Why This Blog

Before I was five years of age I have camped with my family. Camping in one form or another has continued throughout my marriage to Evie. We both enjoy spending time in the woods, observing and listening to nature and cooking the evening meal over the fire.

Years spent under canvas upon the ground eventually gave way to our purchase of a small pop-up. Eight years later that small pop-up was traded in for an even larger one which itself gave way six years later to a Class C Motor Home. We are looking forward to many many years of camping in our larger RV.

Over the years we have traveled and stayed in over 100 different campgrounds across the United States and Canada. We have gathered notes on most campgrounds we have visited, even putting them into a database. Some campgrounds we have visited several times and would visit again. Others, a stay for one night was more than enough.

Over the years family and friends who enjoy camping ask what campgrounds we have liked and why. This blog is intended as a place for us to inform them of recent and past campgrounds visited, provide a brief impression of the campgrounds. We do not claim to be professional campground evaluators. We are just campers with opinions and who are willing to offer their personal preferences.

The blog can also serve as a place for others who are campers who stumble upon this blog and who wish to add their comments on a particular campground…the degree to which they would agree or disagree. We would also be interested recommendations on quality campgrounds to visit in the general area of the campgrounds we have noted on the site.

We will attempt to use the same matrix each time. Our rating formulas have four elements, with a slight skewing could take place because of a campgrounds outstanding location/setting or the quality of the recreation at hand.

Following is one campground which we consider as in the top ten we have visited. In the coming days we will be posting other campgrounds, normally two or three at a time.

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Campground: Kentucky Horse Park

Location: Lexington, Kentucky – about 10 miles N of I 75

Overall Rating: A-

Setting Rating: A-
(Rolling hills and horse farms. Located beside the Kentucky Horse Park)

Site Rating: A
(Level paved pads back-in pads, full-service, good sized, part shade, well grassed, good size fire pits)

Washroom Rating: A
(Good sized central washrooms, good sized showers, well maintained)

Recreation Rating: B+
(Large pool with lifeguards, pool hours end early evening, could use more deck furniture, little shade around pool, basketball courts, lighted tennis courts, horse park next door has horseback riding, basic playground)

Conclusion: A quiet park that we would be pleased to visit again for up to a week. It is a lovely place to relax and put one's feet up while reading a good book.