What is you favorite campground?

[washelkhunter]

Im especially fond of Peterson Prairie. Tall trees, all the sites are level, 4 miles to Goose Lake and good fishing, 4 miles or so to Troutlake and Huckleberry smoothies for the kiddos. Lava tubes/caves/ice caves
easy hiking, oxygen, man the trees just give off good air there. You can always get a campsite. Whats your fav?

[KFhunter]

I hate camp grounds, all of em.
 
can't think of a one I enjoy, they are full of people and rules.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Although I have to agree about not liking campgrounds (never understood paying to camp with a bunch of strangers, and buying firewood, limited parking, not  discharging weapons, etc...)
I used to enjoy an annual trip to Bonaparte Lake, stay in a cabin, eat at a restaurant, catch 16-20" Brookies, 22-28" Rainbows, and Mackinaw up to 17lb's, (never paid attention to Kokanee, unless I wanted bait) then the smalmouth took over.... 

[jyerxa]

Colman Canyon North of Ellensberg. I don't have any pictures, but I taught a Navy SEAL and a Pierce County Deputy a lesson or two in sleeping well at night.

I do have to admit that dunking my head in a frosty winter stream so I didn't stink so bad after four day gave me a head ache.

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Hold on now. I've been city slickered so much I am paranoid nowadays.

These guys liked nice and soft stuff. Elevated in a cot.

Snicker snicker.

They were pop cycles in the morning. LMAO.  One frosty night was all it took to teach then how to camp in below freezing weather.

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Still sounds bad. Sleep close to the ground while still insulated from it. I like my Eureka tent for bad weather. I sleep like a baby in that little contraption.

[MikeWalking]

Don't like Pay to Use Campgrounds anymore, too little privacy. But on a long drive they can be a nice break.  Lone Pine on the North Cascades Hwy has been used a few times.  I really like it up on some of the bluffs in the Table Mt-Lion Rock area above Ellensburg.   Most have been hard to see breaks in the trees leading to a spot on a stream or dead ends high up on a ridge.  I really like having a stream/river/lake next  to me but I'll trade that for unobstructed views of the night sky.

We spent a lot of time at Alta Lake as a kid, late 60's-early 70's.  Before all the development.  Saved a kid from drowning there.  Rode my Honda SL70 all over the place.   I keep thinking of it as Alda lake after Grandma Alda Whitely. Grandpas' #2 I must of eaten my weight in Perch in all those years.

[RadSav]

I hate camp grounds, all of em.
 
can't think of a one I enjoy, they are full of people and rules.

   If I want to be around a bunch of drunken idiots and some power hungry care taker I'll go to a Mariners game.  At least I can sleep in the next morning without having to listen to some guy warming up his diesel truck for an hour.

The squaw and I like to trailer camp, tent camp and occasionally do a bivy.  However, there has to be a dang good reason for us to use a designated camp ground.  Back when Weyerh'ser would let us camp in the Winston during late archery we'd spend a full two weeks up there.  Those were good times.  Head home for the weekends to avoid the crowds and take a shower.  Although crowds weren't all that bad back then.

[PolarBear]

I hate camp grounds, all of em.
 
can't think of a one I enjoy, they are full of people and rules.

[rasbo]

not a fan of state grounds, but loved to camp at moose junction inside hancock

[Miles]

Our family enjoyed going to this one when we were in WA.  Ralph (the owner) is a great guy, and the fishing in that area can be very good.  The bathrooms are BY FAR the cleanest bathrooms I have ever seen at a campground.

http://uppercolumbiarv.com/

[Hornseeker]

This is my all time favorite, its about 4 miles from the truck in a nice little mountain range in Montana. Sites are fairly level... nice little creek about 40 feet from the tarp.... elk usually bugling within 400 yards of camp in September... no one to be seen....


As for the drive in campgrounds.... Yuck.

[D-Rock425]

I like that last camp ground.   If you're looking for a partner I'll go.

[Skyvalhunter]

Looks like an area in Rock Creek, Montana.

[dad98684]

I hate camp grounds, all of em.
 
can't think of a one I enjoy, they are full of people and rules.

too many people are inconsiderate pigs

[jyerxa]

This is my all time favorite, its about 4 miles from the truck in a nice little mountain range in Montana. Sites are fairly level... nice little creek about 40 feet from the tarp.... elk usually bugling within 400 yards of camp in September... no one to be seen....


As for the drive in campgrounds.... Yuck.

Yeah, now that is what I'm talking about! NICE!

[Curly]

I don't mind campgrounds.  When I go to one, I don't spend much time in camp anyway.  They are generally a pretty safe place to park your rig, and a place for electricity.

I just use it to park my camper or trailer for a place to sleep.  During the day, I'm out on the lake or river or out in the woods........then back to camp when the sun goes down.  That way you don't even get to see the other people that are in the campground.

Some of my favorites places have been Maryhill State Park, Potholes State Park, Steamboat Rock State Park, Central Ferry State Park, Crow Butte State Park, Charbonneau Park and Hood Park.