Denver to Crater of Diamonds – Day2

We left Wakeeney, KS this morning at 9:10 AM EDT and arrived at the Guthrie, OK Walmart at 3:18 PM EDT to stock up on supplies before moving on to Cedar Valley RV Park.  The campground here is about 5 miles straight west of I-35, but we had an interesting time getting here from the local Walmart. I always verify my GPS routes on the map to make sure I’m not going to run into any issues, but I hadn’t accounted for the side trip to Walmart.  The GPS routed us down the main street of Guthrie which was very beautiful.  It was the original Oklahoma state capital and one of the home of one of the land offices involved in the Land Run of 1889 (we would be interested in touring the town for a day on a future trip).  Unfortunately, the street dead ends into a cross street and due to construction, the bridge we needed to take was closed (missing).  We were forced to turn left and it was starting to look like we were going to have to stop and unhook the Tahoe so we could turn the RV around.  The final cross street went back to town, but it was brick and had a lot of very large dips.  We drug our tail end a bit at a couple of rough intersections.  The RV has a pair of metal drag bars back there to protect it, so there was no damage that we could find, but it certainly put our knickers in a bind.

The campground sites are all pull-thru with 50 Amps and septic at each site and plenty of space between. The Verizon reception is 3 bars with great LTE download and upload speeds.  The free Wi-Fi is basically useless.  There aren’t a lot of trees, so we had no issues setting up the satellite.

A large percentage of the campers here are work campers (construction), but the owners don’t let any of them have the code to the bathrooms and showers because they come home work too filthy.

We will be heading for Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas first thing tomorrow.