Home From the Woods

We are back home and have unloaded all of our camping gear. While the website identifies the campground we stayed at as the Adventure Bound Camping Resort, it is known locally as Crazy Horse Campground, and the signage at the entrance identifies it as such. We had a creekside spot, but you had to climb down a pretty steep little embankment to get to the water. We took the kids rock hopping, and we found several little swimming holes you could get into. Later, I spotted a trail on the far side of the creek and climbed up to it. It led to a graded road bed, and I followed it up the mountain to the top of the ridge, which afforded a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains. From the summit, I belted out my Tarzan yell to celebrate.

The campground features a playground, stocked trout pond, swimming pool and water slide. Speaking for myself, my experience with the water slide went downhill (pardon the pun) when we saw a diaper baby fully loaded playing in the pool at the bottom of the slide. We reported it to the teenager supervising the water slide, but the slide remained open. Later in the day a man in his twenties did a back flip into the pool and landed on Sarah, who at age seven is a strong and confident swimmer and was not injured. I wasn't there when it happened, but Sherry let him have it with both barrels.

we had a great time camping with our friends and their kids, but for my money I'll take Abrams Creek or one of the other National Park Service campgrounds over a commercial campground any day. They are much less rowdy, and one-third the price. (Crazy Horse Campground was about $90.00 for two nights, and a campsite in the national park for two nights is $28.00 for two nights.)