Not too bad, a typical campground in the trees. Sites were sort of close together. Showers sucked. I should have taken pictures of the lake, which seems nice, but we didn't really spend too much time there. We got the sites at the last minute, so we had to change midway through and neither was right on the lake. Some others were.
Actually, we did eat at the snack bar on the lake front several nights, as we didn't have time or inclination to cook. It was on a beach with sand (that I assume was imported). Nice family area for swimming. According to Shelly, some of the young ladies should be wearing swim suits with more coverage. There were also boat launches and lots of folks fishing.
On Sunday we drove up through the Adirondacks to the Adirondack Experience Museum. Well worth it: Lots of art, displays of boats, and the businesses and people of the Adirondacks. We made a day of it, and barely saw everything. This exhibit was of particular interest
I guess the folks who built it lived in the Adirondacks, and maybe took it to other places. Makes me think we could donate ours to a East Mountains New Mexico museum someday!
In the 70's, my family rented a cabin for two weeks each Summer in the Eastern Adirondacks. It is much as I remember it. For fun Shelly and I imagined living there, but found home prices on lake fronts are not in our budget. If you don't live on water in the Adirondacks you live in the mountains, and we already have that in New Mexico, minus a few feet of snow in the Winter.
Monday afternoon, we completed our business and had a few hours so we explored Fort Stanwix National Historic Site.
I don't remember that from when I was growing up, so I asked the ranger and he said they rebuilt it during the bicentenial. (The excuse was it may have been the first place to use the Betsy Ross flag, but most historians now disagree. But they got the money to rebuild and restore.) My family went to visit Fort Ontario, maybe 45 minutes further north, on the lake, sometime before 1976, and really, there isn't much history to be learned from one vs the other.
I do like their wood shop
My home made shaving horse looks more like the one further back.
On Tuesday we drove over to Rochester and picked up a 7x12 benchtop metal lathe gifted by a family member. Now we have to somehow find room in the truck to get it back to New Mexico, and learn how to use it. I think it's a nice complement to the milling machine I don't yet own.
Tom