Where is the strangest place you have ca mped at?

“what is the strangest place you have ever camped at?

well up to now it has been pretty much the woods/beach/under a very large ledge.

But after June 28th, I can add...

camping in a Baseball Field

Keyspan Field

treebeard and myself will be taking our Cubs Scout Troop to a baseball game and then camp out on the field.
It's part of the BSOA. I think there may be about 200 people camping out. But WHO CARES?
I think this is so COOL.

So what is the strangest place you have ever camped out at?


(treebeard may even get to 3rd base LOL)”

“Arggggghhh!! One of the girl scout leaders suggested that we do this type of camping. I think I gave her one of those "you're insane!" looks. Mapleleaf, look at that picture! I have the shakes just thinking about camping surrounded by concrete and bleachers.

But then I am kinda strange. You all will probably have a blast.

I can't think of a strange place that I have camped in. I can think of some great places, but no strange ones.”

“while hiding from her parents.”

“On my first trip to Martha's Vineyard (about 25 years ago) I woke up with on the beach with my face in the sand. I had no tent or sleeping bag. Does that count?”

“I thought this was the "strangest place you have ever had sex" thread...sorry.”

“We didn't camp there but once my Scouts and I had lunch in public bathroom.

That was an odd experience.”

“not sure if the scouts will like that stik. LOL”

“Stickmon we are talking about camping..lmao....rof

Now one time when I was hiking on the AT in Ga we couldn't find a spot along the way so we wanted to be by a steam and camp out... well the stream was there but the places to camp were all down hill...soooo we put the tent on the trail and slept there... believe me it waz a long nite and a hard trail...”

“The pasture at my parent's farm. Twice so far this year, it's a blast!
The best part is, the kids are fenced in! :)”

“Back in the 70's - the summer after I finished high school - I ended up camping out on the side of the interstate (barely hidden from traffic) in Oklahoma City.”

“In a garbage dump! At Twin Lakes, Wisc.

A friend and I set up at a spot we found on the edge of one of the two lakes. The police came and were very polite as they informed us that we could not stay there. They suggest the dump and it worked out fine.”

“We car-camped in a weird place once. When i was akid we went smelt fishing up in Duluth, MN and when we tried to drive home at night it was so foggy my dad couldn't see, plus we were too tired to go on. So, he tuned off on a narrow gravel road and pulled off to the side in the grass. when woke up about 5:00am we discovered we were in someone's front yard! We quietly left.”

“It does get real foggy up there at times. But the smelt are worth it.”

“We used to go smelt fishing in Mi. Smelt scooping more like! I was always the one who cleaned them. Boy, did I have have a happy cat on the days I cleaned fish. I'd have fish in the middle, a cleaned pile on the right, and a rapidly dwindling pile of guts on the left. Happy cat!”

“On the way to Rawah from Chicago, car-camped in Nebraska. So tired from the road trip, didn't realize the campground was next to a railroad line. At about 2am thought the friggin train was coming through the tent!

'Course there was the KOA on the trip home--dusty, windy and no trees.”

“On a hughmungus folded up tarp and under the wooden box covering it...I used a 2x8 and 55gal drum to prop up the box to use as a roof.

It sure is hot in S CA in the daytime, but boy oh boy does it get cold at night.”

“Under the bridge at 7th and Main.”

“Camped at the Harley Rondevuos (sp?) in Schnectedy, Ny.... We made a TeePee out of logs and a tarp. We had a big rubbermaid container with ice and a Keg in it. The worst part was these drunkereds where doing burnout boards with their HOG's all night long....The best part was Everything else especially out neighbor had a 10ft kiddy pool and a sign that said "Nude Swimming Only !!" Great people and agreat time !”

“PS
the way that read about the "kiddy pool" sounds wrong....
Adult Nude swimming only...
Dont want the wrong idea going here..haha”

“to late”

“lol..maple

I emailed you about your day trip...
I leave in 5 minutes....

Have a great weekend to all, and to all a great weekend... :-)”

“i called you
check your voice mail”

“I Will when I get home :-)”

“thats my work #”

“Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Give a cat a fish, and you have a friend for a lifetime...

My former neighbor's cats wouldn't give me the time of day... until I returned home from a spring break fishing trip. I had a large cooler FULL of blues and Spanish mackeral (10 ea per day limit, 3 days worth). Those freaking cats - prolly seven of them - ate every single bit of fish what didn't go into a ziplock. They must've sat around eating for three solid hours.

I once slept in a grotto in the Black Hills. I crawled in to avoid a thunder/hail storm, and ended up staying for the night. It was tight, but the sound of rain and hail soon lulled me to sleep.

Pitched my tent on a rock amongst a shoal/waterfall in Cheaha, AL. The flat part was much smaller than the tent's footprint, but it was the largest area I had yet come across. It was night, and I followed the creek up from the trail hoping to find something better than what I eventually settled for. Not a problem, tho - Belle and I slept just fine... until a coyote began yelping.

Belle's reaction was pretty cool - she seemed to know it wasn't a dog, yet unsure of what it was. We've since heard them in the pasture at home. She prolly knows coyotes by now. She freaked when we say one running (and running and running) at Badlands NP last summer. I put the truck in reverse, and tried to cut it off at the road. He saw what was up, and hit the afterburners. He won the race to the crossing paws down. Those pups can scoot!”

“This was a favorite campsite in Junior High. It was the old graveyard where the State hospital buried all the indigent and people who died in the nut house. We call them homeless people now. Back then they were locked up.

The caviate to this graveyard was that all the people were buried vertically to save space.

I spent some cool nights here during my formative years.”

“The summer of 75-a car grave yard somewhere in Fla. We enough money to buy thick steaks that we grilled over an open fire, met a guy by the name of Johnny Jett who showed us around and took us to the junk yard to grill and camp for the night.”

“Lessee WOlfsister, I would've been, oh, 3 or 4 at the time! LOL!”

“next to stikmon.....”

“Hitchhiking to D.C. back in April '71 and dropped off about 2 a.m. in a Cleveland suburb by a really drunk driver. My two friends and I had no idea where we were, so we called the cops from a pay phone and they told us to go sleep in a nearby park. We found a low stone wall there that we thought would keep any passers-by from catching sight of us and huddled under our lone thin blanket. Practically froze -- we had chosen the windward side of the wall, and the wind was coming straight off Lake Erie, which the park fronted.

The cops swung through the park a couple times, we figured they were checking on us. At dawn we started an urban hike until we found a big old Catholic church, where a young priest welcomed us (as my Catholic companion John assured us they would) and fed us a hot breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast and hot coffee. Then it was back to an eastbound freeway on-ramp and further adventures straight out of the Furry Freak Brothers comix.”

“Lemmeesee...ah, yes.

The strangest place I have ever camped at was in Pacific Grove, Ca. back in '72. I had hitch-hiked to NorCal with no particular destination in mind when it occured to me that I had an aunt living in the area whom I had never met. So I called my mom to get her address and, with a little help from some locals, was soon camped out on her back deck. There wasn't anyone home, so I took my Optimus stove out of my pack and cooked some lunch. A couple of hours later, some old guy (he might have been 35) came around and asked what the hell I was doing camped out in his yard. I informed him that I was told my aunt lived here and that I was waiting for her to come home. Turns out she had sold him the house six months previously. He happened to know where she lived and gave me directions, so I eventually did hook up with her.

Of course, I had several strange adventures in-between - one night I stayed in a christian commune...now those folks were weird...I think the leader's name was Jim Jones...”

“On a mountain ledge high above a major highway. While normally I won't camp in campgrounds or other high traffic area's (isolation for me) my girlfriend (now wife of 30 years) watched car headlights thru the night. I liked it & might do it again someday.”

“I share aero's. On a cross country trip when I was just a wee lad, my father pitched our tent in someone's front yard cause we were too exhausted to go on. He said we'd be up and out before they woke up. He was right.”

“In the summer of '70 I hitched from D.C. to Ocean City, Maryland with my swim shorts and a towel rolled into an Army blanket and tied with a rope for a shoulder strap.
Arriving around midnight I went to a place where the boardwalk was higher above the sand than most places.
I crawled to where the sand was a foot under the walk and burrowed in, pushing a wall of sand between me and any nosey cops.
Sure enough, the cops came and flushed out all the other teenage bums.
I had walled myself in real good.
During the night the cops would drive their cars up and down the boardwalk.
The first time I heard one coming it sounded the like the world was coming to an end and the car would pass right over my nose.
At dawn I dug my way out after a pretty good night sleep and had the beach to myself.......for a little while.”

“I've truck camped in some shady places in Orange Co.. Primarily in nieghborhoods, where the natives like to check you door locks in the weeee hours for ya! That happened twice and another time it was the cops that came a calling.

I've slept in caves before on grade school outings. That was prudy kewl!!

How about 3 nights twenty feet from the fire line. Sleeping on a bed of beargrass amongst the TALL trees and starry skies.”

“Summer of '80 found my buddy and me riding motorcycles from Arizona to Colorado.
We were gonna ride all night since it was not too cold or buggy.
When we got to Four Corners we decided that we had enough.
There is a park there and The USGS Benchmark.
We each chose a picnic table from the many scattered about, each with a shelter roof, and slept on the tables.
Having arrived in the dark we had no idea of the scope and vastness of the place.......suface of the moon hugeness.
We did the obligatory laying on the benchmark with arms and legs in four states that morning.”

“pekka-
That would have been late April '71, no?

I brought cheap wine and blankets to some of those refugees in town for the big protest.”

“Datona bike week. We were getting in earlier than our campsite reservations but late at night and someone had permission to use a space in the back of a church parking lot in Ormond Beach as long as we were out before 8 am. We didn't have it in writing though so when the police came at about 2:30am they had to call the minister and see if we were really supposed to be there. At about 3:30 the State Police came and did the same. I bet he never let anyone else stay there.

Some where in Virgina it was raining so hard I could barely see and the drops were stinging and cold. I pulled into the parking lot of what turned out to be a concrete casting factory and spent the night in a sample piece of storm drain. Not exactly camping but dry.”

“Customer of mine reported her daughter's Girl Scout Troop camped overnite at the Field Museum at the Egyptian exhibit (near the mummies, across the hall from the taxidermied animals). She stated her daughter is still having nitemares.”

“Well tonight is the night we sleep out in the Baseball stadium.

this is going to be very cool.

I may have to sneek out and go to the Freak Show on the Coney Island Boardwalk.”

“bacpac's front lawn....”

“What about the concertina wire and land mines, Tea?”

“bacpac has a freak show on his front lawn?”

“Well once yah get past the old chevy on cinderblocks you're clear.”

“is the freakshow, when he's out on his front lawn.”

“If I ever see Ice Tea in my front yard he better be pushing a lawn mower.”

“hihi, in italy right on the autobahn. Police woke us up in the morning.”

“Autobahn is a German word. In Italian I think it means huge vibrator.”

“aaaa--tttttt--ooooo---bbbb---aaaaa----hhhh YESSSSSSSSSSSSSsssss”