Thursday, August 1, 2019

WHAT ARE THE CAMP SITES LIKE AT BLACKWOODS CAMPGROUND?

Over the past several years the National Park Service has been planting more brush to better screen one camp site from the next.  Water faucets spaced throughout the campground, and each camp site has a picnic table and a fire ring.  The Park Service is pretty strict when it comes to leaving a fire burning or smoldering when no one is around the site, as well as campers leaving food out where bear or other animals can be attracted to it - bear sightings are rare but they do happen.  The main animal that could come by your site after dark poking around for food are raccoons.
Rangers will also monitor from a distance, any camp site where it is believed the people staying there might be cutting branches off of living trees, in fact, picking up dead branches from the ground is also forbidden.  Blackwoods Campground usually maintains a large pile of split firewood free for the taking, a quick search of the campground will usually reveal where this large pile of firewood is kept, but  you can also ask another camper if you see one carrying an armful of split firewood.  No matter what campsite you end up in, you will never be very far away from a restroom  with flush toilets and sinks, and these restrooms all have wall outlets where you can charge your electronic devices.  The last I knew there are still pay phones located by the free Island Explorer bus stop there.