Fly-In Camping.....

In rec.aviation.owning Travis Marlatte wrote:
: Followed the Alaska Highway back from Anchorage last summer. Camped in the
: woods near the airplane at many airports across Canada. Even at the larger
: airports, they don't seem to give it a second thought - although it may just
: be a grassy area off to the side.

: Here in the midwest, I can't think of an airport that I would just pull over
: and set up camp. It just seems so natural farther north but not down in the
: lower 48 (OK maybe just the middle 12).

I haven't flown it (yet), but I've driven it half a dozen times. Driving is
pretty close to the same deal. The further north you go, the less anybody thinks of you
simply pulling off alongside the road in a gravel pit to spend the night. Of course, the
provincial campsites are generally really good an inexpensive.

I *will* fly up sometime. I just can't afford the time right now.
Need...faster...airplane....

-Cory


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In rec.aviation.piloting Gene Kearns wrote:

The thread on Fly-In Museums worked so well that I thought I would
pose this question to the group.....

Can anyone offer some nice fly-in campsites... along with the features
and accessibility?

Marble, Colorado. Bring EVERYTHING. 1.5 mile hike into town of Marble.
1 pay phone in town, limited, limited store. Great fishing on the
Crystal River. Great marble quarry mine tour... this is where much of
the marble for the monuments in Washington D.C. come from.

View our fly-in briefing:
http://www.coloradopilots.org/marble2003.asp

This is a PRIVATE airport... I am authorized to provide instruction
and contact information.


Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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Gene Kearns wrote in
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:52:48 -0800, "R.Hubbell"
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:30:13 -0500 Gene Kearns
wrote:


The thread on Fly-In Museums worked so well that I thought I would
pose this question to the group.....

Can anyone offer some nice fly-in campsites... along with the
features and accessibility?



Yeah but who's compiling the list?


R. Hubbell

I'll compile the list and post it on my website, if there is enough
interest....



YES!!

I'm surprised no-one has made such a list on personal websites or
others.... Flying to campgrounds may be the only thing that could get my
wife interested in my learning to fly!.... hrrm...

Perhaps ad a "guestbook" where people can post something to the effect of
"yeah I stopped at such and such airport and camping out by the plane was
encoraged..., or "I was kicked out of my tent at 4am by the local sheriff
who told me no camping was allowed..." ;-)

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Columbia California: http://www.airstripamerica.com/cgi-bin/apt_info?O22

Columbia is in the foot hills of the Sierra Mountains and is a historic
gold mining town run the Park Service. Camping is off the grass runway
11/29 on the right side of the picture. The town is an easy 10 to 15
minute walk to the left.

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.

- Carl -

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

Kyler Laird wrote in message ...
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

Another place that has camping on the airport is Oceano. There are
shuttles running into Pismo and restaurants in walking distance. The
beach is a couple of hundred yards away.
ebs