Beautiful Areas on a 6 week Journey!

[gatorewc]

From Seal Beach to Pinnacles NP, Yosemite NP, Crater Lake and then to Theodore Roosevelt NP.  9500 miles and the Ollie tagged along perfectly.  Our longest trip and it was great.  Stopped by the headwaters of the Mississippi and then 3 nights at Smokemont in the Smokies where I first started camping as a kid in the 60’s. 

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[Steph and Dud B]

Looks like a great trip. Thanks for sharing. Yosemite was one of our favorites. How were the crowds? 

[Jim and Chris Neuman]

Crater Lake and Yosemite also!  Nice trip.  Were the California Condors hanging in the trees above the Pinnacles NP campground?  Keep an eye on the big tree on the ridgeline above the campground - its the one with the green below it from all the Condor poop.  They often hang out there.  We got treated to a show put on by nine of them a couple of years ago.  Kind of makes you hopeful when you consider they were near extinction just a few short decades ago. 

Edited August 24 by Jim and Chris Neuman

[Mike and Carol]

What a great trip!  We were just at Crater Lake, amazing.  We’re currently visiting some of the few parks we haven’t seen yet, Great Basin, Lassen Volcanic, Redwood, Crater Lake, Olympic, Mount Ranier and North Cascades.  

[gatorewc]

Yosemite was breath taking.  The crowds were I guess normal.  Found a parking spot and used the shuttle service.  Stayed at Chilkoot Seirra National Forest Campground 30 minutes away and getting into the park was about a 15 minute wait 1 day and no wait 2nd day.  The campground was great and not crowded at all with large sites

I think we saw a Condor one day soaring and it was a beautiful sight.   We were the campground favorites since we had been given about 25 avocados by our daughter in laws grandmother in CA and shared them with all the surrounding campers 

First camping trip that far out west and looking forward to next years trip to some of the other parks.   May travel more in Aug and Sept so opportunity to reserve more popular campgrounds may be available.