Date of Stay: 10/13/2020 Length of Stay: 1 night Type of Stay: SUV Camping Price: Free

My stay was right after camping became free, though I do not know if this was because of Covid, staffing, or the norm. The water was turned off, no trash service, vault toilet still had TP, but with a sign saying there would not be servicing. There were only 5 other campsites in use in the whole campground and only two others in my loop. I had almost the entire bottom half of my loop to myself. My campsite had all that I need, a fire ring, a level place to park, a picnic table, tall trees, and a perfect view.

This was an amazing campsite. I was doing travel through camping as a method of safe but necessary travel during quarantine, and this was my first ‘favorite’ camping spot. I got a beautiful spot in the lower loop that had it’s own trail to the lake. In the middle of the night a light storm rolled through, so I took down my window insulator and rolled down my window; as the lightning illuminated the lake and surrounding hills I found that beautiful feeling of being one with nature. The next morning as I left on those beautiful back roads I saw the evidence of one of the first snows at a higher elevation.