Friday, May 14, 2010 - Rough River State Park, Falls of Rough KY
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Milkweed, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010
Night camp
Site 35 - Rough River State Park, Falls of Rough KY
- Rough River State Park is a small park located at the foot of the Rough River Reservoir dam. TMost sites offer 30 AMP electric and water. There is a dump station and nice facilities with a small laundry.
- There is no Verizon cell phone or EVDO service
- Find Rough River State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
They do not Intrude on Each Other
The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987