Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:34:34 -0700
Reply-To: monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
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From: monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Campgrounds along Truckee River in Calif.?
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hi mike
this link
http://www.amazon.com/Foghorn-Outdoors-California-Camping-Campgrounds/
dp/1566916879
will take you to the best guide to california campgrounds that i've
ever seen - its led me to some very nice - very remote places that you
eed to know some strange mile marker to know the dirt road that leadds
six miles through forest or desert to get to a fire ring under the
giant sky as well as cheap RV parks with showers and air hockey tables
- indispensible, really
good luck
monte
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore
it to
him though I drown myself. - henry thoreau
On 15 Apr 2007, , at 08:36, Michael Elliott 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
>>
>
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