Highland Hammock State Park - Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend was spent at Highland Hammock State Park with our camper friends and a few friends who came to visit.  Highland Hammock State Park is one of the oldest state parks, developed by CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) after the Great Depression.
We had a nice spacious site on the corner with the woods behind us.

The camping area has 138 sites with hook-ups and one dump station, thus a 1 hour to get through the line. Everyone leaving at the same time.
There were lots of folks in for the weekend.

 The park is very serene and the drive in is beautiful.

We got in Friday night and just made it before dark and before the sky opened up.  It really poured and I
felt bad for the folks who were not as lucky as us and were having to set up in the rain and the dark.
And when the Rangers say watch for the black bear, they mean business. Even the dumpsters have electric fences around them.

We have a friend who lives just 2 miles from the campground and a few friends came to stay with him.  Saturday the boys went golfing including our camping buddy.  While they were gone, I cooked up some boiled peanuts.  Always a favorite!  

There are lots of hiking trails, a CCC museum, and  a tram that goes through the Park.

  We didn't do any of those things Sunday.  Just chilled. We sat out enjoying the overcast day that came with a great breeze, and watching the race on TV with our camping buds.

After the race , we cooked up steaks, corn on the cob, baked potatoes and salad for dinner. Mr. Squirrel smelled me shucking the corn and showed up.  When I broke of the top of an ear, a few kernels went flying much to Mr. Squirrel delight.

 More please

And I want to give credit to the Rangers at the Park. They did a great job. We lost power Saturday and Sunday in the late afternoon.  Both days it was overcast at that time and not much of an inconvenience to us because of that.. The Rangers were super!  They came by every 5-10 minutes to let us know the progress on restoring power and then after they got us back on line, they checked back to make sure everyone had power.  We have been in private parks that didn't react as fast as they did. Kuddos to all the Rangers and volunteers who keep our state parks not only beautiful but are "on it" when a problem arises.