Traditional Muzzleloading Association
The Center of Camp => The Campfire => Topic started by: Ohio Joe on March 22, 2023, 08:10:45 PM
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First on my list as soon as the weather permits; Wife and I haven't been here since the kids were little. It's one of the most beautiful places in Nebraska - and only 30 or so miles (west / northwest) from were I live. Enjoy the video,,, and the music is pretty darn good! :shake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-2MC9OVQ8c&t=303s
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Some beautiful country you got there. :bl th up
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We have a couple of the grandkids this weekend (Hank, you know Lucas), anyway if the weather is nice we may just take him and his sister Peyton up to Coffee Park today. Just depends on the weather... I've never known our forecast to be very accurate in this neck of the woods, but maybe we'll get lucky...
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Oh, I don't know. . . seem to recall one time the forecast was for "hot dry weather" and they were right for several weeks! :laffing
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Oh, I don't know. . . seem to recall one time the forecast was for "hot dry weather" and they were right for several weeks! :laffing
:laffing That's a fact!
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I could live there! It looks like a grand place to ramble, do they allow camping? You are one lucky dog to have that close by.
~Kees~
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I could live there! It looks like a grand place to ramble, do they allow camping? You are one lucky dog to have that close by.
~Kees~
Thanks Kees, I've always felt very blessed to have found what I was looking for in life. :shake
As far as I know, camping is allowed - though I don't have any details on camping (at this time) at Coffee Park, but I'll find out and let you know. Believe it or not, this video shows a much more developed Coffee Park than when I first stumbled onto it. Back than there were no shelter houses - and just an old wooden outhouse - but today it looks much more modern (as modern goes) where I live. :shake
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Coffee Park is a city (well, "village"--Harrison owns it last I knew) park; I don't think camping is allowed. I was up there some years ago, doing some biological survey work for a project. Sometimes in the summer you can trip over the birdwatchers. . . other than the park it is all privately owned. Many of the birdwatchers seem to think the entire valley is part of the park.
It can be kinda fun watching the preserve-nature-hunting-is-evil-tree-huggers when they get up there. Then they trip over a rattlesnake and suddenly want "someone" to kill all the snakes "for the children". It probably didn't help that while I was there, "someone" relocated one of the snakes over the fence and told the idiots that the ranchers stock the snakes so people won't trespass. On the other hand, one old lady from back East asked me to hold the snake so she could key it out: this was the second rattlesnake she'd seen in her life, and she wanted to know the species! (Crotalus viridis for the curious.)
When there isn't a lot of traffic (say, a Tuesday morning before Memorial Day), the Valley makes a great day hike. From one end to the other it is about 12 miles IIRC.