Took our baby girl out for her first night of camping (maybe more appropriately we should call it "glamping") at Fort Yargo State Park in Winder, GA. The temperature was forecasted to be a little on the cold side (high of low 50's for the day on Saturday, and upper 30's overnight), but we ventured out anyway. Used our new family camping tent, the Kodiak Canvas Flex Bow VX 10x14. To say the tent is spacious is an understatement. The munchkin had a wonderful time, and loved playing in the gravel/dirt, and being rambunctious as much as she wanted...there were no "indoor voice" warnings given on this trip. Only stayed one night, as the forecast for Sunday morning was cold and rainy...my desire to deal with a wet 80lb canvas tent in temps below 40 was not high, and my wife agreed. The tent stayed decently warm with just the small electric heater--I'd guess mid to upper 60's inside, so perfect for the bundled up munchkin. She woke up about 4am and we brought her over to our mattress with us, where she snuggled and slept a bit longer. Got out for a hike on Saturday morning, which promptly put her to sleep. Strung up a hammock, which both the wife and munchkin enjoyed swinging in. Then played with knives and fire for a bit before finally packing up and heading out later in the day on Saturday.
Awesome pictures Martin... I love Fort Yargo, they do an awesome job keeping the park nice and clean.
Getting her out early, and surrounded by some good knives! Way to go! A buddy I work with is originally from Winder. I hear it's pretty good for most outdoor pursuits.
Winder should have kept it' original name. Jug Tavern. Cracks me up. Haven't been to Fort Yargo in probably 20 years. Even though I live like 20 minutes from it. How were the camp sites? Clean, lots of people?
Yes Sir. I was born and raised just this side of Stone Mountain and moved from Gwinnett and out this direction 5 years ago.
The camp sites are always super clean and pretty busy on weekends until it gets cold. They’ve built new outhouses and the park uses a lot of community service people to keep the entire park clean and well groomed.
^^Yep, what he said. Fort Yargo is our local, don't have to work too hard to get to it, but always nice to get away and feel like you're separated from the hustle and bustle, with amenities still nearby go to park for camping. We usually stay at the walk-in sites, as they're no more than about 50 yards from parking or so, so easy to haul all the gear to even for "car-camping", but this time we opted for an RV site to have the power hookup and water right there just in case. We snagged an end site too, so only had neighbors in one direction, which was nice.
It's a damn nice tent. And a lot of it too. I was initially worried it might not be big enough, but the first time I set it up that idea was easily dismissed...it's massive. And it's very nice not to have to crawl around inside, or be hunched over all the time too.
We took the family and dog to Yargo last weekend to walk the trails. Still a lot of damage from the storm it seems but still a nice local getaway.
