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  • Sugar River Campground

    From sticks@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 10 11:42:24 2024
    Went and did one of our favorite hikes when we're at home yesterday.
    One of the Winnebago County Forest Preserves that has a nice camping
    area. It's set in a grove of old and very tall white pines. It also
    has primitive camping sites, around ten I think, right down along the
    river. In the warmer months this place stays pretty busy as there is so
    much to do with a playground for the kiddies, good hiking, great fishing
    right along the river, and kayaking and tubing are very popular on the
    slow moving Sugar River. I've fished at the place several times.

    Yesterday temps around here were still pretty warm at about 60F, but it
    has been getting into the lower 40's and even upper 30's at night.
    There were about 10 RV's and trailers up in the campground, and 4 tents
    set up in the primitive area. Cold and rainy overnight and today, so
    these must be pretty hardy folks. Two of them were families with little
    kids. I thought it was pretty cool they were willing to do this for the
    family as the kids were having a great time. Memories made!


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  • From Ted Heise@21:1/5 to sticks on Mon Nov 11 16:29:23 2024
    On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 11:42:24 -0600,
    sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
    Went and did one of our favorite hikes when we're at home
    yesterday. One of the Winnebago County Forest Preserves that
    has a nice camping area. It's set in a grove of old and very
    tall white pines. It also has primitive camping sites, around
    ten I think, right down along the river. In the warmer months
    this place stays pretty busy as there is so much to do with a
    playground for the kiddies, good hiking, great fishing right
    along the river, and kayaking and tubing are very popular on
    the slow moving Sugar River. I've fished at the place several
    times.

    Yesterday temps around here were still pretty warm at about
    60F, but it has been getting into the lower 40's and even upper
    30's at night. There were about 10 RV's and trailers up in the
    campground, and 4 tents set up in the primitive area. Cold and
    rainy overnight and today, so these must be pretty hardy folks.
    Two of them were families with little kids. I thought it was
    pretty cool they were willing to do this for the family as the
    kids were having a great time. Memories made!

    Thanks for the nice report. The "preserves" and tall pines
    reminded me of a favorite hike, not far from home when we lived in
    Bloomington, IN. The Deam Wilderness area (no rv spots, of
    course) has a trail that goes through a lovely stand of pines.
    Almost cathedral like, and one of my favorite places.

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    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

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