It’s a bit late in the summer, but we have just returned from our first camping trip of the year. Not much camping this year because of the big trip to VB. We spent the holiday weekend camping with the Myers’ at McCormick’s Creek State Park down south. I took Friday off work and spent the day getting things ready and packed up. The hardest part is the bikes…mine plus the kids, and did I mention we brought Sam with us too? Getting 5 bikes in the truck is not easy. One had to go on the rack. We left as soon as the kids we out of school and wound up racing daylight to get there. There was some twilight left but not a lot, but the campground is entirely forested so we set up in the dark. It’s also hilly, and the campsite was not exactly level. We stacked a whole bunch of 2x4s under the jacks, and Brian had to lend me some leveling plates to go under one tire because the site was so sloped. And there was nowhere level to set up the tent either (The girls called dibs on the tent) so we set it up in the most level place we could find, and told them to sleep with their heads uphill. It also made it hard to cook, wash dishes, eat, and anything else where a level surface helps. Anyway, we had a very nice long weekend of camping. We visited the waterfall and the cave, went on some hikes up the creek, a bit of geocaching, hung out at the pool, bike riding, horseback riding. The campground itself is heavily wooded, which can be nice but it made it very dark and damp; it almost was noon before it looked like daylight. Overall I would say that the park is very nice but it isn’t as good as Spring Mill or Turkey Run.