Indiana to Pennsylvania

Beaver River Campground, Lakeville,  Indiana; Huron River Valley Resort, Huron, Ohio; Top-a-Rise RV, Jamestown, New York; June 24-27, 2013

  

A pretty sight - muti-colored fields of crops

Since these were one-night stops, we didn’t spend any time wandering around or doing anything particularly interesting, but there were some high and low spots.

Tony Packo's Hot Dogs

The first night out, we stayed at Beaver River Campground, which was another of the so-so places we found – the restrooms were sadly lacking, the advertised wi-fi only worked near the office, and the place wasn’t particularly well maintained. We had a bit of a storm overnight, and the next morning there were tree limbs down all over. As we were leaving, a couple of folks pulled in to talk with the people next to us and I heard the man say that a pop-up by them had been crushed by a tree. I asked if there had been anyone in the pop-up and he just looked at me and said he didn’t know. The look on my face must have been more expressive than I thought since they all hopped into their truck and raced back to the area they came from. Apparently, there was no one in the pop-up, thank goodness.

Notice the many axles on this truck.

Dickens says hello

The drive the next day netted us some Packo’s Hungarian Hot Dogs in Toledo – the ones Klinger in the M*A*S*H serieswaxed poetic about. They were good, but at more than $7/pound they should be! That night was spent at Huron River Valley Resort – a misnomer if ever there was one. The setting was beautiful, but the engineering of the place left a lot to be desired. All the sites available to overnighters were difficult to get level in (especially if one wanted to stay hooked up in order to speed up departure in the morning), the bathrooms smelled as though there was a broken sewer line around, the gravel “drive” on which one was supposed to park was so narrow the truck wouldn’t fit, much less the trailer. 
 

Top-O-Rise

Top-O-Rise

Our third day took us into the SW corner of New York to a little place called Top-O-Rise RV Park near Jamestown, NY. This was another beautiful spot that was not going to win any prizes for good bathrooms, but they were clean. The owner was delightful and I can see us stopping there again.
One of the things we’ve noticed about many of these little RV parks in the north, especially members of Passport America, is they are geared toward seasonal folks, many of whom have a trailer parked on the site for years as a summer cottage. Folks at these places often tend to be cliquish and not particularly friendly to those who overnight. In addition, the facilities at these parks are often not as clean as we’d like.

Now we head out to an Army Corps of Engineers park on Cowanesque near Thompkins, Pennsylvania.