State Parks

Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park — Cardwell, Montana July 24-27, 2023

Monday morning, July 24, 2023 we left Quartz Flat (out the same tunnel we passed through on the way in) and drove a little over 200 miles Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park in Cardwell, Montana. If you’ve been reading our posts then you realize that we’re back-tracking along pretty much the same route that […]

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Kanaskat-Palmer State Park, Washington July 15 – 22, 2023

On Saturday, July 15, 2023 we left Tolt-MacDonald Campground in Carnation (near Redmond) and drove 33 miles south to Kanaskat-Palmer State Park. We also stayed here last year when we visited the kids/grandkids. Cindy has looked and looked but these are the two closest campgrounds to Redmond that are the most economical for us. We

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Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park – Cardwell, Montana July 1 to July 6, 2023

Saturday morning, July 1, 2023 we left the Prune Creek Campground in Wyoming at 8:08 am for approximately 300 miles of travel to our next stop, the Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park in Cardwell, Montana. The first leg of our journey was making our way 30 miles down the opposite side of the mountain

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Custer State Park in South Dakota – June 23 – 30, 2023

Outside of our trip to Alaska last year, this may be Cindy’s favorite stop during our travels across and around the country. We had both been here before; me when I was deployed to South Dakota seven years ago and then the two of us when Cindy came to visit me while I was deployed

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Graham Cave State Park, Weston Bend State Park, Lewis & Clark State Park, and Left Tailrace Campground – June 15 to 23, 2023

Hello! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? The past month or so has been busy with several one-night and two-night stays, several stops with no Internet connectivity and a fun two weeks with our “West Coast Family”, all of which left either no time for writing or just me too tired to process photos and

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Fort Massac State Park – Metropolis, IL June 8- 15, 2023

As mentioned in the previous post, we arrived at Fort Massac State Park on Thursday, June 8, 2023 and spent the first 3 1/2 days doing almost nothing but attending the 45th Annual Superman Celebration. The remainder of our time was spent enjoying Fort Massac State Park and getting some errands done. Monday morning we

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Foss State Park – Foss, Oklahoma – May 5 – 13, 2023

We left Logan, New Mexico after getting our new driver-side RV tires installed and drove 278 miles to Foss State Park in Foss, Oklahoma. If you look at the Google Map screen capture in the photos you’ll notice that it says the trip should take right at 4 hours. That’s because Google Maps assumes you’ll

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Ute Lake State Park Campground – Logan, New Mexico – April 27 – May 5, 2023

After changing the flat tire on Nomad we left Cochiti Lake Campground on Thursday, April 27, 2023 about 90 minutes later than we had intended for our 225 mile drive to Ute Lake State Park Campground in Logan, New Mexico. This state park has several campground areas. We stayed in the Yucca Campground which has

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Santa Rosa Lake Campground – Santa Rosa, New Mexico – April 8 – 15, 2023

After leaving the gravesite of Billy the Kid and the Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico we drove the remaining 45 miles to our next campsite at the Santa Rosa Lake Campground in Santa Rosa, New Mexico for a 7-night stay. This was a stop where we really had nothing planned except for

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Natchez State Park – Natchez, MS – March 2 – 5, 2023

Thursday morning, March 2, 2023 we got up, got everything torn down/hooked up and left Davis Bayou Campground in Ocean Springs, Mississippi for a 3 1/2 hour drive to Natchez State park in Natchez, Mississippi. This was going to be a short three-day stay so Cindy could see some old Antebellum homes, but we also

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