After many phone calls and inquiries in the last 10 days, I managed to find a nice ranger from the DEC at Ninham Mountain, who, although they don’t really have camping here, was will to let us park in their parking lot for a few days. It was a fairly short drive, but we made several stops along the way, including dumping at a rest area in CT, one of the few states that provides RV dumps in their rest areas, thank goodness. We arrived around 3:00, discovering that the parking lot is pretty small, but suitable enough for us to set up and still leave plenty of room for the day users, of which it turned out to be many. A fairly regular stream of mountain bikers, joggers and a couple of hunters kept us in constant contact with the outside world. We were also right by the side of the road, with just a little buffer of trees and brush, but we found two trees for a highline, and that’s all we needed. We also scoped out an area further up the hill where the maintenance buildings are, but I couldn’t remember if the ranger said we could go up there or not, and we were deterred by several stern No Trespassing signs posted around the place. Didn’t take long to set up, impossible to get a satellite signal again, so we’re out of luck there. Good thing we recorded a bunch of movies last time we had electricity in New Hampshire! Had a nice chat with the hunters, then settled in for the night. Bad news, practically no cell phone signal here at all! Surprised at that, the Verizon map seemed to indicate there was coverage all through here, and being only 60 miles our of NYC, I thought it just might be true.
After many phone calls and inquiries in the last 10 days, I managed to find a nice ranger from the DEC at Ninham Mountain, who, although they don’t really have camping here, was will to let us park in their parking lot for a few days. It was a fairly short drive, but we made several stops along the way, including dumping at a rest area in CT, one of the few states that provides RV dumps in their rest areas, thank goodness. We arrived around 3:00, discovering that the parking lot is pretty small, but suitable enough for us to set up and still leave plenty of room for the day users, of which it turned out to be many. A fairly regular stream of mountain bikers, joggers and a couple of hunters kept us in constant contact with the outside world. We were also right by the side of the road, with just a little buffer of trees and brush, but we found two trees for a highline, and that’s all we needed. We also scoped out an area further up the hill where the maintenance buildings are, but I couldn’t remember if the ranger said we could go up there or not, and we were deterred by several stern No Trespassing signs posted around the place. Didn’t take long to set up, impossible to get a satellite signal again, so we’re out of luck there. Good thing we recorded a bunch of movies last time we had electricity in New Hampshire! Had a nice chat with the hunters, then settled in for the night. Bad news, practically no cell phone signal here at all! Surprised at that, the Verizon map seemed to indicate there was coverage all through here, and being only 60 miles our of NYC, I thought it just might be true.
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