Camping

In the spring of 2000, the Karner family purchased their first Coleman Sun Valley pop-up trailer.  On August 3, 2009, that trailer was destroyed by a bear in Colorado.  In the spring of 2010, they purchased their second Coleman Sun Valley pop-up trailer.  In the spring of 2019, they upgraded to a Cherokee Limited 264 DBH travel trailer.  During the past 26 years they have made 120 camping trips of 491 nights, visited 17 states, 1 Canadian province and traveled over 52,641 miles.  The following is a list of camping destinations: 

Wisconsin

Lake Kegonsa State Park (13)

Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit (9)

Yellowstone Lake State Park (8)

Governor Dodge State Park (7)

Devil's Lake State Park (6)

Mirror Lake State Park (5)

Kohler-Andrae State Park (5)

Blue Mound State Park (5)

Wyalusing State Park (4)

Potawatomi State Park (3)

Lake Chippewa Campground (2)

Richard Bong State Recreation Area (2)

Perrot State Park (2)

High Cliff State Park

Pattison State Park

Black River State Forest

Hartman Creek State Park

Kettle Moraine State Forest - Northern Unit

Point Beach State Forest

Big Bay State Park

Lake Wissota State Park

Peninsula State Park

Kettle Moraine State Forest - Pike Lake Unit

Rocky Arbor State Park

Tunnel Trail Campground

Ledge Park - Dodge County Parks

Scheffel's Hideaway Campground

Minnesota

Gunflint Pines Resort and Campground

Gooseberry Falls State Park

Blue Mounds State Park

Whitewater State Park

Itasca State Park

Charles A. Lindbergh State Park

Mille Lacs Kathio State Park

Jay Cooke State Park

Tettegouche State Park

Indiana

Turkey Run State Park (2)

Clifty Falls State Park (2)

Prophetstown State Park (2)

Indiana Dunes State Park

Potato Creek State Park

Brown County State Park

Shipshewana Campground South Park

Illinois

Shabbona Lake State Park (3)

Morrison-Rockwood State Park (3)

Starved Rock State Park (3)

Mississippi Palisades State Park

Illini State Park

Thomson Causeway - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Ohio

Maumee Bay State Park (2)

East Harbor State Park (2)

Kelleys Island State Park

West Branch State Park

Hocking Hills State Park

Dillion State Park

Michigan

Straits State Park (2)

Orchard Beach State Park (2)

Van Buren State Park

Hartwick Pines State Park

Lake Gogebic State Park

Iowa

Bellevue State Park

Maquoketa Caves State Park

Backbone State Park

Ontario

Pinery Provincial Park (2)

Rondeau Provincial Park

Wheatley Provincial Park

New York

Four Mile Creek State Campground (2)

Glimmerglass State Park

South Dakota

Custer State Park

Palisades State Park

Kentucky

Land Between the Lakes - National Recreation Area (2)

Mammoth Cave National Park

Virginia

Shenandoah National Park

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

Missouri

Meramec State Park

Pennsylvania

Caledonia State Park

Nebraska

Eugene T. Mahoney State Park

Tennessee

Fall Creek Falls State Park

North Dakota

Graham's Island State Park

West Virginia

Canaan Valley Resort State Park