We lucked out and found this campground at the last minute. What a beautiful site it was in Winnie Dam Campground, built and managed by the ACOE (Army Corps of Engineers). We had about 1/2 a football field of clearing and trees around the RV for $12 a night. It only had 50 amp electric with no water or sewer hook ups, but there is a dump site that looked very nice.
I knew the water situation before going, so I filled the 120 gallon water tank and emptied the other tanks prior to leaving Joe’s. We really only need the electric so we can run both the AC’s. We can run them both on the genny, but so far we have only been running it on our lunch breaks in the Interstate rest stops. We get both AC’s and the microwave while parked on the hot tarmac. That is a pretty awesome capability when you think of it. Our genny is a quiet diesel, so it just sips from our engine’s tank and can power everything in the coach if we decide to boondock. We also have 4 house batteries and a 2,800 watt inverter that can also power everything except the AC’s quietly.
I ventured over to look at the dam on Lake Winniebigoshish, which is the Mississippi River. It says it’s 170 river miles from the headwaters, which seems odd as we were there the day before, couldn’t have been 60 miles as the crow flies. And it’s a very big lake!
While I was walking over there, I was scoping out the exit to see if I could get out of the woods with the car attached or if I needed to hook it up afterward. I was able to maneuver out with the car attached.
Off to Duluth…