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It's summertime, and camping is in the plans for many Summit County residents. To decide where to camp, the Summit County Library has such resources as “Camping Colorado” by Melinda Crow. This book divides the state into regions and includes both commercial and public campgrounds, as well as RV parks in each area. Fees, available activities, reservation contacts and directions are provided for each campground.
Martin Kleinsorge's “Exploring Colorado State Parks” lists each state park with photographs, along with maps, a detailed description, and permit, fee and reservation information. In the “Guide to Colorado State Wildlife Areas,” Dennis McKinney informs the reader which spots allow camping and what facilities are available. McKinney's color photographs will entice you to visit many of these areas.
If you're looking to venture out of state, check out “Woodall's North American Campground Directory.” This annual publication includes Canada and Mexico, giving driving directions with GPS coordinates and maps. Children's activities, such as pony rides, and other recreational activities such as swimming, hiking and biking, are listed for each site.
The library also stocks such references as “Frommer's Best RV & Tent Campgrounds in the U.S.A.” and “Trailer Life RV Parks, Campgrounds & Services Directory” for those who like to take a bit of the comfort of home with them. Rates, hook-ups and facilities are detailed in each book. “Frommer's” includes “candid ratings for beauty, quiet, privacy, security and amenities.” “RV Vacations for Dummies” by Shirley Slater and Harry Basch boasts practical traveling advice, 14 best drive trips throughout the country and detailed maps.
Whether you're backpacking, driving to a campsite or RVing, Lynn Haney's “Camping in Comfort: A Guide to Roughing It with Ease and Style” should be on every camper's reading list. Haney discusses the required gear, such as tents, sleeping bags, pads, backpacks, clothing and footwear. One chapter deals solely with safety in the face of insects, wild animals, dehydration, illness, lightning and getting lost. The author lists recommended contents of a first aid kit. Bicycle and boat camping are discussed in addition to the all-important camp cooking.
Speaking of camp cooking, Fred Bouwman has written a book with that title: “Camp Cooking: A Practical Handbook.” Besides describing different types of cooking in the outdoors, Bouwman recommends cookware and utensils to bring along, relates how to pack cookware and food and includes safety tips. His recipes are mostly for game, birds and fish campers can snare for themselves in the wild. Foraging for edible plants is covered to include dandelions and cattails, as well as berries and mushrooms.
“The Great American Camping Cookbook” by Scott Cookman, writer for “Field & Stream,” specializes in “fresh, delectable ‘comfort foods' of the good old days.” There is “easy-to-follow advice on making perfect camp coffee and camp breads, calculating food portions and composing provisions lists to assure variety and avoid forgotten essentials.” This guide is interspersed with accounts of camp cooking history such as “Eating with Daniel Boone” and “Cowboy Cooks and Cooking.” You'll find that cowboys enjoyed such delicacies as “spatter dabs,” “huck dummy,” “boggy-top pie” and a potato recipe called “prairie pickles.”
If you're still hungry, authors Yvonne Prater and Ruth Dyar Mendenhall with Kerry I. Smith offer “Beyond Gorp: Favorite Foods from Outdoor Experts.” Foil Stew is a recipe from REI founders Lloyd and Mary Anderson. Chris Townsend, author of “The Advanced Backpacker,” recommends Ooey-Gooey Flapjacks, a British high-energy sweet cookie, as an alternative to packing commercial high-energy bars. Each recipe is accompanied by biographical information about the outdoor expert, providing inspiration to the adventurous.
Stop in at your local library to research your next camping trip. You're bound to learn something new. Enchantment Granola anyone?
Martin Kleinsorge's “Exploring Colorado State Parks” lists each state park with photographs, along with maps, a detailed description, and permit, fee and reservation information. In the “Guide to Colorado State Wildlife Areas,” Dennis McKinney informs the reader which spots allow camping and what facilities are available. McKinney's color photographs will entice you to visit many of these areas.
If you're looking to venture out of state, check out “Woodall's North American Campground Directory.” This annual publication includes Canada and Mexico, giving driving directions with GPS coordinates and maps. Children's activities, such as pony rides, and other recreational activities such as swimming, hiking and biking, are listed for each site.
The library also stocks such references as “Frommer's Best RV & Tent Campgrounds in the U.S.A.” and “Trailer Life RV Parks, Campgrounds & Services Directory” for those who like to take a bit of the comfort of home with them. Rates, hook-ups and facilities are detailed in each book. “Frommer's” includes “candid ratings for beauty, quiet, privacy, security and amenities.” “RV Vacations for Dummies” by Shirley Slater and Harry Basch boasts practical traveling advice, 14 best drive trips throughout the country and detailed maps.
Whether you're backpacking, driving to a campsite or RVing, Lynn Haney's “Camping in Comfort: A Guide to Roughing It with Ease and Style” should be on every camper's reading list. Haney discusses the required gear, such as tents, sleeping bags, pads, backpacks, clothing and footwear. One chapter deals solely with safety in the face of insects, wild animals, dehydration, illness, lightning and getting lost. The author lists recommended contents of a first aid kit. Bicycle and boat camping are discussed in addition to the all-important camp cooking.
Speaking of camp cooking, Fred Bouwman has written a book with that title: “Camp Cooking: A Practical Handbook.” Besides describing different types of cooking in the outdoors, Bouwman recommends cookware and utensils to bring along, relates how to pack cookware and food and includes safety tips. His recipes are mostly for game, birds and fish campers can snare for themselves in the wild. Foraging for edible plants is covered to include dandelions and cattails, as well as berries and mushrooms.
“The Great American Camping Cookbook” by Scott Cookman, writer for “Field & Stream,” specializes in “fresh, delectable ‘comfort foods' of the good old days.” There is “easy-to-follow advice on making perfect camp coffee and camp breads, calculating food portions and composing provisions lists to assure variety and avoid forgotten essentials.” This guide is interspersed with accounts of camp cooking history such as “Eating with Daniel Boone” and “Cowboy Cooks and Cooking.” You'll find that cowboys enjoyed such delicacies as “spatter dabs,” “huck dummy,” “boggy-top pie” and a potato recipe called “prairie pickles.”
If you're still hungry, authors Yvonne Prater and Ruth Dyar Mendenhall with Kerry I. Smith offer “Beyond Gorp: Favorite Foods from Outdoor Experts.” Foil Stew is a recipe from REI founders Lloyd and Mary Anderson. Chris Townsend, author of “The Advanced Backpacker,” recommends Ooey-Gooey Flapjacks, a British high-energy sweet cookie, as an alternative to packing commercial high-energy bars. Each recipe is accompanied by biographical information about the outdoor expert, providing inspiration to the adventurous.
Stop in at your local library to research your next camping trip. You're bound to learn something new. Enchantment Granola anyone?
