Articles
The U.S. National Forest Campgrounds Guide web pages are loaded with tons of information about some 2,400 developed Forest Service campgrounds but there is more to experience than just the trees. The following articles provided here cover a little of what isn’t said. Most of the articles answer questions asked and fall into broad categories. These articles are intended to make the best of your time in a national forest and grassland memorable, safe, and great.
Please check back on a periodic basis as new articles will be added periodically (to the top of the list).
Enjoy!
Categories
- camping with children
- Notable Campground
- Skills and knowledge
- Things to do
- Things to experience
- Things to see
- Tips and Tricks
Bug Scrubber
I love rolling down the highway in our motorhome with my sweetie next to me and my puppies close by. What I don’t like is the hundreds, maybe thousands, of bugs that get pasted to the front of the motorhome. You might think the problem wouldn’t be so bad when the landscape is desert but Read More >>
Not a fan
This is a posting I made more than eight years ago and am still waiting for answers. Do you have any insight for me? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Each month Fred and I publish a newsletter. One of the newsletter’s monthly features is a “Notable Campground” article. I’m a little surprised no one has noticed a rarely a Read More >>
Tips for Hiking Comfortably
If a characteristic of hiking is “watching where you put your foot,” I am definitely a Walker and no way a Hiker. I’m much to busy looking all around to be worrying about where my feet land. And, yes, my walking sticks have saved me from numerous disasters. Anyway, IMHO, hiking is for sweet young Read More >>
Lots of new photo albums
We have thousands of individual photos on our Pictures page. However, to streamline viewing we have started composing “photo albums.” Each album is a grouping of photographs of the album’s subject. Some albums are small while others are large. A lot has to do with the things like time of day, weather conditions, and subject Read More >>
AZ Hwy Photo tips
I’m not a professional photographer but do I enjoy trying. That is why one of the Arizona Highway features I read faithfully is The Journal – Photography. In the April 2010 issue was a brief question and answer piece with Bruce D. Taubert. (Not familiar with the name? Take a look at his work and Read More >>
Tuskegee National Forest
There are only two national forests with no developed campgrounds: Tuskegee in Alabama and Delta in Mississippi. A little background info on the Tuskegee NF. The land, purchased by the federal government between 1935 through 1938, was once one of the most eroded and abused territory in Alabama. Many restoration projects and changes occurred between Read More >>
Why are there national forests?
Why do we have national forest? The need for national forests, known in the beginning as Reserves, was recognized as the industrial age destroyed our land and watershed. It may be hard for us today to envision the area now known as George Washington-Thomas Jefferson National Forests as bare and treeless and dotted with unproductive Read More >>
Guidelines for Disperse camping
There are basically two types of camping in your national forests. You can camp in a developed campground or disperse camp outside developed campgrounds. One difference between the two is there is often a fee to camp in a campground and none if you disperse camp. Also when you disperse camp there are no facilities, Read More >>
Camping experiences come in handing
Reading through old post and came across this one from our early days as full-time campers. Our motorhome was just a year or so old and we hadn’t had any real problems until the fateful Saturday. BTW, the hot water heater has worked faithfully since we installed that new thermal couple. ************************************************** Here’s my Read More >>
Payne Lake campground – peace & quiet
This posting was first published in 9/30/2009. That’s almost a decade ago!!!! Well, we have a stop scheduled at Payne Lake Campground this summer. It will be interesting to see if there have been many changes, like the fire ants have moved on. As you can read, I thought it was a nice little campground Read More >>
