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New Harmony, Indiana is a historic town with a unique history. Nearby Harmonie State Park offers a great state park filled with trails and a large campground. And, during a rainy day, Evansville offers options to escape the rain. Read on to learn more about our weekend.
We spent two weekends in August exploring Missouri’s river country. The first we spent at Big Spring, where we spent the weekend exploring springs and mills, earning junior ranger badges, and playing in the Current River. The second weekend we stayed at Echo Bluff, where we spent the entire weekend in the State Park, biking, floating, and playing at the great playground.
We've debated staying at the Casino Queen RV Park many times, and we've always decided against this campground. The Casino Queen is in East St Louis. East St Louis frequently tops most dangerous city lists. But, it is also just across the river from downtown St Louis. We had the cleaver idea of staying at Casino Queen, getting a great campground view of the fireworks, and spend the weekend in St Louis, How did this adventure play out?
 We’ve talked about a trip to Colorado longer than we’ve been camping, We mapped out a plan with a stop in Kansas, Estes Park, and Colorado Springs. Did this adventure live up to our expectations?
 We set a goal: camp in all twelve months in 2018. We pulled of January - no sweat - a unusually warm and sunny weekend and we had no scheduling conflicts. February wasn’t so easy. We had a conflict every Friday and the forecast wasn’t great. But there was a shimmer of hope: a three day weekend. After a long cold-snap, including two weeks of below freezing temperatures at home, we caught a break: The weather forecast called for a warm weekend. We scrambled to find a location and planned a quick weekend camping getaway to Lakeside 370 Campground, west of St Louis in St Peters, MO.  |
