RVing With Dogs

Even though state parks are one of our favorite places to RV. Most of the time on a long trip, we don't try to find state parks. They are usually a little too far off the highway and down a winding road and up a steep hill and around the bend. But, we were around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and we couldn't find a campground for the life of us.

Soooo, I called the local Chamber of Commerce and they sent me to Francis Slocum State park in Wilkes-Barre, PA. We got off the highway, took a 14 mile expressway, went on a nieighborhood road for 4 miles, turned onto a winding wooded road for 2 miles and we got to the park! But, that was only the beginning, we then had to go down a really scary hill around a corner, over a causeway and around a rather small campground road to find one of the sites which were reserved for dogs.

So, we got hooked up to electricity and set up the slides, etc, then took the dogs for a walk. It is an absolutely gorgeous state park on a lake by the way. So we followed the signs which said "Dog Walk Area". Until we got to the "Dog Walk Area". Which was a three foot wide setion of gravel on the side of the road, see photo. However, the walk to get to the "Dog Walk Area" was very beautiful and worth all of the hassles!

The moral of the story is...sometimes the journey is better than the destination!