We found some great places! Can't wait to go and stay for a while. Sunshine our younger dog does not care for new experiences and hates the RV but he normally likes to walk in the forest as long as no bears are around. He hates bears.
Once we extracted Sunshine from the car he seemed to relax a bit or at least show an interest. However he was still pretty frightened.
He's still not thrilled to be here.
Sunshine: This is more my style. Lets get away from the road and go through the forest.
Sunshine: Back to the roads again, I guess I have to make the best of it.
Sunshine: I love the rocks!
Sunshine: Ok, we'll keep moving.
Now this is more like it says Sunshine. He likes exploring rocks and natural areas. He just doesn't want to see anybody else or anything man made like roads, cars, picnic tables or fire rings.
Sunshine: Yep, could do this all day.
Sunshine: Mom says we have to look at camp sites. Bah humbug.
This one looks promising says Sunshine.
Sunshine: Or this one.
The dogs: We both like this one.
Max marks one with a level parking area and a good view on the GPS so we can find it later.
Sunshine says, I'd rather explore.
Blossom just loves it all!
Blossom runs and runs until her tongue is dragging.
This is a good one!
Not sure on this one, but I'm going to jump in that snow says Miss Blossom.
This one looks good too.
Sunshine says a wild critter went by here.
Sunshine: Ohh, ohh, I wanna go down this trail but Mom won't let me!
They are all starting to all look pretty similar say the dogs.
Sunshine: But we keep looking.
He seemed to enjoy exploring a bit but he really wanted to go off in the wilderness and not follow the roads to look at the spots. All the campgrounds we looked at are still closed so we parked outside and walked the roads to take photos of ones we thought we'd like. I'm not sure how far we walked but the dogs were exhausted afterward.
We try to make any outing fun for Sunshine by stopping at McDonalds and getting him a burger with no bun or sauce and this always seems to perk him up.
It was hard not to think how much our two recent foster dogs would have loved this outing. Thankfully I think they both went to couples who will take them hiking and camping so they should be getting their own outings. I hope Sunshine starts to enjoy these more since it is difficult to force him to go along when he doesn't really seem to like it.
Enjoyed reading your comments and seeing your pictures, we're wanting to go to Hermit Park and it was really helpful to see your pictures.
ReplyDeleteHello, nice pix. Just discovered Hermit's Park and will be staying there this Summer 2012. Any recommendations on a campsite to reserve? Thx!
ReplyDeleteHi! I think Hermit's Hollow has the prettiest scenery. Very treed area. Unfortunately big RVs can only occupy a few places down near the entrance to the loop. While the scenery is great it isn't that isolated because everyone else has to go by you coming and going. There is a 25 ft limit for vehicles going to most parts of the loop. Although I think probably RVs up to maybe 30 ft could get up there. But we didn't try it so I don't know that for sure.
ReplyDeleteBobcat has the most level sites and some can be a little isolated. From this location you have access to the scenic uphill hike from the parking lot. This is a good location for most RVs since alot of sites are pretty level.
We stayed in Kruger when we went there last year. From here to can hike to a trail just passed some of the camper cabins. Here is a link to the post from when we stayed there.
http://1994brave29rqrv.blogspot.com/2011/06/hermit-park-campground-and-hiking.html
If you want to provide some more details about your set up and what is important to you I might be able to direct you to specific sites. We took pictures of the ones that suited us but that by no means those were the only good sites in the park.