Amish Country PA - Leg 2

06/26/14 Thursday We arrived at Trap Pond State Park in Delaware about 1PM, checked in and went to our site - B15. On first look I though we might have a problem getting into the site due to the tight turn and trees but I backed right in on the first try. My wife, the co-pilot, is really a big help outside with the walkie-talkie radio directing me in. This is a nice state park campground. Most sites will handle a 40’ motor home easy and are fairly level. The roads in the CG are packed gravel, really shady with tall trees, water and 50/30/20amp electric with two dump stations on the way out plus at least two grey dump areas in the CG. I cooked burgers on the grill for supper and then did a 6 mile bicycle ride on one of the walking/bike trails.

Site B15

06/27/14 Friday We arose about 6:30AM for our morning 1.5 mile walk. I think the temperature is going to be a little cooler today - which will be nice. After breakfast we drove around the perimeter of the park and stopped at Bethesda Church. This church was built in 1879 and is one of the few remaining old churches from that era. The state park purchased the building after it was abandoned and then restored it. There also was an old cemetery behind the building with grave from the late 1800’s. We rode around the area and stopped at a road site vegetable stand to get some tomatoes. When we returned to the CG I set up my dutch oven and cooked my “almost” world famous ribs for lunch - delicious. After reading for awhile we rode our bicycles over to the boat house to take the pontoon boat tour of Trap Pond. We learned that it is a man made pond that was made in the 1700’s to get water to feed a saw mill and also was used to float the large cypress trees to the mill after they were cut down in the area. We returned to the CG and built a camp fire to enjoy with the cooler weather.

06/28/14 Saturday Again we arose early and did a 2.2 mile walk before breakfast. This is going to be another nice pleasant day weather wise. After breakfast we rode our bikes to the Nature Center near the boat house to check it out.

We really like this CG. It has lots of shade, fairly large sites, some of the nicest flat bike/walking trails we have used and quiet. I made note of the following sites as preferences if we were to stay here again. Sites A17, A18, A19 and B15 in that order. There were others in the A & B loops that would be okay but I would avoid loops C - W/E were at the front edge of the site not the rear and loop D - very short pull through. I would rate it 4+ stars if the streets and parking pads were paved.  If a person needs satellite TV access they would not like it here since the tall tress block the signal. We could get several channels on the OTA antenna.

6/29/14 Sunday We did our morning walk and had breakfast and prepared to depart for Intercourse, PA.