What is a good place to go camping in Northern Wisconsin?

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don

I am looking into going on a fishing trip with 5 of my friends in Northern Wisconsin, near its boarder with the upper peninsula of Michigan. We want to find a campground where our tents would not be right next to the neighboring campsite. We don't have to be stranded in the wilderness, just a camp ground that isn't packed together. Also any information about renting canoes would be helpful!!

Thank you so much!!

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Three locations come to mind. The ideal location is Sylvania Wilderness Area chain of lakes at Watersmeet, Michigan, with canoe rentals in Watersmeet. Two other locations are Chequamegon National Forest and Nicolet National Forest.

How to get to the Mississippi Palisades?

Shabuja

My friend and I are trying to plan a camping trip out to the Mississippi Palisades in Northwestern Illinois, but we do not have access to a car as we do not yet have our licenses. Does anyone know of a way to get there by bus or train, or if there is any good camping in the area that is accessible by those methods. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

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Where do you leave from is the big question?
contact the Galena/Jo Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau (720 Park Ave.; 877.464.2536/815.777.3557

Mississippi Palisades State Park (16327A State Highway 84; 815.273.2731), established in 1929, is another spectacular park along the Mississippi River. The park has a few Indian burial mounds, several overlooks, and an extensive trail network. A short hike on the Indian Head trail, leads to a spectacular view of the Mississippi Valley. Please be careful. Itâs a long fall. If you are the adventure sport type, this is one of the few public parks along the Upper Miss where rappelling is allowed. Call the office for a list of bluffs where it is OK.

Camping. If you are boating through the area, primitive camping at any island in the river is fine with the folks who run the Upper Miss Refuge (800.877.8339). Winterâs Spring Lake Resort (8048A State Highway 84 South; 815.273.4595; open May 1 to Oct 1) is a few miles south of Savanna and situated along Spring Lake (go figure!) which connects to the main channel; it has about 50 sites with water and electric, plus 20 or so tent sites on a peninsula next to the lake; no showers. Seven Eagles Campground & Resort (9734 State Highway 84; 815.273.7301; open Memorial Dayâmid-October) is tucked between Frog Pond and Spring Lake along the River Road; they have 73 sites with full hookups. Mississippi Palisades State Park (815.273.2731) has 241 campsites, many well-shaded, including several primitive sites that are accessed only by a 1½ mile hike.

Try posting on rides wanted or Craigs List?

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Best place to go tent camping right now?

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Ms. W

I live in northern illinois and i'm just tired of the cold weather. I don't have a lot of money but I just need to go somewhere warm. Camping is cheaper than staying at a hotel and I do love nature and away from everyday noise. can someone please give me some input. thanks!

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Go tent camping on the beach, if you can make the drive. I took a roadtrip from Iowa to North Carolina with some friends in March years ago and we camped on the beach. It was a campsite on the North Carolina/South Carolina border. I don't remember the name offhand.

I've also camped on Assateague Island in Maryland/Virginia. Another beautiful place. Camping on the beach is great.

If you can't go far, look into somewhere further south. Arkansas has some beautiful outdoor spots. But, really, anywhere south will be fine. It all depends on how far you can go and how much you can spend.

Play around on GORP's website a little and see if you can find a place to escape to: http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/main.htm

What did women do during the gold rush?

MaRiLYn <3

For example, what did they cook?
also, what did the women who were bartenders wear?

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Women were still mostly expected to not get involved and many of the earliest Gold Camps were all male domains. When women did get involved they did the grudge work: washing clothes and cooking and cooking during that era was labor intensive. In the crudest of camps one pot meals were the norm that meant one big pot, lots of water and the women or men would chop up meat and limited veggies (mostly potato and parsnips and turnips) into a cast iron pot and boil it all. I am tiored and weary so see link beow for Pioneer Cooking.
The other use for the few women in camp was for sex an activity out of fashion in 2010 but back then it was recognized as a normal human function.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#pioneer
""Food historians confirm average '49ers did not cook. These male-dominated make-shift communities were served by a variety of inexpensive public eateries.

"Neither Kenoffel's Spokane Cafe nor Truax's English Kitchen claimed, as so many miners' restaurants did, to be the "one and only," the old original "Delmonico's of the West," "only beter." Like the large majority of mining camp eating houses, they unpretentiously provided ordinary everyday all-American meals fo bacons and eggs, soups, stews, steaks, roast beef, chops, potatoes, --and almost always oysters, of course--and the like for reasonable prices. There never was a day on which an argonaut could not get a substantial fill in San Francisco for a dollar. A full meal in Virginia City could run as little as fifty cents, one dollar for both breakfast and dinner if paid in advance. In rawer camps like Telluride, one-dollar to two-fifty-a-plate was the list price...Saddle Rock Restaurant advertised a dinner for a quarter. The mining towns teemed with cheap eateries. In fact, San Francisco and the rawest camps of the Sierra slope teammed with homey eating houses (or tents). They were "numerious, plentious, inviting and even cheap." Restaurants were among the very first businesses at the scene of every strike. Keeping a public tables was one of the first nonmining occupations to be found in a hundred "No Name cities." A "restaurant rush" followed closely on--when it did not lead in!-- the provisions rush. There are more than a few examples of "starving" forty-niners and Pike's Peakers who allayed their famine not by grubbing on wild plants, snaring beasts, seeking charity, or by fortuitiously buying a sack of flour, but by throwing their weary legs under a table at a not-too-distant restaurant. The reason for this is not obscure. In a society in which domestic cooking remaied woman's work, the first flood of population in every mining region was overwhelmingly male...'There was no such thing as a home to be found. Scarcely even a proper house could be seen. Both dwellings and places fo busines were tiher common canvas tents, or small rough board shanties, for frame buildings of one story...Meals were taken at eating houses, of which there was an immense number in every protion of the town. They were of every descrption, good, bad, and indifferent, and kept by every variety of people...'"
---Bacon, Beans, and Galantines: Food and Foodways on the Western Mining Frontier, (p. 152-153)
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