Our campsite adventures!
The Getaway Geezers have visited many campgrounds on our travels and have acquired a knack for selecting outstanding ones. We prefer the National Park Service facilities that dot the countryside. Most if not all of them have a resident "host" usually living in a large trailer or other type home-on-wheels within the campground -- they're often joined by their spouses. We've encountered some very nice hosts who are helpful, courteous and love talking about their NFS campsite jobs. They smile when we show them our "retirement card."
Volunteers and NPS partners care for more than 400 National Parks in the U.S, which attract more than 275 million visitors annually.
NFS campgrounds are well kept, restroom accommodations are excellent, picnic tables are ample with adjacent fire rings. Some have laundry facilities. Overnight fees averaged $10-12 (per vehicle) for us.
Early-on in our camping experience, we were advised to secure a lifetime "senior pass" that admits us to all national parks at the standard discount. This colorful lifetime card bears the name SENIOR PASS on its front side and can be purchased for $10 at any NFS facility. Senior U.S. citizens, 62 or over, are eligible for this card. Details on this and other free or discounted NFS cards can be found on this link: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm
A pass is your ticket to more than 2,000 federal recreation sites. Each pass covers entrance fees at national parks and national wildlife refuges as well as standard amenity fees at national forests. grasslands and at lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation. A pass covers entrance and standard amenity fees for a driver and all passengers in a personal vehicle at per vehicle fee areas (or up to four adults at sites that charge per person). Children age 15 or under are admitted free.
We've been in situations, particularly at day's end, in a non-NFS area with no place to camp for the night. What we do in that case is to seek out State or small commercially-operated campsites, Look for the National Forest Service roadside sign and, within that jurisdiction, you'll usually find at least one campground. (The blue borrowed tent was used on GGG1. Thereafter we used our new REI-donated yellow tent.)
We hope you enjoy our camping photos!
Volunteers and NPS partners care for more than 400 National Parks in the U.S, which attract more than 275 million visitors annually.
NFS campgrounds are well kept, restroom accommodations are excellent, picnic tables are ample with adjacent fire rings. Some have laundry facilities. Overnight fees averaged $10-12 (per vehicle) for us.
Early-on in our camping experience, we were advised to secure a lifetime "senior pass" that admits us to all national parks at the standard discount. This colorful lifetime card bears the name SENIOR PASS on its front side and can be purchased for $10 at any NFS facility. Senior U.S. citizens, 62 or over, are eligible for this card. Details on this and other free or discounted NFS cards can be found on this link: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm
A pass is your ticket to more than 2,000 federal recreation sites. Each pass covers entrance fees at national parks and national wildlife refuges as well as standard amenity fees at national forests. grasslands and at lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation. A pass covers entrance and standard amenity fees for a driver and all passengers in a personal vehicle at per vehicle fee areas (or up to four adults at sites that charge per person). Children age 15 or under are admitted free.
We've been in situations, particularly at day's end, in a non-NFS area with no place to camp for the night. What we do in that case is to seek out State or small commercially-operated campsites, Look for the National Forest Service roadside sign and, within that jurisdiction, you'll usually find at least one campground. (The blue borrowed tent was used on GGG1. Thereafter we used our new REI-donated yellow tent.)
We hope you enjoy our camping photos!
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