What can we say about this place?
It’s nice for a getaway from everything, but not for people who need to work…
We had no cell service in half of the park including the campground, hardly any
Wi-Fi signal but you can pay them for internet, the grass is overgrown, the
office closes early and on Sundays, no signs to tell you where to check in at,
there is no camp host, and they don’t sell firewood. Now, for the good things.
The trails are great, there are beautiful views here, the lake is quiet, people
are nice, the store is very close, gas is cheap, and disk golf is fun.
Monday we worked all day, we did
stuff around here and caught up on things. We took a short hiking trail around
7 sinkholes. Don’t worry, they’re not like our sinkholes in Florida. These are
actually sturdy and we even got to walk in one.
Tuesday morning we got up and went
hiking and geocaching. The kids had a blast and so did we. They found the cache
pretty fast and we signed the log. The hike went around the front part of the
park and seemed a little long, but it was a relatively easy hike.
Wednesday morning we got up and went
hiking and geocaching again. This time at the top of the park, the hike was
steep going back up and we stopped to have a snack. After we got back home we
fixed lunch and then Sean dropped Kevin and me off where we had reception so we
can upload stuff for work and Sean took the kids to play disk golf. After work
Sean took Kevin to play disk golf and he loved it.
Thursday we got up a bit earlier and
went for another hike. It was supposed to be around the one side of the lake,
but we couldn’t make it, so we took the lost road trail and that led us
straight back to the campground. After lunch we played the first 9 holes of
disk golf again. We came back home, did some work and played the rest of disk
golf. Boy, are we tired!
Friday we were supposed to hike to
point lookout and geocache again, but I woke up a little under the weather and
we decided against it. We were also supposed to go play disk golf again that
afternoon. We took a lazy day and Kevin worked ahead on work in hopes of next
week taking some extra time to go hiking and such.
Since Saturday was our last day
there and we didn’t want to miss the last geocache, we went ahead and went to
point lookout. It was beautiful and I was super glad that we went. The cache
was the same as the rest, so we signed the log and kept walking. Got back to
the RV and cleaned up and got ready for the trip the next day.
The park is very busy in the
mornings, in the evening and on weekends. There are a lot of housing
developments around the outskirts of the park. The hiking is great and we
didn’t get to get all of the trails in, but they are fairly long. You’ll need
to be in pretty good shape in order to do half of them or take your time and
pack plenty of water, snacks and maybe lunch. The one I really wanted to do,
was just over 5 miles long and that makes it a little extra hard when there are
so many elevation changes. Thursday we got just over 17,000 steps on the
Fitbit!
Since they don’t sell firewood, you
can either grab some at Lowes or Home Depot down the street or you can do what
the other people did there and make sure you take your 5 gallon bucket and an
axe. There were multiple people every day walking out of the woods with buckets
full of wood. The park has quite a few dead trees and they encourage you to
collect downed trees.
If you make your reservations online
like we did, they don’t tell you which ones are full hook ups and which are not
on the picture, make sure you click on list view in order to see which ones
have sewer if that is important to you! We had our tote, so we dumped the grey
tank every day, no big deal. Although, you do save money, about $6 a day if you
don’t need sewer. We were in site #9 and it was shady all day, but there was a
dried up creek next to our site that took away from our “green space” and it
made the fire pit on an angle. It was plenty of room for 2 people for sure, but
6 chairs were pushing it. Some sites have trails that start right behind them,
some have more green space and then others have space up a small hill on the
same site. Just make sure you do your research before you go.
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