Best Camping Spots (and a few new tricks to try!)

Ever heard of a pie iron? These ingenious inventions are also known as pudgy pies, toastie irons, jaffle irons, or snackwichers. It’s a cooking appliance that has 2 hinged cast iron plates on long metal poles with heat-resistant handles.

It opens like a clamshell and fastens closed to cook anything from pies, sandwiches, tacos, breakfasts and desserts! They come in various shapes, but the standard size fits a slice of bread.

The basic idea is to put two halves of a base (think bread, biscuit, tortilla, dough, even bacon!) and fill it with your toppings of choice--fruit, eggs, chocolate, cheese, meats, avocado, the sky is the limit!

No more is your campfire limited to just hotdogs and smores. With a pie iron, you can make pizzas, tacos, breakfast sandwiches or even cinnamon rolls!

Trust me, you can get lost down the pinterest rabbit hole, but we can't wait to hear some of YOUR favorite ways to use it this summer!

Here are our team's FAVORITE camping spots to try out!

Lake Rudolph, Santa Claus, Indiana. www.lakerudolph.com

RV campground that also offers cabins, tentsites and golf cart rentals. Daily activities calendar, pool and shuttle to Holiday World/Splashin' Safari.

Progress Park, Louisville, KY, www.progressparkky.com

Want to skip the tent completely? Check out this glamping resort with cabins, airstreams and a lakehouse! Kayaks, canoes shuffleboard, cornhole, hammocks, volleyball, playground and firewood are all included!

Clifty Falls State Park, Madison, In-https://indianastateparks.reserveamerica.com/ State park with great hiking trails, playground, waterfalls, picnic areas and sites for RVs and tents. Great pool for the summer too!

Sycamore Springs Campground, English Indiana https://sycamorespringspark.com/ Our favorite for family camping (especially with littles under 12), tent and RV sites, multiple unique playgrounds everywhere, hiking trails, fishing pond, free shelters and free firewood!

Charlestown State Park-https://indianastateparks.reserveamerica.com/

A quiet state park with hiking trails, and play/picnic areas. (Check out our Youtube video of Rose Island!) It is the 3rd largest park in Indiana and sits on the bank of the Ohio River.

Marengo Cave, Marengo, Indiana www.marengocave.com

National landmark with lots of fun things to do including tours, gem mining and pedal karting. They have cabins, RV and Tent sites and you can even sleep in the Cave!

Buffalo Trace Park, Palmyra, Indiana www.harrisoncountyparks.com

Modern amenities (Hooray for heated shower!), cabins, beach area, and even a petting zoo!