Season 6 - Camping #4 - Moonshine Park

Moonshine Park

Starting Location: Our Campsite A18

Point of Interest : views, waterfall

Length of hike: .2 mile loop

Level: Easy - paved trail until going down to the river

Bathrooms: yes, flush, clean, with showers (free)

Parking: Day Use or at campsite

EV Chargers:  No

Firewood: yes $7 a bundle


This is our 3rd year camping at Moonshine. We had family join us for this weekend.

We don't have room for firewood anymore, although we've stopped bringing firewood camping due to the issue of introducing insects to a new environment.

In any case, we got wood for our fires.
While we were there, one of the campers was making gigantic bubbles in the meadow by the group camping area. They got really big, and lasted a long time. Some of them got across the creek.

Our old floaties were not working anymore, so we got some new ones. These are really comfy for floating in a calm river like here at Moonshine.
We managed to play a few games of Spot. The weather got a bit misty on our last day, so this was how we kept busy.

I won.
The best part was sitting around the fire in the evening with family, just talking, making s'mores and popcorn.


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