2014 Rally

Family and I would be interested in attending a rally.

Hi all, I would love to go to a rally this fall. Is anyone working on one now??

Attended the first rally in 2013...would really like to attend another, especially in the northeast. There are several people with KZ in NY and PA.

Sounds great we only had about 12 units at the first KZ Rally in Shipshewanna in 2013. I will send and e- mail and see if any of that group would like to come. Most of them were from Michigan and East.

We will check our calendar. We are close by...live in the Jamestown, NY area in Western NY..been to Cook Forest several times.

shoestring,  last june we stayed in cooks forest ridge campground, but they are putting some new renovations in the BEST loop, so we decided to try campers paridise for this comming june rally,  i am trying to get the  whole back section of the campground, (51-83 i beleive) off the top of my head. , by the pavillion, ours to use free of charge for our potluck if we get min 10 reservations.  mostly water/electric sites  plus some full hookup sites available.  they didnt give us a exact site numbers yet, but said they would put us all together, i have 15 sites reserved under my name john kreuzer.  tell them you want to camp with the popup portal rally!  last year we had 5 popups, a truck camper, and one tent, hoping to at least double it this year, plus excited to use my new tt alot this comming year.  all are welcomed. it would be great to get some KZ,s  in the mix also!     we didnt kayak, but rented canoes for a 10 mile trip, it was awlsome!!  deff want to do it again, please consider joining us  , we can have a double  KZ/popup portal rally, or  come as a guest!!!    what part of PGH are you from?  i live in the south hills< and really like my new spree escape 196.  

Camper's Paradise???

Like I said, we had a good time there. However, I think I should warn you about sites 53-61 (look at the site map, that section is double what 47-52 has in the same space). These sites appeared to be converted "tent" sites that they doubled up on. It was a grassy patch from one end of the road, clear to the other, with nothing to really define a site. We counted fire pits to make sure we were in the right site. We had site 60, the water/electric hook up was in front of us....behind site 61. I had to park with by awning right at the post, and run my hook-ups under the trailer to reach them. The post consisted of a single 30 amp trailer hook-up and a single 20 amp receptacle shared between site 60 & 61. Luckly I got there 1st, and took the 30 amp; not sure how that 30+ footer ran his trailer off that 20 amp. I walked the row....every two sites had the same single set up (the water had a double bib). Like I said, seems they doubled up the sites.

We had sites 58, 59 & 60 for our KZ 170, a Pop-up and a tent. With my trailer jammed up against site 61, we spun the po-up in site 59 and had the tent on 58. With the pop-up spun, we could all hang-out by that fire pit (good thing because my truck was basically parked in our fire pit.

We lost water on Saturday & Sunday morning right about peak "morning shower time". They fixed it relatively quickly, but I heard it happens frequently.

So what am I saying?? We like the place (really like the cook forest area), and would not mind a return trip there. However, for those expecting to "plug in" to the comforts of home, those site will fall short. Unfortunately I think most of the full hook up sites are permanent campers. Nine trailers in 53-61 will be rubbing awnings with their neighbor. Shame too....because all those permanent full hook-up spaces are, well, spacious. Even 47-52 had some elbo room.


Just my thoughts....

by the way, we live in the North Bessemer Section of Penn Hills (not it really isn't as bad as they say...although it sure ain't what it was when I grew up here in the 70's-80's).

shoe string,  we had our last pup rally at cooks forest state park ridge campground, we really likes the back section, we had sites 135-141    but as of aug 2014  they closed off that entire loop to renovate the first 7 sites into full hookup, not knowing when they expected to  complete or reopen that section, we decided to move to campers paridise so we can start planning early, since most people already have several campouts  scheduled in the books already.    i just looked back on the DCNR web page, and it looks like they reopened the loop for ressies, minus the first seven sites.,  i am talking to my people on pup, to see if they want to re-move back to cooks forest again, for a repeat rally,  i personally like this campground better, the only down fall on this section of the park is that it is a non-freindly pet section    they do have a pet section up front of cg, so anybody wanting to stay there with poochie, could still do so,   but sites are not as impressive in my opinion.    if we deciced to move back, everyone will  still be very much  invited to join us,  we could hold our double rally there,   bigger sites, and cheaper costs,   let me first call the state park ranger station and re confirm that these sites are now re available.      will keep you posted

Would like to attend one of the rallies but only if they allow pets. I am not sure the one at Paradise will accommodate our 30 footer with slide and awning. Let us know if it will work for us.

Do any of the Rally's ever come near Mass?!?!