Last weekend for camping
After this one, you’re pretty much outta luck: PDT will roll into PST, the weather will finally change, and your campfire will just sputter and splurt. I highly recommend picking yourself up, throwing the tent in the back of the van, and heading out somewhere. I can recommend Indian Grinding Rock as a fabulous spot. It’s the only place where grinding holes have been decorated with pictographs, some of them thousands of years old. There are snakes and gods and something that looks suspiciously like an Excel spreadsheet. (gotta account for every single acorn…)
I was there two weekends ago, and it was just perfect. There’s a half-mile nature trail with a lovely guidebook to tell you about mugwort and madrones and such, and we saw a beautiful deer as well as some not-quite-as-beautiful turkeys. As the stars came out, we wandered to the middle of the gaming field and found the Giant Dipper, the Little Dipper, Cassiopeia, Pegasus…you could even see the Milky Way looking milky.
It’s only about an hour away, and at 2000 feet it’s not too freezing at night. On your way home, make sure to stop by the Chatterbox Cafe in downtown Sutter Creek for some of the best chicken-fried steak you’ve ever tasted. Get a milkshake, too.
You know you want to–it’s the best local camping you’ll find, and one can never have too much nature!
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