Fly-In Camping.....

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

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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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