Early camping at OSH?

[Jay Honeck]

Mary just had an interesting idea.

The grounds are now open for campers in OSH, right? Does anyone know
if this includes the North 40, or is it only open to car camping now?

If the North 40 is open for campers, we could fly up there next
Wednesday, pitch a crappy old tent (to mark our site), and just leave
it there till OSH starts. This would ensure a terrific campsite for
the rec.aviation HOPS party!

I have no idea what they would charge to camp before the show opens.
(And, of course, we would no longer be parked together in the North
40...) Knowing EAA, probably the same "arm & leg" they charge
*during* the show, which would make it cost-prohibitive, but...

Anyone know if the North 40 is open, and what it costs this early?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Patfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Jim Burns]

I flew over OSH today. No sign of human life north of Camp Scholar (sp?)
and I honestly couldn't tell of much activity in that area either. Grass is
mowed, looks nice, but no sign of anything else. Lots of local air traffic
at OSH today.

Huge country music fest just west of OSH. Lots of big tents, parking lots
were full, and a huge crowd of ant like peoples swarming the stage.
Jim

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
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> Mary just had an interesting idea.
>
> The grounds are now open for campers in OSH, right? Does anyone know
> if this includes the North 40, or is it only open to car camping now?
>
> If the North 40 is open for campers, we could fly up there next
> Wednesday, pitch a crappy old tent (to mark our site), and just leave
> it there till OSH starts. This would ensure a terrific campsite for
> the rec.aviation HOPS party!
>
> I have no idea what they would charge to camp before the show opens.
> (And, of course, we would no longer be parked together in the North
> 40...) Knowing EAA, probably the same "arm & leg" they charge
> *during* the show, which would make it cost-prohibitive, but...
>
> Anyone know if the North 40 is open, and what it costs this early?
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Patfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>

[Paul Dow (Remove CAPS in address)]

On their Planning Guide
http://www.airventure.org/2007/planning/07planning_guide.pdf it lists
all the camp grounds together, then the next line says "Camp opens June
22." No distinction between locations, I'd figure they're open.

However, since there's so many days until show time, there's a lot of
nineteen dollars between now and then.

Jay Honeck wrote:
> Mary just had an interesting idea.
>
> The grounds are now open for campers in OSH, right? Does anyone know
> if this includes the North 40, or is it only open to car camping now?
>
> If the North 40 is open for campers, we could fly up there next
> Wednesday, pitch a crappy old tent (to mark our site), and just leave
> it there till OSH starts. This would ensure a terrific campsite for
> the rec.aviation HOPS party!
>
> I have no idea what they would charge to camp before the show opens.
> (And, of course, we would no longer be parked together in the North
> 40...) Knowing EAA, probably the same "arm & leg" they charge
> *during* the show, which would make it cost-prohibitive, but...
>
> Anyone know if the North 40 is open, and what it costs this early?
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Patfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>

[Jack Allison]

....but...getting to said location the Sunday before the show would
likely be problamatic since they're going to want to park folks in the
N-40 on a first come/first serve/next space available basis.

[Margy Natalie]

Jack Allison wrote:
> ...but...getting to said location the Sunday before the show would
> likely be problamatic since they're going to want to park folks in the
> N-40 on a first come/first serve/next space available basis.
The way it's done in Vintage is folks come in early (the weekend before
should work fine) and pay for their camping (same price) put in
tie-downs and mark their spot WELL (try orange tape connecting the
tie-downs). When you get to OSH during the show have a sign with your
ROW NUMBER on it. If the aircraft parkers know what they are doing they
know where those reserved spaces are.

Margy