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RE: Campground in North/Northwest Minnesota
Itasca and Lake Bemidji are both excellent
Another nearby area that we like is the Norway Beach campground on Cass Lake. It is a USFS campground . There is one section with electricity but most of the campground is non-electic. There is a swiming beach, boat ramp, showers, bike trails and a nightly program.
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SNOPRO711X
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04/10/12 05:02pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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Lake Como near Darby MT
We are planning a trip from MN to Darby MT area this summer. Has anybody stayed at the campground on lake Como? We thought we might spend a few day there before we start heading back to MN via Island Park ID.
Your comments are appreciated.
Thanks
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SNOPRO711X
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04/09/12 09:44pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Beartooth Highway / Best way from Billings to Yellowstone
The Beartooth Hwy is doable in a MH but I would not recomend it if you are not an experienced mountain driver. If I were to rate the difficulty of the various routes from Billings to YNP, the Beartooth is the most difficult. The next most difficult would be the other way to the NE entrance. This route takes you from Billings to Laurel, South on 212 (same road that will take you over the Beartooth) instead of taking 212 towards Red Lodge tou turn South on US 310/MT 210 to WY 120 to WY 296 (the Chief Joseph Hwy). This route will take you over Dead Indian Pass to US 212 (the Beartooth Hwy) then to Cooke City MT and the NE entrance. The Chief Joseph Hwy portion of this route is every bit as pretty as the BT hwy. The next most difficult route would be the same as above except you continue on WY 120 to Cody and take US 14 to the East entrance. This route is not bad and does get you into the center of the park on the East side. The next route would be to take I90 to Bozeman then South on US 191 to the entrance at West Yellowstone. The easiest route and my least favorite is I90 to Livingston and then South to the North entrance at Gardnier.
I have been unable to get over the BT in the middle of June because of snow and have driven over the BT in early September in a snow storm. Check the wether before you leave.
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SNOPRO711X
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08/31/11 09:47pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: MN SR-1 from Lake Superior to Ely
MN 1 from MN 71 on the North Shore to Ely is very driveable in an RV. It has been a few years since I drove it but it is not the type of road you are going to speed on, very hilly and curvy. My wife calls if "up chuck road".
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SNOPRO711X
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08/15/11 09:17pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: GFI at shore power tripping
The white (neutral) and the bare or green (ground) are not connected together in the RV. They are tied together only at the service entrance for the entire park.
The white wire I mentioned is not the white wire shown in the picture of the load management control. The circuit in question has a ground on the ground buss bar, a white neutral on a buss bar and a black wire that is the 2nd black wire from the left in the picture.
This may be nothing but 3 other motor homes with in 1/4 mile of my location also had electrical problems this year. Two of them had the inverter/chargers fail, another had the charger fail (no inverter) and now mine with this load management issue.
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SNOPRO711X
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08/08/11 08:54pm |
Tech Issues
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GFI at shore power tripping
The last time I went camping with my 2003 Itasca Horizon the 30 amp GFI at the campground tripped as soon as I plugged it into the shore power. I also tried it on the 15 amp circuit, same result. At that point I got my meter out and checked between ground and neutral and I had a circuit, there should have been no coniniuity. Since it was getting dark at that time I pulled the cover off the circuit breaker box and started looking for neutral wires that had a circuit to ground. I found the problem wire on the first try, removed it from the buss bar and had power for the weekend. When I got back home I could hook up the wire wire to the neutral buss bar to check things out. I could not find the reason wire the neutral and ground had a circuit between them. With the wire hooked up my meter again showed that I had a circuit between the ground and the neutral. My storage building does not have a GFI outlet so I could plug the MH in with no problem. I also do not remember ever camping at a campsite with a 30 amp GFI outlet. The other strange thing is with the white wire disconnected I cannot find anything that does not work. The black wire that goes with the white wire is hooked up the the load managment panel in the fuse box. Any ideas?
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The black wire in question is the second from the left on the circuit board.
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SNOPRO711X
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08/08/11 03:02pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: DP drivers - how far do you drive in a day?
I guess I am the type who has a destination and a plan to get there that usually involves long day drives at the begining and end of a trip and shorter drives during the rest of the trip. I cannot remember how many times I have driven between my home in Minnesota and West Yellowstone Mt in the winter to go snowmobiling. That is a 880 mile trip that we almost always do in one day. It is not driven in my motor home but in a pickup pulling a 30ft enclosed trailer. In the summer when I go to the Yellowstone area in the DP, Billings at 650 miles would be a typical first night stop or the Burgess Junction area of the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming at 725 miles. I never spend more than one night in Billings, but the next days drive might only be a short drive to Cooke City Mt or Cody Wy. If the first days destination was the Big Horn mountains then I will usually spend 3 or 4 days there before moving on to Cody or YNP. If my last day in YNP is at Fishing Bridge, the goal the next day is to get at least into western ND or all the way home the next day.
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SNOPRO711X
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07/14/11 08:00pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Black Hills to Yellowstone
I have to agree that Hwy 16 is easier than Hwy 14 but they are both easily done with the right equipment. If you are coming from the Black Hills the Hwy 16 route would make the most sense. That is the route that we took 2 years ago when we went to Yellowstone and the Teatons from the Black Hills. We travel I94/90 from Minnesota most of the time when we go to YNP and our most frequent route choice in the winter is to I-94 TO Bozeman and then Hwy 191 to West Yellowstone. In the summer the route we take the most is I94/90 to Laurel, South on 212, 310, 72, 120 to Cody Wy and then thru the East entrance. We have also taken the route I just described and then taken Hwy 296 (Chief Joseph Hwy) just North of Cody into the NE park entrance. This road will take you over Dead Indian Pass to Cooke City MT. There are a few steep grades on this route but they are not too bad.
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SNOPRO711X
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05/25/11 09:10pm |
Roads and Routes
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