Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-29
WHERE TO GO
WHERE TO GO
August Good Month for Camping
BY CHARLES COVELL
Outdoor Editor

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II you are tired Of campin
In your own backyard; tina
is, Maryland and Virginia, ant
want to venture a bit beyond
there's plenty Of opportunity.
August offers Washingto.
area families a whole month o
enjoying the outdoors beforI
school reopens. Within a day
easy drive there are numerou
National and State parks anC
forests that have attractive
campSites and breathtakinl
scenery.
They can be found in Della
ware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and North Carolina. Even tht
famous Finger Lakes region Of
New York can be reached easily
in a day.
An attractive trip would bt
to take Routes 240 and is north
to Mansfield, Pa, where you
turn left to reach Hills Greek
State Park.
The park is on a 137-acre
lake and like many Of those in
Pennsylvania, offers swimming
and fishing in addition to
camping. There are bass, wall
eyes and bluegills and boats
can be rented or you can bring
your own.
Grand Canyon Nearby
Camping permits cost 81 for
the first and so cents for each
additional day. They are sold
at the park between $3.50 am.
and 8 pm.
From Hills Creek Park, it is
only a short jaunt to WellSboro
and then about 10 miles to
Harrison State Forest Park
from which you can get a piano.
rama Of Pennsylvania version
Of the Grand Canyon, the val
ley Of Pine Creek.
Returning to Route IS, you
travel north to Corning, N. Y,
then on Ala to Watkins Glen
or Is to Ithaca.
Watkins Glen, If you never
have visited it, should be on
the itinerary, although you will
get similar vistas of cool water
falls and rushing waters that
have eaten canyons into the
shale at Robert H. fireman
State Park. or Enfield Glen as
old timers know it, near Ithaca.
Good Camping on Lake
You will find good camping
at Taughannock Falls State
Park about 10 miles above
Ithaca. Taughannock is on
the western shore of Cayuga
Lake. There will be boating,
bathing and fishing for bass,
sunfish or rock bass. You
might even get a big lake trout
trolling deep with wire line
along the opposite shore.
Fishing possibly will be bet
ter, though, at Cayuga Lake
State Park, some 80 miles
north at the upper end of the
lake. There, If you toss a spoon
into the weed beds in the early
morning, you are likely to come
up with a whopping Great
Northern pike.
Just outside Ithaca is an
other park worthy Of q visit.
Buttermilk Falls. The waters
tumble down a succession Of
lodges that gives them the
appearance Of buttermilk.
Jersey Invites Campers
II you don't want to 90 so
far afield, New Jersey offers
camping in two State parks
and seven State forests.
Bass River Forest, the oldest
covers 9,270 acres in Burling-
ton and Ocean Counties. It
has a lake, Absegami, in which
there is bathing and fishing.
Camping permits cost SIPS per
day.
Belleplain Forest is in Cape
May and Cumberland Counties
Lake Mummy provides bathing
and fishing.
Jenny Jump Forest is or
Jenny Mountain in Warren
County. 1t has a view of the
famous Delaware Water Gap.
Lebanon Forest Biggest
Biggest State forest is Leba.
non, covering 22,185 acres ir
the pine belt of Southern New
Jersey. Stokes, on the KittaD
tinny Ridge in Sussex County
has bathing and fishing il
Lake Ocquittunk.
Wharton and Worthingtor
State forests have wilderness,
campsites, accessible only BY
woods road, canoe or bacl
packing, in addition to grounc
sites.
The two State parks with
camping are:
High Point, also on the Kit.
tatinny Ridge in Northwest
New Jersey, and Parvin, ir
Salem County near Vinelanc
and Bridgeton. Parvin Lake, Of
nearly 100 acres, offers fine
fishing.
Although Delaware's popular
Key Box Road campground or
the dunes near Indian River
Inlet is closed this season be.
cause of storm damage, the
State has 100 tent and trailer
sites at Trap Pond, off Route
"a five miles southwest o.
Laurel. There is bathing, boat.