Allow us to reintroduce ourselves; we are the Rubys of ‘Rubys on the Road’. The blog posts will be slowly coming back after about an 18 months hiatus. Did we stop doing what we do? Nope. Did we just run out of free time to write about them? Yup. We aren’t big on social media but we tried to keep that updated with most of our Maine adventures, but finding time to write and publish posts has been on the…
If you read nothing else: We highly recommend that you visit Warren Island State Park. A day trip would be nice but camping here is a must! Warren Island State Park is in fact an island off the coast of Lincolnville, near Camden. No one is trying to trick you with the name, but it seems that people tend to think there is a bridge that might connect you or a ferry to directly transport you. Like many islands in…
We lumped Baxter State Park into our running list of camping trips because why not? “Why not” actually became the theme of the weekend because when you’re doing any type of wilderness camping, “who cares” and “you might as well” is the best mindset. Special guests, Memere and Pepere joined our traveling circus on this one! Just because “state park” is in its title, Baxter is not considered one of the 12 family campgrounds operated by Maine’s Bureau of Parks…
We are planners, but we did not plan for this. No, we’re not talking about #2 (Adeline), who was a surprise, we’re talking about this most recent trip to Mt. Blue State Park. About Adeline though, once the shock and excitement cleared the room, we realized how big of a change this would be, a good change. Having a baby mid-May threw a wrench in something silly like camping season. We always preach start early but how early is too…
Drum roll please…and the best family campground goes to… Peaks Kenny State Park! Well at this point, we still have a few more to go. This trip marks #10 out of the 12 Maine State Park family campgrounds. We were split on favorites before with one of us on team Lily Bay and the other rolling with team Cobscook, but after this weekend, Peak Kenny has claimed the #1 spot for the both of us; just for now of course. We…
Believe it or not but one of the most gratifying things over this weekend was watching other campers. This park is one of the most visited in the state for its beautiful surroundings and lake setting, yet at times we were people watching like it was a terminal at Logan Airport. First observation, it was about 70% people from Massachusetts, 20% New York and 10% Maine. This could have just been the case in our little cove and by no…
Trivia time…name the Maine state park that has the honor of being established first? If you guessed Aroostook State Park then you are correct. It probably helped a little that this post is about Aroostook State Park but nice work anyway. For being correct we’ll send you a Rubys on the Road koozie when we finally get around to designing them. Founded in 1938 after a wonderful donation from the residents of Presque Isle, the park has grown nicely to…
This trip was the definition of an adventure. A portion of it self-induced, a side of it was out of our control with just a dash of bad luck. At times it felt like we were the Griswolds in National Lampoon’s Vacation. Everyone was trying so hard to make sure it all went smoothly but there was lots of swinging and missing going around. Let’s get things straight though, Rangeley Lake State Park is a damn near perfect place and…
2 Nights Camping Fee: We feel like kids writing home from summer camp with this post about Lily Bay State Park: Dear Mom and Dad, You would not believe how amazing this place is. I know everyone said it would be great and it’s not like we didn’t believe them, but we just didn’t think it would be this cool! P.S. Can we come back next year? Sincerely, Us Many people told us that Lily Bay State Park is their…
In 2016, almost 14% of the US population went on at least one camping trip during the year. Half of these current campers were exposed to camping as adolescents and the average age of a first time camper is 10 years old. There are a lot of fun facts in the 2017 American Camper Report. The 14% recently came up in an economic impact study presentation, which then led some late night googling. If you’re ever bored, here are some…