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Ode to campgrounds

How I learned to stop hating developed sites--and tents

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Oct 06, 2021
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View from a favorite campground of mine. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

My parents first took me camping before I could even walk, and throughout my childhood our version of a family vacation was to pack up the decrepit station wagon or the oil-guzzling International Harvester pickup and head out into the land of sage and sandstone and set up camp undernea…

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