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  • Yellowstone River drive
  • Yellowstone National Park,
  • beautiful river, some rapids right outside the lake outlet

  • Jumbo Rocks Campground
  • Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree CA
  • Sites sprinkled around giant rocks. Nice little 1.7 mile loop trail. Beautiful, restful place, even when crowded.

  • Baker Creek Campground
  • Great Basin National Park, Baker NV
  • Never been here because it involves three miles of gravel road while the others are off paved road. My verdict: not worth it. Nice little creek, but very dusty, and sites are NOT level.

  • Summit Lake North Campground
  • Lassen National Park, Old Station CA
  • Lovely spot at 7,000'-ish on the north side of a little alpine lake. On the south side is Summit Lake South Campground. This one is $2 more, but well worth it, a much nicer campground. B Loop is reservable, A Loop is first come first served. There's a lake to swim in or just admire and you're in an awesome place!

  • Indian Creek Campground
  • Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner WY
  • Very average campground except that it's in Yellowstone.

  • Lava Beds Campground
  • Lava Beds National Park, Tulelake CA
  • Really nice place, quiet and well maintained and a beautiful situation, on the side of a high hill overlooking a huge, arid valley. Wildlife refuges right down the hill.

  • Toulumne Meadows Campground
  • Yosemite National Park, Lee Vining, CA
  • At 9,300', so a short season. A dusty, cramped, low-amenity national park campground that's in a REALLY cool place.

  • Two Medicine Campground
  • Glacier National Park, East Glacier MT
  • Typical National Park campground, the parking pads aren't even close to level, the roads are very rough, but they're amazingly low cost and you are in a spectacular place! This is the place you go when you know the main part of the park will be full by 11. At the east end of gorgeous Two Medicine Lake, spectacular mountains all around.

  • Summit Lake South Campground
  • Lassen National Park, Old Station CA
  • Lovely spot at 7,000'-ish on the south side of a little alpine lake. On the north side is Summit Lake North Campground which costs $2/night more. It has flush toilets and sinks with running water. It has the shambling, kinda charming disorganization I associate with National Park campgrounds. Sites are not very level, but there's a lake to swim in and you're in an awesome place!

  • Sunset Campground
  • Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon City UT
  • The campground itself is kinda noisy, but it's a better camping experience than Yellowstone, because you can walk to the lodge and the canyon rim.

  • Wilderness Road Campground
  • Cumberland Gap National Park, Middlesboro KY
  • Very handy campground on the Virginia side of Cumberland Gap. You drive a while off the highway to get here, but you're really just looping around to be right by the highway again, so there is road noise.

  • Wheeler Peak Campground
  • Great Basin National Park, Baker NV
  • Almost 10,000', peak views, good day hikes. A beautiful spot.

  • Crags Campground
  • Lassen Volcanic National Park, Old Station CA
  • Very quiet, there is absolutely nothing special going on here - a welcome relief after the busy-ness of the park. Spacious, in the "giant ponderosas with no undergrowth" ecozone.

  • Congaree Campground
  • Congaree National Park, Columbia SC
  • merely the gravel parking lot for the tent camping ... not much in the way of amenities, but the park si very cool

  • Furnace Creek Campground
  • Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek CA
  • Juniper Campground
  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Watford City ND
  • The is the campground of the North Unit of the TRNP. It's quite pleasant.

  • Gros Ventre Campground
  • Grand Teton National Park, Jackson WY
  • convenient to Jackson, and very pretty in it's own right, also very large.

  • Manzanita Lake Campground
  • Lassen Volcanic National Park, Old Station CA
  • My campsite karma failed tonight, and I am 40 feet away from overweight theater troupe, who act as if they've never been out of the city before and are being very, very loud very late into the evening. Elevation 5900', so it's pleasantly cool here, even while Redding, 50 miles west and 5500' lower is hitting 101.

  • Lower Geyser Basin
  • Yellowstone National Park,
  • awesome geysers, very hot day today

  • Big Meadows Campground
  • Shenandoah National Park, Luray VA
  • The campground is quite nice by western National Park standards. It isn't very exciting per se, but the greater CCC-built Big Meadows complex and Skyline Drive is awesome! The lodge, the trails, the trail signs all have that 1930's feel to them. I love it.

  • White Tanks Campground
  • Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree CA
  • quiet, pretty rocks like in the old westerns, big rocks give you privacy