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McKinney Campground – 100
04.03.24-04.07.24 You can still get great campsites at the last minute! We know this first hand. McKinney Campground is located in Acworth, Ga on Lake Allatoona. A Bartow County park, it has 150 RV campsites, two beaches, one playground, and a boat ramp. We have camped at McKinney seventeen times; it’s our go-to campground, nine miles from home. To help you choose your next reservation, details and photos from all of our previous visits can be found by site number in the McKinney Campground category. Directions on how to book at McKinney Campground are at the end of this blog post. We were originally scheduled to go to another park for the…
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Peragon Truck Bed Cover
We have had our Colorado Z71 2.8L Turbo Diesel for eight years and it has been a great truck, even as our family started to grow. With the birth of our son and the addition of a second car seat to the truck we started to feel some space constraints when it came to traveling or even grocery shopping. A bed cover is the ideal addition if you need to gain a significant amount of space. It will help with our travels and shopping trips where secure storage is needed. Our must-haves for a bed cover are for it to be solid/durable, retractable, and include a lock. One of the…
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Fort Mountain State Park- Cottage 1
10.27.23-10.29.23 Picked up a cancellation for the best cabin at Fort Mountain State Park. We got so lucky! Fort Mountain State Park is located in the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Georgia. The park’s main attraction is the epic overlooks with views of the North Georgia mountains. At the top of the mountain hikers will find a stone fire tower built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, open for tours on the weekends. The park includes a 17-acre lake with paddle boats to rent in the summer, a sand beach, and a putt-putt course. The State Park offers a fully stocked visitors center with plenty of ice and firewood. No cell…
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Fort Mountain State Park – 13
10.27.23-10.29.23 Halloween festivities and peak fall colors in the North Georgia mountains made for a perfect weekend! The volunteer organization, Friends of Fort Mountain State Park hosted Halloween festivities the weekend before Halloween. This was their second time hosting the event at the park and hopefully it will grow each year. The event was promoted through Facebook and the volunteers even reached out by phone to let campers with reservations know what was happening. We participated by decorating our campsite, taking our kids trick or treating, passing out candy at our site, and enjoying the hayride. The hayride was $20 per family or $5 per person. The Friends of Fort…
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McKinney Campground – 56 & 55
10.13.23-10.15.23 After sixteen camping trips to McKinney Campground COE we finally spent a weekend in a campsite we would NOT want to book again. McKinney Campground is located in Acworth, Ga on Lake Allatoona. A Bartow County park, it has 150 RV campsites, two beaches, one playground, and a boat ramp. We have camped at McKinney fifteen times; it’s our go-to campground, nine miles from home. To help you choose your next reservation, details and photos from all of our previous visits can be found in the McKinney Campground category. The campground was completely booked when we decided we wanted to venture out (close to home) for our first camping…