Camping Survival
Camping Survival Trip in Midwest?
I live in Kansas and would like to take a 3-4 day “survival camping trip”. Basically, I would like to find a forest filled area with plenty of streams and large enough to hike quite a few miles a day during the trip (maybe ten miles a day, so 20 miles down, 20 miles back). Anywhere in the Midwest would be great. Any suggestions?
Obviously the place needs to be vacant of people and other campers and not an “established” camping grounds in the sense that there are families camping left and right.
If you go west you have a few states with large wilderness areas. Here is a map showing such areas;
http://www.epa.gov/oar/visibility/epa_map.gif
One of the closer ones is the Weminuche wilderness in Colorado. http://www.coloradowilderness.com/wildpages/weminuche.html
Another is the Bandelier wilderness in new Mexico;
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=27
To the east of you there is the Upper Buffalo wilderness in Arkansas;
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&wname=Upper%20Buffalo
Looks like you have places all around you that would be nice.
I had a pheasant take out the window of my truck on a highway in Kansas…lol. Didn’t realize there were so many there.