This
post represents another installment in the series detailing the second of our
three cross country National Parks camping trips with kids and travel trailer
in tow.
Prior to our first National Parks trip with the kids back in 2007,
we hadn’t yet experienced the delight of camping directly in State or National
Park campgrounds. We had only had our
first travel trailer for a year, and most of our early camping trips involved
private RV parks with activities for children.
It was during that 2007 journey that we ventured into the Madison
Campground in Yellowstone National Park.
That two night stay would forever change our camping lives and I devoted
a blog post to that event some time ago (A Camping Epiphany - link HERE). So, when planning the second of our National
Parks trips in 2010, I was focusing on state and federally operated campgrounds
in the locations we would be visiting.
The first night of the trip, we stayed in the RV section of one
of the travel plazas on the Ohio Turnpike.
The second night would bring us to our first actual campground, and a
love affair was born that very night.
