Bicyling Only Campgrounds!

[pooks]

My mom, my sister and I are going to Savannah the first week in November and we're going a roundabout way from Dallas -- by driving up the Natchez Trace Parkway from Mississippi into Tennessee. In investigating, I found this info:

http://www.nps.gov/natr/bicyclinghome.htm

Evidently the Natchez Trace Parkway is such a biking destination that they have biking only campgrounds!

Anybody know about this? Or know of others?

[pooks]

http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/p..._id=26783&v=4b

[jobob]

A lot of campgrounds have sites designated as "hiker-biker" sites, which charge significantly lower camping fees than the regular sites, and are meant only for campers who hike or bike into the campground.

But the system along the Natchez Trail described in your link is much more (can't find the word ... elaborate? ) than anything I've seen before. It looks pretty nifty!

[DeniseGoldberg]

In my experience, there are quite a few places that have hiker-biker campsites in normal campgrounds. The cost of these sites is considerably less than the cost for "regular" campsites, and the sites are usually shared by multiple cyclists or hikers. These sites can be found in many national parks in the western US, and the Oregon state park system also has hiker-biker sites. There are probably others as well - if I remember correctly I stayed at at least one park in Washington that had these sites. On the other hand, national parks in Canada didn't seem to have any hiker-biker sites (at least when my bike and I traveled there).

[mimitabby]

I wish they had hiker/biker hotels so i didn't have to sleep on the ground.

[SouthernBelle]

pooks,

I would hazard a guess that you are going to drive right by me. Taking I-40 west to east?

[Bad JuJu]

Hey, Pooks, too bad you're not going there in late November--I'll be in Beaufort, SC (not too far north of Savannah) for Thanksgiving weekend. You'll have to give us a report of how the cycling is in the area.

[pooks]

Bad Juju -- Beaufort! Wave to Tom Berenger while you're there! I haven't been there, but want to go. Prince of Tides is one of my favorite books, and I love Charleston. This will be my first trip to Savannah.

No biking on this trip, alas. We're going in my sister's car and there's no room for a bike.

SouthernBelle -- we're not going I40, unless it's for a short stretch. We're taking some scenic highways. Of course since our goal is Savannah and that's a lot of driving, if the fall colors are totally gone (which they probably will be from what I hear) and we find the rest of the scenery isn't as spectacular without the leaves, we my shorten our trip East by hitting the interstate. Where are you?

I didn't realize hiker/biker camping was so popular. I've always known about camping sites for backpackers, though.

[SouthernBelle]

I'm in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville. In November, the color will be gone.

[KnottedYet]

there are bike-only camp spaces here in the San Juan Islands. I just heard about a private one on Lopez Island that sounds really nice.