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TSoul
03-08-2006, 09:16 AM
We live in PA and mostly camp here. Next year I hope to get out and get to TN and GA to visit relatives and then maybe hit SC and NC beaches on the way home. Our favorite places to camp in PA our the state parks Gifford Pincho and Pinegrove Furnace SP. We have camped at Dogwood Acres in Newville which is nice and out to Raystown Lake area which is also very nice. We have also camped at families home in the poconos and that is just beutiful up there.
This year we hope to include our other hobby, scuba diving, in with our RVing. We are looking at getting season passes to Dutch Springs near Allentown. The passes let you in for diving and include camping for Friday and Saturday nights. Its boondocking basically and they have some annoying rules but, we are self contained and we can deal with the rules.
Are there any scuba/campers out there in the GS world? How does it work out for you?

Thanks for your responses and Happy Camping.

RJ82much
03-09-2006, 04:08 PM
Probably one of our favorite camping locations is Hills Creek State Park. http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/hillscreek.aspx

The place is clean, friendly, beautiful, maintained, blah blah blah. Our site was huge, no, it was HUGE. manicured lawn. I can't say enough.

It is near the "Grand Canyon of PA", ie Colton Point State Park & Leonard Harrison State Park with miles of driving, bikking, hiking.

We highly recommend the area.

Hickory Run State Park is another good choice, I think. We didn't stay there, but visited Boulder Field (awesome). Park ranger blond told me to go ahead & drive our 37' Sun Voyager to the field site; "they do it all the time." Well, they don't, and I have a scratch down the side of my unit to prove it won't fit over the narrow bridge on the 90-degree turn. That aside, the park is beautiful & http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/hickoryrun.aspx will tell you the facilities available.