Muskallonge State Park ~ Campground Tour

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Wander Dano

3 жыл бұрын

Video made ~ 9 October 2020

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@howdydo7320 3 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy ur video on campgrds.

@WanderDano 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@apachepaul Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this! We're planning a trip to the eastern U.P. and this park looks like a good candidate.

@WanderDano Жыл бұрын

This is a nice one. I did videos of rustic campsites within 15 miles that are really nice but rough roads. Lake Superior state park and Blind Sucker 1 and 2 camprounds are very nice too

@wendingourway 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love that, "big blue beautiful marble"...thanks for another video with great content and wonderful scenes...I am sure that the UP is going to be a much busier place...

@WanderDano 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and being honest that is a conflicting issue for me - I really like the idea of sharing these places and then I feel kinda bad if I am contributing to that crowding. lol I've made friends with the people that work at the Ontonagon campground and they have told me SEVERAL times that people tell them they saw my videos and wanted to visit. lol Same thing happens when I go to Jean Kay's in Marquette. So it is tough.

@wendingourway 3 жыл бұрын

@@WanderDano I can certainly relate ... some of the small communities that I have visited and mentioned that the main reason that I was there is because I saw it on YT are always truly appreciative of the exposure ... many of these places survive only on what they can make when the weather is good and it is a long cold winter lasting 5-6 months where nothing is coming in ... but I do get your point ... but also hope it never stops you ... lol

@WanderDano 3 жыл бұрын

@@wendingourway You hit the nail on the head. I've said in many videos that I MUCH prefer the city run campgrounds because it directly helps the local community. With Ontonagon being one of my favorites, this little town is struggling and the campground brings in a huge portion of their money and then also helps local businesses. That is another reason I try as best I can to shop local when traveling... Walmart still happens but I try to hit the small businesses.

@mikezweber4433 2 жыл бұрын

The staff is always wonderful there. I have gone there several times with my son. Unfortunately the steps down to the lake have been removed. They were just across the street from the main entrance. Go on a moon less night, the stars are incredible.

@WanderDano 2 жыл бұрын

I hope one day to actually stay there. :-)

@sarjim4381 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful fall colors. I miss that down here. The ranger station you stopped at does have a wifi antenna on the roof. I imagine it's for the state park's private network. It's a lot easier to get wifi coverage when you only have to go point to point from one ranger station to another than try to set up a general coverage public wifi. My buddy and I, also an extra class amatuer radio licensee, set up a public network in a 40 space campground the looks like it covers 25% of the area of that state park. We went hundreds of dollars over budget and needed twice the number of repeaters we originally estimated, and we had a private cell node we could attach to. Even then, the only way to make a viable network is charge campers a daily fee for the wifi. It's way more expensive to set up than most people realize. Campers need almost constant support to make wifi operate at their site, and not having a wifi support person will cause stress for the operators and the campers. If there's no cell service, you'll never make a public wifi work. People who are addicted to the net should just find somewhere else to camp.

@WanderDano 3 жыл бұрын

I saw it too and was going by what he said. At many Michigan state parks there is a bit of wifi mounted and the shower houses. Ft Wilkens comes to mind - I could text from it but not much more and there is almost no cell service around much of Copper Harbor.

@sarjim4381 3 жыл бұрын

@@WanderDano Setting up a low capacity wifi that has enough bandwidth for something like retrieving text only email isn't so bad. People who expect to be able to cruise Facebook with it are the problem. We've gotten so used to having 24/7 access to the web that it seems like not having it is an experience close to death. :-) The wifi at the ranger station is acting like a single node to allow network access, but it will go way over capacity with the second person that tries to log on. Cell phone service is the same issue. Having a better antenna at a higher location can make it work, but the built in cell phone antenna is so poor that you need all the help you can get when you're in a place like the UP. I used to make some extra money on the road by selling people wifi/cell service antennas for $50 and setting it up for them.

@squiggymcsquig6170 3 жыл бұрын

The less tree-ey part of this park used to have many beautiful mature trees. Tornado took them out about 25 years ago.

@WanderDano 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow - I didn't know that. I know they are pretty rare in the UP.

@squiggymcsquig6170 3 жыл бұрын

@@WanderDano Early in your video you showed a parking lot on the Lake Superior side of the road, with a nice view of the lake. That nice view was carved out by the tornado as it left the park.

@WanderDano 3 жыл бұрын

@@squiggymcsquig6170 Interesting... thanks