Sam Owen NFS Camp – Lake Pend Oreille – Hope, Idaho
Drove some crazy roads in search of a secluded forest camp and ended up the last place we wanted to be, an expensive, crowded NFS campground. With gas so expensive and us getting just 7MPG we have learned not to drive too far out of the way in search of a “Cheap” camp. Plus we wanted to stay in the area until tomorrow.
Everywhere we go are signs warning about bear danger! But this campground had recently made inkjet signs with a cell phone pic of a bear, that had been sited in the campground that weekend, we are still kicking ourselves for not taking a picture of it.
This campground is run by vendors, lots of rules, clean bathrooms, the most unlevel spot we ever saw (#29), and after charging $22 for camping, they have a boot on the RV dump that you need a credit card with $7 to use – that is the most expensive price we have seen to dump in all of RV friendly Idaho, usually they are free in the town center. Tourist trap.
Camp song: “Money Wont – Brendan MacFarlane”
Cost: $ 11 with access pass $22 without!
RV/Camping: Either
Phone T-Mobile: Zero
Internet Verizon: 2 bars 3G with antenna
Noise: Lotsa people – but mellow families
Restrooms: Flush – no electrical receptacles
Electric: No
Water: Yes, carry back to camp
Dump: Get out your credit card!!!
Trash: Yes
Note: Lakeside
Location: N48.2180°, W116.2882°
Elevation: 2809 feet
Outside of Hope, Id on east side of Lake Pend Oreille
Nights Stayed: June 24th 2014
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nice song. lousy expensive campground. i didnt realize you got such low gas mileage. how many gal is your tank? way back before Moscow i was wondering about Moscow; now im wondering about Canada. going? i know, stay tuned. but i cant wait, Dad.
You should google the video of the song, I think you will like that more, maybe just your style :]
We think our gas tank is abt 25 gallons, we found out the hard way that the gas gauge doesn’t work, we write down the mileage every time we fill and then fill back up before we get 200 miles down the road, which means we spend a bunch of time in gas stations :D
We have $325 in the budget for gas for the month, we been paying about $3.60 a gal for the last couple months so we are supposed to keep our travels down to about 6-700 miles a month, think about that! Not very far, when we drove to Keris for Christmas in 2004 in our Suburban we felt like we were crawling doing 500 miles a day LOL