Mid-west Fly-in camping?

Every year, since his feet could reach the pegs, my son and I have done a
motorcycle camping trip together.

This year, at age 13, his feet can comfortably reach the rudder pedals -- so
now we're talking about doing a flying/camping trip, too.

Can anyone suggest a fly-in campground within, say 500 miles of Iowa City?
I know of a few in Kentucky (Kentucky Dam and Lake Barkley), and one in
Missouri (Gaston's Resort) -- but can anyone recommend any of these (or
others) in particular?

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Every year, since his feet could reach the pegs, my son and I have done a
motorcycle camping trip together.

This year, at age 13, his feet can comfortably reach the rudder pedals --
so
now we're talking about doing a flying/camping trip, too.

Can anyone suggest a fly-in campground within, say 500 miles of Iowa City?
I know of a few in Kentucky (Kentucky Dam and Lake Barkley), and one in
Missouri (Gaston's Resort) -- but can anyone recommend any of these (or
others) in particular?

Come on out to Schafer Meadows(8U2) July 16-18 and help the Montana Pilots
Assoc maintain this airstrip. It is the only strip we have in Montana that
is actually in the Wilderness area(Poor planning on our part when Wilderness
areas were invented) You'll work about three hours on Saturday morning,
it's pretty easy since there are way too many workers for the amount of
work. It's really a two and a half day party. We will feed you Saturday
night. The owner of one of the FBO's in Great Falls flies in the dinner
with several trips in his 310. Last year he flew in 250 pounds of ribs from
Famous Daves, along with 3 Famous Daves employees to cook and serve it all.
We had steaks one year, burgers another, shrimp and lobster another. You
never know what you're going to get. Bring your swimsuits and your fishing
poles. You won't find better looking scenery anywhere. It's an easy
mountain strip as it is only a couple of ridge lines into the mountains.
Granted it's twice as far as you're looking to go but I can absolutely
guarantee perfect weather once you are west of the Missouri.

Granted it's twice as far as you're looking to go but I can absolutely
guarantee perfect weather once you are west of the Missouri.

Wow -- now THAT is a tall claim!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Granted it's twice as far as you're looking to go but I can absolutely
guarantee perfect weather once you are west of the Missouri.

Wow -- now THAT is a tall claim!



Every day, from approx June 15 to October 1 has perfect flying weather.
Clear to partly cloudy, light winds. The occasional T-storm in the
afternoon.

"Newps" wrote in message ...

Every day, from approx June 15 to October 1 has perfect flying weather.
Clear to partly cloudy, light winds. The occasional T-storm in the
afternoon.

I was at Schafer in '99 a few days before the fly-in. It snowed! I
also got snowed on the 1st week of Sept. in '02.

I'll agree that the weather is usually pretty good. But, I've been
socked in/out of Schafer a few times in the last couple of years.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

In article ,
Newps wrote:
Come on out to Schafer Meadows(8U2) July 16-18 and help the Montana Pilots
Assoc maintain this airstrip.

That's great! I was looking for an excuse to go to 8U2. The picture of
it on airnav is gorgeous.

Is there a web page about this flyin? Should we bring rakes, shovels,
etc?

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

your not kidding, that would be a nice place to fly to.

your montana and wyoming guys should post some pics of montana from the air.


Ben Jackson wrote:

In article ,
Newps wrote:
Come on out to Schafer Meadows(8U2) July 16-18 and help the Montana Pilots
Assoc maintain this airstrip.

That's great! I was looking for an excuse to go to 8U2. The picture of
it on airnav is gorgeous.

Is there a web page about this flyin? Should we bring rakes, shovels,
etc?

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

Jeff wrote in message ...
your not kidding, that would be a nice place to fly to.

your montana and wyoming guys should post some pics of montana from the air.



I had a Schafer page on my website, but had to take the site down
while I used the space for something else. I'll be putting it back up
today or tomorrow and I'll post a link. I've also got a cool
quicktime movie of an approach to landing at Schafer. Haven't yet
figured out how to fit it on my tiny website.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

In article , John
Galban wrote:

I had a Schafer page on my website, but had to take the site down
while I used the space for something else. I'll be putting it back up
today or tomorrow and I'll post a link. I've also got a cool
quicktime movie of an approach to landing at Schafer. Haven't yet
figured out how to fit it on my tiny website.

Email it to Jay, he'll post it.

"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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In article ,
Newps wrote:
Come on out to Schafer Meadows(8U2) July 16-18 and help the Montana
Pilots
Assoc maintain this airstrip.

That's great! I was looking for an excuse to go to 8U2. The picture of
it on airnav is gorgeous.

Is there a web page about this flyin? Should we bring rakes, shovels,
etc?


The Forest Service has all the tools we need. Ever hand peeled a log to use
it as a fence rail? You can on this weekend if you want. The web page I
have is just a calender from the MPA. We get people from all over at this
work session. There's usually about 50-60 people.


http://www.montanapilots.org/calendar.html