From: mjk@sei.cmu.edu (Mary Jane Kelly)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: Campin' at Deer Creek
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:56:13 GMT
Organization: Software Engineering Institute

In article <1992Apr17.003116.18593@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> BSNICH01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu writes:
>BIOLOGY
>Here is what I found: RIVER BEND CAMPGROUND (317) 773-3333, OVERDORF LAKE
>(317) 984-5955, SPORTS LAKE CAMPGROUND (317) 998-2558, WHITE RIVER CAMPGROUND
>(317) 773-0810. I made reservations at RIVER BEND CAMPGROUND and the guy told
>me that they were about 5 miles from the Music Center. He also said he needed
>a deposit for multiple night stays. If I remember correctly, we stayed at
>White River Campground last time. The water was slightly tinged with sulfur


Hay, I think we stayed at River Bend last year.  Funny story, too.

I never was able to get it all together to make reservations for
camping near Deer Creek last year.  And like fools, we threw it to the
wind and set out anyway.  We arrived in Noblesville early in the morning
to check out the scene, find the venue, find a campground, and pulled
into a Waffle Hut for some grunts.  There were quite a few heads there
chowing down.  I think it's cool when you can walk into a restaurant
full of strangers and some of you can look at each other and smile
coz you know why you are in this place together.

ANYWAY.  We asked the waitress if she knew of any of the campgrounds I 
had on my list to check out.  She informed us that "some lady was
letting all of the dead heads stay on her farm for free."  WOW.  They
were supposed to bring in showers and stuff.  Well my friends and
I, being game for an adventure, took directions from Ms. Waffle Hut.
They included going down a paved road to a gravel road to a dirt
road and when we saw big blue plastic barrels, we were there.  

And sure enough, the directions panned out.  It wasn't a woman, but Mr.
White (if y'all remember the "should we thank Mr. White or not" discussion
of last summer:)  And a bunch of folks had set up camp in this small
but comfortable open valley.  There was a nice creek to swim in, watch
out for the nasty water snakes, blech.  

During the afternoon of the second show, the po-lice showed up.  Not
very many people were hanging around.  They had left there setups and
took off to enjoy the parking lot.  Weell the police told us that there
was some sort of court order and we should clear out.  My friend Jeff
told the occifer that most people were at the lot and would be back 
after the show.  Whereupon the man said they would be back, too.  Apparently
Mr. White wasn't allowed by some sort of zoning law to have all these
free campers.  Suffice it to say that my pals and I chickened out and
bailed for a "legal" campground, that being River Bend.  

(At Buckeye, we stayed in the open sun baked back field of an air strip
right next to the drag racers.... I hated that place... charging for 
showers...grrrrrrr....)

So you never know if Mr. White is going to open up his place to folks.
Somehow I doubt it.  It was the nicest place we stayed.. and you can't 
beat the price.  But River Bend was nice, too.  Lots of trees, flat spaces
to camp, and a river winds around it.  The place itself is really big 
for a commercial campground.  I highly recommend it.   

Well, that's my big camping story.  Anyone have any hints for Buffalo
and Richfield?  I'll probably do the yellow pages thang again.

M.J. 
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