The Best in Tent Camping: Minnesota: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos
- Book Review,
by Tom Watson
Book Description
With one of the top state park systems in the country and a landscape of crystal-clear lakes, ancient forests, and prairies, it''s no surprise that more than a quarter of the population sixteen years and older go camping. Author Tom Watson has selected fifty of the best campgrounds in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. From Zippel Bay State Park''s birch-jack pine forest, overlooking the incomparable Lake of the Woods, to the Blue Mound prairies of southwestern Minnesota, The Best in Tent Camping: Minnesota is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites.
About the Author
Tom Watson grew up enjoying Minnesota''s great outdoors. He''s an active freelance photojournalist with many outdoor articles and photographs in national publications to his credit. Besides hiking, he''s also an avid sea kayaker. He currently lives, plays, and works out of the southeastern Minnesota town of Winona, on the Mississippi River.
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Hok-Si-La earns a place in this book not only for the roomy, spacious campsites but for the unique policy the campground employs for access to their sites. When you drive up to your campsite you''d better attend to unloading all your gear as soon as you can because, after 15 minutes, you have to remove your car from the campground. Vehicles must be parked outside the security gate during your stay and can only be brought back in when it''s time to leave. Upon parking, you hike back into to your site, the farthest being 0.2 miles from the lot. You also have a choice of using a cart to haul your camping gear in and out of camp, or as a means of transporting groceries or other items purchased during your stay. At Hok-Si-La, though, the serenity is worth the short trek.
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