Evening star., 1923-08-05
& OF AUTOCAMP
FACILITIES GROWS
urists Finding Themselves
Increasingly Independent
of hotels and Inns.

1c number Of tourists carrying
ping equipment and making but
inimum use of hotels during their
mer drives is increasing yearly.
Il parties intending to stop at
Is frequently now carry camping
pment and enjoy making camp
and then when facilities offer.
. Lincoln Highway Association
year received an unusually large
"oer o. requests for information
- the location of speciality equip
camp sites, with the result that
following data has been com
make camp almost anywhere
,feen New York and San Francisco
hout interference from the own
OF property, and many tourists
TO make separate private camp.
away from town or city. How
more and more communities
! year are providing free camp
grounds within their municipal
its. often elaboratelv equipped
II facilities for the comfort and
venience of the tourist, and they
largely ratroniZed. Some of
.e camps often harbor as many
1000 persons at time. notably
'se in the west. which are located
strategic points. such as the
'SSlnS OF main motor trails.
Facilities at Camps Vary.
n the following table no attempt
made to detail provisions made for
!" comfort and convenience of tour
campers at each point. This is
necessary. as it will be understood
It the .elaborateness and complete
: of the camps generally vary in
'ct ratio TO the population of
communities providing them.
'ter and fuel are. OF course, avail
ints listed special grounds have
n set aside for the free use of
mperS, convenient to the city itself
i tourists are welcome and treat
with consideration. Directions for
'chlng the camp grounds are al
't|S given by appropriate signs on
' Lincoln highway.
w new municipal camps are es-
Alished along the Lincoln highway
NIsed lists will be announced by
Lincoln Highway Association.
," following free tourist camps in
nnsylvania are indicated by the
ate highway department and are
1 in municipalities:
+ hester county. Pa.-Ealley Creek
flee House. located at the junction
Lincoln highway and the Will
ington West Chester Pottstown
ult, IpuT anu OIt-Hdll miles east
Downingtown and twenty-six
lies west of Philadelphia.
Provision at Gettysburg.
a dams county. Pa.-At d point one
ID onehalf miles west of Gettys
re-; at point three and half
lies west Of Gettysburg: at point
= miles east of Gettysburg.
Franklin county. Pa. = State For
try Park. nine miles east of Cham
rsburg. at Caledonia Park.
Fulton county, Pa--Top of noun
in. three and one-half miles west
McConnellsburg; Tuscarora Sum
it. eighteen and one-half miles west
Chambersburg.
iicdford county. Pa.-Juniata cross
= and narrowS. fourteen miles east
Bedford; Allegheny summit. top of
rand View, seventeen and one-half
lies west of Bedford.
somerset county, Pa.-At a point
ur miles west OF JenertoWn, near
'estmoreland county line.
WeStmOreland county, Pa--Foot of
c mountains east OF Laughlintown;
est of Grapeville: school ground near
e Allegheny -Westmoreland county
lc; on the Fudolph farm, just east of
reenSburg.
other towns on the route between
in camps are:
phio-Bucyrus, Upper Sandusky.
Wayne. Ligonier. La
,rte 1.-TWO Camps}. South Bend, Dyer.
Illinois - Chicago Heights, Joliet.
ainfield, De kalb, Sterling, Aurora,
.AOn
De Witt. Calamus,
artnce, Marion. Cedar Rapids.
alle PIaine. Tama. Marshalltown,
ivada, Ames, Boone, Grand juno
IN, Jefferson. Scranton, Denison.
wv City. Dunlap, Woodbine and
,uncil Bluffs.
Sebra Ska-Omaha. Fremont, Valley,