Is This Downstream Campground Better than the Last One? Yes – Except

This is another Army Corps of Engineers Campground and has the typical nicely paved, well spaced sites, just like the other Downstream Campground. But this campground has three loops with 101 sites and there are 16 campers here. That is really nice.

This campground also has walking trails and they start right next to our campsite.

They are well made gravel paths and they go through a woods; even though the trees are all cottonwoods, they are big broadleaf trees.

In the morning I saw the sun rise…

and the moon set.

There are beautiful views of the Missouri River. That is very nice.

There is a fish hatchery here, too, and we got to walk through it. (That’s the next post.) So all in all this is a better campground except…

there are flies. Hundreds of little houseflies that land on you whenever you are outside and come in the truck or the camper whenever you open a door.

They are so bad we asked the campground host how they dealt with them. He said they have never had flies like this before. They can’t eat outside and inside they hang flypaper. He told us the hardware store in nearby Garrison had the flypaper.

Happily we found a good disc golf course in Garrison because the hardware store was out of flypaper. Apparently the whole area is having a fly problem. They had this sticky six sided column that is supposed to attract flies with its colors and patterns. I’m not sure about that, if you look closely you can see 6 hapless flies stuck to it, but since in the two and a half days it’s been out Bud has probably swatted three times that many, I think these poor losers just landed on it by chance.

And now I have to go in because the wind dropped and I can’t take the flies anymore!