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Recreation While Camping

Camping isn't something people typically do because they have to. It's supposed to be fun. It's a way to get away from the stresses of life and hang out with the family without the distractions of video games and television. In a way, camping itself is all the recreation you'll need.

The fun starts as soon as you reach your destination. You get to pick a place to set up your tent. You can start exploring your campground a bit. Then you get to start a fire, start making hot dogs and roasting marshmallows, and have a blast hanging out talking and laughing.

But the fun is only starting in the camp grounds. State and national parks are full of exciting things to do most of which are free or quite inexpensive and all of which are great family activities that the kids will remember for the rest of their lives. Hiking, when you think about it, doesn't seem like it would be an exciting family recreation. But when you take the whole family out on a hiking adventure up the sides of hills or mountains, past scenic lakes and through some of the greatest views of nature possible, don't be surprised if you have trouble getting the kids to ever want to go home. They will fall in love with nature, want to go on the same hikes over and over again and get terrific exercise along the way.

Generally speaking, the park you're staying at is going to have a lake. Sure, there are some where there isn't one, but usually there will be at least one. And lakes offer a whole host of activities on their own like swimming, boating, and fishing. Swimming in a lake can make the local swimming pool seem like a boring place indeed.

You don't have to own a boat to enjoy getting out on the water and enjoying seeing lots of natural spots along the lake shore. A boat can usually be rented for reasonable rates and with a small amount of knowledge or training in how to use an outboard motor, you can be cruising along like an old pro in no time. And boating is a great sport to combine with fishing. The fun thing about fishing is even if you never get a bite, everybody has fun getting out there and trying. And when your young son or daughter catches their first fish on your camping trip, that squeal of delight will be one of those memories that you will be thinking about during your retirement years.

And if water isn't your thing, then take a trip down to the visitor's center of your park. You can learn a lot about where you're visiting since there are usually a lot of maps, pictures, etc.

But don't forget the park rangers when you leave the Visitor's Information Center. Very often rangers conduct nature walks, lectures, tours of local wild life locations and lots of other programs that are helpful in learning more about the geology and history of the area and lots of fun for the kids. You may have to finally rein your children in when they can't stop coming up with questions for the park rangers. But don't bother, the rangers love it because they live to teach excited young minds about enjoying and caring for the natural wonders of their national parks.

If you go out camping, you'll likely be pretty impressed with just how much you can do and how economically you can do it. Don't bother bringing your TV or any video games. Trust me, everybody will have a better time without it (even if they think they won't).

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Gray Rollins is a featured writer for CampingEarth - the best site to learn camping information and great camping tips on the net. Visit his site to learn geocaching and for camping recipes.

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