Mammoth Meanders to Massachusetts Day 5

 

Fri 9 June
Hickory Run State Park PA to Pine Acres Family Camping MA

Goodbye to Hickory Run-

We had to cut off a corner of Connecticut to get there. Funny, Connecticut has a lot of places where no people are, just like Virginia. I didn't expect that.

 

 

On to Pine Acres Family Camping. It's hard to sum up the place. It's huge, immaculately clean, plenty of signage but still a little confusing to navigate. Some of the sites are spacious, others crammed in between each other in rows. We had a large family with a huge number of kids on one side--I counted eight children's wheeled vehicles at one point--and the adults didn't do a super good job keeping them in control. But they were quiet, so we didn't mind.

On the other side a man and woman in a travel trailer pulled in after us. They were good neighbors--we barely saw them.

So on the positive side, the place has a huge dog park; hiking trails including one that goes on a good half-hour into the woods (I found two ticks on me); a swimming pool (closed at the time); activities; a lake and a fishing pond; canoes you can borrow, and so on.  And tons of chipmunks for Molly. On the other side, they require you to pay for visitors by the car and by the head, so having Edward's family visit would have cost us 65 dollars a day. They gave out armbands we were supposed to wear, but I never did. And there were a few people who sat out at their campfire across from us late every night, talking and laughing in voices that carried. And with all the people, there were lots and lots of dogs. All on leashes, but still.

If we had our choice, we wouldn't stay there again. But it's only 20 minutes from Edward's house and it wasn't so awfully bad. Next time I'll try to get one of the road-side sites that don't have neighbors so close.