Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:36:05 -0700
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Campgrounds along Truckee River in Calif.?
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Thanks Wognacious. Good point about the proximity to the highway, and
the pointer to the Forest Service page. I needed to add a "www" to the
link to get it to work here.
I like Forest Service and BLM campgrounds a lot. They tend to be quiet
and offer more seclusion than the state and private CGs I've looked at
in California. The only problem with picking CGs without actually
driving through them is that so few of them are reviewed or described
well enough to give a fellow any sense of what they are like. The FS
site is like that -- no descriptions. In summer, if a reservation isn't
made well ahead of time (for those CGs that allow reservations), finding
a site in a nice CG in a popular area like around Tahoe is difficult.
Is it Larry Chase that has an online CG review page? I've lost the link
to it -- maybe some kind Vanagon owner has posted reviews for CGs around
the Lake Tahoe area.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR
wognacious typed:
> Anything along the Truckee is not going to be that isolated Hwy 89 is a
> main road into Lake Tahoe and is well traveled. Go to this web site for
> camping info
>
> http://fs.fed.us/r5/tahoe/recreation/tkrd/summer.shtml
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From*: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> *Sent*: Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:36 AM
> *To*: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> *Subject*: SPAM-LOW: Campgrounds along Truckee River in Calif.?
>
> Mrs Squirrel has to attend a conference in Reno, NV in July, at the end
> of which she wants to join me and Mellow Yellow and do a little camping
> near Lake Tahoe. She's thinking that if we can find a nice spot close to
> Tahoe, maybe along the Truckee river, she could talk her sons and
> grandkids into visiting. They'd want to stay in a Tahoe hotel and do the
> stuff they like to do, like gamble, and everyone can get together to go
> rafting and other outdoorsy stuff.
>
> The Truckee river area has been a popular camping destination for
> generations, and I imagine that campgrounds along the Truckee fill up
> soon and many, if not most, could not be be considered secluded by any
> stretch of the imagination.
>
> Recommendations? CGs that don't look like trailer parks, aren't as
> crowded as Hoovervilles
> (http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t029/T029195A.jpg)?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
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