- Depending on your mission, support needs, and how far you dont want to drive, I camp at several places that are pretty nice. All depends on the weather, how far, what your gonna do and what you need when you get there. glenn At 04:32 PM 8/22/2004, tklnhl wrote: >- >If there is a term that means less than novice, that would be us when it >comes to camping. We have or have access to the appropriate camping stuff >-- now need a good place to go. >Can you all suggest a good spot that has camping close to a kid-friendly >river? Caching would be optional as getting through CAMPING will be the >first chore. We've been going through the State park and Forest Service >websites. Some even have pictures of every campsite. That's a great >website feature, but having never been there, it's hard to tell if they >are good sites or not. > >I remember camping as a kid and we seemed to always be able to camp right >on or very close to little river bank or a just short walk to pebbly and >sandy beaches and shut-in type rivers ( somehow hippies, drugs and snakes >in relation to the Shut-ins comes to mind too), Of course, I sort of >remember a few evacuations also. (Hmmmmmmm and now that I'm off topic, the >fear of Mo-Mo the Monster is a predominate memory form a few Table rock >State Park area camping trips.) The parentals seem to think these places >might have been Meramec State Park, Meramec Caverns, Washington State >Park, Silver Mines. Things change in 35 years. > >Oh yes, very modern, potty and shower facilities close by would be lovely >too LOL. > >Previously we had been the sleep-in-a-van-bring-a-microwave >types. Roughing it has it's limits. > >All suggestions from the experts are gladly accepted. > >Nancy > **************************************** > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html > **************************************** >To unsubscribe from this list: > send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in > the Subject field **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field