crawdude

I stopped in to Purtis last summer. It is what I call a "boat ramp" park. Basically a camp ground at a fishing lake. My impression was that the campground was cramped, the camping places were really right on top of each other. And there is hardly any hiking trails. Also the roads are not what I consider bicycle friendly, narrow with no shoulder, not a place for kids to be when a truck pulling a bass boat comes hurrying around the bend.

There seemed to be a lot of locals in the day use swimming area, fishing around the NO FISHING IN SWIMMING AREA signs.

However, I did stumble into a coyote in midafternoon that ran away stopping about thirty yards away to watch me fumbling for my camera only to trot off through the woods about the time I was focused. Still a nice surprise close up encounter though.