2021 Camping season...planning for the future.

[Gr8bawana]

We like to camp in places like this. No reservations required and no-one to be seen.

 

[BlkZrx]

Retired this year. Going to do all my camping weekdays this year.

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[tron67j]

Holiday reservations in PA are almost completely booked here.

There are a lot of new campers...a blessing and a curse.

I am very anxious to see how many new campers become old campers.

I figured there will be a lot of campers on the market in about a year or so with all the people who bought them get tired of having to store them and want to go back to staying in hotels. I'm a little concerned because they've been slapping them together so fast that the quality is not there, but if I could find a decent trailer built before summer 2020, could be a steal in about a year.

 

[Toddbigboytruck]

We just had to make our reservations for next years Halloween camping weekend. Damn if so many sites were not already booked.

Amazing. I looked at the other holiday weekends...they are booked up already.

Looks like there will be alot of missed holiday weekends...not a big fan if the crowds.

This year we managed a good bit of weekends. Anxious to get out already.

you can’t get a site at any of the Ontario parks site. It is a hard year because of the COVID campers here

 

[Toddbigboytruck]

I figured there will be a lot of campers on the market in about a year or so with all the people who bought them get tired of having to store them and want to go back to staying in hotels. I'm a little concerned because they've been slapping them together so fast that the quality is not there, but if I could find a decent trailer built before summer 2020, could be a steal in about a year.

I agree. Give them two years and there will be a lot of gentle use trailer for sale

 

[RamRod37]

This is me and my Little Mobile Cabin kind of camping wooded and the site's spaced out so there is some woods between spots. Not stacked on top of each other god I want go camping hoping weather permits after March 5th I am off for 9 days I am going to go camp. Oh dont mind the old ford it has found A new home since pic LOL

 

[GsRAM]

42 more days til regular Camping season opens in Pennsylvania.

Anxiously waiting the day.

The dispersed sites in state Forest got shut down. Too much snow turning to ice. People have stuck abandon vehicles everywhere.

Hoping to maybe hit one middle of next month if the weather is fair.

Good times

This is me and my Little Mobile Cabin kind of camping wooded and the site's spaced out so there is some woods between spots. Not stacked on top of each other god I want go camping hoping weather permits after March 5th I am off for 9 days I am going to go camp. Oh dont mind the old ford it has found A new home since pic LOL
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Nothing wrong with the Ford if it gets the job done. Cool little mobile cabin, did you build that yourself?

 

[RamRod37]

yes been building it since march last year

 

[chris1126]

Holiday reservations in PA are almost completely booked here.

There are a lot of new campers...a blessing and a curse.

I am very anxious to see how many new campers become old campers.

whats blue knob like? we gave up on glendale. they patrol there. were only 15 mins from there too. we usually do raystown which is packed now with....well cityslickers who claim to be campers now cause they went one time. its frustrating to say the least. i am reserved for every weekend also. where all do you camp? just those 2 places??

 

[chris1126]

I work my ass off all week and then just get the heck out if here. I am off every weekend. My wife is a nurse and works every other weekend. So every other weekend we go local...either Prince Gallitzin or Blue Knob. And then her weekends off we try to get a bit further out.

We love the outdoors. Although we are friendly to our short term neighbors...we like to try to get away from people. But...we like to conversate with like minded people from time to time to...so the crowds have been interesting lol

what was your short term neighbors like last year? a fair share of mine were city folk. haha. no clue what they were doing. actually saw people sitting around their campfires with masks on! not even joking. spaced 6' apart.

 

[chris1126]

yes been building it since march last year

lets see some inside pics.

 

[Loudram]

what was your short term neighbors like last year? a fair share of mine were city folk. haha. no clue what they were doing. actually saw people sitting around their campfires with masks on! not even joking. spaced 6' apart.

That's sad. Last year no one wore masks at the campgrounds I stayed at. You needed them to go into the camp store but that was it.

 

[chris1126]

That's sad. Last year no one wore masks at the campgrounds I stayed at. You needed them to go into the camp store but that was it.

i went

That's sad. Last year no one wore masks at the campgrounds I stayed at. You needed them to go into the camp store but that was it.

sure is sad. this was raystown. couldnt believe it. ill keep those comments to myself about what i really think but you are rite, truely sad.

 

[392DevilDog]

whats blue knob like? we gave up on glendale. they patrol there. were only 15 mins from there too. we usually do raystown which is packed now with....well cityslickers who claim to be campers now cause they went one time. its frustrating to say the least. i am reserved for every weekend also. where all do you camp? just those 2 places??

Blue Knob has 45 sites. A small playground and a couple fields. There are completely wooded sites around the perimeter and sunny open sites in the middle. There is all kinds off hiking/biking trails. Being the second highest peak in Pennsylvania...it is a great place for views also.

There is a large pool down the road and the ski resort is right there too.

Previous years...the people there were campers. Mostly people coming to hike ir bike.

Usually maybe 10 sites...except memorial day and 4th of July...it gets full then.

This past year...well...it was packed...with people trying to introduce their friends to camping.

We still love Glendale. I refused to go there for many years. They are much better now than they were. So if you didn't like the current situation...you would have hated it before.


The only issue there is they cater to the more luxurious camping life.

Cherry and birch are good sites. Some are very crowded and a bit rowdy...unless that is what someone looks for.

Fowlers Hollow is another favorite of ours...11 ir 12 sites. In the woods by a stream. Way back in the woods. But as more glampers hit the bigger parks...it is driving others to the deeper woods...and now it is booked quite often

 

[392DevilDog]

what was your short term neighbors like last year? a fair share of mine were city folk. haha. no clue what they were doing. actually saw people sitting around their campfires with masks on! not even joking. spaced 6' apart.

We camp in the smaller sites...stay away from the full hookups. I actually met a few good ole guys and their wives and families. Only had to watch the fiasco from afar. Entertaining...but annoying

 

[392DevilDog]

i went

sure is sad. this was raystown. couldnt believe it. ill keep those comments to myself about what i really think but you are rite, truely sad.

You need to go back to Trough Creek. There is electric but no showers and vault toilets. That keeps the city folk away. I think just under 30 sites there...with 2 separated loops

 

[GsRAM]

That's sad. Last year no one wore masks at the campgrounds I stayed at. You needed them to go into the camp store but that was it.

Agreed 100% we didnt wear any last year. When hikers were coming we got over and let them pass.

Ok, in full disclosure, if there wasn't any room to get over I may on a few occasions held my breath till they passed by...hahahahaha lol! But beyond that..no way.

 

[chris1126]

Blue Knob has 45 sites. A small playground and a couple fields. There are completely wooded sites around the perimeter and sunny open sites in the middle. There is all kinds off hiking/biking trails. Being the second highest peak in Pennsylvania...it is a great place for views also.

There is a large pool down the road and the ski resort is right there too.

Previous years...the people there were campers. Mostly people coming to hike ir bike.

Usually maybe 10 sites...except memorial day and 4th of July...it gets full then.

This past year...well...it was packed...with people trying to introduce their friends to camping.

We still love Glendale. I refused to go there for many years. They are much better now than they were. So if you didn't like the current situation...you would have hated it before.


The only issue there is they cater to the more luxurious camping life.

Cherry and birch are good sites. Some are very crowded and a bit rowdy...unless that is what someone looks for.

Fowlers Hollow is another favorite of ours...11 ir 12 sites. In the woods by a stream. Way back in the woods. But as more glampers hit the bigger parks...it is driving others to the deeper woods...and now it is booked quite often

i havent been to glendale in years. i have heard it has changed some with the monitoring of the alcohol. i may look into blue knob.

 

[chris1126]

You need to go back to Trough Creek. There is electric but no showers and vault toilets. That keeps the city folk away. I think just under 30 sites there...with 2 separated loops

i dont like trough creek. im not a glamper but i do like a shower and some electric. we go there for the ice mine and rock.

 

[chris1126]

We camp in the smaller sites...stay away from the full hookups. I actually met a few good ole guys and their wives and families. Only had to watch the fiasco from afar. Entertaining...but annoying

some of our best friends we met camping.