BasherDesigns » With Family http://www.basherdesigns.com BasherDesigns - a place to share my passion for riding dual sport motorcycles, write about adventure riding, camping, photography, yamaha wr250r Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:58:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 All Public Campgrounds Website! http://www.basherdesigns.com/2010/06/11/all-public-campgrounds/ http://www.basherdesigns.com/2010/06/11/all-public-campgrounds/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:36:25 +0000 Basher http://www.basherdesigns.com/?p=601 Doing a little trip planning today and ran across this link on ADVrider.com.  This site is a great tool for anyone looking for campgrounds.. it lists all Public campgrounds only.  But it sure does give you a great place to start when trying to plan your trip or just looking for a new place to camp with the family!  Zooming in will give you more campgrounds for a given location.

For the adventure rider, what makes it so great is it has topographic maps, so you can really find the good campgrounds that will also be a nice ride to get there! And more importantly, if you click on a campground icon, it gives you detailed information about the site, including GPS coordinates!! You can even download a regional file to upload to your GPS that includes all of the campgrounds for that region.

Here’s a snapshot of the satellite map for Missouri:

Don’t forget to bookmark this one!

All Public Campgrounds : www.uscampgrounds.info

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  • Pre-trip Planning
  • Cold-weather Clothing
  • The Ten Essentials
  • Winter Gear Considerations
  • Sleeping Bags / Liners Pads
  • Ground Cloths
  • Route-finding in Winter
  • Making Camp in Snow
  • Types of Winter Shelters
  • Snow Caves / Igloo Making
  • The Winter Kitchen
  • Health Concerns
  • Sanitation in the Snow

Lots of good tips even if I don’t live in the mountains!

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Click here to view the embedded video.

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