We chose the St. Louis West KOA as our home base for our St. Louis trip because it had great reviews and, in particular, came highly recommended by Kerri of Travels with Birdy, both on her blog and on the Campground of the Week podcast. I reread her review right before I sat down to […]
Jellystone Mammoth Cave Campground Review
We had big plans to stay at the campground at Mammoth Cave and give dry camping a try for the first time. Then we kind of panicked, mostly about the possibility of it being very cold, and booked the Jellystone down the street instead. It turned out to be very cold indeed–below freezing one night–so […]
Red Top Mountain State Park and Campground Review; or Continuation of Remains of Industry Tour: THWARTED!
As regular readers will recall, we are, it seems, on a quest to become experts on the history of the iron industry in the Southeastern United States. Or, anyway, we saw a lot of iron-related sites on our recent trip to Birmingham. And we happen to have a state park nearby that hosts an iron […]
Skidaway Island State Park Campground Review
We had really high expectations for Skidaway Island State Park, because I kept reading reviews that said things like, “we have stayed in more than 4000 campgrounds all over the known universe, and this is the very best one.” That sort of thing. We’ve only stayed in four campgrounds in the known universe, but so […]