Quiet place to spend Memorial Day?

I'd suggest that you contact the main offices of some of the parks in
that region and ask for suggestions. If anyone knows of secluded spots
like that, it would be the people who actually work there.

Considering your tight timeframe, I'd phone rather than email them.
The official sites of the various parks always list phone numbers.

James

We're going mountain biking in Jim Thorpe, PA.


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"Carthell" <carthell@charm.net> wrote in message
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>I would like to find a quiet shoreline to roam this weekend in the
> MD/DC/VA/DE/PA area. The area would be filled with small,
> non-dangerous wildlife, spectacular natural views, and a minimum
> of people and their 1-MW-output stereo systems sure to set off
> security alerts in DC.
>
> When I was a growing bud, my family took us to Greenbrier
> State Park in western Maryland and Gunpowder Falls State Park
> on the western Chesapeake Bay shoreline multiple times. In both
> cases, it was very hard to keep from tripping over the teeming
> thousands of people who would crowd into the areas. The only
> highlights I got out of the trips was the rides to and from the
> places, and the food cooked while we were there.
>
> I'm thinking about visiting the Chesapeaked Bay
> Bridge-Tunnel's visitor areas. Or Assateague Island National Seashore,
> apparently a 30-mile sand bar that separates Maryland
> and Virginia from the Atlantic Ocean. Howzabout the Doncaster
> State Forest near Chicamuxen, MD, for kicks?
>
> Where's your favorite place to go experience nature?

On Fri, 23 May 2008 03:26:33 -0400, Brian K
<brian1951BLOG@**************> wrote:

>On 5/22/2008 1:52 PM JamesStep@********** plucked Senior Frog's Magic
>Twanger and said:
>> I'd suggest that you contact the main offices of some of the parks in
>> that region and ask for suggestions. If anyone knows of secluded spots
>> like that, it would be the people who actually work there.
>>
>> Considering your tight timeframe, I'd phone rather than email them.
>> The official sites of the various parks always list phone numbers.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>Gov Jon Corzine of NJ is withdrawing funds from several state parks
>including personnel to run them. So, these parks should be very
>secluded indeed.

Same with our beloved California Gobernator, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Calif is in serious deficit, and the Gobernator is proposing to solve
the problem, as usual, on the backs of the less fortunate,
the schools, the parks, medical care -- everything that makes
people's lives a little richer.

Aside: Because the Bushies have whipped up people's "security" fears
-- abetted by the hysterical media -- in order to retain control,
there is now an actual proposal to let people carry concealed weapons
in parks! Picture the shoot-out at the next camp site, while your
children cower in their tent!

Aspasia