The weather held out for the most part. We started out on Friday May 23, 2008 and headed south of Tulsa Oklahoma to Hayburn Lake.
Our destination was Sheppard Point a Corps of Engineer park North of Kellyville Oklahoma.
Due to the rising gas prices we chose to stay a reasonable distance from home without soaking our pockets on gas.
I had to make the reservations at recreation.gov, and pretty much was site unseen. We had never been to Hayburn Lake prior much less this campground.
Friday we arrived and to our excitement found that our site was really nice. I worried since when I made the reservation a few weeks ago I had open range on all sites, none were booked. That is really unheard of around Tulsa since it is either the Corps of engineer parks or the State parks to go to.
When I did my search online for the park, it showed up as Hayburn State Park. My investigation into this was it was previously a State Park and apparently the Corps of Engineers took it over since Hayburn Lake is a Corps of Engineer lake.
Anyway, the site was better than expected. We had a site with a cover over the picnic table. Only two sites there have this luxury and we happened to be one of them. I was pleasently surprised with the fact that each site had it's own water hookup. That is not usual for the Corps of Engineer parks we had previously stayed at.
We own a pop up camper and can be hard to level, however the area to park the camper was level and we had little problems during set up.
They have two bathroom buildings and online stated only one had showers, but both did. The weather held out for Saturday and all day Sunday, but Sunday night was a mess.
We had severe storms from two in the morning until about six. I am a worry wort, so to say the least I did not get much sleep.
Storm aside, we made it through to get home safe and sound.
This trip has led us to find some things out that we had not done before, and plan to do again.
We were really orginized. I planned to have a plastic bin for the things that had to come and could not be stored in the camper. Our pop up is a eight foot box and holds only so much.
Investing into locking lids was a key. When the storm was raging outside, and I mean a down pour for over two hours, nothing got wet.
Also, by having everything in it's place led to a speedy close down of camp without to much of a sweat.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and I look forward to a fun filled camping this year. |
