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Originally Posted by dwalsdorf
Shannon:
As a GRSP vet, do you think the northern or southern areas of camping spots get better winds. I'm looking at 33/34 on the northern area (water only) or 61/63 on the southern/eastern edge (electricity + water). A great factor for the "water only" side is no RV's, but if one side gets much more of a breeze, I'd put up with the neighbors probably....
TIA.
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Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. Still rehabbing the heck out of my knee after surgery, and not yet permitted to hike so I've been a little absent from the forums (jealous of all you two-good-legs folk!)
My last camping trip was some time ago, due to the knee injury that necessitated my surgery, so I'm a little rusty on the park actually. Sites #33/34 (Cedar Sage camping area) is actually where I last camped, and both are wonderful sites in terms of visual appeal and proximity to neighbors (not on top of each other) and proximity to hiking (literally right by the sites) -- though this means there's a fair amount of foot traffic by the sites throughout the day due to the trail. It's where I plan to camp again soon -- as soon as I'm cleared to hike on my 'new knee'. These sites are probably the best for wind, despite a lot of tree cover, since if you hike just a ways down the trail (heading towards the Guadalupe River) you'll note you're on a high ridge/bluff overlooking the river. Fishermen sometimes come down the trail and if you're camping here you see them heading back pretty quickly, because they realize there's no way they're shimmying down the steep bluff to reach the water! If the wind's coming the right direction, it is a nice point to stop and take a breather after hiking or riding the multi-use trail, particularly in summer. Not sure about prevailing wind directions in summer...been too long since I've been out there.
I haven't camped that far in on the Turkey Sink area (where sites 61 & 63 are), though we did camp there once years ago when the Wagon Ford Walk-in area was under renovation and not available. We were closer to the main park roadway, and suffered through noisy nights of RV generators -- drowned out only by a Texas summer thunderstorm. Don't recall much wind until the storm moved in, and the biggest worry was a dead/rotten oak limb potentially loosing and landing on our tent.
Hope this helps. If I get out to GRSP in the next month or two when I'm cleared to hike, I'll report in with any add'l info. I may do a day trip there this coming week, since I need to get out into a real park for a change (I do a lot of exercise walking on paved walking paths in town as part of my rehabilitation, but I desperately miss the State Parks!)
