, and so on.  Well, enough gushing.  I'll let the pix under "Our Photos" tell the rest of the story.

Watkins Glen State Park, Watkins Glen, NY June 21-23                                   Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
Another great trip to Watkins Glen for the Gathering at Finger Lakes 2007.

Fitzroy Provincial Park (Pine Grove Campground), Fitzroy Harbour, Jun 8-9         Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Site 33. This is a park we like a lot.  It's of high quality overall, and close to Ottawa.  This time we were in the Pine Grove campground.  Mostly it's nicely treed and the sites are  generally pretty good.  Some of the large sites should be classified as small and vice versa - the CAMIS descriptions are just plain wrong.  Some of them are uneven or have obstacles to read the reservation descriptions carefully.  Unlike most parks, the individual roads within the campgrounds have no signs to indicate which  site range is down which road, so I saw a a lot of people searching for their site.  Good beach, trails,  store, new facilities.

Rideau River Provincial Park, Kemptville, ON, Jun 1-2                         Rating: 4/5   Our Photos 
Site 49.  The sites are generally well treed and private in this park, some are pull-thrus.  Off the main paved campground road, the roads are straight and narrow and traffic was always calm.  The sites are all on the small side but mostly level, clean and private.  Electrical sites are closest to the highway so you get some highway noise but it's not too much.  Best sites appear to be the non-electric, nearest the water.  Nice beach, some hiking trails, only 5kms to Kemptville and 30 minutes back home.  Nice treat!

Higley Flow State Park, Colton, NY, May 18-20                                            Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
This is a beautiful campground.  Nice sites, lots of trees and privacy, scenic, clean and quiet.   It was nice having garbage and recycling pickup right at the site.

Sandbanks Provincial Park, Woodlands Campground, Picton, Ont. May 11-12      Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Great campground once again.  This time we tried the low 600s to the right, going into Woodlands.  We thought we'd give the open area a try.  Not bad getting some sun at that time of year.  Once again the kids again loved The Dunes, and the biking was good, and the company even better. The campground store wasn't open when they said it would be, due to renos and new equipment and training, but that's quibbling.

 
2006           58 nights & 12,997 kms (224 kms/night)

Algonquin Provincial Park - Mew Lake, Whitney, ON Nov 3-5                            Rating: 5/5   Our Photos 
This was the third Freeze Your BALs Off (FYBO) weekend.  Never a dull moment when you and 45 friends, some from as far away as North Carolina, Chicago, New York, Pennsylvania and all over southern Ontario get together to close out the camping season.

Adirondack 1000 Islands Camping, Natural Bridge, NY Oct 28-29                      Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
 A nice spot nestled in the Adirondacks.  Indoor pool, full hookups, enclosed pavilion for group get-togethers.  Sites are fairly open to each other but that's fine if you're with a group.  

Voyageur Provincial Park, Chute-a-Blondeau, ON Sep 22-23                            Rating: 4/5   Our Photos 
Site 412, Portage campground.  The sites are generally well treed and private in this area, the roads are curved and narrow, which helps keep traffic calm.  However it's verging on being overgrown, both the road and the site entrances, making it hard to maneuver trailers.  The park itself seems to be showing its age - it needs a good cleanup, everything from tree trimming to picking up garbage to new fire rings.  Still, a great place and nice and close to home. 

Webster Park Campground, Webster, NY, Sep 15-16                           Rating: 5/5   Our Photos

This is a great little municipal campground, well kept and clean, nice sites. The sites are arranged around a single large loop with a comfort station and playground in the middle, making both easily accessible from most sites.

Bon Echo Provincial Park, Cloyne, Ontario Sep 1-3                                        Rating: 5/5   Our Photos 
This was our second time camping in the radio-free Midway campground.  Lots of tree cover and lots of brush making for a really private site.  Perfect!  This year's site was a lot easier to get onto than the site we had last year, and was good for tarping so that we could get out of the rain. Bon Echo remains a favourite.  Note:  buy good, dry wood at a decent price just back towards Cloyne at a garage/gas station/diner on the east side of the highway. 

Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Brighton, Ontario Aug 26-27                                   Rating: 5/5   Our Photos 
Site 374 in the Trails End campground.  We dry camped, had a very large site, a great view of Lake Ontario and were just steps away from the rocky beach and bike path.  My only complaint is that the water filling station for trailers is about 1km before the registration office.  They should have a separate filling point just inside the park.

Summer Trip 2006.  This trip took us through New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, Maryland,Virginia, Cape Hatteras/Outer Banks North Carolina, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, Great Smokey Mountains Tennessee, Mammoth Caves Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, New York and pack home.  Click here for our route map and the stops.

Canandaigua/Rochester KOA, Farmington, New York, August 9                       Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Another one-nighter on the run home and again we were able to stay hooked up for the night.  The usual KOA amenities.  The place was klean and well kept.  We were facing the little lake (across from the kamping kabins) and found the sites to be very klose together.  Interestingly, the owners were very careful to read our little family the riot act re noise and visitors.  It seemed odd to be treating a family like that but my guess is they've had trouble in the past but still, it didn't feel welcoming.  They wouldn't let another visitor in briefly to drop of a parcel while were there at the counter. 

Buckeye Lake/Columbus East KOA, Buckeye Lake, Ohio, August 8                 Rating: 3/5   Our Photos 
We made this a one-nighter on the run back home.  We were able to leave the trailer hitched up to the truck which was great.  The usual KOA amenities - hookups, klean, klose sites, a pool, minigolf.  Easy in and out. 

Mammoth Cave Jellystone Park, Cave City, Kentucky, August 6-7                  Rating: 3/5    Our Photos
We chose this park as one that was reasonably close to Mammoth Caves yet would offer swimming and water slide fun for the kids.  It did that, no problem.  Not much in the way of shade, but the sites are a good size.

Little River Village Campground, Townsend, Tennessee, July 31-Aug 5            Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
This is a gem of a park  on the "quiet side" of the Smokies.  Very clean and well run, four hookups available, wireless internet (it was flaky when we were there), pool, nice store and gas station, and tubing on the river is a lot of fun.  Beautiful spot.  Very handy to Great Smokey Mountain National Park.  

Pirateland Camping Resort, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, July 24-30               Rating: 1/5   Our Photos
Eww eww double eww. Quite frankly I doubt we will ever go back. The highlight was hanging out with some friends, and the beach. We were in the area back from the ocean sites for five of the nights and it's incredibly close quarters.  The tightest we've ever experienced.  We were happy to at least be able to get privacy in the hardside. People rent golf cars and buzz around all day long and half the night (there's an age limit but it's not enforced), cars are parked everywhere and there are people people everywhere. The pool and fake river are kinda neat. Many of the staff are grumpy and seem unhappy to be alive. We moved to a premium beach area site for the final night and it was much better and way less of a zoo - an entirely different perspective. That is the only place to stay at Pirateland.

Cape Woods Campground, Buxton, North Carolina, July 21-23                         Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Of all the campgrounds we saw on the Outer Banks this one appeared to us to be the nicest.  Well kept, nice sites but typically close together, as private parks are.  We did pick up an ant infestation so having ant powder around the wheels, stabilizers, hoses and nose jack is a good idea.  Close to the Cape Hatteras lighthouse where you could drive onto the beach.  Shopping close by.  A bit of a hike back to Kitty Hawk and attractions back to the north.


Elizabethtown/Hershey KOA, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania July 19-20                Rating: 5/5  Our Photos 
This is a nice KOA with all the usual KOA amenities, but away from noisy highways.  The area we were in was nicely treed and private.  Regular krowded KOA sites were also plentiful.  It's not the closes to Hershey Park but that wasn't a problem at all.

Summer Trip 2006.  This trip took us through New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, Maryland,Virginia, Cape Hatteras/Outer Banks North Carolina, Myrtle Beach South Carolina, Great Smokey Mountains Tennessee, Mammoth Caves Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, New York and pack home.  Click here for our route map and the stops.

Kingston KOA, Kingston, Ontario  July 7-9                                                   Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Very clean and neat, convenient to Kingston, pool, playground, water & electric sites (nice treat!), mini golf, pedal kart rentals, etc.  Good base of operations. Friendly, entertaining and helpful staff. Far enough from the 401 so that you can't hear it too much.  Trains are distant too.  Good for the purpose.  It's a KOA, not that there's anything wrong with that... 

Rollins Pond, Saranac Lake, New York  June 30-July 3                                    Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Nice park, treed and private sites, most sites on the lake.  Quiet lake, great for canoeing.  Delivery of wood, ice and ice cream if you happen to be there when they go by.  Good roads for biking.  People were using generators.  I just wish they wouldn't.  Expensive wood at the store outside the park and it's a bit of a drive out to get it.  We were on site A21. 

Watkins Glen State Park, Watkins Glen, NY June 23-July 26                            Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
Outstanding!!  What a beautiful park.  The gorge is stunning, there's an Olympic-sized pool and overall beautiful surroundings.  A number of sites have badly placed trees for backing in so care is needed.

Riverside-Cedars Campground, Morrisburg, ON June 9-11                               Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Nice park if a bit on the open side.  This time we got a premium water front site but without hookups.  Excellent view of the lakers sailing past very close to shore.  Short drive from Ottawa, at about an hour, lots of nice views of the St. Lawrence River and close to Upper Canada Village and to Morrisburg, for shopping.  Not as private as we like, lots of goose poop.

Fitzroy Provincial Park, Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario  June 4-6                              Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
A new park for us since we normally venture farther from home.  Fitzroy is about an hour away.  Nice park overall.  Big lineup to get the camping permit.  So we drove by and got our permit later.  Dump station is again one lane and at Fitzroy the road can get plugged with trailers in the dump line.  Shopping in the area is poor, especially for a decent selection of groceries.

Wellesley Island State Park, Alexandria Bay, NY May 19-22                            Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
New territory for us, pretty area, short drive from home (about two hours), not busy like the Ontario Parks for the May long weekend.  Not as private as we like, sites a bit close together.  Lack of playgrounds for the kids (but they found lots of other stuff to do). 

Sandbanks Provincial Park, Picton, Ontario  May 12-14                                  Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Great campground once again.  This time we tried the high 600s at the "top" of the loop in Woodlands, and parked facing the trees.  Very nice.  Once again the kids again loved The Dunes, and the biking was good.  Another fine outing with the MFCC!  That road has lots of twists and turns, probably to keep people from speeding, but you need to be careful pulling a trailer in the wooded parts.

Algonquin Provincial Park - Mew Lake, Whitney, ON April 13-16                        Rating:  5/5 Our Photos
Algonquin is great, any time of year!  Visitor's Centre was open.  Dump station opened the day we got there, which was earlier than planned.  Well, we did have to shovel snow off our site!  No water supply for trailer fill-ups so had to take water from the laundry room at the comfort station.  Some people drive far to fast down the main road that runs along the waterfront campsites and don't stop to think there are kids playing in the area.  My new signs may help that next time.
2005           52 nights & 14,895 kms (286 kms/night)

Algonquin Provincial Park - Mew Lake, Whitney, ON Nov 4-6                           Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
This was the Freeze Your BALs Off (FYBO) weekend - deux).  It was ok.   ;-)

1000 Islands / Ivy Lea KOA, Lansdowne, Ontario  Oct 14-16                           Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Yep, another KOA.  My reputation is going to suffer.  But this is a great setup for a Halloween outing with a bunch of Magical Flying Camper Club friends.  The owners of the park treated us like royalty, even keeping the pools and hot tubs open for us this late into the season.  They did a ton of work on the aquatic area - quite a "wow" factor.  But talk about mud.  It was a very wet weekend and drainage was non-existent in our part of the park.  I hear they're going to be fixing that problem, which is good news.

Voyageur Provincial Park, Chute-a-Blondeau, ON Sep 30-Oct 2                       Rating:  4/5  Our Photos
This was our first time at this park, believe it or not.  It's close to home, lots of nice sites. We will be going back.  You can hear a bit of highway noise but it's not too bad.  As usual for the provincial parks it's not always easy to maneuver a larger trailer due to some of the trees, but with caution it's doable.

Riverside Campground, Morrisburg, Ontario  Sep 16-18                                   Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Nice park with water and electricity, short drive from Ottawa, nice views of the St. Lawrence River and close to Upper Canada Village.  It was a rainy weekend and as such you expect some dampness on the sites but there was a complete lack of drainage so we were camping in a small lake.  Yuck.

Bon Echo Provincial Park, Cloyne, Ontario Sep 2-5                                          Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
This was our first time camping in the radio-free campground.  Lots of tree cover and lots of brush making for a really private site.  Perfect!  The site was a real challenge for backing on to.  A few badly placed trees and badly placed posts that seemed to serve no purpose made maneuvering the trailer a bit of a challenge.  But we overcame.

Robert H. Treman State Park, Ithaca, New York  Aug 19-21                             Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
The gorges were still gorgeous.  Didn't get to use the washrooms now that we have our own so can't comment on them.  Kids really enjoyed swimming in the natural pools under the waterfalls and playing at the park.  Handy to Ithaca, low rates.  We had an electric site this time and it was nice, but snug for getting the bigger trail onto it.  Once positioned it was fine.

End of summer trip.

Coloma KOA, Coloma, Michigan  Aug 7 (the last night of our trip)                      Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
No highway noise.  Much more treed than your typical KOA.  We were able to stay hitched up overnight.  Lots of seasonal campers, so it had that quaint shanty town look to part of it. Our site was littered and could have been cleaned up before our arrival.

Des Moines KOA, Des Moines, Iowa Aug 6                                                    Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
This one is a bit farther off the highway and we weren't complaining about that at all!  The rest is well, it's a KOA so 'nuff said!  We were able to stay hitched up overnight. Stopped at The Corn Palace in Mitchell.  The usual KOA shtick.  If they took out every 2nd site and put in some decent trees and shrubs these could actually be pretty nice places.

Kennebec KOA, Kennebec, South Dakota Aug 5                                           Rating: 2/5   Our Photos
KOA konvenient to the highway, with pool, store, full hookups and pull-thru sites. Handy after a long day on the road.  Could stay hitched up overnight.  Enroute, pass through the Badlands and visit Wall Drug.  KOA krappy krowded sites!

Rafter J Bar Ranch, Hill City, South Dakota Aug 1-4                                       Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
The place is quite clean and neat.  Nice pool.  We had full hookups.  Having a gas station there was handy.  Convenient for exploring Rushmore (magnificent!), Crazy Horse (a wonderful place/a wonderful story; go during the day then go again at night for the laser light show), Devil's Tower (cool!), Deadwood (grave of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane at the Mt. Moriah Cemetery).  The campground staff didn't seem all that happy to be there.  We were in the campground fairly close to the highway so we heard too many Harleys since we were there just before the big Sturgis rally.

Rocky Mountain National Park Glacier Basin, Estes Park, Colorado, July 28-31   Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
We attended Rocky Mountain Roundup '05 and got to meet PopupExplorer.com people from all over the continent!  What a great location - rustic, beautiful, snow-capped mountains.  We dry camped for four nights and got to meet some great people.  The drive up the Fall Road to the Alpine Visitors Centre was really neat -- one way up, gravel the whole way with some fun switchbacks.  At the Alpine Centre we walked up to over 12000ft.  We took the Trail Ridge Road around the Grand Lake and back.  That mountain side driving, although the road is busy, is not for the weak of heart!  The road up to Estes Park was narrow, very twisty and steep.  For the first time the truck actually dropped down into 1st gear -- twice!  Part of the challenge was knowing how much speed you could carry out of a corner because your view ahead was often blocked by canyon walls.  Looking at the GPS sure helped!

Rawlins KOA, Rawlins, Wyoming July 27                                                       Rating: 2/5  Our Photos
Pool and hookups.  Nice pool, the gatehouse area is well kept.  This puppy is right beside the interstate (you'll see 18 wheelers in a couple of the pix).  We were happy to have the hard-side trailer and the air conditioner.  The place was on a bit of a slope, all gravel pads, lots of thin/dead grass between the sites and any trees that were there could double for Charlie Brown's Christmas tree in winter.  Small sites, typical KOA.  Still, quick on/quick the highway is what you want for a one-nighter.

Fishing Bridge, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming  July 23-26                       Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
You need to have a hard-side trailer to camp in Fishing Bridge because of possible bear visits, which we didn't experience, at least not in the campground.  It's pretty KOA-like so not our preferred style of camping although it was perfect having full hookups and was a great base of operations for exploring Yellowstone.  Yellowstone is a wonderful place.  The wildlife is stunning, the thermal features, the scenery and the history.  I can see why people rave about it.  We rave about it now too!  Oh, and on the way out we hit the highest elevation while towing: 9500 ft. over the  Togwotee Pass.  The Sequoia pulled just fine.  The only downside is that Yellowstone is so big and there's so much to see that you really can go back many times and see something new each visit.

Cody KOA, Cody, Wyoming July 21-22                                                        Rating: 2/5   Our Photos
Nice pools.  We had water and electric hookups.  Handy to visit the Cody area.  Enroute can visit Fort Fetterman, Hell’s Half Acre, Thermopolis Hot Springs.  While in Cody, the Irma Hotel, Buffalo Bill Museum and the Cody Night Rodeo.  This park is up there on the really, really crowded scale.  We spent an hour just figuring out and then positioning the two trailers for maximum privacy.  And we weren't warned about sudden wind storms that can tear off awnings.  Guess what happened while we were at the Cody Night Rodeo?

Douglas Jackalope KOA, Douglas, Wyoming July 20                              Rating: 2/5   Our Photos
KOA - pool, close to highway, free wireless Internet.  Good for a one-nighter with all the conveniences of access and all the site amenities.  Can visit Chimney Rock and Scottsbluff on the way. Lots of coal trains!  The park is very open, crowded, all gravel with some grass strips.  No charm.

Ogallala SRA, Ogallala, Nebraska July 19                                                      Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
Fairly open, but well kept and quiet.  Nearby Lake McConaughy.  Neat to visit Boot Hill.  Really hard to find.  The cartographers of the world, and the sign , could do makersa better job on this one. Had to drive to go swimming at nearby Lake McConaughy.  On the way you can visit Fort Kearney, the Pony Express Station in Gothenburg and Buffalo Bill’s ranch in North Platte.

Mahoney State Park, Ashland, Nebraska July 17-18                                        Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
A gem of a place.  The water park was excellent.  Nice sites, well kept area, not crowded at all. There's a nearby space museum that we didn't see but others did that we were with and said it was great. On the way from La Salle you can visit Wild Bill Hickok's birthplace in Troy Grove, IL.  If you like privacy there could be more brush between the sites.  We lucked out and had a site facing the water.  Bonus!

La Salle/Peru KOA, La Salle, Illinois July 16                                                  Rating: 2/5  Our Photos

Far enough off the highway to be away from any noise, in a nice country surrounding.  Nice pool.  Really, really squished sites.  Fine for a one-night stop, but barely.  I think the pool made the difference.

KOA Port Huron, Port Huron, Michigan July 15                                               Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Very crowded, small sites, but clean and well kept.  Tons to do.  Typical KOA features: close to the highway, lots of services.

Darlington Provincial Park, Bowmanville, Ontario July 14                                Rating:  3/5   Our Photos
We didn't see much of it - pulled in late, pulled out early.  Seemed pretty nicely kept overall though.  Sites we did see looked a bit on the small side.  We were down near the water and could hear the traffic noise from the 401.

Summer Trip 2005 - Route and detailed itinerary (four pages).  The reviews above are of our summer trip to Wyoming, South Dakota and Colorado.  Thu-14-Jul-2005 to Mon-Aug-08-2005

 
Kingston KOA, Kingston, Ontario July 8-10                                                   Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Very clean and neat, convenient to Kingston, pool, playground, water & electric sites (nice treat!), mini golf, pedal cart (kart?) rentals, etc.  Good base of operations. Friendly and helpful staff. Far enough from the 401 so that you can't hear it.  Trains are distant too.  It’s a typical KOA in terms of openness and closeness one site to the next, few trees.  It'd be perfect if every second site were removed and big trees put in, but hey, that's not how a KOA works!

Cautions:  The dump station is on a one-way road into the campground, behind the main office.  Once you've dumped you need to do another loop around the campground.  Or you can try and back up, which is what we did.

Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park, Mattawa, ON Jun 30-Jul 3                      Rating:  4/5  Our Photos
Nice river, beach, tubing (what a hoot!), Voyageur canoe rides, museum, activities for the kids.  This is a must-visit park.  We stayed in Jingwakoki again, site 204.  Great big site, but hard to get onto because of the trees.  Most sites in this area are badly sloped.  Get one on the top road for the best chances of having something level.  On our final night there were some partiers going until the wee hours.  As usual the provincial parks do nothing about it (even if they patrol, it's hard to hear anything from inside a Crown Vic or a pickup truck -- they need good shoes, bikes or hybrid cars.  Luckily the new trailer is quiet inside!

Cautions:

(1) The water fill for trailers is at a pull out about 1km in from the main gate, but the tap is on the right side of the trailer.  You may need your freshwater hose to fill up your tank.

(2) The dump station is quite well hidden in a bush, and the road is a loop.  Signs say to go to the left if your valves are on the left, and go to the right if your valves are on the right.  I've never seen a trailer with the dump valves on the right-hand side, but with the dense bush it's hard to tell if anyone is in there.  You could end up coming nose-to-nose with another trailer, and one of you will have some tricky backing up to do down the typically narrow dump station road (never room to get around another rig).  They should have a stop line to hold trailers back so you can check before going in, or just make it one way. 

Silent Lake Provincial Park, Bancroft, Ontario June 17-19                                  Rating: 4/5 Our Photos
Easy three-hour drive from Ottawa via Renfrew, little traffic.  Nicely wooded campground, good trails, nice beach area, nice lake for canoeing. Well laid out to minimize campground traffic.  This was our first time there with the big trailer so our perspective is based on that. It was also our first time camping in the Pincer Bay campground.  The loop into the filling/dumping station is extremely tight for larger trailers, many low-hanging trees on the way to the campground.  Roads in Pincer Bay are narrow with a few badly placed trees on corners, but nothing too bad.  The sites in Pincer Bay are mostly tent sites and seem to be quite old -- they are often have tree stumps and/or uneven terrain.  We were on what was supposed to be a large site for our size of trailer however there was a stump in the middle (our slide went out over it) and the fire pit was on the wrong side (back side) of the trailer.  People were wondering how we even got the trailer onto the site (carefully!).  So if booking there with a larger trailer go for one of the electrical sites in the other campground or make sure you get a large or extra large site elsewhere.  As is often the case in provincial parks recently, their firewood was wet.

Upper Canada Campground, Morrisburg, Ontario June 3-5                                 Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
Short drive from Ottawa, lots to see/do in the area, lots for the kids to do at the park.  Mostly seasonal with lots of sites with junk lying around, noise from nearby highway 401, really weak 15A electric, sites aren't very private but not bad (we can't comment on showers (but they are pay showers) or comfort stations since we didn't use them or go in them).

Charleston Lake Provincial Park, Lansdowne, Ontario  May 20-23                       Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Close to Ottawa, very nice park, great beach, lots of good sites.  New docks, nice biking on the campground road. This was an MFCC trip, with a record 31 families and about 130 people in attendance.  Too bad the visitor centre/interpretive centre wasn't open.

Sandbanks Provincial Park, Picton, Ontario May 6-8                                      Rating: 5/5   Our Photos

Maiden voyage in The Ant.  Great campground, The Dunes, nice water, beaches, biking. Woodlands campground is nice.  The only thing of note is the campground road isn't made for trailers over 20'.  Be very careful, especially on the way out!
2004

Algonquin Provincial Park - Mew Lake, Whitney, Ontario  Nov 5-7                     Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
The first Freeze Your BALs Off (FYBO) weekend.  We had snow, beer, good friends, a portable hot tub, moose, un-crowded campground, bike trails, great waterfront sites.

Ivy Lea KOA, Gananoque, Ontario Oct 22-24                                                Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
This was a Halloween event for the Magical Flying Camper Club people from eastern Ontario, NY, Quebec to save that big drive to the Pinery.  Water & electric, hot tub, games room, movie area, great spot for a group even though very open.  The owners and staff treated our group very well. Scenic area.  Not our first choice in camping styles but great for a group!

Bronte Creek Provincial Park, Burlington, Ontario Oct 1-3                                Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Central location for a group get together, local attractions, all conveniences available locally. Fantastic new play structures!  Sites are somewhat open, a bit close to suburbia (but an excellent home base for visiting the Toronto area)

Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Brighton, Ontario Sep 3-6                                       Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Site 221 Lakeside & Hidden Valley Campground.  Camping with our skiing gang, plus all the usual good things about Presqu'ile: lighthouse, biking on the trail, beaches  Some idiots partied until 5am one night.  The ranger the next day proudly proclaimed "then we kicked them out" to which we replied "it took you to 5am to figure that out?!!"  The patrols, like most parks, need to get out of their cars and onto foot or bike and ought to start clamping down a bit.  We experienced more noise in Ontario Parks this year than anywhere else, including those places where there was no privacy and very small sites.

Summer Trip 2004.  Route.  The nine reviews above were part of our summer trip thru New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia including Halifax and Cape Breton July 17 to August 12, 2004.

Kouchibouguac National Park, Kouchibouguac, NB Aug 9-11                            Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Very private, treed sites (open sites are available too).  Excellent bike paths, boardwalk, beach, lagoon.  Great canteen open late.  Too few electrical sites.

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cheticamp Campground, Cheticamp, NS Aug 5-8 Rating: 3/5 Our Photos
Full hookups, great base for exploring Cabot Trail (wow!), beautiful beach at Ingonish, interpretive program, close to Cheticamp, Meat Cove, etc.  Did I forget to say wow?  The Cabot Trail lived up to its billing!  No swimming at park (can splash in river), sites not very private, closely spaced.  Doesn't matter though, never there!

Mira River Provincial Park, Sydney, Nova Scotia Aug 2-4                                Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Quiet, not busy, near Sydney, Fortress Louisbourg, Glace Bay. Good selection of private, wooded sites or open.  No hookups, just one comfort station.

Laurie Provincial Park, Grand Lake, NS Jul 29-Aug 1                                       Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Small, older park convenient to Halifax.  Some site with wooded view of lake. Swimming rocks a hit with all! Small sites close to campground road.  No hookups, no flush toilets, no showers.  Train runs nearby.

Pine Cone Camping, Sussex, New Brunswick Jul 27-28                                    Rating: 3/5   Our Photos
Fully serviced semi-private sites.  Good overnight stop en route to Halifax.  Little separation between some sites.  Some highway noise so go to the back (where there's little separation between sites!). Both pools like ice. Watch for loud seasonals.

Herring Cove Provincial Park, Campobello Island, NB Jul 24-26                          Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Choice treed/open sites. Very quiet. Scenic area, lighthouses, trails, Roosevelt cottage. Ferries to mainland are interesting!  This place is a keeper for sure!  Not a lot on the island in the way of amenities so make sure you're stocked up!

Bayley's Camping Resort, Old Orchard Beach, ME Jul 20-23                              Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
A stop for the kids!  Lots to do in area, great for kids (three pools, lots of activities); Old Orchard Beach.  Very small and close sites.  Zero privacy.  The motor home area looked more like town homes they were so close! But when quiet hours came it went silent.  The Ontario Parks people could learn a thing or two about quiet hours here!

Elmore State Park, Lake Elmore, New York Jul 18-19                                      Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
We were on site #11.  Nice private sites (11, 12, 13) surrounded by ravine.  Nice beach.  Small, quiet campground.  A bit lacking in amenities, but a keeper nonetheless.  Visit Ben & Jerry's factory on the way!

Coles Creek State Park, Waddington, New York Jul 17                                     Rating: 2/5  Our Photos
We made a quick decision to start our vacation early and zip across into the US to get an extra day, that way we'd maximizing our duty free.  Good spot for a one nighter.  The slowest most stressed-out front gate attendant we have ever experienced.  Sites are all quite open, aging facilities.

Summer Trip 2004.  Route.  The nine reviews above were part of our summer trip thru New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia including Halifax and Cape Breton July 17 to August 12, 2004.

Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Brighton, Ontario Jun 25-27                                     Rating:4/5   Our Photos
We were in the Elmvale campground, site 321.  Nicely treed, easy access to beach and biking.

Charleston Lake Provincial Park, Lansdowne, Ontario June 4-6                          Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Close to Ottawa, very nice park, great beach, lots of variety in site choices, lots of water front available. Visitor centre/interpretive centre wasn't open.

Bonnechere Provincial Park, Round Lake, Ontario May 21-24                            Rating: 4/5   Our Photos
Off the beaten path so not as busy as others.  Nice area, good beach, good facilities and seems to be well run. Only Ontario Park where you have to sign that you've read the rules (printed on the back of the permit).  Great canoeing on the Bonnechere River.  Bonnechere Caves is pretty cool!  Could do with some electric waterfront sites.

Sandbanks Provincial Park, Picton, Ontario May 7-9                                       Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Great campground, The Dunes, nice water, beaches, biking. Woodlands campground is nice.  Can get pretty busy since it's so popular but this time of year our group of 20 campers had the place to ourselves.

 2003

 Pinery Provincial Park, Grand Bend, Ontario Oct 24-26                               Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Halloween at the Pinery is a lot of fun.  Riverside 1 has great sites for a get-together even if a bit open, little traffic, beautiful area, excellent visitor centre. Incredible site decorating for Halloween, trick or treating.  Too far from Ottawa!  It was eight hours to get there, nine to get home!

Emily Provincial Park, Omemee, Ontario October 3-5                                        Rating:5/5  Our Photos 
Good selection of large, private, treed sites, friendly staff, nice comfort stations, playground, boardwalk.  Some sites open and small.

Bon Echo Provincial Park, Cloyne, Ontario September 13-14                             Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
See previous report, from 2002.  In addition, the campground, despite being almost full, was very peaceful.  What a treat! No radios at all.  The odd car alarm now and then.  Why can't people just not use them in the park?!

Silent Lake Provincial Park, Bancroft, Ontario August 29-Sep 1                         Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Large private sites, very friendly staff (hey Killbear!), nice beaches/hiking trails/mountain biking trails, road layout minimizes traffic, no motors allowed on lake so it really is "silent", a nice "calm" despite being a long weekend. No visitor centre nor on-site store (but we're quibbling here), camper's day beach parking lot too small if you're not close enough to walk or bike.

Bon Echo Provincial Park, Cloyne, Ontario August 22-24                                  Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
See previous report, from 2002

Robert H. Treman State Park, Ithaca, New York Aug 6-9                                 Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Incredibly beautiful gorges (gorgeous gorges!), trails and waterfalls, clean washrooms, cool swimming in natural pools under the waterfalls (and a diving board too!), small sized park, convenient to Ithaca, low rates.  Sites shady but not private, too few sites with electricity.

Riverside Park, Niagara Falls Aug 3-5                                                            Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
Nice pool/mini golf/comfort station, nice location near Niagara River, water AND electric sites.  Really handy to Marine Lane and the Falls yet out in a peaceful area.  Generally small sites, crowded together, pretty much zero privacy but if it's just a base of operations for visiting the area it's great!

Point Farms Provincial Park, Goderich, Ontario Jul 31-Aug 2                              Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Private/large/shady sites, nice beach, nice store at park entrance (across highway), close to Goderich (nice town). A gem of a park.  Bit of a drive to beach, not enough comfort stations.

Batman's Camping, Little Current, Ontario July 28-30                                      Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
On Manitoulin Island.  Private shady sites, water AND electric, campground store, close to Little Current, cool to visit Bridalveil Falls.  Beach a bit rough, older washrooms/showers.

Glenview Park, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario July 25-27                                       Rating: 2/5  Our Photos
Close to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Agawa Canyon Train Tour, Soo Locks, clean, pool, hot tub, shady sites.  Very, very close to Highway 17 (Trans Canada Highway) so quite noisy all the time, very narrow sites, no privacy.

Chutes Provincial Park, Massey, Ontario July 23-24                                        Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Big private sites, small park size, scenery, hiking trail & lookouts, swimming in small rapids, friendly staff, near town. A great overnight (or two) stop.  Distant highway noise (minor), periodic train noise, rocky beach, not much to do.

Killbear Provincial Park, Nobel, Ontario July 19-22                                            Rating: 4/5 Our Photos
Beaches, jumping rocks, scenery, mud hole, good sites, bike trail.  Loved it!  Very popular, big 'n busy, staff generally did not seem to be very friendly.

Lake George Shroon Valley Resort, Warrensburg, NY Jun 28-Jul 5                      Rating: 4/5 Our Photos
Clean, on-site amenities, tubing on river was a blast, riverside sites, pool, playground, slow traffic in campground, store, friendly staff.  Road dust, highway noise from the nearby I-87, low voltage power, sites aren't private (but great for a group!)

Lac Simon, Duhamel, Quebec June 20-22                                                     Rating: 1/5  Our Photos
Nice beach, pretty area, good bike trails.  Sardine campsites, zero privacy, motor boats, campground noise, really bad highway into area.  The one and only time we got halfway set up and thought we should leave.  Back of camper was 3' from the next camper.  We won't go back there.  Ever.

Murphy's Point Provincial Park, Perth, Ontario June 6-8                                    Rating:4/5  Our Photos
Nice beach (small), pretty, private sites, lots to do (hiking, biking, things to learn), interesting area attractions.  Campground road can be a bit tight for trailers, not all amenities open this time of year (i.e. mine tour), some sites smallish.
 
Algonquin Provincial Park: Pog Lake, Whitney, Ontario May 16-19                      Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
Nice lake, great bike trails, excellent visitor centre and excellent logging museum, wildlife.  Radio noise, little privacy in electric sites (canopy of trees quite high up, with little undergrowth), all washrooms not open, water kept going off, what security patrols?

Bronte Creek Provincial Park, Burlington, Ontario May 2-4                                Rating: 3/5  Our Photos
Nice central location for a group get together, local attractions, all conveniences available locally.  Sites are open, a bit close to suburbia (but an excellent home base for visiting the Toronto area).
2002

The Pinery Provincial Park, Grand Bend, Ontario Oct 25-27                               Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Halloween at the Pinery!  Riverside 4 great sites, good privacy, low traffic volume, good sites esp. on river, beautiful area, good visitor centre.

Sandbanks Provincial Park, Picton, Ontario Sep 13-15                                        Rating: 5/5   Our Photos
Great campground, The Dunes, nice water, beaches, biking.  Can get pretty busy since it's so popular.

Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Brighton, Ontario Aug 30-Sep 2                                Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
Non-electric sites all seem good, variety of shoreline, bike trails, visitor centre, deer on trails, big beach shallow water.  Can sometime be hard to get into since it's so popular!

Canada's Maritime Provinces Jul 19-Aug 10                       Rating: 5/5 overall trip rating  Our Photos
Old Quebec City, Fundy National Park, Hopewell Rocks, PEI, kids liked Yogi Bear (Woodstock, NB), Peggy's Cove, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Pine Cone Camping (Sussex, NB), Les Jardin de la Republique (Edmonston).  So much to see so it'll take some return trips.

Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park, Mattawa, ON July 12-14                         Rating: 4/5  Our Photos
Nice lake, beach, tubing, Voyageur canoe rides.  This is a must-visit park.  Some sites are better than others when it comes to accessibility, privacy, obstructions, shade.

Quinte's Isle Campark, Picton, Ontario June 28-July 1                                           Rating: 2/5  Our Photos
Centrally located, big pool.  Too open, little or no privacy, noise has to be extreme before anyone does anything, too far to lake (sites at lake all fully open).

Bon Echo Provincial Park, Cloyne, Ontario June 7-9                                              Rating: 5/5  Our Photos
What can we say?  This is a favourite!  Great campground, swimming, visitors centre, hiking, boat tours, etc., etc., etc.  Can't get there enough!

Cardinal KOA, Cardinal, Ontario May 24                                                                       Rating: 2/5  Our Photos
Close to home for the first trip in our new popup trailer.  A good overnight location for travellers close to Upper Canada Village.  Small sites, little privacy, power kept going out because of everyone plugging in heaters.