North Pole Resort, Wilmington NY

[frank_a]

We got here & pretty much set up before a terrible storm Thursday mid to late afternoon & into the evening. It was awesome.

For the 1st time, we set up a Gander Mountain canopy as so many other folks with ParkLiners do. For the 1st time, we set up a Clam 1660 screen tent. For the umpteenth time, we set up our big Cabela's camp kitchen, & found we can't use the whole thing against the trailer. Whatever. 1st time ever hooking up to water & sewer, as well as cable. Cable came in handy Thursday keeping track of the storm.

Friday a cousin of mine I'd never met & her husband came for a visit. She was the reason we camped up here fairly close to Malone NY where she was attending a high school reunion. They're from out near Seattle. That was particularly cool.

After they left, I went back to my cabinet door supports project. That should be done by noon tomorrow. Worked on it a bunch today too. Cutting 1 X 3 oak with a hand saw, using a plain sanding block, etc.

We went into Lake Placid this morning for some groceries & hardware. Crazy place to be on a July 4th weekend. Lots of people, dogs, bikes, motorcycles, cars, trucks, SUV's, motor homes, BBQ festival downtown, shops buzzing.

Coming back, we went to the A&W drive-in just past our campground entrance (we're in the 100 Miles Woods, just down & across the road towards Placid from the main campground). I had a chile dog, fries & a strawberry shake. Gee...

Been working around camp since then.

This is an interesting place. Where we are, trailers & motor homes are right on top of one another. To drive the truck out, I have to move out some, back up, & go. Different. Then again, we have all 4 popular hook-ups. We're close to three nice individual bathrooms (toilet, sink, shower, plenty of hooks), but they're somewhat overwhelmed. Still, very nice, kept clean & all. About 50 bucks/night.

We have yet to look around and see the whole place, like the main part on the Ausable River. From what we've seen so far, I probably wouldn't come back if I had to camp where they put us.

More later, including pics.

Frank

[frank_a]

Well, having looked around, this is an interesting place. In the original area, on the side of the road near the river, there are big open sites. A bit too much open for my taste, but not bad. A couple pools, game rooms, etc.

What we found was that most everybody was gone during the day visiting any of the local attractions, hiking/climbing paths/trails, fishing the many trout streams, or just hanging out in Lake Placid, a neat community. So from that perspective, for a place with full hook ups, and staff around in their golf carts continously, never any garbage around, rest rooms (while not many) always clean, I guess I might stay here again if we were doing other stuff during the day, which, again, seems like what most folk were doing.

Frank

[frank_a]

The rain we encountered after setting up camp last Thursday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydzS...E5Tn6tM4PXpW8w

Our camp set up...

[cpaharley2008]

Frank,
Been to that A&W back in 2008 when we went to Lake Placid KOA in October. Went up to the mountain and there was ice already. Nice historical tour up there also.

[frank_a]

We ate lunch one day at the A&W Jim. I had a chili dog, fries and a strawberry shake. Place is in great shape too!

Frank

[cpaharley2008]

I found a couple

[frank_a]

I didn't know if I could get this video off my iPhone into the computer, but obviously I figured it out! Driving up to the top of Whiteface was done on a whim, and I did not bring my camera. Also, it was 85 when we started up, and 63 and windy when we got to the top!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auwp...E5Tn6tM4PXpW8w

[frank_a]

It was hazy, but I got some good landscape shots from just below the top. We could not get to the top because we had our puppy.