Boiling Springs Backpacker's campsite
Can anyone tell me what the campsite in/or right outside of Boiling springs is like? Are there hammock trees or is it just flat ground?
Just a clearing in an old hayfield as I remember. Right next to a busy RR Track. May be able to find a couple of trees around the edges, but I wouldn't count on it. Practice going to ground before you plan on this site for a hammock.
There is no permanent privy - port-a-pot is rented by the Cumberland Valley A.T. club for high thru-hiker use periods only - and even then it's probably that club's major expense.
There is no water at the site - the water tap is on back side of ATC office in downtown Boiling Springs about 1/2 mile trail-north.
Some hikers from previous years might remember an old stone house next to the site - that's been demolished.
When I lived in B.S. a train came through at 2:30 a.m.
I wouldnt stay there, but that's me. I hate being next to RR tracks.
Garmanhaus BB on the other side of lake allows tenting in yard $1.00 no shower no toilet
E-Z---"from sea to shining sea''
I heard there are lots of trains going though there all night. I remember tons of hammock sites a mile or so south of it and a little more of the town.
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