Yesterday’s list included some of our all-time favorite state parks. Those are defined as ones that we would go out of our way to visit again. But there are many others that have been really great. A lot of great parks didn’t make yesterday’s list because of any of these reasons:

• we didn’t stay at them long enough to get to know them
• they are beautiful but a bit too isolated for us to be likely to visit again
• I can’t get online on site, so we can only visit them when I’m officially taking time off work
• they are overshadowed by wonderful National Park sites nearby
• I forgot about them until today!

On this list:

Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park, Three Forks MT

Fish Creek Pond/Rollins Pond State Parks, near Lake Placid NY (canoeing/kayaking)

Hunting Island State Park, Beaufort SC (lighthouse)

Santa Rosa State Park, Santa Rosa NM (right off old Rt 66)

Kanawha State Park, Charleston WV (must be under 25 feet to fit in!)

Picacho Peak State Park, Picacho AZ (off I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix)

Watkins Glen State Park, Watkins Glen NY (waterfalls! This one should have made the first list)

Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM (near White Sands Nat’l Monument)

Jamaica State Park, Jamaica VT (another one that should have made the first list)

First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, VA

Nickerson State Park, Brewster MA (Cape Cod, excellent bicycling trails)

Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Jupiter FL (sand dunes, natural Florida)

Letchworth State Park, Perry NY (waterfalls)

New Brighton State Beach, Capitola CA

Sometime soon I’ll do another list of our favorite National Park campsites. Some of those are really spectacular.

Tonight we met with Fred Coldwell, who writes for Airstream Life magazine regularly. Fred and I reviewed my edits on his upcoming article for the Winter 2007 issue, and discussed the photography we would use. His article will look fantastic in the magazine, since the topic is Airstream photographer Ardean Miller. Ardean is the guy responsible for all of those fantastic Kodachrome images of Airstreams from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and the magazine article will be loaded with them.

After business was concluded, we all went out for pizza near Stapleton at this place that makes enormous 18″ pizzas. One pizza easily fed all of us with leftovers for lunch tomorrow, which means tomorrow will be a nice day too…