Carl Ellis writes:

Columbia is in the foot hills of the Sierra Mountains and is a historic
gold mining town run the Park Service.

Columbia is *so* cool! I would love to return there.
http://lairds.org/Kyler/photos/disk0...g/image_viewer
Note that the town largely shuts down in the evening but during the
day there are plenty of places to eat.

Camping is off the grass runway
11/29 on the right side of the picture.

way ahead and to the right in this photo
http://lairds.org/Kyler/photos/disk0...g/image_viewer
There's a bit of a hill at the other end of the strip.

I haven't been to many strips with camping. Columbia impressed me.
There are nice/adequate camping facilities that are accessible only
from the runway. Is that common?

I was there last spring for the Taylorcraft Rendezvous and it is a popular
destination for many others including the 99's and the Luscombe group.

Yup, that's why we went. No shortage of good people in the area.

--kyler