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How to Choose and Care for Sleeping Bags and Sleeping Pads

Introduction Choosing a sleeping bag is important business especially if you might encounter cooler or colder weather. Before getting into the details of how to select a specific sleeping bag, you should tuck the following information into your mind. First, the temperature rating on the sleeping bag is an average for ALL people which means some […]

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How to Choose and Care for a Tent

How to Choose Camping Equipment The type of equipment that you choose is going to have an impact or play a role in the quality of your camping experience. With good equipment, you will be able to focus on and enjoy the natural world around you; with bad equipment you will be more worried about […]

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What to Do in the Parks

What to Do There are many options for recreation when visiting a park. Choose what you like to do and then find a park that offers those activities. Activities could include hiking, camping, swimming, mountain biking, rock climbing, fishing, birding, picnicking, geocaching, horseback riding, sightseeing and canoeing or kayaking. In addition to the above activities, […]

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Where to Go Camping

Planning a Camping Trip Where to Go In the United States of America there are private and public areas for camping. Private Areas The most well known private areas are KOA or Kampgrounds of America. These campgrounds are located outside of parks and offer showers, washers and dryers, electricity, campsites where you can set your […]

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Where are your parks and why are they so great?

The purpose of this website is to make the title of this post less mysterious. First, the parks are great because they are wonderful places to relax, have fun, fish, hike, connect with family, picnic, see the huge number of stars when leaving the glow of the city lights and because they belong to EVERYONE! […]

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Parks close to home

Check out the map of parks close to your home. Tweet

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