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Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:04 am

BlueTwo wrote: Cape Lookout State Park?

I've been there! Beautiful campground.

Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:10 am

Thanks for the great shots everyone.
Here is a favorite from Meat Cove, Nova Scotia.

Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:26 am

Alabama Hills. This was our favourite spot - but now it's blocked off for restoration. The new permit system has really cut down on the number of sites available as well.

Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:35 am

I think you posted that pic years ago and I replied that I would try to find my pic from the same spot from 1990.

Still haven't found that pic :? but it is a very cool place 8)

Rorke wrote: Thanks for the great shots everyone.
Here is a favorite from Meat Cove, Nova Scotia.

Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:52 am

Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in the near distance, Central Washington Scablands.
This spot is just outside the (no camping) refuge.
Off-season, Mar22, 2024 there was almost nobody else around.

Those vertical rock columns that you see in the distance.....
The thick, rich topsoil that you DON'T see was scoured away by ice-age floods going 60mph, ~17,000 years ago.
The flood was was miles wide and hundreds of feet deep.
Those rock columns are about 20-30 feet high so imagine rushing water several hundred feet higher, leaving what they call "scabland".
The rich soil that departed filled the Willamette Valley in Oregon,
:shock: 300 miles away.

We camped here to attend the "Othello Sand Hill Crane Festival"
which sounds real old-farty..... doesn't it?
There were lots of bluehairs.....

But the wildlife and local geology lectures were great.... we'd go again!

Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:20 pm

Does this count, it’s urban camping.

BK

Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:43 pm

Old crappy 35mm pictures but some of our favorite places... 4000 miles apart..

August '89, Havre St-Pierre, Quebec. As far as the road went then with our brand new syncro westy...stolen a year later :(

Summer '95 Rennell Sound, Haida Gwaii and summer '98 North Beach, Haida Gwaii

Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:45 pm

Xevin wrote: I guess I should of brought the 85 and not pollute this thread with a Bay Window and Euro Van :lol:

you mean enhance this thread with a classic air-cooled vw, don’t you, x?

Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:26 am

Indian Cove Campgrounds inside Joshua Tree National Park. We camped a couple nights and explored the park after Buses By the Bridge last month. Ended up doing just shy of 3500 miles in 11 days. A great time!

Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:52 pm

Cape Hatterass Sept 2024

Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:08 pm

Pyramid Lake -

Ana River-

Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:36 pm

I'll play.
Pics from some recent camping trips in central Oregon.
Warm Springs Indian Creek Campground,

Maupin RendezVW 2025,

Tue Jun 24, 2025 1:03 pm

This just in. Senator Mike Lee's proposal to sell off public lands pictured here, has been temporarily withdrawn from the Senate's Big Beautiful Bill. But we must all stay aware of what is going on with our public lands.

Now back to your regularly scheduled campsite viewing. :P

Tue Jun 24, 2025 1:31 pm

Great news..

This is Fall Lake near Ely, MN in.. .the spring.

Unfortunately there were wild fires raging just south of us, so the air quality sucked.

Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:50 am

Indian Creek. Right near the Idaho/Wyoming border.

Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:18 am

Last Weekend near Parksville on Vancouver Island

Last year at Manning Park with a token Vanagon camper passing by.

Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:52 am

Ocean City State Park, WA

Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:59 am

This was our first camping trip of the year in 2025 and in 2024. I'm surprised we've been able to nab it both times since the area does get a bit of use.

Somewhere west of Whitehall Montana.

Wed Jun 25, 2025 2:17 pm

In an attempt to bring this thread back in focus :D

Bryce Canyon NP, Utah - North Campground
No, the rocks on the left are not spray-painted landscape materials - they are real, lol

Valley of Fire SP, Nevada - Site #3
VOF exceed our expectations - just stunning! Campsites on this side get sun in the AM and shade in the later afternoon, which was just perfect for cooling down and sleeping.

Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:16 pm

Goosenecks State Park in SE Utah