The Pink Elephant Rally at Pike’s Peak State Park (Iowa) is only a week away! We’ve had a couple cancelations, but the campground still looks almost totally full.
Here is an update on travel and schedule for the rally:
1. Due to street construction on the west end of Main Street in McGregor, it will be very difficult to bring your camper through downtown. Please use Highway 18 west of the Mississippi bridge until you reach the top of the long uphill grade. Then, turn left on Business 18 and follow it into town from the west. When you reach the Catholic Church intersection (west end of Main Street), continue on through on County Road X56, up the hill out of town south. The entrance to Pike’s Peak State Park is a couple miles on the left. Signs clearly mark the way. There is a detour through McGregor for your tow vehicles to get to the quaint downtown, but they don’t advise trailers on that route.
2. If anyone is interested in joining Cindy and me for supper Thursday evening in McGregor, please let us know so we can contact the restaurant with an anticipated number. We are planning on a 5:30 supper at the Backwoods Bar and Grill overlooking the Mississippi River (111 1st St.). They are open for supper in Thursday nights from 4 - 7 p.m. and have a varied menu of sandwiches, salads, pizza, full dinners, and such.
3. We will have coffee (reg and decaf) at our site (39) from 7:30 - 9 a.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We will also have a few breakfast snacks, but feel free to bring anything you would like, too. Plan to bring your own coffee mugs!
4. On Friday evening from 6:30 - ?, we will have a snacks and beverages gathering at the stone shelter house sponsored by Escape Trailers. Thanks, Escape and their ambassadors Steve and Anita Marchfield! Please bring your own favorite beverages and we will have a cheese tray, veggie tray, ham roll ups tray, and a mixed sandwich tray… just some light things for an after-supper gathering. Again, feel free to bring anything you would like to share.
5. Our Saturday evening pot-luck supper will also be at the stone shelter house at 5:30 p.m. Cindy and I will be furnishing deli roasted chicken pieces, so please bring other dishes to share. We’ll take our chances with not having assigned types of food, so hopefully we won’t have 20 dishes of mac & cheese! Please bring your own plates, silverware, and beverages.
6. We’ve been advised by a friend in McGregor that the gnats are on a rampage this season, so be prepared for little flying critters. Also, scattered thunderstorms are predicted along with warm temps.
See you all next week! Cindy and I will be arriving on Sunday, June 16, to do some sightseeing before the rally gets going, but we’ll be at our site every day by later afternoon.
