AUTOMOBILE TOURIST CAMPING GROUNDS 
 
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 CALVERT SWING WINSBOROUGH 
 
 THESIS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE 
 
 IN 
 
 LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
 
 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 1922 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AUTOMOBILE TOURIST CAMPING GROUNDS 
 
 
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TABLE OP CONTENTS 
 
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 Introduction page 1. 
 
 Location of camp site . page 8. 
 
 Size of camp site ...page 11. 
 
 Development of camp. page 14. 
 
 Drives page 14. 
 
 Lot spaces page 16. 
 
 Camp structures page 17. 
 
 Entrance gate house page 17. 
 
 Checker page 18. 
 
 Main lodge page 18. 
 
 Oarage and tool house.. page El. 
 
 Croup fireplaces page El. 
 
 Water, light and drainage. page EE. 
 
 Planting.... page EE. 
 
 Supervision ...page E5. 
 
 Expense page E4 • 
 
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 AKTICLES 
 
 The New Hospitality page E7. 
 
 Tenting On The New Camp Ground ....page 59. 
 
 Motor Tourist Camp Has All Conveniences page 44. 
 
Automobile Camp Site And The Gypsy Motorist, ..... .page 48. 
 
 Nomads of the Automobile page 55. 
 
 Gypsying De Luxe page 63. 
 
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 Index To Camp Sites page 69. 
 
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 Bibliography .page 88. 
 
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 Plans page 90. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AUTOMOBILE TOURIST CAMPING GROUNDS 
 
 The automobile tourist camping ground is an enterprise 
 which has arisen just recently. It has been brought about 
 mainly by two things; first, the rapid perfection of the 
 automobile and, second, the improvement of state and inter- 
 state roads. 
 
 The perfection of the motor car has been so great that it 
 has enabled the manufacturers to place on the market numerous 
 types of oars, with at least one type which is within the 
 means of nearly every family. 
 
 The rapidly increasing interest in hard roads is perhaps 
 just as great a factor in determining the number of tourists. 
 The completion of great concrete and brick arteries which 
 stretch from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf have 
 greatly lessened the trials and tribulations of the tourist 
 and made touring somewhat of a mania with us. It is no wonder 
 that we are considered the greatest touring population on the 
 earth. 
 
 Because of the great improvement in the automobile and 
 increased cross-country travel the question of a safe, cheap, 
 comfortable and convenient place to stop over has arisen. To 
 fulfill this need the automobile tourist camping ground has 
 come into existence. For some years communities have set ¥ 
 aside places where the tourist was allowed to pitch his tent 
 and trust to his own ingenuity for his health and comfort, 
 
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 there being no facilities for heat, light, water, drainage or 
 protection against the ravages of the elements furnished by 
 the community. Not until recently have communities realized 
 the benefits to be derived from an easily accessible, healthy 
 and attractive camp ground. Denver, Colorado, was the first 
 to provide a free tourist camp. Since the establishment of its 
 first camp in about 1915, the site has been moved three times. 
 Now it is located in Overland Park, one of the finest parks of 
 the city. 
 
 It being the first and thereby having the longest time to 
 develop is now the largest and finest camp ground in the United 
 States. Its position as the largest in the country is 
 jeopardized only by the camp at Los Angeles. 
 
 Although this is a relatively new idea, the scope of its 
 interest is the entire United States. Every state has 
 numerous camps and I have authentic records of 155 in 
 California alone. The majority of the camps at present are to 
 be found in the Western states. However, I predict that in the 
 near future, because of the acquisition of tracts of land by 
 the Eastern states for the purpose of reforestation, and the 
 availability of camp sites through this means, that the time 
 will not be long before camps in the East will be as numerous 
 as they are today in the West. 
 
 During the next decade there will be such an improvement 
 of highways all over the United States that each of the States 
 will be the yearly mecca for tens of thousands of touring 
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 Already a large part of America is en route each season 
 for motor trips of greater or less extent, but the condition 
 of the roads sets a limit to where the auto can go and the 
 touring shall take place, except in the case of the more 
 venturesome spirits* Even these, moreover, must be well 
 supplied with the means, muscular and mechanical, for meeting 
 the exigencies of a day’s driving in a region of poor roads or 
 no roads at all. 
 
 One’s muscles and the inventive genius of man in the 
 fashioning of pulleys and other handy devices sometimes do not 
 suffice. The help of the patient mule and the lowing ox and 
 the kindly but shrewd and acquisitive husbandman must be 
 summoned in situations of extremity. 
 
 But do we not know that there is a better day coming? 
 
 Indeed we do.’ And that is the reason we are bearing, as 
 cheerfully as our temperaments and self-control will permit, 
 the hardships of the present, when we tempt fate by getting 
 off the improved stretches of highway. 
 
 Still, we are adventurous in disposition and it is more 
 than likely that there lurks within us the desire to take 
 chances in these matters. Otherwise we should hardly be 
 worthy sons and daughters of those who came across the sea to 
 found this happy land where the Stars and Stripes are ever 
 waving. 
 
 There are beginning to be mitigating circumstances to the 
 act of promiscuous touring, however, and those who prefer the 
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 additional joys discovered while roaming around the country 
 getting acquainted with our Uncle’s wide domain and the men, 
 women and children who inhabit it. 
 
 The benefit to be derived from good roads may be shown by 
 briefly relating the experience of Mason City, Iowa. Long 
 stretches of pavement in the vicinity of Mason City and the 
 assurance of hundreds of miles of permanent road in the more 
 distant approaches are already bringing good things to this 
 town. A concrete and steel hotel, with several hundred rooms 
 and the most modern service, is under construction to care for 
 the inevitable tide of tourists, and permanent buildings have 
 been erected for the comfort and health of campers in the 
 grounds set aside for their use in the best of the parks. 
 
 Camping places of such sort are now to be found in many 
 of the towns and cities in the middle West and the far West, 
 and the observation and use of some of them by some Mason 
 City men was the beginning of the movement for adequate and, 
 indeed, elaborate preparations for the camping tourist 
 parties in their home town. 
 
 Cooking and shelter and comfort stations and bath houses 
 have been erected of tile, with cement dash finish, and nearly 
 all the work as well as the material was donated by manu- 
 facturers, contractors and workmen. Not the least interesting 
 fact of the record in this case is that the plumbers ’ union 
 installed the plumbing free of charge, not even asking pay for 
 the time spent in coming to the job from the shop, or in going 
 from the job to the shop after forgotten tools. Thus we see 
 

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that camping grounds will follow in the wake of good roads. 
 
 In each community there will be found some people who will 
 consider a free camp as a liability. This is an entirely er- 
 roneous idea. A tourist camp with all of the conveniences 
 necessary for comfort is a decided asset to the community. 
 
 Good business men know this and upon investigation it will be 
 found that all of the material and equipment necessary to build 
 the camp will be furnished at cost if not donated. Even the 
 cost of labor will be minimized. 
 
 During the five months of June, July, August, September 
 and October of 19 £0, approximately 18000 tourists stopped at 
 the auto camp established last spring by the Missoula Chamber 
 of Commerce at Missoula in Western Montana. Consensus of 
 opinion among authorities is that tourists spend an average of 
 f>5.00 per day per person. Therefore, it is estimated that these 
 18,000 tourists spent at least $90,000, or almost $100,000 in 
 Missoula and vicinity during the last touring season. During 
 August one of Missoula's leading bankers estimated that travel- 
 ers' checks to the amount of $1000 were handled daily in the 
 business district. 
 
 Missoula is located at one of the few favorable passes 
 from the Mississippi to the Pacific slopes in the Montana 
 Rockies. Consequently, the bulk of east and west bound travel 
 passes through Missoula over the Rational Parks Highway, the 
 Yellowstone Trail and a number of other highways that claim a 
 common route in this region. More and more travel between 
 Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks is passing over the 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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scenic Western Montana route via Missoula, in itself a 
 veritable park wonderland trip* 
 
 But it was not until last summer that Missoula through 
 its Chamber of Commerce took real action to make Missoula a 
 stopping place for the tourist autocade. How happy have been 
 the results from the establishment of the new auto park may 
 be deduced from the facts stated just above. 
 
 The Missoula Chamber of Commerce assumed the entire 
 burden by arranging for the purchase, development and 
 maintenance of an auto park of approximately twelve acres at 
 the north-eastern corner of the city, frees and green things 
 
 and a mountain stream all protected by a sheltering 
 
 mountain, produce an atmosphere of cool restfulness that the 
 tourists have found most attractive. 
 
 Plenty of camping ground has been provided, roads have 
 been constructed, tables, benches, concrete ovens and sanitary 
 conveniences installed, city water piped into the grounds and 
 free fuel put at the disposal of the auto campers. 
 
 One night last August there were 101 cars and over 350 
 people in the park. July and August were the big touring 
 months. According to the records of the caretaker, during the 
 month of August 6,344 tourists who came in 2,144 cars stopped 
 at the Missoula auto camp. The smallest night in attendance in 
 August was 57 people in 19 cars. For noon luncheon during the 
 month 318 cars visited the park. During the nights of July 
 there were 1,463 cars in the auto camp and 230 stopped for noon 
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 The records show that 615 cars and 2,445 people visited 
 the park in June; 1,628 cars and 6,240 people in July; 2,142 
 cars and 6,344 people in August; 917 cars and 2,787 people in 
 September; 372 cars and 1,113 people in October. 
 
 Bring this subject to the minds of any progressive 
 community and it will soon be the possessor of a free camp for 
 tourists, which will many times pay for itself in increased 
 business and the nation wide advertising which that community 
 will receive from all tourists who visit it. 
 
 There are four fundamental features of a good camp. The 
 correct analysis and planning of these features determines 
 absolutely the success of the camp. The four features that I 
 will discuss are: location, size, development and supervision 
 
 and the relative features pertaining to each of these. 
 
LOCATION OF CAMP SITE 
 
 The location of the camp is of prime importance, for a 
 camp poorly located fails utterly to perform its function by 
 its uninviting character or by its very obscurity. A good 
 camp should bear a close relation to the inter-state highways, 
 to the park system of the city providing it and to the main 
 arteries of traffic to the business center. It is not always 
 possible to place a camp at a focal point of these three 
 arteries. But if it is possible to so place a camp that it 
 will be a nucleus from which these highways radiate that is 
 the ideal location so far as access is concerned. 
 
 The camp should be placed on or near the inter-state 
 highway because practically all of the visitors will be people 
 on a long tour and will naturally come into the city or town 
 on this highway. By so placing it it will be easily found and 
 will be noticed also by the tourists who pass through the town 
 during the day time, thus favorably advertising that community, 
 both day and night to all who pass it by. 
 
 The camp should be closely related to the park and 
 boulevard system. Many tourists will want to 'do the town' and 
 thus homeseekers may become permanent citizens of the community 
 through being favorably impressed with the park features and in 
 turn other features of the town. This type of tourist, the 
 home hunter, is one type of tourist which every community 
 should do its utmost to please. 
 
 The ease with which the tourist can get to the business 
 
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 district will in a great degree determine whether or not he 
 does his shopping in that community. Bear in mind that among 
 the tourists will be the farmer who has piled his family and 
 equipment in the car and is off for a few weeks to rest up a 
 bit and do his buying for the winter. This form of buying is 
 far more satisfactory than the old mail order house kind, last 
 summer I fell into conversation with a farmer who was driving a 
 dilapidated old Ford and during the conversation I found that 
 he had spent in excess of |>1900 in that town during his stay of 
 three days. So make the camp easy to reach from the business 
 district, and vice versa, and the increased business will more 
 than pay in one season for what little additional expense may 
 be incurred. 
 
 But there are other features which also determine the 
 location of the camp. The camp must not be in a too thickly 
 settled residential district, for the appearance of the 
 "automobile nomad" with his dirty clothes and his car, nearly 
 hidden by camping paraphernalia is not one upon which the 
 tired business man may restfully look. 
 
 The next feature determining the location of the camp is 
 the topography of the land. First of all the land should be 
 well-drained, not necessarily high, but if the land has a good 
 natural drainage the expense of artificial drainage will be 
 saved. If the land is sufficiently high there will be many 
 good views from every portion of it. This is a feature not to 
 be neglected. The camp should preferably be located in an 
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 of water in it. These two features will give unbounded 
 pleasure and comfort to the tourists. The trees will protect 
 the campers and equipment from the heat of the midday sun. The 
 water with the various activities that may be developed such as 
 canoeing, boating, swimming, and fishing affords a fascination 
 to every one which can be attained by no other means. These 
 things determine the location of the camp. The next feature 
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 SIZE OE AUTO TOURIST CAMP I EG SITE 
 
 The size of the camp is dependent upon first, the ground 
 obtainable and second, the number of tourists requiring 
 accommodations. It is obvious that if only a certain amount 
 of land can be obtained because of development around it that 
 the size of the camp ground is predetermined. However more 
 often this is not the case for the ideal site for a camp is 
 not generally in a section that is built up. When it is 
 possible to obtain all of the land that is necessary a committee 
 should be appointed to take accurate counts of the number of 
 tourists that pass through the town and who would use a camp 
 if one were there. This is generally handled by the commercial 
 club or some other civic organization. After the counts are 
 made it is then merely a simple matter of mathematics to 
 determine the acreage necessary. I will give some statistics 
 here which will help in determining the area required for a 
 given number of tourists. The lots to which each party is 
 assigned should be rather spacious thereby lending a certain 
 feeling of privateness and remoteness. A good size for a lot 
 is 50 feet square. However if the space is limited it will be 
 of advantage to make the lots 25 x 55 feet. A lot this size 
 will be found to be very satisfactory yet there will be a 
 feeling that one is located in a community camp instead of the 
 feeling created by a larger lot of being in an individual and 
 private camp. To some the community feeling is one to be 
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 percentage of the space to be given over to drives, service 
 buildings, social and athletic activities and planting it is 
 possible to get 15 lots 50 feet square per acre. This means 
 fifteen different parties may be accommodated per acre. The 
 average of the number of individuals in each party is about 4, 
 then 60 persons may be accommodated per acre per day. That 
 is, 1800 per month, or about 7000 per season per acre. If the 
 camp is ten acres in area 70,000 persons may be accommodated 
 by it in one season. It has been determined by statistics 
 kept by towns which have a tourist camp that the tourist 
 spends on an average of $5 per person per day. Then a ten 
 acre camp with the size lots I have mentioned would be the 
 means of bringing additional business to the extent of $550,000 
 each season to the community providing it. Of course this 
 figure is based upon the camp being filled to its capacity 
 every day of the season. One must bear in mind that this will 
 not be the case during the first year or so. But if the camp 
 is correctly designed it will soon be the annual stopover of 
 parties who have previously visited it. It will not only be 
 filled to its capacity but its expansion will become necessary. 
 It is always wise to take into consideration this question of 
 future expansion when the land is first acquired. Obtain 
 leases upon the surrounding land with the privilege to buy at 
 any time. 
 
 Some people have the mistaken idea that the population of 
 the town determines the size of the camp. This is an entirely 
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namely the ground obtainable and the number of tourists, are 
 instrumental in determining the size of the camp required. The 
 most important of these is the latter; the number of tourists 
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 DEVELOPMENT OE TEE CAMP 
 
 The next main feature of the tourist camp and without 
 doubt the most important one is the development of the camp. 
 
 It is obvious that a camp which consists simply of an 
 isolated area with no attractive features and comforts is not 
 going to attract the tourist to it especially, for there are 
 many such places along the highway which will attract him even 
 more than a camp of this sort. There is a certain sense of 
 discovery that is realized when one finds an especially 
 attractive little nook, out away from mankind where he may 
 pitch his tent. But even this pleasure is lost in an area 
 that has been fenced off by man and then neglected. Upon 
 reaching a camp such as this, one feels as if he is an 
 undesirable, and that that community has looked down upon him 
 and segregated him from them. This is entirely the wrong 
 impression for a community to create toward itself and were it 
 not for the backwardness of the community it would realize the 
 value of creating the most favorable impression possible in the 
 mind of each individual who visits it. There are many features 
 which determine a well developed camp, one that will reach the 
 maximum of efficiency in the position it has to play. The 
 first of these is the drives. 
 
 DELVES 
 
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 possible, still being efficient. The main drive should lead 
 from the entrance to the main lodge in front of which is a 
 turn around. Secondary drives on each side of which are the 
 camping lots should branch off of the main drive. There 
 should be an easy approach from this secondary drive to the 
 lot itself still keeping the lot above the level of the 
 drive. The main drive should be eighteen feet wide and the 
 secondary drives nine feet wide. The drives may be made of 
 quite a variety of materials. The most generally used 
 material is cinders. These most generally are easily obtain- 
 able and are of little expense. They are very pervious, and 
 dispose of the surface water with the greatest rapidity. 
 
 Their color and texture very easily blend into the informality 
 of the entire development. Altho cinders are the best in many 
 respects it may be more advisable in some communities to use 
 some other material. This of course will be a specific case 
 and cannot be treated here. However that material which may 
 be obtained most easily and at the least expense will doubtless 
 be the one to use, provided that it is efficient. 
 
 The arrangement of the drives will be greatly determined 
 by the contour of the land and it is impractical to say that 
 any set rule should be followed by each community. The drives 
 of each camp must be worked out for that specific camp. The 
 only suggestion that it is possible to give which will pertain 
 to all camps is that the drives must be as much as possible in 
 the lov/ areas thereby making the lots on a higher level, they 
 must be well drained and efficient. 
 
LOT SPACES 
 
 The next element of the camp is the lot spaces for 
 camping. These spaces as I have mentioned must be on 
 comparatively high ground. They must be spacious giving some 
 degree of privacy and isolation from the others. A space 50 
 feet square is a good size for a lot. This allows room for 
 the car and tent whether the tent is attached to the car, 
 relying upon the car for its support or whether it is 
 separate. It is advisable to lay a wooden floor about 
 eight inches above the ground over which the tent may be 
 pitched, thus assuring a dry surface to sleep upon. It is not 
 advisable to furnish tents, for they are quite an expense and 
 practically all tourists have their own tents. Some camps 
 have built shacks the sides of which are of canvas and may be 
 raised or lowered at will. But this is rather a needless 
 expense and does not generally give the satisfaction that is 
 desired from really camping in a regular 7x9 canvas tent 
 which must be pitched by one's self. The depreciation of this 
 half cottage and half tent during the winter is so great that 
 it is very inadvisable to construct them. On the lot there 
 should be made provision for cooking. However as there is 
 generally also a main kitchen or group fireplaces this lot 
 fireplace is nearly always very simple. On the lot there is 
 provided just a fire-place fashioned by laying the local rocks 
 in the shape of a U. It is always an unbounded pleasure to 
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 late at night toasting marshmallows or wieners and talking over 
 the experiences of the past day or planning the activities of 
 the next. 
 
 CAMP ST2UCTUHES 
 
 The next element of the development is the structures 
 that should be built. The buildings necessary may generally 
 be named as the following. Entrance gate house, Main lodge, 
 
 Bath houses. Comfort stations and Garage. I will discuss 
 each of these separately. First the entrance gate house. 
 
 EBTSANCE GATE HOUSE 
 
 The entrance gate house is of course located at the main 
 entrance to the camp. It may be made of any material that is 
 more or less permanent. The material most advisable in a 
 given community will be determined by that community, the 
 accessibility of the material greatly determining its use. 
 
 Some communities find wood to be the cheapest. When wood is 
 to be used, if possible to obtain, white pine will be found 
 very satisfactory. In the event of wood construction care 
 must be had to carefully paint all exposed surfaces each 
 season. Some communities find it cheaper to use stone. When 
 this is the case it is truly a blessing, for the stone will 
 last for an indefinitely long period and will become more and 
 more picturesque as it ages. 
 
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 At the entrance gate should be located a ’’checker". The 
 duty of this person is to obtain the license number of each 
 car entering the camp, the type of car and how many occupants 
 it has. This has more than infrequently been the means of 
 locating stolen cars. After the checker has gotten this data 
 he issues a lot number for that party and gives them a 
 corresponding key to the gas plate and cupboard which is to be 
 used by the occupants of that lot. He then gives directions 
 to the party to enable them to easily find their lot. If the 
 camp is large he gives them a printed map of the camp showing 
 the various lots and buildings and what service each renders. 
 This map should be accompanied with a concise statement of the 
 regulations and rules of the camp. 
 
 MAIN LODGE 
 
 The next structure of importance is the main lodge. This 
 should be built of the same material that the entrance gate 
 house is or some material that is in keeping with the spirit 
 and atmosphere of the camp. Stone layed in random ruble is a 
 very satisfactory material. The lodge should be centrally 
 located, generally on axis with the main entrance drive. The 
 size of the lodge will be determined by the number of tourists 
 to be accommodated by the camp. As this is an ever increasing 
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 may be found necessary later to build another, in another 
 part of the camp after expansion has taken place. The lodge 
 should contain, a kitchen, a store and cafeteria, lounge rooms, 
 dance hall, recreation rooms, laundry, baths, local and long 
 distance telephone, and first aid station. Sometimes it is 
 found advisable to have a few rooms to accommodate the few 
 tourists who come without tents or for sickness or other 
 reason desire to occupy a room. However this is not necessary 
 for if such tourists come they may be directed to a hotel. 
 
 The kitchen should contain gas plates sufficient to accommodate 
 every party. There must also be provided cupboards, for the 
 temporary storage of the commodities they buy for each meal. 
 
 The gas plates are so arranged that a deposit of 25^ is 
 required each day to get gas enough for that day’s cooking. 
 
 The revenue from this source helps greatly in the expense of 
 maintenance. 
 
 If only one store is provided it must be of very much the 
 same type as the small to?m general store with a stock of goods 
 which ranges from cans of sardines to a portable tent. It is 
 best to provide two stores, one for groceries and another for 
 hardware and clothing such as is needed by the camper. The 
 grocery store might well have a steam counter where the tourist 
 may obtain hot, home-cooked food to take to his tent and have a 
 nice hot meal without the inconvenience of cooking it. These 
 stores are generally contracted for by a concessionaire. 
 
 The lodge should also contain spacious lounge rooms fitted 
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 large fireplace in the lounge rooms around which there may he 
 gatherings of various kinds at night. 
 
 There should also he a dance hall where couples may dance 
 at specified hours without charge. This may he furnished with 
 an electric or player piano which may he operated hy one of 
 the party and on specified evenings a dance may be given hy the 
 camp for which an orchestra is engaged. 
 
 There should he furnished also recreation rooms where there 
 will he found chess, checkers, cards, dominoes, ping-pong, 
 pool, billiards and howling. In this room is generally located 
 a tobacco counter and a smoking room. There may he a card room 
 for the ladies where they can play bridge and five hundred or 
 any other game they may choose. 
 
 Free baths must he provided. It is best to have the men*s 
 shower on the first floor and the ladies on the second or 
 third. Both should contain porcelain fittings thruout. Hot 
 and cold water must he always on tap. This will also he 
 necessary for the laundry which is also in the basement. 
 
 Spacious tubs made of porcelain with hot and cold water always 
 on hand and the privilege of hiring the laundry done hy wash- 
 women or doing it ones self is a feature always appreciated hy 
 the dirty, dust laden tourist. Then he may have his shower 
 and find clean linen ready for him and then enjoy the camp to 
 the utmost. 
 
 It is sometimes found advisable to build the hath houses 
 apart from the main lodge. When this is the case, care must 
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all parts of the camp. The ladies and mens bath bath house 
 should be segregated one from the other. The same is true of 
 the comfort stations when apart from the main lodge. These 
 should be connected with the sewage system of the town. If it 
 is not possible to do this, they may be connected into one 
 system which empties into a septic tank and then into a filter 
 bed and then to an outlet well outside of the camp area. 
 
 GARAGE AMD TOOL HOUSE 
 
 The next structure of importance is the garage and tool 
 house. This should be located in some isolated part of the 
 camp, yet must be easily approached by the drive. This may be 
 operated by an experienced mechanic and auto repair-man. There 
 must be an adequate supply of tools and a very complete 
 accessory station may also be included. It is advisable also 
 to have equipment for vulcanizing. 
 
 GROUP FIREPLACES 
 
 In connection with structures it might be advisable to 
 mention group fireplaces. These are made of undressed stone 
 found in the locality, held in place by wiped bead cement 
 joints. They are constructed very much like a log cabin fire- 
 place. One of these may serve for a number of lots for they 
 are made large enough for three or four parties to use at one 
 
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 placed beside the fireplace daily by the camp. 
 
 Y/ATER, LIGHT ALL DRAINAGE 
 
 The camp should be gridironed by water pipes which 
 terminate in a hydrant. These hydrants should be numerous 
 enough so that the distance from any lot to the nearest hydrant 
 will not be greater than 150 feet. Each lot should be 
 furnished with electric light, with a switch so that the light 
 of each lot may be turned on or off at will without affecting 
 the light of the other lots. 
 
 The question of drainage is a very important one. The 
 drainage system must carry off the underground water and the 
 surface water. The surface water must be rapidly carried off 
 and the entire area must be drained to keep it in a healthy, 
 dry condition. To do this an adequate drainage system must 
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 PLANTING 
 
 The beauty, cheerfulness and restfullness of the camp 
 will be greatly determined by the planting. All of the 
 planting should be of the informal, naturalistic type. Care 
 must be taken to plant shrubs that are indigenous to that 
 locality. Foundation plantings should be made around each 
 building and the lot lines may well be marked by a border of 
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 and garage should be well screened from view of the entire 
 camp by a high, thick planting. 
 
 SUPERVISION 
 
 The next main element of a camp is the supervision of it. 
 The welfare of the camp generally lies in the hands of the 
 checker, a superintendent and local police. The superintendent 
 has the charge of a number of caretakers whose duty it is to 
 police the grounds and keep them in shape. A night watchman 
 who is generally a city policeman watches the welfare of the 
 campers while they are asleep. It is advisable to place signs 
 to enable the campers to more easily comply with the rules of 
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 EXPENSE 
 
 The question of prime importance in the minds of many is 
 that of expense. The original expense will greatly depend 
 upon the attitude taken by the ones furnishing the building 
 material and labor. If they are impressed with the value to 
 them of such a camp, quite often the material will be donated, 
 and as has already been pointed out the cost of labor will be 
 minimized. What expense there is incurred is generally stood 
 by the town or by some civic organization such as the commercial 
 club. Often by popular subscription among the merchants enough 
 money may be raised to meet the initial expense. 
 
 The next expense is that of upkeep. This will 
 undoubtedly be met by the income from the camp itself. A small 
 charge may be made as rental of the lot after it has been 
 occupied a certain number of days. The charge for gas furnishes 
 a goodly revenue, and the profits made from the various stores 
 will not only meet the expense but will be found to be a money 
 making investment. On the whole the camp meets all of its own 
 expenses after it becomes known and not only will it just meet 
 its running expense but will soon pay for the original cost and 
 from then on it will be really a money making enterprise which 
 will increase from year to year. There are quite a number of 
 camps for tourists such as, the camp at Ipswich, S. Dakota, 
 owned by Geo. I. Perry, Crystal Cave, S. Dakota, owned by 
 Louis Storm, and the camp at St. Augustine, Fla., owned by 
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 of making money. 
 
 One must bear in mind that this discussion has pertained 
 more or less to an ideal camp. In many localities some of 
 the things I have mentioned will be found impossible or at 
 least impractical. Each camp must be designed by some 
 competent landscape architect before it will reach the 
 highest degree of satisfaction and efficiency. However if it 
 is possible to incorporate all of the elements I have mentioned 
 here the camp will be a pleasure and pride to the community 
 providing it and the increased business and nation wide 
 advertising the community will receive will many, many times 
 pay for the land and expense involved in the enterprise. 
 
 The growth of auto camps will be even more rapid in the 
 next five years than it has been during the past five years. 
 
 The legislatures of California and Colorado have already 
 passed bills providing money for camps along the state 
 highways. There is also an act which provides that whenever 
 a tract of land is sold for lumbering purposes, an area of at 
 least five acres must be laid aside and developed into a 
 camp. 
 
 The development of the auto camp has restricted itself 
 mainly to the west yet in the near future there will be a 
 marvelous development along this line in all states east of 
 the Mississippi river. This eastern portion of the United 
 States is the most densely populated and for that reason alone 
 should require more numerous camps than the west. An auto 
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are truly breathing spaces and the greater the breathing 
 space the more healthy is the surrounding community. In the 
 east there will soon be tracts of land bought by the state 
 for reforestation. In fact many of the eastern states have 
 already acquired such areas. These areas will all eventually 
 contain a tourist camp. Prom the Cat skill mountains down to 
 the most southern part of the Blue Ridge one will be able to 
 tour at no time being more than a day T s distance of an 
 adequate camp. Then one can say, "let us take a tour this 
 summer", without having in mind going to the Rocky mountains, 
 for many of the attractive features of the Rocky mountains 
 will then be realized in the Appalachian mountains. Then we 
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 THE HEW HOSPITALITY 
 By Rebecca H. Porter. 
 
 "Come in. Glad to see you." 
 
 If you had been house-hunting without success for three 
 months, if you had a husband who was dissatisfied with 
 business conditions at home and was seeking a new field for 
 investment, if you possessed two small children who placed 
 you beyond the pale of eligibility as a tenant, how would 
 this sign, swung above the entrance to an auto -park camp, 
 look to you? 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Fremont-Smith, motoring from Buffalo 
 to Santa Barbara in a mat tress -gorged automobile, it looked 
 (to quote their own words) "like the Garden of Eden re- 
 opened to the human race after being closed for repairs." 
 
 The auto -park camp which the Santa Barbara Chamber of 
 Commerce owns and places at the disposal of its motoring 
 guests is only one of many such open-air hotels now 
 scattered over the length and breadth of our country. A 
 less poetic but more veracious comparison than the Garden 
 of Eden is that they are the cafeteria idea raised to the 
 n-th degree. Come when you like, wait on yourself, and 
 pay as you leave. 
 
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 bottle and the khaki lean-to. With fifty-five hundred 
 neighbors, all of them practically within seeing distance of 
 him, a tourist is under no more obligation to get acquainted 
 than he would be in a city office -building. A New York 
 apartment -house itself could not insure for him a more 
 impregnable privacy. 
 
 But out on the genial shores of southern California 
 there is a come -in-glad-to-see -you spirit which proves a 
 universal solvent for urban and provincial reserve. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Fremont -Smith felt it when, on the second night after 
 their arrival, they were invited, without the preliminary of 
 a first call, to attend a party. Somebody in camp was having 
 a birthday, and this furnished the motif for a rollicking 
 celebration. It was given in the community kitchen where, 
 surrounded on three sides by gas plates and adjustable 
 ovens, a group of forty guests were entertained. Everybody 
 in the park was invited and everybody came. That the 
 programme was entirely impromptu added to its variety and 
 zest, for unsuspected talent disclosed itself and volun- 
 teered its service. Among the guests was a professional 
 raconteur, a violinist, a sleight-of-hand artist, and a 
 clever little school-teacher who offered to read palms. At 
 the end of the evening a huge freezer of ice-cream was 
 opened by the genial secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, 
 two of the gas plates heated up the chocolate, and a cake 
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It was, as one of the group expressed it, "something 
 new in parties.” But what is infinitely more interesting to 
 the student of modem sociology, it is something new in 
 living. For the mere description of a successfully con- 
 ducted auto-park party is not a significant thing. This 
 new hospitality which we are offering to our travelling 
 public becomes a vital element in our national life only 
 when we consider the psychology that lies back of it. The 
 question of where the Fremont -Smiths are going is of no 
 importance. The really important questions concerning their 
 trip are these: Why are they going? Having once started to 
 
 "go", will they ever be content to permanently stop? And 
 what will be the effect upon America of an increasing 
 citizenship of Fremont -Smiths? 
 
 Barring those tourists who are in quest of health (and 
 these are comparatively very few) , there are to the super- 
 ficial observer two completely satisfying answers to the 
 question Why. These are the rise of household expenses and 
 the decline of household servants. Nobody can deny these 
 two factors in our national life, and what nobody can deny 
 most of us accept as all-conclusive proof. We know that in 
 the East there is an idea rampant that "out in California 
 there is plenty of room." The good-humored tourist finding 
 upon his arrival that this does not mean furnished-room, 
 accepts the auto-park substitute, and flits adventurously 
 from one camping-ground to another while his wife revels in 
 the experience of housekeeping with no housework. All this 
 
is obvious, so obvious that the Fremont -Smiths have not been 
 considered a problem at all. 
 
 But the motives which lead our summer campers to become 
 perpetual campers are not to be so easily and plausibly 
 labelled. Under the oak-tree where Mrs. Fremont-Smith is 
 shelling peas, a searcher after the real well-spring of 
 truth feels the hazel wand turn in his hand. 
 
 "We've been travelling for almost a year now,” the 
 hostess declares, making a place for her caller upon one of 
 the car cushions. ”We started out just to spend the summer, 
 and then our real-estate agent wrote us that the people who 
 were in our house would pay twenty-five dollars a month more 
 if they could keep it through the winter. We figured that 
 we could live out this way and save about fifty a month. 
 Henry needed a change anyway, and I was simply sick of 
 housework. ” 
 
 "But what will you do during the rainy season?” The 
 caller being an adopted Californian dared hint thus of the 
 possibility of intermittent sunshine. 
 
 "Oh, we'll go 'in' for January and February. We have a 
 friend up in San Francisco who will rent us two rooms in his 
 house. But it will certainly be hard to get used to being 
 'in'. We tried it for two weeks in Denver when the schools 
 first started, and actually whenever I saw autos go past the 
 window all packed for camping, I just ached to get up and 
 start off somewhere anywhere, just to be going." 
 
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 There is no despair of a harassed housekeeper left servant- 
 less. For Mrs. Fremont -Smith never had a servant. By her 
 own frank confession she was a New England girl raised in a 
 large family where every child had a part in the home 
 responsibilities. And parenthetically we may as well confess 
 that most of the clamor about the servant problem comes from 
 families not accustomed to domestic help save in emergency. 
 Those whose traditions include this form of service are the 
 ones who are adapting themselves most resourcefully and 
 philosophically to the maid shortage. 
 
 It is not lack of help, then, not lack of home, that is 
 driving our citizenship out upon the public road, but the 
 spirit of "Let’s go," which is rapidly becoming our national 
 slogan. And added to the simple faith of our forefathers as 
 expressed upon our medium of exchange it has a subtly 
 pathetic humor "In God we trust. Let's go." 
 
 A woman writer added fresh testimony to the trend of 
 modern sentiment the other day. "I have to solve the prob- 
 lem of working and yet living outside," she said. "So I 
 evolved the plan of stopping my car on some quiet roadside 
 and writing on a pad in my lap. But I soon learned that 
 roadsides, even very quiet ones, would not do. So many 
 kindly people stopped with solicitous offers of gas and oil 
 that my life became a succession of refusals. To the 
 average American who owns an automobile it is an incon- 
 ceivable thing that any one who is equipped to 'go' should 
 
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 But to return to Mrs. Fremont-Smith. When asked how 
 she solved the school problem, she replied: T, We just put 
 
 them right in here. We've been here two months already and 
 will probably be here two more. There are several children 
 in camp about their age, and every morning one of us gathers 
 them up and drives them to school. And here's a thing that 
 will interest you. The teachers say that the children from 
 the auto park are the cleanest pupils in the school. " 
 
 This is not hard to believe. For mothers freed from 
 domestic cares have more time to spend upon faces and hands 
 and "behind the ears.” And by that same token it is quite 
 probable that the children at the auto camp have more 
 parental co-operation in preparing their lessons. 
 
 Mrs. Fremont-Smith had finished the peas now and was 
 running a deft hand down a small stocking leg, prospecting 
 for holes. The double bed, sheltered by a khaki lean-to, 
 was neatly made, and a roll of flannel underwear flapped 
 upon the clothes-line. If it is true that houses reflect the 
 characters of their owners, tents are infinitely more 
 illuminating. Sitting at the door of this one it was easy to 
 make the transition from casual acquaintance to confidant and 
 so receive indirect introduction to some of the neighbors. 
 
 "Those people over there are from Indiana. They own a 
 home and a lot of property there, but they decided that they 
 wanted to travel, and they've been down in San Diego for four 
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contractor and is putting up that new office -building on 
 B--- Street. They took a house two weeks ago, but yesterday 
 morning back they came to camp. She said she just got so 
 lonesome with nobody to talk to all day that she didn't know 
 what to do. Hot a soul came to call on her, and she said 
 that when she'd think of the good times we all used to have 
 together out here, cooking supper so cosily over in the 
 kitchen and signing up for the waffle-iron on Sunday mornings, 
 she just couldn't stand it. So they've taken one of those 
 wooden lodges and will be here all winter. " 
 
 Here she digressed from her responsibilities as hostess 
 to call to the occupants of an incoming car. "Did you look 
 at it?" The man replied evasively as he helped his wife to 
 alight and began unpacking the groceries. Mrs. Fremont-Smith 
 winked with genial camaraderie. "You see," she explained in 
 a lowered voice, "we all say that we're here because we 
 haven't any other place to live. And there's an unwritten 
 law that whoever sees a sign of an apartment or house to 
 rent must report it in camp. My husband and I have told these 
 
 people about five different places but Well, you see they're 
 
 still here." 
 
 Most of these campers are "still here," and their 
 permanency and contentment seems to answer definitely the 
 second question. Having once started to go will they ever be 
 content to stop? Ho. 'Why should they stop when in this 
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 Eagerly does the American father of today impart to his 
 family the glad tidings that he has rented or sold the home 
 and they can now live in an apartment. Willingly does the 
 American mother of to-day accept the altered condition of 
 living that will free her from domestic toil. Joyfully do 
 parents and children flee at length from the Gommorrah of 
 profiteering landlords to the fellowship of the roadside 
 camp-fire. And the soul of the whole matter lies in this 
 fact: the Fremont -Smiths sacrifice their home ties lightly 
 
 because they bind them lightly. Only in song do they pay 
 tribute to the theory of there being "no place like home." 
 
 It is Emerson who urges us earnestly to "stay at home in 
 thine own heaven." "Good advice," say the Fremont -Smiths, 
 
 "if you have that kind of a home. But making a heaven out of 
 your home involves too much work. Even making a haven of it 
 is arduous. And in place of drudgery we can have freedom. In 
 place of routine we can have adventure. And for every friend 
 we can have a campful of jolly acquaintances. And all this 
 at the least possible cost." This is the modern philosophy. 
 
 It gains converts every day. For after all, our chief 
 quarrel with life is not only that it is so expensive but 
 that it is so hard, so unlovely, so pitiless. No one has 
 time for the inspirational comradeships of life. No one cares 
 who lives next door, or dies there. The strain of modem 
 economic life is forcing us to seek relief in strange and 
 hitherto untried ways. Those who drive mattress-gorged cars 
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 seeking is not material but spiritual shelter. And having 
 found it in the community kitchen while awaiting their turn 
 at the waffle-iron they are not to be forced back into the 
 hideous melange of civilization by the empty enticement of 
 FURNISHED APARTMENT TO LET. 
 
 Whether we approve or disapprove of it, the fact remains 
 that we are rapidly being herded toward community living. 
 
 And what is the case which the American home as it now exists 
 can present in defensive argument? We are born in public 
 institutions, educated in public institutions, fed at public 
 tables, entertained in community theatres. Whatever religious 
 instruction we brook is supplied by Sunday-schools. What 
 claim can the home present to the modem child that will take 
 precedence in his heart over going to school in an auto-park 
 car and celebrating a birthday in an auto-park kitchen? 
 
 A few years ago one of our magazines published the 
 statement that the American buffalo was rapidly becoming 
 extinct and his species would soon be seen no more except in 
 zoological gardens. This announcement caused not the mildest 
 ripple of excitement. For to most of us the buffalo had 
 already passed. We were not accustomed to seeing him 
 gamboling about on the front lawn, so his going left no gap 
 in our lives. 
 
 With something of that same calmness must the child of 
 to-morrow read the warning sign: "The American Horae is 
 
 Passing." What is home but one apartment -house and boarding- 
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 ist visiting Italy with an English friend grows more 
 pertinent with each succeeding year. Everywhere the 
 American was impressed with the work of human hands and the 
 dreams of human souls which have survived centuries of 
 material and spiritual erosion. At last, in a voice thoroughly 
 awed and a little despairing, he said to his companion: 
 
 When America is as old as Italy is today she will have no 
 heritage like this to give to posterity. What is the secret 
 of Europe’s marvellous achievement? How has she managed to 
 accomplish all this?” To which the laconic Briton replied: 
 
 "By staying at home . " 
 
 This is an indictment none the less arresting because 
 it is presented in the negative. But staying at home has 
 become of all things the most abhorrent. Behind the slogan 
 "Better roads" is a far deeper significance than the mass of 
 our countrymen realize. Of the twenty measures placed before 
 the California voters last November, the single one on which 
 no campaign time or money was wasted was the highway bond 
 issue. The prevailing sentiment throughout the State was 
 that it would carry anyway, and there was no use in spending 
 any effort upon it. And it did. It carried by an over- 
 whelming majority, while bills relating to more effective 
 administration, education, and public health went down in 
 contemptuous defeat. 
 
 To what does all this point? Why "better roads" at the 
 expense of better schools or better sanitation? The answer 
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 trend of sentiment: Better roads because, whether or not we 
 have homes, we live on the roads. The American home is 
 rapidly becoming merely a service station where we stop 
 only long enough to get supplies for a trip. In a dim, 
 indefinite way we are beginning to realize that during the 
 past decade something fine and fundamental has passed out of 
 our national life and in this spirit, which is pathetic 
 because it is so little understood, we are throwing ourselves 
 into the work of forming community theatres, community 
 choruses, community auto parks. 
 
 One can conceive of a nation of Fremont -Smiths regaining 
 perhaps some of our lost heritage of resourcefulness and 
 cheerful adaptability. One may enjoy their easy comradeship 
 even while despising them as slackers. But whether we feel 
 for them pity, envy, or contempt, the fact remains that a 
 steadily increasing part of our population are becoming the 
 guests of the nation. And even an informal guest imposes 
 definite responsibilities. A new spiritual tax has been 
 levied upon us. For roadside democracy, like every other 
 brand of democracy, presents problems and a price tag. 
 
 The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce is harassed by 
 the realization that it must somehow contrive to build more 
 lodges for those members of the Fremont -Smith family who 
 may elect to stay all winter. It must provide, and that 
 right speedily, more shower-baths and waffle-irons. The 
 school superintendent, the board of health, and the local 
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 calling lists. All this, as solicitous hosts, we must do in 
 the name of the new hospitality. In return, we are reminded 
 that the Fremont -Smiths spend their money in our town and that 
 perchance (oh, beautiful indeed are the feet of those who 
 bring these glad tidings into the local realty offices) they 
 may decide to buy property here. 
 
 It is not permissible to inquire into the financial 
 status of a guest. It is neither kind nor courteous to 
 probe for details concerning his private plans. But even 
 though we should entertain around our camp-fire some 
 incognito son of Croesus who is destined one day to electrify 
 the town by purchasing an entire hillside and paying cash, 
 there are those among us for whom the haunting question will 
 still persist: Do the Fremont -Smiths pay their board? 
 
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 TENTING OH THE HEW CAMP GROUND 
 By Walter Prichard Eaton. 
 
 The most conspicuous thing in the West now is the sign, 
 Free Municipal Camp Ground. Almost every city, town, and 
 hamlet, from the Dakotas to the Pacific, maintains such a 
 camp ground, and it is in constant use. Moreover, the 
 national parks are full of campers who have come by motor 
 and who do not go to the hotels at all. Before the first 
 of August there had been 100,000 visitors at Yellowstone, 
 the majority of whom, a hotel man woefully complained, were 
 "sage ticks." He meant that they were sage-brush farmers or 
 ranchmen who had come into the park with their families, on 
 an outing, and who were camping. The Pacific Highway in 
 Oregon, which extends south from Portland all the way to the 
 California line, is full of touring automobiles, and on 
 every second car (even more frequently, perhaps) you see 
 camping equipment bulging from the rear seats and strapped 
 to both running-boards. The motor accessory stores in all 
 Western cities display various ingenious devices which 
 fasten to the car and which can be let down and converted 
 into beds and tents. Certainly thousands of people have 
 been brought into the country in their motor-cars, many of 
 whom, perhaps, would be forced to remain at home if they 
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 cipal camp ground and it is a test, I admit .' there 
 
 is always a chance to find some wild and secluded spot; or, 
 for that matter, you can drive in at any ranch and find a 
 welcome under a tree. Since I got home to Massachusetts, 
 however, I have been wondering what would happen if any 
 considerable number of our Eastern people who possess small 
 cars and small incomes were to decide that the inability to 
 pay railroad fares and hotel charges wasn't going to keep 
 them from having a real vacation, bought tents and coffee 
 pots, and started out to camp it from New York to Bretton 
 Woods. I live on the motor road between those two points. 
 Would I invite families in to camp on my place? In a word, 
 no. Would my neighbors to the south, to the north? Again, 
 no. All along our road we struggle to keep our places gar- 
 dened; we cherish every smallest tree; we dread fire; we 
 hate the litter of cans and rubbish nine out of every ten 
 campers always leave in a region where camping is not an 
 instinct; finally, I fear it must be confessed, we are far 
 from hospitably democratic at heart and would resent any 
 invasion of our privacy. Some wild spots to camp in might 
 be found if one knew the country and where to turn off the 
 main highway; but it would require an accurate knowledge to 
 avoid trespass and to be sure of the purity of the water 
 supply. At present, in short, the low-priced motor holiday 
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 But anyone who has seen Western families on the road will 
 admit this is rather a pity. Here especially, where our 
 population is most congested in cities, we most need the 
 opportunity for escape and for free contact with the open 
 spaces. It seems to me that the motor has opened up a whole 
 new field for rational and comparatively inexpensive outdoor 
 enjoyment, and that to develop and cultivate this field in 
 the East is the new task confronting our park and State 
 forest departments. The idea of a park as an open space 
 full of bedded pansies, cannas, and settees close to a city 
 was well enough before the advent of the motor. It is 
 antiquated now, or, rather, it is inadequate. 
 
 There are millions of acres of deforested and waste 
 land in the Northeastern States, a large percentage of it 
 unfit for agriculture, which should, of course, be re- 
 forested; which sooner or later has got to be reforested if 
 we are to survive comfortably, or even survive at all. At 
 present, however, only the feeblest beginning of such re- 
 forestation has been made, largely because insufficient 
 public pressure has been brought to bear on our short- 
 sighted State legislators. But if State forests could be 
 administered something as our national parks are administered 
 
 --that is, as outdoor playgrounds —if their vast 
 
 potential recreational value could be developed and stressed, 
 a demand for their constant increase and improvement would 
 arise, and not only we but future generations would be greatly 
 
the gainers. 
 
 There is no quicker and more effective way to develop the 
 recreational side of State forests in the East than to open 
 them and advertise them as motor camp grounds. There is, for 
 example, a considerable tract of forest land in western 
 Connecticut now controlled by the State. In western Massa- 
 chusetts sixty miles north there are two tracts of State 
 forest fat present practically inaccessible to the ordinary 
 tourist), one of 7,000, the other of 14,000 acres. One or 
 two similar tracts under State control in southern Vermont 
 and southern Hew Hampshire would fill in a chain to the White 
 Mountains, where at last some provision is made for the 
 camper. In the case of existing forests and reservations it 
 would be a comparatively simple matter to post the roads in 
 to them, put these roads into condition where necessary, 
 designate some attractive place near protected water as a 
 camp ground, and erect there sanitary facilities and dig a 
 rubbish disposal pit. A few signs of the proper sort, com- 
 bined with the pressure of the responsible campers, will 
 soon teach those who use such camping sites to use them 
 properly. Through all the Horthwest this summer I didn't 
 see one living tree that had been cut down by campers. 
 
 But even a bit of litter or actual damage at first is a 
 small price to pay for the best possible advertisement of 
 the State forest idea— — getting people into the forests, 
 showing them how the forests can be used for their pleasure 
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 ual as well as the material advantages. If there could once 
 be established a chain of State forests or reservations, each 
 of which contained a pleasant motor camp ground beside running 
 water or a pond, leading by easy stages from some large 
 Eastern city out three or four hundred miles into what is left 
 to us now of real mountain wilderness, I believe our highways, 
 like those of the West, would be full of camp-equipped motors, 
 thousands of our people would be able to get back into the 
 zestful, health- renewing life of the out-doors, and the 
 enthusiasm and demand for a real, an adequate reforestation 
 policy would receive such an impetus as it has never yet 
 been blessed with. 
 
 Certainly, being the pleasure -loving and perverse 
 creatures we are, the mere logic of reforestation will make 
 small headway with us, till at last we find ourselves timber- 
 less. But if the recreational feature of State and national 
 forests is properly developed and sufficiently stressed, we 
 may yet save ourselves in time. It seems to me the West is 
 showing us the way, and that the brown tent on the running- 
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 Half a dozen years ago the automobile camp ground for 
 tourists was practically an unknown experiment. Today every 
 city and town of any importance on the main highways between 
 the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast has its auto 
 camp, set aside especially for the motorist and improved for 
 his convenience. In the larger camps anywhere from 2,000 to 
 10,000 cars park during the summer months. The auto camp is 
 the modern counterpart of the far eastern caravansary, 
 differing from it mainly in the different styles of loco- 
 motion employed by the traveler and in the purpose for which 
 it was established. The caravansary was established as a 
 trade necessity, whereas the auto camp was created by the 
 demand of the pleasure seekers. Denver was the first city 
 to establish a municipal camp in one of its city parks, and 
 to equip it especially for the motor tourist. Since the 
 beginning, the camp has been moved twice, and is now located 
 permanently in Overland Park, one of the finest and largest 
 of the Denver parks. The improvements are more extensive and 
 elaborate than those in any motor camp in America today. 
 Overland, including 160 acres of ground on the banks of the 
 South Platte River, was purchased a year ago. Formerly it 
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 it was equipped with a mile -and -a -quarter race track, grand 
 stand, clubhouse, and half a dozen commodious frame buildings, 
 erected for housing an interstate fair. 
 
 The city authorities have platted a camping area under- 
 neath the trees, large enough to accommodate 2,500 persons. 
 
 The camp was laid out along the well-sanded driveways of the 
 park, each camper’s lot, marked by numbered posts, being 25 
 by 35 ft. Camp grounds were gridironed with water pipes from 
 the city water mains and equipped with service hydrants so 
 that no tent is more than 150 ft. from one of these. Sanitary 
 sewers were laid and connected with the city sewer system, 
 and electric arcs placed along the right of ways and streets 
 of motor town. The city attendants include a park superin- 
 tendent, a clerk to register guests and issue permits, a 
 number of police officers, and men to clean the camp. 
 
 The outstanding improvement, however, has been the 
 transformation of the clubhouse into a 24— room house for the 
 motorists. A concessionaire was placed in charge and in- 
 stalled every conceivable convenience. On the first floor 
 are located a grocery store and market, a steam table, where 
 home-cooked foods may be purchased, a billiard and pool room 
 for the men, barber shop, free hot and cold showers for men, 
 and a free laundry, equipped with tubs, and hot and cold 
 water, for the women campers. On the second floor are a 
 dining room, soda fountain, lounging room where free dancing 
 is enjoyed, and a room equipped with all manner of clothing, 
 tents, and similar articles, used in camp life. On the 
 
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 third, floor are located a rest room and hot and oold showers 
 for the women, as well as rooms for the attendants. The 
 building has large roomy verandas where refreshments may be 
 served. 
 
 At the entrance of the park is located a large gateway 
 containing the tourists' registration booth and a complete 
 gasoline service station. There is no charge for the 
 occupancy of lots, and the permits, good for two weeks, may 
 be extended upon application. The filling station is under 
 the concessionaire. 
 
 One of the large exposition buildings has been fully 
 equipped as a public comfort station for men and women and 
 has cement floors and porcelain fittings. There are several 
 other similarly equipped comfort stations in the park. Among 
 the additional accommodations, to be installed for the season 
 of 1921, is an automobile -repair shop and moving-picture 
 theater that will seat 400, both of which are to be placed in 
 one of the exposition buildings. 
 
 As high as 3,500 tourists have camped in the Overland 
 Park in one night, and the city authorities expect a much 
 larger population in the motor city before the end of the 
 present season. The camp area may be extended to almost any 
 extent desired. One entertainment given for the tourists 
 early in the season brought a crowd of 60,000 to the park. 
 This consisted of motorcycle races, which attracted the most 
 noted riders to the city. Entertainments of a similar nature 
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 A few years ago the motor tourists was glad to receive per- 
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 but now western cities are vying with one another to kill the 
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 AUTOMOBILE CAMP SITES AUL THE "GYPSY” MOTORIST 
 By Marguerite A. Salomon. 
 
 Fascinating and romantic were the tales of the 
 nomadic gypsies who had no settled homes, but camped each 
 night somewhere along the roadside or in the heart of the 
 forest, cooking their meals around a glowing campfire and 
 afterward singing their gay songs of the out-of-doors to 
 the tune of guitar or mandolin. 
 
 Out West, beyond the Mississippi, thousands of 
 Twentieth Century "gypsies" of quite a different type 
 have sprung into being within the past few years. They 
 are known as "gypsy motorists." Each year their number 
 grows larger and larger, so that they present a very 
 formidable and serious question to the various States 
 through which they pass. 
 
 There are all degrees of gypsy motorists. Some are 
 those who take their vacation in this way. Then there are 
 farmers from intensely hot belts who in summer bring their 
 families to cooler temperatures and at the same time visit 
 the larger cities to buy necessaries and equipment. There 
 are vast numbers of "immigrants" seeking new homes, who 
 stop for a time here or there to see which particular spot 
 suits them most as a future residence. And, lastly, there 
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 who pile their families into "flivvers 11 and go working from 
 place to place as one season runs into another. 
 
 Time was when the only resting-place a nomadic motorist 
 
 could find was one of his own seeking some wayside, 
 
 attractive place, preferably near a stream. As he grew in 
 numbers, various communities found him getting to be a 
 serious menace. He was not always clean, and sometimes he 
 left a most untidy and unhealthy trail of rubbish behind 
 him. He polluted fresh streams, and many a serious forest 
 fire can be laid to his carelessness. It soon became clear 
 that he must be segregated, if possible; and that is why 
 some of the more progressive cities started free automobile 
 camping grounds. 
 
 These camp sites vary in kind and in the accommodations 
 they offer the touring motorist. All of them are free. 
 
 Some merely furnish running water, comfort stations, and 
 brick ovens with fuel already cut and piled for the use of 
 the tourist. Others have electric lights as an added 
 convenience, while still others furnish every degree of 
 convenience imaginable for the comfort of the visiting 
 "gypsy"— --with gas stoves or electric plates worked on a 
 25-cent meter basis, shower baths, lavatories, stationary 
 washtubs, and lockers for food and valuables. One camp 
 site (at Denver) has a large lake where one may boat or 
 swim, and adjoining it are the municipal golf links, tennis 
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 Probably one of the most complete equipments is found 
 at the Free Auto -Camp at Ashland, Oregon. It is charmingly 
 located in the heart of Lithia Park, a municipal park of 
 one hundred acres of great natural beauty. Three kinds of 
 
 mineral waters sulphur, soda, and lithia are found 
 
 in springs and caverns near the camp, and there are 
 children's playgrounds, wading pools tennis courts, and 
 other features for the use of the tourist. 
 
 The camp is equipped with a gas kitchenette in a 
 central location, with twelve gas plates, lockers for food, 
 and sinks; and there are many additional gas plates under 
 shelters in various parts of the park. The gas plates are 
 attached to meters which operate upon the insertion of £5 
 cents. This entitles the camper to gas until ten the next 
 morning, when the meters are reset. The revenue received 
 for this gas is used toward the maintenance of the camp. 
 
 A big campfire, for sociability, is an added 
 attraction, helping the campers get together for an evening 
 of wholesome fun. The fire is in charge of an attendant, 
 to avoid the danger of fire spreading to the heavily 
 timbered hillsides of the park. Hundreds of electric 
 lights are strung through the trees and give a fairy-like 
 aspect. As many campers have no shelters over them, and 
 the lights would prevent sleep, switches have been installed 
 on trees so that the campers themselves can turn out the 
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 A large comfort station of the most modem type is 
 provided in a central location, and there are two large 
 sulphur baths and a natatorium available, so that ample 
 means for bathing are afforded. Cement incinerators are 
 placed in handy spots for the disposition of rubbish. A 
 laundry wagon calls every morning, with a one -day service 
 for those who stop over and mail service for the laundry of 
 those hurrying through. A store just outside the grounds 
 provides certain necessaries, and milk is delivered by 
 dairymen to the campers direct. 
 
 A commercial club secretary spends two or three hours 
 nightly greeting the campers, gathering and disseminating 
 road information, and doing any service he can. 
 
 A rule applying to most automobile camp sites is that 
 each camper is given an allotted space. This prevents a 
 great deal of trouble, especially among those campers who 
 would be apt to take more than their share of room. A 
 certain area of ground is marked by four posts, enough for 
 a car and camping outfit. This space is numbered, and there 
 is a corresponding number for locker and gas plate. All 
 Mr. Motorist has to do is to drive up to the entrance, get 
 his lot number, and set up his camp. A record is usually 
 kept of the number of persons in each party, and the license 
 number is entered on the register. Very often this has 
 proved a valuable clue for the recovery of stolen cars, and 
 it also keeps a certain check on undesirable motorists. It 
 has been the means of keeping accurate statistics concerning 
 
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 the "gypsy motorists,” and especially from whence they 
 come. Every State in the Union has been represented at 
 most of the camps, and foreign cars have been noted from 
 time to time. 
 
 There is hardly a place in the West, however small, 
 where some sort of established camp site for automobile 
 tourists may not be found. They are always maintained by 
 the municipality in which they are located. Aside from 
 segregating the campers, they have been found a very 
 profitable investment from a commercial standpoint. St. 
 
 Louis, Denver, Los Angeles, and many of the large Western 
 cities have discovered that the farmer "gypsy motorist” 
 alone represents a huge purchasing power. The farmer has 
 always been a little embarrassed and awed by hotels. With 
 the advent of inexpensive automobiles, and the establishment 
 of camp sites, Mr. Parmer can bring his camping outfit and 
 settle down in comfort for a couple of weeks*, or even 
 months' , stay; for in most of the camps there is no time 
 limit set. Provided for in this way, he usually takes the 
 opportunity to shop for his supplies. It is more satisfactory 
 than the old mail-order method of buying. It has been found 
 that over 50 per cent, of the automobile campers who use the 
 sites are farmers, who spend thousands of dollars for 
 farming implements , clothing, and essentials. 
 
 Apropos of this there is an interesting story told by 
 the head of a large business in one of the larger cities 
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 one day, just as an especially shabby Ford arrived with a 
 dusty lot of passengers. They were a Kansas farmer and his 
 family. Stopping to chat with them, and through subsequent 
 visits, he got to Know them fairly well. As they were 
 leaving, two weeks later, this man asked them casually 
 whether they had made any purchases while in the city. 
 
 "Maw can tell you-all that," drawled Mr* Kansas Farmer* 
 
 "She keeps the check book." Upon consulting "Maw" he found 
 they had spent nearly $1900 for farming implements and 
 clothes during their stay. "S*long we hain*t obleeged to 
 stop in them city hotels, we* re a-going to make this yere 
 trip ev'ry yea-ar. Ho more buy in 1 from books when we ken 
 see what we*re a-gitting. " 
 
 But the farmer is not the only profitable tourist. 
 
 One who is even more interesting to local communities is 
 the home -seeker, and every facility is provided to furnish 
 him with accurate information and to make things so 
 attractive that he will decide to become a citizen of that 
 particular place. Hundreds of towns in more or less remote 
 districts owe their growth within the past few years to 
 these "immigrants." They are the modern pioneers. Instead 
 of prairie schooners, they come in automobiles. By being 
 allowed to use the automobile camp site for a few weeks, 
 the prospective settler is given an opportunity to find a 
 job to his liking and to study the housing and economic 
 conditions of that particular locality. He need make no 
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 There are few regulations other than common decency 
 demands at any of the automobile camp sites. Hospitality 
 is the keynote of them all — -—the big, broad, open-handed 
 
 hospitality of the West and each community vies with 
 
 the other to give the visitor the best possible impression. 
 
 The automobile camp site is a really wonderful 
 development. Maybe some day even the crowded East will 
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 To be ”as happy as a tramp" has always signified a 
 oare-free existence that comes from companionship with the 
 great outdoors and from wandering dreamily along the open 
 road wherever fancy leads. Most people never had half a 
 chance to experience it. They did not know the joy of the 
 traveler who lingers on his path and pitches his tent by 
 night on any spot that suits his fancy. Now, however, we 
 are told, one need not envy the ragged vagrant or the 
 swarthy people whose home is a moving caravan. Every one 
 who possesses a motor can have a moving caravan of his own 
 and for as long as he likes be a modern, care -free gipsy. 
 
 How it can be done is described in detail by Elon Jessup 
 in "The Motor-Camping Book" (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). For 
 many years Mr. Jessup answered the call of the open road. 
 
 At first it was simply touring on something like a railroad 
 schedule, in which the desire to see the scenery was 
 swallowed up in the effort to make hotel connections before 
 night came down on a lonely road. Hotels may be located on 
 the open road, but they are not a part of it, says the 
 writer, and should be left severely alone. This is what 
 the gipsying motorist does: 
 
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 gipsy way. The motor-car has become a gasoline caravan. 
 Time and space are at your beck and call, your freedom is 
 complete, and the expense need hardly be more than living 
 at home. 
 
 In this motor-camping we are going the gipsies one 
 better. The mileage that can be covered and the nooks and 
 corners of the earth one can explore are practically un- 
 limited. A cross-continent tour from the Atlantic to the 
 Pacific has become an everyday occurrence. What matters 
 if night finds one in the center of an expansive desert 
 many miles from the nearest hotel? In five minutes you 
 set up a hotel of canvas that is much more satisfying than 
 any builded of brick and stone. You discover wonderful 
 byways which he who travels by rail will never know and 
 over which the motorist who depends upon hotels dares not 
 venture . 
 
 The motor-camping method of touring is both the newest 
 and the oldest method in the world. Altho one may wonder 
 at its enormous growth during the past few years, this 
 growth is not surprizing for the reason that the idea is 
 based upon one of the most fundamental instincts in the 
 
 world the gipsy call to the open road and the gipsy 
 
 way of going. As part of this might be included the wish 
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 regard motor-camping simply as a means of saving money. 
 
 This is far from being the case. Any one noticing the 
 numerous tent- and bed-laden cars along the open road will 
 find that a considerable proportion of these are machines 
 
 of expensive manufacture- for example, Packards and 
 
 Pierce -Arrows. It is reasonable to suppose that their 
 owners are men of some means. These people realize that 
 to camp beside a trickling trout stream, smoke their pipes 
 of peace before a glowing fire, and then roll in for the 
 night to the music of the stream and woods is a privilege 
 of no small importance. 
 
 In regard to expense, it is safe to say that any one 
 who can afford a car and a vacation can likewise afford a 
 motor-camping trip. With these two requisites at your 
 disposal, a trip of this sort is the most economical way in 
 which one can go. There is no other method of travel where- 
 by one can cover great distances and see such variety of 
 country in a short time for so small a money outlay. Of 
 course, there is the initial outlay for the camping outfit, 
 but this soon pays for itself and is good for several years. 
 If the car is in top-notch shape before starting, the only 
 other necessary expenses are gasoline, oil, and the food 
 you eat. 
 
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 people can afford to travel at all. Otherwise, they would 
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this* For example, I recall meeting in Banff, Canada, a 
 fanner with his wife and five children who were enjoying 
 the marvels of the Canadian Bookies, Their car was a trifle 
 rickety in spots, hut it had brought them safely all the way 
 across the broad Canadian prairies. They had camped out 
 every night and would continue to do so until their return. 
 This farmer explained to me: 
 
 "I've been wanting to bring my family out and show them 
 this country for years, but I couldn't stand the expense 
 until I got the flivver. Going this way doesn't cost much 
 more than living at home." 
 
 This farmer's case was fairly typical. There were 
 fully twenty-five more of his sort in the motor-camping 
 grounds at Banff who might have made the same reply. And 
 camped beside him in a tent attached to the side of a high- 
 powered, costly car was an American who I later learned was 
 rated at quite a few hundred thousands of dollars in the 
 banking circles of his home State. This man was equally as 
 typical of mot or- camping. 
 
 The equipment of the gasoline caravan is a real but 
 very definite problem. If possible it should be completely 
 solved before the start of the trip, else troubles will 
 accumulate along the way. The need for articles overlooked, 
 the bother of unnecessary things thrown in at the last 
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 camping to have fun, not to be annoyed. The average motor- 
 camper is not a back -woodsman who, when night overtakes him, 
 sometimes curls up on the ground under a tree and rolls off 
 to sleep; and "roughing it" is not necessary. The motor- 
 camper can, by taking proper thought, make himself as 
 comfortable as he would be in his own home. The writer 
 says: 
 
 Outfitting for a motor-camping trip is a matter which 
 requires suitable judgment. Equipment which is suitable for 
 one car may be totally inadequate for another. A motor- 
 camping outfit should be selected with great care. A dozen 
 and one things must be considered: the power and capacity 
 
 of the car, its hill-climbing capabilities, suitable 
 sleeping arrangements, running-board capacity for carrying 
 duffle; whether spare tires are carried on side or rear, 
 proper distribution of weight so that the strain on springs 
 will be equalized: these are but a few of the numerous 
 
 items to be considered. 
 
 Sometimes this matter of selection takes years of 
 actual experience before a man finds exactly what he needs. 
 
 A short time ago I met a motor-camper who for three years 
 had constantly been changing various details of his outfit. 
 He assured me that at last he had an outfit which suited 
 him perfectly. As he checked over the list I realized that 
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 approved. So there you are. Motor-eamping is an individual 
 problem that must be solved by the individual. I have 
 examined the outfits of a good many different motor-campers 
 on the road and I have yet to find two alike in every 
 respect. This is as it should be. There is so much leeway 
 and flexibility to this kind of camping that most hard-and- 
 fast rules other than a man makes for himself are out of the 
 question. 
 
 On the other hand, there are certain fundamentals which 
 all outfits should have in common. Chief among these is 
 compactness. This does not mean that one sacrifices 
 comfort. Indeed, quite the contrary. Imagine, for example, 
 three cooking-pots very nearly of the same size. Why have 
 them take up the space of three when it is just as easy to 
 get a nested set in which one pot fits inside of the other? 
 
 I have seen motor-camping cars on the road so bulging 
 with equipment that they closely resembled moving-vans. 
 
 Bulk, more than weight, has been the main fault in many 
 such instances. I have seen other oars carrying fully as 
 much weight and equipment, but the various articles have 
 been selected wisely in respect to compactness and packing 
 ability. As a result of such careful preparation, all the 
 passengers in a car of this sort are perfectly comfortable 
 and the appearance of the outside of the machine, except 
 for a few small, unobtrusive bundles, is no different than 
 usual. 
 
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 articles for which there will he definite use. I mean this 
 in a relative sense. It is easy enough to define hare 
 necessities, such as hed, blankets, and tooth-brush, hut 
 presently you come to a border-line across which lies a 
 huge stack of articles which would he mighty nice to have 
 along but may not he absolutely essential. Here is where 
 good judgment comes in. Remember the mileage you will lug 
 these articles and the number of times they will be packed 
 and unpacked. There may be a folding table or chair which 
 you consider quite essential to camp comfort; in which case 
 it is very likely worth while taking such an article, pro- 
 viding the burden of carrying it is not too great. 
 
 When the motor-camper starts out, roads lie open in 
 all directions and for thousands of miles. He may wander 
 from the Maine woods to the Everglades of Florida, from 
 Plymouth Rock to *Frisco. Camp sites will not be difficult 
 to find, particularly in the West, where many cities afford 
 the motor-tourist camping-grounds in their city parks. For 
 the camper who wants to see the wonders of nature and the 
 fune scenery afforded by his own country there are seventeen 
 National Parks on the mainland of the United States, and 
 about 150 National Forests. And, says the writer in 
 alluring fashion: 
 
 Both the Park and Forest Service stretch out a 
 welcoming hand to the motor-camper. They more than meet 
 
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 you half-way. After all, they are your parks and your 
 forests, and there to be used by you. Roads are being 
 steadily improved, and in many instances stone fireplaces 
 and other accommodations have been installed in suitable 
 camping sites for your special benefit. The Rational Park 
 exists solely for recreational purposes; the Rational 
 Forest is primarily a huge timber farm, but a large part of 
 its activities concern recreation. In both services the 
 officials fully realize that the particular public which 
 they are largely called upon to serve is the motor-camper. 
 
 They are going out of their way to give satisfaction. 
 
 The same rule applies in many sections where huge wild 
 areas are administered by the State. In Rew York, for 
 example, the State Conservation Commission has recently 
 built along the Adirondack highways a great many stone 
 fireplaces for the special use of motor-campers. 
 
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 GIPSYING DE LUXE 
 By John R. Eustis. 
 
 If a practice which is steadily growing thruout the 
 western states continues to expand, then in the not distant 
 future, camp sites will he as much a part of modern high- 
 ways as are culverts and fences. To the automobile, of 
 course, is attributable the advent and increasing popular- 
 ity of the roadside camping ground; or, perhaps, to be more 
 accurate, it belongs to the motor tourists who are display- 
 ing nomadic instincts worthy of real gipsies. 
 
 Some of the best automobile camp sites are those pro- 
 vided and managed by progressive municipalities in the 
 West, altho there are a number privately owned which make 
 moderate charges for camping privileges. An excellent 
 example of the former is the camp at one of the city parks 
 in Denver, which entertained as many as four hundred 
 automobile touring and camping parties over a single night 
 last summer. The municipal camping ground, with such 
 conveniences as running water, electric lights, et cetera, 
 is one of the main claims set forth by cities, towns, and 
 even by larger sections of the West, in urging the motor 
 tourist to journey their way and stop a while. That the 
 appeal is successful is attested by the records of the 
 
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 Denver camp and by the statement of the secretary of a 
 California automobile organization that last year the 
 number of motor camping tourists, or touring campers if you 
 will, journeying in the Pacific Coast states alone were to 
 be counted by the thousands. And if this was the case in 
 1918, when the use of automobiles for such purposes was 
 restricted, the total for the coming season should be many 
 times greater. 
 
 The national parks of the West are naturally on the 
 itinerary of all motorists whose tours take them anywhere 
 near one or more of these great public playgrounds. As 
 might be expected the motor gipsy also heads for these 
 wide expanses of public lands, and finds there the 
 attractions which prolong his stay often over many days 
 and nights. In the various national parks are innumer- 
 able camping sites, where the requisite running water, 
 firewood and shade abound, but many motorists prefer the 
 regular established camping grounds. 
 
 A fine example of one of these camps is to be found 
 in a grove of pine and cedar at the foot of Glacier Point 
 in Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone National Park. In ad- 
 dition to plots on which tents can be pitched, there are 
 several score bungalows and six hundred tents, with board 
 floors. The special features include a large garage, 
 swimming pool with bath houses, steam laundry, auditorium, 
 restaurant, and a store where a wide variety of supplies 
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 An indication of the growing importance of the highway 
 camp site is found in a recent bill of the legislature of 
 the State of Washington which provides that when large 
 tracts of state land are sold to timber companies, that 
 reservations of five acres may be retained where needed, 
 and converted into public automobile camping grounds. 
 
 There is also pending before the legislature of the State 
 of Colorado a measure drafted and sponsored by the State 
 Highway Commissioner, which provides for the creation of 
 public camping sites as a part of highway development. 
 
 These provisions of this bill, known as the Public Camp 
 Site Bill, are of interest because similar legislation may 
 be expected in many more states: 
 
 The boards of county commissioners of the several 
 counties of Colorado are hereby empowered with the approval 
 of the State Highway Commission, to purchase parcels of 
 land to be used as free public camping grounds, not ex- 
 ceeding five acres in one tract, at a cost not to exceed 
 $100 per acre, along and contiguous to a state route or 
 highway, and pay for the same from the county road fund. 
 
 The boards of county commissioners before making any 
 purchase of land under this act, shall visit the proposed 
 site and, if a satisfactory agreement can be made with the 
 owner as to the price and acreage , a survey and plat shall 
 be made and abstract of title secured, which shall be sub- 
 

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 mitted to the county attorney for his approval. A full 
 statement concerning the proposed camp site shall be 
 forwarded to the State Highway Commission, and if the said 
 commission shall approve the purchase, it may instruct the 
 State Highway Commissioner to issue a voucher on the state 
 road fund, payable to the county treasurer, reimbursing 
 the county to the extent of 50 per cent of the cost of 
 such purchase. No camp site shall be purchased without 
 first securing the approval of the State Highway Commission. 
 
 In the selection of camping sites the topography of 
 the land must be convenient for automobiles and other 
 vehicles, with convenient water supply, and, where possi- 
 ble, shade trees. Rules governing the use of the public 
 of such camping sites may be agreed upon between the 
 boards of county commissioners and the State Highway 
 Commission. A reasonable amount may be expended in 
 fencing where necessary, and otherwise improving any camp 
 site s . 
 
 It shall be a misdemeanor, subject to a fine not to 
 exceed $100 for any person to destroy any tree, deface any 
 natural object, or befoul any source of water supply, 
 located on or in any public camping site as defined in 
 this bill. 
 
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 supervision if not actual control placed in the hands of 
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 sites will be an integral part of the state highway system, 
 and located to serve the convenience of tourists rather 
 than the interests of various communities. Further it will 
 provide that the sites be at proper intervals and along the 
 routes which carry the larger share of motor traffic. When 
 fully developed as a state-wide system these camp sites 
 will bring the motorist into many rural sections not now 
 visited because of the lack of adequate accommodations. 
 
 And such visitations will benefit these backward communi- 
 ties because the camping motorist travels independent of 
 hotels from choice and not from financial necessity. 
 
 In speaking on the proposed camp site bill before a 
 legislative committee the State Highway Commissioner 
 described what would be the requisites of a public camp 
 site in Colorado. Accessibility to the highway, running 
 water of good quality, shade, pleasant surroundings, out- 
 door stone ovens, a convenient wood pile, and an open 
 shelter house, such as are found on the National Forest 
 recreation grounds, were included. Incidentally it seems 
 fitting that this first public automobile camp site 
 legislation should be pending in Colorado, because to that 
 commonwealth belongs the credit of originating the 
 automobile camp. 
 
 Where does the East stand in the matter of providing 
 camping sites for western motorists? If there is anything 
 east of the Mississippi at all comparable with the 
 automobile camps of the West, both municipal and private. 
 

 
 
 
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 knowledge of it has been carefully concealed. The manager 
 of a motor touring bureau in New York City has in the past 
 few weeks received requests from three western motorists 
 for information concemir]g camping sites in close proximity 
 to this city. He was forced to answer that there were none. 
 The big eastern cities are naturally the goal of the 
 thousands of western motorists who have acquired the tour- 
 ing and camping habit, as soon as their routes lead them 
 to the Atlantic seaboard. It would be a display of 
 hospitality if not of good business judgment, to make some 
 provision for them. 
 
INDEX TO CAMP SITES 
 
 ALABAMA 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Albany 
 
 Anderson 
 
 Athens 
 
 Arbuckle 
 
 Birmingham 
 
 Areata 
 
 Brundige 
 
 Arroyo Grande 
 
 Cal era 
 
 Atascadero 
 
 Clanton 
 
 Auburn 
 
 Cullman 
 
 Bakersfield 
 
 De catur 
 
 Bar stow 
 
 Dothan 
 
 Beaumont 
 
 Montgomery 
 
 Benicia 
 
 Ozark 
 
 Bishop 
 
 Thorsby 
 
 Blythe 
 
 Brentwood 
 
 ARIZONA 
 
 Buena Park 
 Calistoga 
 
 Grand Canyon 
 
 Ceres 
 
 Phoenix 
 
 Chico 
 
 Chino 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 Chula Vista 
 Cloverdale 
 
 Alhambra 
 
 Clovis 
 
 Alturas 
 
 Coachella 
 
 Anaheim 
 
 Coalinga 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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California 
 ( C ontinued) 
 
 Colfax 
 
 Colusa 
 
 Corning 
 
 Corona 
 
 Covina 
 
 Crescent City 
 
 Daly City 
 
 Davis 
 
 Delano 
 
 Dunsmuir 
 
 Dutch Flat 
 
 Dyerville 
 
 East San Diego 
 
 El Centro 
 
 El Sinore 
 
 Escondido 
 
 Etna 
 
 Eureka 
 
 Exeter 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Fallbrook 
 
 Ferndale 
 
 Fortuna 
 
 Fowler 
 
 Fresno 
 
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 CALIFORNIA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Fullerton 
 
 Gen. Grant Nat. Pk. 
 
 Gilroy 
 
 Glendale 
 
 Glendora 
 
 Gridley 
 
 Ealf Moon Bay 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Healdsburg 
 
 Hollister 
 
 Eoltville 
 
 Hornbrook 
 
 Hornitos 
 
 Huntington Beach 
 
 Independence 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Kelseyville 
 
 Kennett 
 
 King City 
 
 Lakeport 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 La Verne 
 
 Lindsay 
 
 Livermore 
 
 Lodi 
 

 
 
 
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CALIFORNIA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Long Beach 
 
 Porterville 
 
 Los Angeles 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Los Gatos 
 
 Red Bluff 
 
 Lower Lake 
 
 Redding 
 
 Loyal ton 
 
 Redlands 
 
 Madera 
 
 Redonda Beach 
 
 Marysville 
 
 Reedy 
 
 Mayfield 
 
 Rialto 
 
 Merced 
 
 Riverside 
 
 Monterey 
 
 Rocklin 
 
 Morrow Cove 
 
 Roseville 
 
 Rapa 
 
 Sacramento 
 
 Nevada City 
 
 St . Helena 
 
 Newport Beach 
 
 Salinas 
 
 Oakdale 
 
 San Bernardino 
 
 Orland 
 
 San Diego 
 
 Oroville 
 
 San Fernando 
 
 Pacific Grove 
 
 San Gabriel 
 
 Palo Alto 
 
 San Jacinto 
 
 Pasadena 
 
 San Jose 
 
 Paso Robles 
 
 San Luis Obispo 
 
 Petaluma 
 
 San Rafael 
 
 Placerville 
 
 Santa Ana 
 
 Pleasanton 
 
 Santa Barbara 
 
 Pomona 
 
 Santa Clara 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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CALIFORNIA 
 ( Continued) 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 ( Continued) 
 
 Santa Cruz 
 
 Willow 
 
 Santa liar i a 
 
 Woodland 
 
 Santa Monica 
 
 Yosemite Nat'l Pk. 
 
 Santa Rosa 
 
 Yreka 
 
 Sebastopol 
 
 Sequoia Nat’l Pk. 
 
 COLORADO 
 
 Sisson 
 
 Sonoma 
 
 Arriba 
 
 Sonora 
 
 Boulder 
 
 Stockton 
 
 Buena Vista 
 
 Susanville 
 
 Burlington 
 
 Tracy 
 
 Colorado Springs 
 
 Trinity Center 
 
 Denver 
 
 Tulare 
 
 Flagler 
 
 Turlock 
 
 Fowler 
 
 Uklah 
 
 Glenwood Springs 
 
 Vacaville 
 
 Leadville 
 
 Ventura 
 
 Manitou 
 
 Visalia 
 
 Mat he son 
 
 Watsonville 
 
 Pueblo 
 
 Weave rvi lie 
 
 Ramah 
 
 Westwood 
 
 Rocky Ford 
 
 Wittier 
 
 Woodland Park 
 
 Williams 
 
 Will its 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 ( Continued) 
 
 GEORGIA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Washington 
 
 FLORIDA 
 
 Bradentown 
 
 Campbellton 
 
 Deland 
 
 Eustis 
 
 Fort Lauderdale 
 
 Fort Myers 
 
 Gainesville 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Lakeland 
 
 Marianna 
 
 Orlando 
 
 Pensacola 
 
 St* Augustine 
 
 Sarastota 
 
 Tampa 
 
 West Palm Beach 
 
 GEORGIA 
 
 Atlanta 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 Calhoun 
 
 Savannah 
 
 Vidalia 
 
 IDAHO 
 
 Boise 
 
 Bonners Ferry 
 Coeur d'Alene 
 Harrison 
 Hope 
 
 Idaho Falls 
 
 Kellogg 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 Mullan 
 
 Pocatello 
 
 Sandpoint 
 
 Twin Falls 
 
 Wallace 
 
 ILLINOIS 
 
 Chicago 
 Decatur 
 El Paso 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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ILLINOIS 
 ( Continued) 
 
 INDIANA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Griggsville 
 
 Knox 
 
 Hammond 
 
 Lebanon 
 
 Hume 
 
 McCormick’s Crk. Canon 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Middle fork 
 
 Mason City 
 
 Oxford 
 
 Mattoon 
 
 Pendleton 
 
 Mechanicsburg 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 New Berlin 
 
 Richmond 
 
 Newman 
 
 Turkey Run State Park 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Vinegar Mills 
 Warsaw 
 
 INDIANA 
 
 Wolcott 
 
 Atwood 
 
 IOWA 
 
 Clifty Palls 
 
 Columbus 
 
 Akron 
 
 Covington 
 
 Charles City 
 
 Crawfordsville 
 
 Chats worth 
 
 Etna Green 
 
 Council Bluffs 
 
 Port Wayne 
 
 Davis City 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Grinnell 
 
 Gary 
 
 Hawarden 
 
 Goshen 
 
 Indianola 
 
 Hamlet 
 
 Iowa City 
 
 Hobart 
 
 Iowa Palls 
 

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 IOWA 
 
 KANSAS 
 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 ( Continued) 
 
 
 Le Grand e 
 
 Hanover 
 
 
 Leon 
 
 Hiawatha 
 
 
 Little Sioux 
 
 Highland 
 
 
 Mason City 
 
 Kano rad o 
 
 i 
 
 Missouri Valley 
 
 Lindsborg 
 
 
 Mondamin 
 
 McPherson 
 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 
 
 Marysville 
 
 
 Nevada 
 
 Minneapolis 
 
 
 Onowa 
 
 Mound City 
 
 
 Salix 
 
 Moundridge 
 
 
 Sioux City 
 
 Newton 
 
 
 Sloan 
 
 Osawatomie 
 
 
 Westfield 
 
 Oswego 
 
 
 Whiting 
 
 Sabetha 
 
 
 
 Salina 
 
 
 KANSAS 
 
 Scandia 
 
 
 
 Seneca 
 
 
 Almena 
 
 Smith Center 
 
 
 Belleville 
 
 South Haven 
 
 
 Brewster 
 
 Troy 
 
 
 Caldwell 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 Clayton 
 
 Wellington 
 
 
 Conoordia 
 
 Wichita 
 
 
 Fairview 
 
 
 
 Goodland 
 
 KENTUCKY 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 KENTUCKY 
 
 MICHIGAN 
 
 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 
 
 Louisville 
 
 Boyne City 
 
 
 
 Mount Vernon 
 
 Cadillac 
 
 
 
 
 Cheboygan 
 
 • 
 
 
 LOUISIANA 
 
 Co Id water 
 
 
 
 
 East Tawas 
 
 
 
 Baton Rouge 
 
 East Texas 
 
 
 
 Shreveport 
 
 Flint 
 
 
 
 
 Gladwin 
 
 
 
 MAINE 
 
 Glenn Haven 
 
 
 
 
 Grand Haven 
 
 
 
 Augusta 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 
 
 Lake Cobosseecontee 
 
 Grayling 
 
 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 Harrison 
 
 
 
 
 Harrisville 
 
 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 Hart 
 
 
 
 
 Indian River 
 
 
 
 Northhampton 
 
 Interloohen 
 
 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Iron River 
 
 
 
 
 Kalamazoo 
 
 
 
 MICHIGAN 
 
 Manistee 
 
 
 
 
 Marine City 
 
 
 
 Adrian 
 
 Menominee 
 
 
 
 Allegan 
 
 Onaway 
 
 
 
 Battle Creek 
 
 Ontonagon 
 
 
 
 Bay City 
 
 Otsego 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 MICHIGAN 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 MINNESOTA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 
 Paw Paw 
 
 little Falls 
 
 
 Pentwater 
 
 Minneapolis 
 
 
 Plainwell 
 
 Montevideo 
 
 
 Posen 
 
 Norwood 
 
 
 Traverse City 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 
 Vicksburg 
 
 Osseo 
 
 
 White Cloud 
 
 Owatonna 
 
 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 
 MINNESOTA 
 
 Red Wing 
 
 
 
 Renville 
 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Rochester 
 
 
 Anoka 
 
 St. Cloud 
 
 
 Appleton 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 
 Austin 
 
 St. Paul 
 
 
 Bagley 
 
 Sauk Rapids 
 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 Thief River Falls 
 
 
 Bemidgi 
 
 Trail 
 
 
 Carthage 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 
 Champlin 
 
 Waconia 
 
 
 Elk River 
 
 Wadena 
 
 
 Excelsior 
 
 Wegdahl 
 
 
 Fairbault 
 
 Wells 
 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 Winona 
 
 
 Gully 
 
 
 
 Hector 
 
 MISSOURI 
 
 
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 MISSOURI 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 MONTANA 
 
 
 Anaconda 
 
 Bethany 
 
 Armington 
 
 Bevier 
 
 Baker 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 Belt 
 
 Brookfield 
 
 Benchland 
 
 Bucklin 
 
 Big Timber 
 
 Cameron 
 
 Billings 
 
 Carterville 
 
 Bole 
 
 Carthage 
 
 Bonita 
 
 Chillicothe 
 
 Bozeman 
 
 Clarence 
 
 Browning 
 
 Eagle vi lie 
 
 Butte 
 
 Excelsior Springs 
 
 Bynum 
 
 Hannibal 
 
 Choteau 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Clarks fork 
 
 Laclede 
 
 C olumbus 
 
 Macon 
 
 Crow Agency 
 
 Meadville 
 
 Leer Lodge 
 
 Monroe City 
 
 Drummond 
 
 Moore sville 
 
 Bupuyer 
 
 Nevada 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Osborn 
 
 Fallon 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Forsyth 
 
 Shelbina 
 
 Frenchtown 
 
 Stanberry 
 
 Geyser 
 
 Stewartsville 
 
 Glacier Nat*l Park 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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MONTANA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 MONTANA 
 
 ( Continued) 
 
 Glendive 
 
 Raynesford 
 
 Grass Range 
 
 Rochester 
 
 Great Ralls 
 
 Ronan 
 
 Hardin 
 
 Rosebud 
 
 Harrison 
 
 Roundup 
 
 Helena 
 
 St. Ignatius 
 
 Hobson 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Hysham 
 
 St. Regis 
 
 Ismay 
 
 Saltese 
 
 Kalispell 
 
 Stanford 
 
 Laurel 
 
 Superior 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 Terry 
 
 Libby 
 
 Three Porks 
 
 Livingston 
 
 Thompson Palls 
 
 Lodge Grass 
 
 Troy 
 
 Mason City 
 
 Westmore 
 
 Mildred 
 
 Whitehall 
 
 Miles City 
 
 Wibaux 
 
 Missoula 
 
 Willow Creek 
 
 Moccasin 
 
 Windham 
 
 Moore 
 
 Phllipsburg 
 
 Wyola 
 
 Plevna 
 
 Poison 
 
 NEBRASKA 
 
 Ravalli 
 
 Bruning 
 
NEBRASKA. 
 
 ( Continued) 
 
 NEW MEXICO 
 
 Chester 
 
 Columbus 
 
 Albuquerque 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 Fremont 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 Geneva 
 
 Dunkirk 
 
 Hebron 
 
 Hancock 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 Lake George 
 
 Madison 
 
 Norfolk 
 
 Oneonta 
 
 Omaha 
 
 Osceola 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 Stromsberg 
 
 Hamlet 
 
 NEVADA 
 
 NORTH DAKOTA 
 
 Carson City 
 
 Almont 
 
 Elko 
 
 Abercrombie 
 
 Lovelock 
 
 Beach 
 
 Reno 
 
 Bismarck 
 
 Winnemueca 
 
 Bowman 
 
 Bucyrus 
 
 NEW JERSEY 
 
 Buffalo Springs 
 
 Cleveland 
 
 Newark 
 
 Dawson 
 
 Dickinson 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 NORTH DAKOTA NORTH DAKOTA 
 
 (Continued) (Continued) 
 
 Fargo 
 
 Tioga 
 
 Gascoyne 
 
 Valley City 
 
 Gladstone 
 
 Wahpeton 
 
 Glen Ullin 
 
 
 Grafton 
 
 OHIO 
 
 Grand Forks 
 
 
 Hankins on 
 
 Bryan 
 
 Haynes 
 
 Columbus 
 
 Hillsboro 
 
 Dayton 
 
 Jamestown 
 
 East Conneaut 
 
 Killdeer 
 
 lima 
 
 Lisbon 
 
 Springfield 
 
 McKenzie 
 
 
 Mandan 
 
 OKLAHOMA 
 
 Marmarth 
 
 
 Me dina 
 
 Ardmore 
 
 Medora 
 
 Atoka 
 
 Menoken 
 
 Cache 
 
 Minot 
 
 Chickasha 
 
 New Salem 
 
 Comanche 
 
 Pembina 
 
 Dover 
 
 Rhame 
 
 Duncan 
 
 Steele 
 
 El Reno 
 
 Sterling 
 
 Enid 
 
 Taylor 
 
 Guymon 
 
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 OKLAHOMA 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 OREGON 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Hammon 
 
 Corvallis 
 
 Hennessey 
 
 Cottage Grove 
 
 Kingfisher 
 
 Crater Lake Nat'l Park 
 
 McAlester 
 
 Balias 
 
 Muskogee 
 
 Enterprise 
 
 Oklahoma City 
 
 Eugene 
 
 Pond Creek 
 
 Freewater 
 
 Pryor 
 
 Grants Pass 
 
 Snyder 
 
 Hood River 
 
 Strong City 
 
 Huntington 
 
 Terral 
 
 Independent 
 
 Tulsa 
 
 Klamath Falls 
 
 Vinita 
 
 Le Grande 
 
 Welch 
 
 Lakeview 
 
 McMinnville 
 
 OREGON 
 
 Marshfield 
 Me dford 
 
 Albany 
 
 Merlin 
 
 Arlington 
 
 Myrtle Point 
 
 Ashland 
 
 Newberg 
 
 Astoria 
 
 North Bend 
 
 Baker 
 
 Ontario 
 
 Bend 
 
 Oregon City 
 
 Brownsville 
 
 Pendleton 
 
 Burns 
 
 Portland 
 

 
 
 
OREGON 
 
 ( Continued ) 
 
 SOUTH DAKOTA 
 (Continued) 
 
 Prineville 
 
 Glenham 
 
 Roseburg 
 
 Groton 
 
 St. Paul 
 
 Hudson 
 
 Salem 
 
 Huron 
 
 Seaside 
 
 Ipswich 
 
 The Dalles 
 
 Java 
 
 Umatilla 
 
 Kodoka 
 
 Kennebec 
 
 SOUTH DAKOTA 
 
 Kimball 
 
 Lemmon 
 
 Aberdeen 
 
 McLaughlin 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Madison 
 
 Andover 
 
 Marvin 
 
 Arlington 
 
 Millbank 
 
 Big Stone City 
 
 Mitchell 
 
 Bowdle 
 
 Mount Vernon 
 
 Bridgewater 
 
 Mur do 
 
 Bristol 
 
 New Underwood 
 
 Canton 
 
 Oacoma 
 
 Chamberlin 
 
 Piedmont 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 Plankinton 
 
 Craven 
 
 Presho 
 
 Crystal Cave 
 
 Pukwana 
 
 Emery 
 
 Quinn 
 
 Eairview 
 
 Rapid City 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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SOUTH DAKOTA 
 (Continued) 
 
 TEXAS 
 
 Reliance 
 
 Austin 
 
 Salem 
 
 Canadian 
 
 Sioux Falls 
 
 Cleburne 
 
 Sisseton 
 
 Clifton 
 
 Spearfish 
 
 Conroe 
 
 Sturgis 
 
 Corsicana 
 
 Summit 
 
 Dallas 
 
 Thunder Hawk 
 
 Denison 
 
 Twin Brooks 
 
 El Paso 
 
 Vivian 
 
 Fort Worth 
 
 Wall 
 
 Houston 
 
 Wasta 
 
 Marlin 
 
 Watauga 
 
 Marshall 
 
 Watertown 
 
 Meridian 
 
 Waubay 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 
 
 Webster 
 
 Pittsburg 
 
 White Lake 
 
 Port Arthur 
 
 White wood 
 
 Sanger 
 
 Yankton 
 
 Sherman 
 
 Sulphur Springs 
 
 TEHEES SEE 
 
 Valley Mills 
 
 Waco 
 
 Chattanooga 
 
 Walnut Springs 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Wichita Falls 
 
 Pulaski 
 
 Wolfe City 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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UTAH 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Cisco 
 
 Coulee City 
 
 Green River 
 
 Davenport 
 
 Provo 
 
 Dayton 
 
 Salt Lake City 
 
 Easton 
 
 Ellensburg 
 
 VERMONT 
 
 Garfield 
 
 Goldendale 
 
 East Hardwick 
 
 Grandview 
 
 Hoquiam 
 
 VIRGINIA 
 
 Kelso 
 
 Kirkland 
 
 Endless Caverns 
 
 Lake Keechelus 
 
 Richmond 
 
 Mount Ranier Nat f l Pk 
 Mount Vernon 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 Newport 
 North Beach 
 
 Almira 
 
 Okanogan 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 Olympia 
 
 Burbank 
 
 Pasco 
 
 Cashme re 
 
 Prosser 
 
 Castle Rock 
 
 Richland 
 
 Centralia 
 
 Ritzville 
 
 Chehalis 
 
 Rosalia 
 
 Cheney 
 
 Seattle 
 
 Cle Elum 
 
 Snoqualmie 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 
 ( Continued) 
 
 South Bend 
 
 Spokane 
 
 Sprague 
 
 Tacoma 
 
 Tenino 
 
 Touche t 
 
 Vancouver 
 
 Walla Walla 
 
 Waterville 
 
 Wenatchee 
 
 Wilbur 
 
 Yakima 
 
 WISCONSIN 
 
 Abbotsford 
 
 Amherst Junction 
 
 Baldwin 
 
 Chippew Falls 
 
 Cudahy 
 
 Eau Claire 
 
 Elroy 
 
 Fond du Lac 
 
 Fremont 
 
 Hudson 
 
 WISCONSIN 
 ( Continued) 
 
 Madison 
 
 Medina 
 
 Menomonee Falls 
 
 Menomonie 
 
 Milwaukee 
 
 Racine 
 
 Stanley 
 
 Weyauwega 
 
 WYOMING 
 
 Arvada 
 
 Basin 
 
 Carlisle 
 
 Casper 
 
 Che yenne 
 
 Clearmont 
 
 Cody 
 
 Devils Tower 
 
 Gillette 
 
 Greybull 
 
 Moorcroft 
 
 Parkman 
 
 Ranchester 
 
 Sheriden 
 
87 
 
 WYOMING 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 Shoshoni 
 
 Sundanoe 
 
 Thermopolis 
 
 Wheatland 
 
 Worland 
 
 Yellowstone Nat 1 ! Park 
 
88 
 
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