One of my favorite campsites up at Moose Plains is Campsite Number 56. Located in the “Plains”, it is surrounded by dense vegetation, and entirely screened from road via dense brush on each side. Unlike being in the woods, however, it is a largely open canopy, home to many grassland birds and with excellent views of the stars above.

I can set up camp here, backing my pickup truck into the site,and not see another person for as long as I stay back there. I might occassionally hear the rumble of a passing pickup truck, or hear a yell from the fairly distant Campsite 57 on the other side of road – which happens to be about a ¼ mile away, and down at the bottom of a valley, below the sand dunes, down by Summer Stream.

It is my personal sanctuary, where I go up to a couple of times of year. It really isn’t that far, and you drive right in. And it’s almost like your in a entirely different world.

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