We headed south from Ely on towards Valley of Fire and enjoyed the beautiful scenery along Highway 93. Campground: Valley of Fire State Park – Atlatl Campground Location: Overton, Nevada Site: 39 (pull-thru) Cost: $30 Services: W/E (50AMP) Comments: One of our favourite campgrounds. Not only is the scenery
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Prospectors Hotel and Casino RV Park – Ely, Nevada
We love heading south via Highway 93 in Nevada. It is such beautiful scenery and an easy road to travel (as long as it is not the middle of winter). An easy overnight along the way is in Ely, Nevada. We usually stay at the KOA but this time
Continue readingBruneau Dunes State Park – Mountain Home, Idaho
We drove from Emigrant Springs State Park in Oregon along I-84 through Boise and on to the state park south of Mountain Home passing through Boise and following the Snake River. Bruneau Dunes is a lovely state park in southern Idaho surrounded by some tall dunes (largest single structure
Continue readingEmigrant Springs State Park – Meacham, Oregon
After a nice drive through eastern Washington we made our way over Deadmans Pass and on to Emigrant Springs State Park campground. The Emigrant Springs State Park lies between Deadmans Pass and Meacham, Oregon directly off I-84 on the summit of the Blue Mountains. Travelers along the Oregon Trail
Continue readingCabela’s RV Parking – Stateline, Idaho
Yes, Cabela’s offers RV Parking! This Cabela’s is in Stateline, Idaho right off I-90 on the border of Idaho and Washington. Cabela’s told us we could stay as long as we wanted and park anywhere we wanted. But their dump station has closed so you need to head to a
Continue readingFarragut State Park – Athol, Idaho
Farragut State Park is located north of Coeur d’Alene and offers beautiful camping sites year round. Besides having a beautiful lake for summer fun it also provides lots of hiking and biking trails. We have visited here a number of times, plus we lived nearby, so it is an
Continue readingLundbreck Falls Provincial Park – Alberta
We have stayed at Lundbreck Falls on countless occasions and have found it easily accessible for an overnighter. In the past few years the summer months have found the campground always full so we have stayed elsewhere. This year we were passing through during the off season and we were
Continue readingDrumheller, Alberta – Out and About
Drumheller is a lovely town in the Canadian Badlands renown for its fabulous paleontology museum and its yearly production of the Passion Play. The town is full of dinosaur artifacts and museums, the worlds largest dinosaur, fabulous scenery with hoodoos and rugged colorful hills, coal mines, a pulley ferry,
Continue readingDinosaur RV Park – Drumheller, Alberta
Drumheller is a lovely town located in the Red Deer Valley in an area aptly named the Canadian Badlands. It is a tourist destination in the summer and full of activities and sights to see. It lies about 70 miles northeast of Calgary in a very distinct scenic location. A
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Central Alberta lies to the east of the Rockies and is the most densely populated area in the province but you would never know it. The area is most noted for its vast productive farmland and ranches. The landscape varies from the foothills to the prairies with a multitude of
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