Sunday, January 6, 2008 - Gum Springs Campground, Winnfield LA
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Roadside Googling
When I came upon a sign for the Gum Springs Recreation Area I stopped by the entrance and Googled it to see if it might be a good place to stop, that not being immediately obvious from the road. ForestCamping.com describes the primitive camping available here.
That was enough to persuade me to pull in and check it out. Yes indeed, it's a nice quiet little campground, just right for me, so here I am, the lone camper, in little pine forested campground developed by the CCC back in its day. At $1.50 for the night (after my 50% Golden Age Passport discount) not hard to take either. This might be a good spot to catch up on some maintenance without disturbing the neighbors.
Night camp
Gum Springs Campground - Winnfield LA
- This is a primitive campground with no water or electric hookups at the sites and no dump station.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here but I don't remember how strong the signal is.
- Get Kisatchie National Forest camping info
- Find other references to Gum Springs
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather
- Get a Kisatchie National Forest map
- Get a Google map
Emergent democracy
Culture brings us together, usually at a very small scale through mutual belief, trust and common interest. It educes, not compels, behavior. Culture codified is law. It is as inevitable as the day the night that as scale increases, law increases. Law enforced is government. Government does not, in the main, educe behavior, but compels it. Democratic or otherwise, rarely, very rarely, does any concentration of power or wealth desire to see subjects well informed, truly educated, their privacy ensured or their discourse uninhibited. Those are the very things that power and wealth fear most. Old forms of government have every reason to operate in secret, while denying just that privilege to subjects. The people are to be minutely scrutinized while power is to be free of examination.