There are as many different types of campers as there are campgrounds. In the summer, the majority of the people you meet, in a park, are traditional campers. They live fairly close to the park and are spending vacation time living in a tent or camper; usually anywhere from a long weekend to two weeks. There are also full time campers who have sold their permanent dwelling and travel from place to place in their home on wheels. Mark and I find ourselves somewhere in the middle. This year we will spend about 7 months on the road and 5 months at our condo in Chattanooga. We like having a foot in both worlds but we do find this lifestyle challenging when hot weather comes and campgrounds fill up with traditional campers. The biggest challenge for us is getting reservations at popular parks through the weekend.
We love Henry’s Lake State Park, in Idaho. The park sits at 6,500 feet elevation, there always seem to be clouds and a cool breeze and the average temps in the summer are highs in the 70’s and lows in the 50’s. Of course, because of those things, this is a park hundreds of other people like to visit too. Another unique thing about this park is that they have five walk-in sites (sites no one can reserve) that are first come first serve. We could only get a reservation at Henry’s Lake for two nights but decided to head this way and take a chance at snagging a walk-in site. The first day we were here we weren’t successful, but the second night a site came available so now we can stay here for two weeks! We are ecstatic! We needed a place to slow down, rest up and actually settle into camping again. And did I mention a pair of formally endangered Trumpeter Swans live here (the biggest native waterfowl in the US) and they swim by our campsite most mornings with their babies?
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