Never been to Pelican lake, im planning a trip next weekend...does anyone know if you have to make camping reservations or is it a primitave set up...first come first serve.....any campground phone number available would be helpful.
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Primitive camping , first come first serve. If it's warm be prepared for the bugs-Good Luck
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I went to camp there about 10 years ago with my wife. She was about to get out of my truck and almost stepped on a snake. She never got out, soooo we ended up staying in a hotel in Vernal.
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Yep, primitive. You have to get there early in the week to get a 'good' spot. There are a few picnic tables scattered about. No firewood around so bring your own. There is a bathroom near the boat ramp but bring your own tp, rumor had it last weekend that there wasn't any tp. Don't swim in the water.
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Just like camping should be; no hook ups, no electricity,no room for a million huge RV's, no fees and no real restrictions. Having no amenities keeps the riff-raff out. You know, the wimps not willing to sleep in a sandy cow pasture and bring their own everything in and out......[
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One thing I have found at Pelican is that the worst campsites are the best campsites.
I camp up away from the water when I go there, you can barely tell that you are at a campsite some are so overgrown. Those are the best ones.
My buddy would not listen to me and decided that the waterfront campsite was best. He set up there and got eaten alive by the bugs. We, on the other hand being a couple of hundred feet away from the water had almost no bugs.
The other annoying thing is the motorhome and big trailer campers and their generators. They sit all night watching their tv's then simply go to bed leaving their genset to run out of gas rather than going out and turning it off. 12pm, not a light on in the trailer and the genset sits there screaming all night. Fine if your in the trailer, loud and smelly if your in a tent.
One year, someone went along at about 1am and flipped every generator over, upside down. I don't know how it happened, maybe the cows are into generator tipping.
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i hear ya, but is the weather warm enough for bugs.....dont know the temps over there...
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