Very Cheap Camping, Turkey Fort Recreation Area in the DeSoto Natl Forest in Mississippi

[Music] [Music] hello my friends welcome to Turkey Fork recreation area sorry the window is so dirty but when you drive fast through the swamp you kill a lot of bugs this is a awesome first class first come first serve Campground except the first six sites are reservable and you see them here on the on the right what that means is it's listed in uh recreation.gov for all the information about it so that's really nice there are 20 sites total and um because they're first come firster I didn't do a uh listing of my choice best sites but most of them are pretty good there's a couple of them like this one right here which is slanted down pretty bad and it's short but most of them are pretty good and they have a really nice bathroom the only problem I found with the bathroom was that it's open air so when you get up at 4 in the morning in January it's real cold in there um but otherwise it's really nice all the sites are electric and water um same it's it's really like I came up to check this out when I was at Big buuy which was so bad and this one was so great um so we spent two nights here on the way back home this is the bathroom men and women's it's a far a bit better than the one we were at buxy Big buxy it's pretty clean it's got here but the bathroom is clean and the shower is a lot cleaner actually but it's got a regular shower head this is handicapped it's got the thing it I I don't know if you can change it or or if it's going to work but it's a little aerated I think we're going to take a look at the females it's about the same they do have soap they have two Johns of course the lake this great big long sight I assume is 19 and then this one with the big grig on it is 20 he's just barely fitting on there he's hanging off the end but it's a nice sight These are nice sights it's got a dump station that apparently works a big dumb stir it's looks like it's pretty full says parking is up here so we'll park up here and let the boy out for a minute yeah big parking area for Hunting Fishing hiking whatever you doing well no beautifully vibrant sunrise today just a nice light car color sky a few clouds birds are jerp in and Mists coming off the lake this really is a nice Campground the only complaint is the bathrooms are not heated we took a shower today and it was very cold the water was warm not hot but warm and uh we got clean but was tough getting dressed and dried beautiful morning there are a lot of really nice campsites here this is a nice uh what number is this 10 overlooking the water Pathways down to the water approved by Aila and we like it we found a stick a slightly burned stick it does good for his breath charcoal charcoal filtered come on don't know what he's doing he looks happy this guy with his woolly coat was flying around a minute ago oops that's a bumblebee I don't know what he's doing under there but he was flying around and landed there and now he's taking a snap nap I guess it's about 40° out so it's pretty cold not the greatest weather for bumblebees there are some really big trees in this little Forest I mean that's a we're a looking in the Sun but that's a really big pine tree really fat base it's got to be a maybe 70 or 80 years old which isn't normal in the South they cut them down every 10 to 20 years but where our Trail came down to the road and that's the uh stream that feeds the lake down there so I don't know if we want to go past that maybe the trail goes to the other side of the road we'll have to look nope the the trail doesn't go to the other side of the the street cuz it's just a swamp over here I hear a hawk up in this pine tree way back there got the mic going the wrong direction so you probably can't hear it well I guess our Trail did go uh down to where the stream comes into the lake and look there's a sea monster in it it's cold and this thinks he's a swimmer huh he thinks he's a manatee and while the water seems to be moving it doesn't really look that appetizing come on get out of the water get out of the the water God he's such a pest here's an alligator root don't that look like the eye of an alligator in a mouth I don't know if this is normal or if this is swamp or if this is uh from damage but it looks like uh the ground in the swamp is all been rooted up kind of like pigs do I don't know if they have wild pigs down here feral pigs as they call them in the wildlife Community but uh it really looks like it's been like just bulldoze up by some big head big nose the uh armadillos do that but not quite that large anyways he found a sticky like so he's happy I don't know if this shows on the camera but this is you know dug up dirt and this is kind of what pigs and you know sometimes deer will do that but not usually that deep I mean some of these holes are pretty deep this is this is a feral swine wild pigs digging for roots and things they want this Trail gets muddy in places I'm not sure we're going to continue to follow it somebody doesn't care but somebody does pretty impressive Trail we move along here it's it's like really wide I wonder if it was at one time a fire break or something again I don't know if this is the real result of the fire or if they wanted to kill these trees and they just uh AED off the bottom bark to kill them kind of cut them around um but this is a tree that now is just a home for a Vine I don't know what that is it's possible that there's uh ashes out here that they want to kill the emerald ash boore to try to collect the emerald ashb if you kill the tree the ashb can't breed he knows what he's doing well someday I'm going to learn when I decide we're going to take a hike to wear hiking boots cuz these things do not keep the mud or the water off the bod off the feed anyways all right well we're almost to the other side of the lake where the boat launches and here's this tree I wonder why they cut that down maybe it was dead it doesn't look so bad um anybody want to count the Rings and tell me how old this is um I'll do this side where you get the whole whole things all the Rings all right count those up for me pause the pause the page and count those up for me all right I counted 62 it's not easy the the the outer ones get really close together you really have to have a a knife to kind of split them apart and count them but they're there well we hiked around the lake to the beach swimming area and picnic area and I guess there's primitive campsites over here they have numbers there's this is three over there is two and they must be for campsites for tent sites but this is a this is a nice area too let's see it's got a fee station so daily fee $7 per site 350 if you have the in pass it's got trash it's got a beautiful bathroom just behind all those bushes has two showers two toilets that's on the men's side that's better than we've got in the RV area he went after the ball and apparently hurt his foot kind of limping around you don't want to play anymore you're tired okay okay we have played ball quite a bit this morning and uh we took the hike and I really think he's getting kind of old and maybe it's because we don't do enough exercise but you're good boy okay you want a biscuit I'll give you a biscuit about two biscuits we don't usually have a free day like this um we usually race from one place to another uh stopping maybe for uh an overnight in a campground we end up not having time to really play and enjoy a campground um like we came down to Louisiana zipping through Mississippi zipping through Alabama zipping through Georgia and uh we got you know the campground reviews which I think are important to do so people can rely on those for camping and getting around but we don't have time to really hike and and play and and cook and all that stuff this is a real pleasure to sit in a beautiful Forest like this practically all alone and uh enjoy so much that's here this is such a nice place you know Thursday they're going to come in for the weekend and maybe they'll fill the place up or maybe half fill it but it's like beautiful weather it's 60° um just a minor little breeze coming off the lake um let me know in the comments if this ever happens to you do you do you feel like you race around too much you know I see people when I go camping and I go to places like this and there's these great big rigs all over me all over around me the two that just came in 40t three wheels three axles you know on either side and uh they never come out of their rigs I don't understand it and the guy right across from me has a little dog that barks at a leave me a comment do you mind a 15minute video or do you mind a 30 minute video or a 45 minute video if it's got a lot of action in it they they say 5 Seconds 4 seconds is the attention span of the average millennial and um however I think most of my people are not Millennials so they probably have a longer attention you let me know in the comments whether you mind a 30 minute video too long or should I keep it to 15 I always try to make it 12 to 15 and then put nice stuff on the end if you anyways I get to blabbering I shouldn't be blabbering so much be with you on the next campsite byebye folks [Music]

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Keywords: Exploring the US, Eastern US, Small Camper, Large Dogs, German Shepherd, Cooking, Camping, Hiking, Senior, Single, Solo, Cheap Rving, Cheap camping, RV Repairs

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Length: 16min 15sec (975 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 21 2024