Posted 2006-10-12 9:50 AM (#49970 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend
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Posts: 690 Location: missouri
Where do you go at LBL? Cadiz or Wrangler camp? we haven't been yet but would like to run away this t-giving...which camp and trails are nicest? we went to Shawnee last Thanksgiving and had a good time but froze...
Posted 2006-10-12 10:41 AM (#49976 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend
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Location: glenallen mo
we go to wranglers, havent been to the other. We like wranglers.The trails are good. Campground is clean,neat. Stalls for horses. I dont guess i have ever heard anything bad about wranglers. We went last year, and went Thanksgiving year before. Would welcome the company.
Posted 2006-10-12 3:32 PM (#50010 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Posts: 500 Location: West TN
I have been up there many times at Thanksgiving. Most of the time, it is not too crowded. We have a full time site up there this year. I guess we will be spending the weekend tearing parts of it down to bring back for the winter.
Posted 2006-10-12 7:10 PM (#50020 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Posts: 474 Location: White Mills, Ky.
We have been to both Wrangler's and Willow Creek in Cadiz. Wrangler's is one of the nicest campgrounds anywhere, but the trails are beginner level. WC campground is not quite as modern but the trails are a little more challenging. There is water and electric at the sites and there is a bath house and a restaurant and stalls...in other words, they have everything LBL has just with a more "rugged" feel to it.
We are headed to WC the last weekend of Oct. Hope the fall colors last!
Posted 2006-10-12 8:23 PM (#50023 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Location: Evansville, IN
We will be at Willow Creek the last weekend of October also. It was great there last weekend. We may go to LBL the first part of the week of Thanksgiving.
Posted 2006-10-14 8:00 PM (#50102 - in reply to #50023) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Posts: 379 Location: Columbia, TN
I always call and check to make sure they are not hunting. Somtime they are hunting in KY and sometimes it is TN. Check before you go unless you want to ride the short trails.
Posted 2006-10-16 11:14 AM (#50137 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Posts: 648 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
We camped at LBL (Wrangler's) 6/01 and were extremely unhappy with several issues. Sounds like they must have corrected them.
The stalls which are so small they are only really standing stalls, were piled high with manure. It took 4 full wheelbarrows to clean them out and no one else cleaned their's so the flies were horrible. We found dead mice in the water buckets. We ended up putting the horses on tie lines instead. The black flies were also horrendous in the campgound area due to the lack of cleanliness.
We enjoyed the trails and being from So Fla our horses were glad they weren't tougher. We did feel the trails were very well marked and easy to navigate.
Posted 2006-10-16 11:45 AM (#50140 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Posts: 474 Location: White Mills, Ky.
Dunoir - Next time go a little farther north and try MidWest Trailride in Norman, IN. The stalls and camp are always clean and the trails are fairly easy and well marked. My only complaint: no AC in the bath house. Phew! It's hot in there in the summer.
They had a tornado last spring that took the rooves off some of the stalls. But we were there in June and they had already begun replacing the damaged areas so I'm sure by now they are all repaired.
Posted 2006-11-04 11:43 AM (#51098 - in reply to #49968) Subject: RE: camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
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Posts: 309 Location: MO
We've been to Wrangler's Camp at LBL and didn't much care for it. Very crowded when we were ther Columbus Day weekend and we we in the "C" loop. Lots of traffic making lots of dust on the gravel roads. Couldn't believe how dirty our rig got. Unfortunately, the "C" loop has the only reservable sites. The "D" loop was better. Trails are begginer level.. If we go again, I opt for Willow Creek.
I agree that Midwest is a much better deal. The trails there are really trails through the Hoosier Nat'l Forest.
camping thanksgiving weekend at LBL
