Up with the alarm, was off the site by just after 8:00, off the dump by 8:30, grabbed some breakfast at a Burger King and gas for Hubby in the nearby town before heading out on the freeway. Had to negotiate some difficult roads in Pittsburgh, but managed to get out of the city unscathed. Next stop was Walmart and gas in Clarion, PA, before finally heading out to the campground. Road started out as tarmac, switched to gravel, and started getting narrower and narrower, hoping against hope we didn’t meet anyone coming in the other direction, which we fortunately we didn’t. Just as Hubby was started to get worried, we arrived at the campground, which, once we crossed over a small narrow bridge, opened up into a beautiful, tidy, wide open field with a big gravel loop around it. Surprisingly, there were covered stalls at every one of the 5 or 6 sites, which we certainly weren’t expecting. One central water spigot of untested water in the middle, well within reach of any of the sites (at least, when you have as much hose as we carry : -), and fire rings at every site as well. The grass had been mowed very recently, giving it a wonderful park-like feel. We were VERY surprised, we were expecting something extremely primitive, but this was a little gem of a place in the middle of the woods. Perfect! There were a couple of other non-horse camping sites next to the bridge, and we met a nice couple there, Bill and Rusty, who have been coming here for the last 42 years for the fishing and family fun (they had a couple grandkids with them.) Once we parked, we discovered on of the tires on the horse trailer was flat, an old tire that probably just couldn’t take the beating on the 4+ miles of gravel road we traversed. According to Rusty, however, if we come in from the north, the tarmac comes most of the way, so I’ll check that out tomorrow when I go out looking for a tire. Only trouble here is that I don’t have any kind of cell phone signal, so I’m going to have to go searching tomorrow. Got the horses settled in, and everything set up about an hour before it started raining, which we were expecting, and we were SO grateful for the covered stalls, so the horses would be out of the rain all night. Heading to be early, it’s been a long day!
Up with the alarm, was off the site by just after 8:00, off the dump by 8:30, grabbed some breakfast at a Burger King and gas for Hubby in the nearby town before heading out on the freeway. Had to negotiate some difficult roads in Pittsburgh, but managed to get out of the city unscathed. Next stop was Walmart and gas in Clarion, PA, before finally heading out to the campground. Road started out as tarmac, switched to gravel, and started getting narrower and narrower, hoping against hope we didn’t meet anyone coming in the other direction, which we fortunately we didn’t. Just as Hubby was started to get worried, we arrived at the campground, which, once we crossed over a small narrow bridge, opened up into a beautiful, tidy, wide open field with a big gravel loop around it. Surprisingly, there were covered stalls at every one of the 5 or 6 sites, which we certainly weren’t expecting. One central water spigot of untested water in the middle, well within reach of any of the sites (at least, when you have as much hose as we carry : -), and fire rings at every site as well. The grass had been mowed very recently, giving it a wonderful park-like feel. We were VERY surprised, we were expecting something extremely primitive, but this was a little gem of a place in the middle of the woods. Perfect! There were a couple of other non-horse camping sites next to the bridge, and we met a nice couple there, Bill and Rusty, who have been coming here for the last 42 years for the fishing and family fun (they had a couple grandkids with them.) Once we parked, we discovered on of the tires on the horse trailer was flat, an old tire that probably just couldn’t take the beating on the 4+ miles of gravel road we traversed. According to Rusty, however, if we come in from the north, the tarmac comes most of the way, so I’ll check that out tomorrow when I go out looking for a tire. Only trouble here is that I don’t have any kind of cell phone signal, so I’m going to have to go searching tomorrow. Got the horses settled in, and everything set up about an hour before it started raining, which we were expecting, and we were SO grateful for the covered stalls, so the horses would be out of the rain all night. Heading to be early, it’s been a long day!
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