Camping Survival Trip in Midwest?
by admin on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | 5 Comments
I live in Kansas and would like to take a 3-4 day “survival camping trip”. Basically, I would like to find a forest filled area with plenty of streams and large enough to hike quite a few miles a day during the trip (maybe ten miles a day, so 20 miles down, 20 miles back). Anywhere in the Midwest would be great. Any suggestions?
Obviously the place needs to be vacant of people and other campers and not an “established” camping grounds in the sense that there are families camping left and right.
I have really only been in my state. Up in Duluth Minnesota theres is vast amounts of trees and rivers. It is peaceful and calm. I can only suggest that.
Adirondacks in northern New York. Otherwise there’s a nice bit of wilderness above Saulk St. Marie in upper Michigan… or the Ottawa National Forest of northern Wisconsin
Look in Minnesota most def
If you go west you have a few states with large wilderness areas. Here is a map showing such areas;
http://www.epa.gov/oar/visibility/epa_map.gif
One of the closer ones is the Weminuche wilderness in Colorado. http://www.coloradowilderness.com/wildpages/weminuche.html
Another is the Bandelier wilderness in new Mexico;
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=27
To the east of you there is the Upper Buffalo wilderness in Arkansas;
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&wname=Upper%20Buffalo
Looks like you have places all around you that would be nice.
I had a pheasant take out the window of my truck on a highway in Kansas…lol. Didn’t realize there were so many there.
You might try the Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missouri. Some areas are fairly close to Kansas. Some trails about thirty miles long. Check the Mark twain National Forest website i sourced. Arkansas also has some great parks, I am sure they would have some awesome trails. Try to find national parks/forest with “dispersed camping” that is the primitive camping. For the best in primitive camping i think the boundary waters north of Minnesota would be the ultimate midwest adventure. Good luck an please write back with you experiences.