Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

[Bparker]

Who's going camping Memorial Day weekend and where you going?

[noelectricplease]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

Too many people. And noise.

[gatordude]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

We leave the weekends and holidays for families with kids. We normally arrive on Monday and leave on Friday.

[bluestar99]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

I do 3 days at a friends place with a group. There are 40 acres along a river. He has built a nice off grid cabin on it and has carved out about 10 campsites for friends. We eat drink and sit by the fire, a few kayak and some hike. Just a great weekend with friends.

[NYCgrrl]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

I seem to live to forget to book a campsite for Memorial Day. Sigh. Guess it'll be a hot time in the city.

[sunnymw]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

We will be camping 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after (I work every other weekend so I have that weekend off. Only holiday this year I think!).

We are skipping camping that weekend.

[Bigdog57]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

Personally, I avoid travel on highways and the campgrounds during all major holidays - I don't do large crowds.

[NYCgrrl]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

Personally, I avoid travel on highways and the campgrounds during all major holidays - I don't do large crowds.

I enjoy camping on long weekends since it gives me a few solid days of non-work. However I despise traveling during that time so we have a routine: travel to on Wednesday and return home on Tuesday. Since I'm self employed it's a bit easier to juggle the days. The crowds at the campground don't bother me much though since it is what it is.

[toedtoes]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

I tend to skip the big holiday camping weekends just because I can easily go at other times. I figure let those who only have the holiday weekends to camp have the campsites.

[MacGyver]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

I usually avoid camping on holiday weekends, but as it turns out, this coming Memorial Day is when everyone in my group got the time to go. So it looks like I'll be getting a rare 5 day trip in. Fortunately, there are enough sites where we go that we'll be away from all the "part timers".

[Bigdog57]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

Fortunately, being retired now means I am not confined to the weekends. A working friend once asked what I did on 'weekends'? I told him "Every day is a weekend!" :-)
The only major holiday weekend I used to camp on was the MLK weekend, since we had an annual motorcycle meet/camp/ride get together each January. Then they changed it to February, then to March. Blew away the entire reason for the original concept (a mid-winter meet for those normally not able to ride up north), so it died. Alas.
Now I just camp occasionally for personal pleasure, and solitude. Crowds negate both.

[Mellow Man]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

I will be taking my wife and two boys canoe camping in Michigan. We have a site reserved on the banks of a large "pond" (about 4 miles long) off the Au Sable River in Michigan. Our campsite is about a mile and a half from the parking area. It is a good way to get out on the holiday weekend and the dispersed site affords us a modicum of privacy and solitude!

[Denni2]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

Au Sable River is such a beautiful area. Enjoy the quiet.

[craigthor]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

I will stay as far away as possible, actually changing my schedule so that I can have a couple of weekdays off so that I can get away from the crowds as I'd much rather work the weekends.

[Chantel]

Re: Let hear it for Memorial Day camping

Well I'm completely new to camping, only my second time at one night each. We will be camping at Croton Point Park.