Mammoth Goes Birding…and stuff, Day 17

Thursday, April 24

Written at the time:

It got down to 48 overnight but it’s supposed to get to 79 today. Here. But we won’t be here. The plan is to leave early and eat on the road. We have a 4-hour 30-minute drive that will probably take five hours or more.  I’m sorry to have planned such a long drive, but I thought we’d be ready to get moving by now.

Molly and I took our morning walk to the dumpster, bearing trash and the ashes from our charcoal grill.  We heard Savannah Sparrows and Tree Swallows singing. It was very pleasant.

And then we packed up and headed west on I-86. New York is beautiful but has the most awful roads. It’s either hideous road construction or a surface as rough as heck frozen over.

We ended up in an RV park called Presque Isle Passage.  For some reason, either from the name of the place or the sign on their website, I thought it was on an island or near a passage. But nothing of the sort—it was nowhere near water in any direction I could ascertain.  We tried walking around the park to give Molly some exercise, but it was just your basic RV park with nothing interesting to do or see.

 Except a big ol' hornet's nest:

REVIEW: Presque Isle Passage RV Park $65

Nice, new and clean and convenient, but not a fave for us

If you had something to do in the area, this might be a good place to stay for a few days. But for us it was an overnighter, and while convenient and easy access and well set up, it wasn’t a great fit for our needs. We were in the very front in a pull-thru spot with a concrete patio; it seemed a little expensive but might have been more affordable in the back sites.

The sites were very clean and easy to access, but a little tightly spaced. There was a good bit of traffic noise.  The utilities worked fine—50-amp electric FHU.  The manager was very nice. Online payment worked fine.

There was no dog park or dog walking area, and nothing much to look at except other RVs. The driveways were all gravel with lots of grass, but the gravel made it hard to walk around for exercise.  There was a swimming pool, closed for the season in April.  And I think there was a laundry.  And a playground.

 So there’s nothing to complain about, and I would stay here again if it was on our route and we needed a reliable, easy one-nighter.