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Public/Private
Seasonal/Year-Round
Public Transit
Accessible sites

Entity (DEC, NYSP, etc)
Address
Location
Distance from NYC miles/hours
Year we camped there
link to camp website
link to trip story
link to reservations

Review

Type of site:

Hike-In
Drive-Up
Festival
Group Sites
Cabins/Cottages
Tent sites
Lean-To
Yurts
RV/Trailer sites

Facilities:
Toilet
-Composting
-Flush
-Pit/Latrine
Washing
-Pump/Spigot
-Hot Water
-Showers
-Kitchen
-Dish Sink
-D/W
Cooking:
-Fire Pit
-Barbecue
-Grill
-Stove
-Wood Stove
Heat

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Campsite content type

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title
location
map link
website link
SRD story link
image(s)
types of camping available
public or private
facilities/amenities
activities/nearby attractions
date(s) we visited
travel time from NYC
rating?
permanent?
cost?

Nature Lover, Meet Word Maven

Published by Treetop Mom on

I love nature. Language and words fascinate me. Sometimes words meet nature with fantastic results. Here are two of my favorites.

The Caucasian Wingnut Tree

The Caucasian Wingnut Tree

This one is in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, but I'm sure I've met a few CW's in other places.

The Bare-Faced Go-Away Bird

Bare-faced Go-away Bird Corythaixoides personata

Photo by Graham Ekins on Flickr.

How can you not love a bird with a name like that?

Cast of Characters

Who Are We?

All of Us at Mountain Jam 2009
Just your average nature-loving, urban-dwelling family of four.
 
Treetop Mom was born in California and grew up in Westchester County, New York and Frenchman's Bay, Maine. She has loved nature and wildlife as long as she can remember. For more about me, read How I Got Started.
Grey Fox 2010

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I've interviewed politicians, celebrities, animal rescue workers, doctors, clergy, survivors of tragedy, scientists of just about every field, kids, movie producers, and experts on animal poop; to name just a few.

Species a day (photo)

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About

Time outdoors is a vital part of life for all people, of all ages, everywhere.

I'm passionate about getting kids to be outdoors and encounter nature, and about ensuring that there will always be a wild outdoors for the children of the future. This blog will be about our experiences camping as a family, the growing movement to get kids outdoors, finding nature in the city (there's a lot more than you might think!), and taking action to protect the earth. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

Who Are We?

One Small Step Towards the Big Relaunch

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Several years ago, I started a blog about family camping and enjoying nature with children. Well, what with one thing and another—raising kids, keeping house, trying to earn a freelance living, getting familiar with Drupal (and Joomla, and Wordpress), volunteering, traveling, moving house, losing weight, family happenings, networking online & off, (not quite enough) sleep, actually going camping with my family occasionally, and of course having only 24 hours in a day—I let it languish. In the meantime, I became more and more convinced that time outdoors is a vital part of life for all people, of all ages, everywhere. I realized that getting kids to be outdoors and encounter nature is what I am most passionate about, as well as conservation to ensure that there will always be a wild outdoors for the children of the future.

This blog will be about our experiences camping as a family, the growing movement to get kids outdoors, finding nature in the city (there's a lot more than you might think!), and taking action to protect the earth from the adverse effects of human activities. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.