Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:45:10 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Campgrounds along Truckee River in Calif.?
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On 4/15/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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