Campground Search

We went up to the cabin today to see what it looks like after the winter.  Jack & Cassie went up there Sunday and did some de-winterizing and all looks good with the cabin.  Now, if we could just get the motorhome up there.

The road up the mountain is being worked on again and is very rough for a section.  They have been installing new drain pipes under the road and it has taken them 4 years of working piece meal to get as far as they have.  One more year and they should be finished.  I think it is a budget thing and they work until the funds run out and move on to the next item in the budget.

The last mile or so leading into the cabin entails driving on a township road, forest road and then a private drive.  The forest road has trees and branches growing over the road and it looks like a tunnel.  An 11 ft tunnel and we have a 12 ft motorhome.  We will have to go in and trim almost a 1/2 mile section of road for low lying branches, saplings, etc in order to drive the motorhome in without pin striping it.  Jack has volunteered to help and it looks like I will rent a gas powered trimmer on the end of a 12ft pole to do the job.  More to follow on this.

We looked for alternative ways to spend the summer months here without doing all that trimming work, but it doesn't look like there are any alternatives.  We checked out a KOA, Jellystone and another campground and no luck.  Jellystone didn't have any space and if they did, they wanted $1000/month plus electric.  KOA was cheaper at $775/month plus electric, but the sites were too small and it's an old campground.  The private campground turned out to be tree houses and not for RVs.

Maple Tree Campground at the tree house

 On the way out of this above area we ran into some old fashioned grass cutters who demonstrated that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence.  There were about 12 of them and two were straining to eat outside the fence.  Quizzical looking guys.  They reminded me of the time I worked in Cairo, Egypt for a couple months in the late 1970s.  The nice apartment I was using had a vacant lot behind it and there was always a herd of goats eating everything in sight.  It was sort of odd seeing goats grazing in a real upscale neighborhood.

We checked into camp hosting at Greenbrier State Park and they said they had enough volunteers for this summer, but if we signed up they would put us on a list for any cancellations.  It sounds like it would be an interesting job (unpaid) to host there since they are only busy on weekends and require you to work a total of 20 hours/week per couple.  No bathroom cleaning, so that perked my interest.  Maybe next year.

It was a busy day with very little positive results, but there is always tomorrow.