{"id":4294,"date":"2017-06-28T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:04:16","slug":"tent-camping-with-grand-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leslieval.com\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Tent Camping with Grand Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For 5 days last week we camped in Beacon Rock State Park<\/a> with Laura and Tucker’s kids.\u00a0 Tennessee is 7 and Oz is 4 and the four of us piled our camping gear into the Prius and headed out for some unstructured play time in the woods.\u00a0 We found Beacon Rock State Park<\/a> on the Web as we sought a small park with non-reservable campsites that had some woods and some water.\u00a0 As it turned out, Beacon Rock, on the north side of the Columbia River and just downriver from the Bonneville Dam, was perfect for us.\u00a0 It had 26 \"\"<\/a>campsites about a mile up from the river and they were positioned around a sort of circle of dense trees, ferns and salal so that one could not see one campsite from another.\u00a0 Little trails led from one campsite to another, to water faucets and eventually to a bathroom.\u00a0 These trails were a bit intimidating to our little ones at first, but after a day, they were buzzing off along these trails in search of rabbits or water faucets or the bathroom or another family with young children.\u00a0 We hiked and played and cooked sticky some-mores and read books in the evening in our little tent.<\/p>\n