{"id":192,"date":"2011-07-04T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/?p=192"},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T20:45:08","slug":"192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"Big Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June, we packed up the camp gear for the first camping trip of the year.\u00a0 The trip was highly anticipated; however, so many things went wrong.\u00a0 Jenn left Sacramento with a cold and later burned her fingertips on a candle one night.\u00a0 Randy forgot to bring a sleeping bag so we had to go into town to pick one up before he froze another night.\u00a0 And then…the rain fell.\u00a0 Two out of our three tents leaked so we packed up our belongings miraculously in an hour and left before the thunderstorms struck.\u00a0 Our four night trip was cut in half.\u00a0 Aside from all of the above, we had a great time. Here’s yet another review of a campground! \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Basin Redwoods SP (Huckleberry) – June 2011
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5<\/p>\n

Location: 20 miles north of Santa Cruz<\/p>\n

Amenities: Flushing toilets, showers, and a general store<\/p>\n

Pets: Allowed at no additional charge<\/p>\n

Pros:\u00a0 Big Basin Redwoods SP is the oldest State Park in California and it shows.\u00a0 As soon as you enter the park, you can visit the convenient\/gift store.\u00a0 You can save a lot of room in the car by buying milk, eggs, etc at the store.\u00a0 However, like a typical tourist trap, everything is overpriced…even the firewood ($10.25 a bundle). There are a lot of paved trails that dogs are allowed on.\u00a0 One trail led us to the Sempervirens Falls, which is a small 17 ft waterfall that is worth the quick and easy walk.\u00a0 Bathrooms were clean and most had running water (sinks) to wash your hands.\u00a0 Sometimes he antiseptic soap just isn’t enough so it’s nice to have running water!\u00a0 The campground had a lot of showers so we never had to wait in line.<\/p>\n

Cons:\u00a0 Although the campsites are nestled amongst beautiful redwood trees, the sites were small and did not have a lot of flat areas for tents.\u00a0 One of our sites didn’t have room for one tent (seriously, we had to put the tent in the driveway).\u00a0 Granted, our tents are like mansions and can fit two queen air mattresses…but that’s besides the point.\u00a0 A lot of the sites were small and only had room for small pup tents (hopefully, you don’t mind being on a slant).\u00a0 The fire rings were placed too closely to the picnic tables so it was hard for us to have our “ring-o-fire”…luckily we had two sites to choose from. The campground is close to Santa Cruz so a 40 minute drive will take you to the Boardwalk; however, to get in and out of the park, you have to drive through the twists and turns on the the tight roads.\u00a0 Hopefully, you don’t get motion sickness because this was quite a challenge for a few of our backseat passengers. Lastly, the mosquitoes were out in full force.\u00a0 Poor Lauren got bit on her face and all over her legs.\u00a0 Load up on the bug spray (skip Off and get something more powerful) because the citronella candles don’t work.\u00a0 The campgrounds also have hungry raccoons so follow the advice of the rangers and store all the food overnight in your car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In June, we packed up the camp gear for the first camping trip of the year.\u00a0 The trip was highly anticipated; however, so many things went wrong.\u00a0 Jenn left Sacramento with a cold and later burned her fingertips on a candle one night.\u00a0 Randy forgot to bring a sleeping bag so we had to go … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenn-and-jeff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}