Suzi’s Blog
The U.S. National Forest Campgrounds Guide website, www.forestcamping.com, is a wealth of information about developed campgrounds in all 176 national forests and grasslands across the country. It is basically an encyclopedia, straight forward and impersonal. Suzi’s Blog adds a little personal touch to the ForestCamping.com website with postings about our experiences, adventures, and discoveries along with other postings related to camping, national forests and grasslands, and family fund.
I am Suzi Dow and I hope you will find something interesting, something helpful, something informative, but mostly something that will help you get out and discover our national forests and grasslands.
Volunteers Needed
Every year dozens of volunteers contribute their time, knowledge, and muscles to our national forests. They contribute hours upon hours of their personal time doing everything from wildlife surveys and manning fire lookouts to hosting campgrounds and doing general office work. These people build and maintain trails, paint picnic, dig post poles, and so much Read More >>
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 >>
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 >>
