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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Grant Village Campground
  • Yellowstone National Park, Grant Village WY
  • Huge, the overflow lot for the Yellowstone camping system. Annoying check-in procedure where you wait in a long line to be assigned one of 300-something spots by a functionary who does nothing but that all day.

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

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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
  • Morefield Campground
  • Mesa Verde National Park, Cortez CO
  • National park campgrounds with check in are the worst. The campground is by definition huge, or else they wouldn't pay a staff to check you in. It takes forever because they have to explain the world to each and every guest and it creates a high stress level that is the opposite of what you're there for. However ... once that's over, it's a nice campground! There three different hikes to take from the valley where the campground is back up to the mesa. There are free showers, wifi and food at the check-in place, which is pretty far from the campsites.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Guadaloupe Mountains NP
  • National Park, Carlsbad NM
  • Your two choices are tent camping and parking lot. It's a small lot, and everybody but me was running their generators till 10. Whatever is special and interesting about this park is not apparent from the road.

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

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