Speculator, NY

ESP Brewing Company in the morning

Another travel day. I pick out a New York state campground, Moffitt Beach Campground, in the Adirondacks near the town of Speculator which we have traveled through numerous times.  We are on RT90 most of the day. I had no planned stops except for the campground.

Mañana, that is our boat name

At one point in the afternoon I need a rest stop and we stop at the Erie Canal Heritage Park on the interstate. Must have passed this a few times without noticing it.  Small museum and the remaining stone work of one of the locks from the second iteration of the canal opened in 1853. The original canal build around 1820 was only 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide. 

Lock 51

Lock 51 back in the day

In Rome NY we get off the interstate and head through the Adirondacks. We stop at Moffitt Beach Campground and I naively assume at the end of summer it won’t be too full. Labor day weekend, wrong. 250 sites and I am told they are full. The employee at the entrance tells me of another place close by where we can boondock, when one of the women in the office yells they have one site available for tonight. Site 238. It is on the far end of the park and right on the lake. A very nice site on the water and near the bathrooms and showers. Man, I live a charmed life sometimes.

Campsite #238

Can hear loons in the distance

Our last night traveling on our Alaska road trip. We will be home tomorrow around noontime.