Second Campground of the Season

For our second trip we went to Beaverkill. We tried to go last year, but it was closed due to the recession. The sites are small, not ideal for bigger campers or RV's.

This is an old-school campground, the showers were probably a two mile hike away from our site. We couldn't drive to the showers because the FJ Cruiser was too tall to fit under the roof of the covered bridge, but the dogs enjoyed the walk. We walked through the part of the campground that was washed out in flash floods a while back, sadly they're not rebuilding, but it was a great place to walk dogs.

Beaverkill was very quiet, unlike Watkins Glen where we could hear partying at night and race cars in the morning, which was unpleasant to hear in such a beautiful natural environment. Beaverkill is mostly for fishing with a little hiking or just enjoying the campsite. S found it very restful, though L thought there was a little too much hiking and not enough sitting around the site.

The fire pits are nice and big with tall sides, but the person who built them seemed to be thinking more of aesthetics than practicality, because S couldn't balance our pots on the bumpy, rocky surface. For dinner the first night there was organic chicken marinated in a buffalo sauce with homemade horseradish dipping sauce and blue cheese dressing and for the vegan there were tofu tacos with locally made tofu and seitan. We also had a salad with locally grown mustard greens provided by S's sister.

On the second night S's sister roasted beets over the fire for an hour or so and they were delicious. We finished our leftovers from the night before and had spaghetti.

The last night it rained...a lot. And there was thunder and lightning. We were kind of nervous because of the history of flash flooding in the area, so we spent all night watching the creek and trying to keep our "brave, ferocious" Pitt Bull from quivering in fear. Normally we can play a certain CD that calms her down, but the little portable speakers for the MP3 player wouldn't go loud enough to be heard over the rain and thunder.

Before our next trip we'll be installing propane tanks on the Green Shasta, and new rims for the wheels! Soon we plan to post some pictures of how she looked when we got her, and tell you about how we fixed her up.