More Camping Pictures

One of the days that we were camping, we visited another state park that had an "Old Growth" forest - that means that it wasn't cut down during the logging in the late 1800's/early 1900's. When we arrived at the visitor center, there was a guided tour going out in a couple of minutes, so we joined the group. The entire path through this section of the forest was paved to allow for wheelchairs, but it was perfect for the stroller, too. It was really neat to see the old forest and the way the state would have looked without all the logging. Plus, some of the trees were several hundred years old...it was neat to imagine that the tree was around before the U.S. became a country.

There was a logging museum back in the woods that was built by the CCC during the Depression that was very interesting. I had never really thought about the effects of logging in the state. Obviously, we need wood, but they didn't consider the effects of cutting down all the trees in an area. To their credit, they did think that the areas where they logged would then be converted to farmland.

Anyway, we loved this state park...we had lunch down by the playground and drove through the campground. We are planning on camping there next year! I have tons of pictures from this day, so I think I'll just add the forest and logging camp pictures and save the playground pictures for later!
A church in the middle of the "Old Growth" forest

The logging museum. This was a wheel that was invented so they could pull the logs year-round.