Birders & Campers

The Biggest Week in American Birding, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Oak Harbor, May 6 - 16 (NW)
Visit the Warbler Capital of the World at the National Wildlife Refuge during peak spring migration. This jam-packed event offers birding enthusiasts guided bird walks and bus tours, bird identification workshops, boat trips to birding hot-spots and songbird banding demos. Don't miss evening talks and programs throughout the event by Kenn Kaufman, a celebrity in the birding world.


For campers, I highly recommend nearby Maumee Bay State Park. It's easily one of our most favorite campgrounds; we stay there several times throughout the season. Maumee Bay offers extremely large sites, paved pads and privacy beyond belief. Wide buffer zones of overgrown vegetation separate the sites, and each backs up to either lakes, ponds or forest. Sites 99-101 are our favorites but you can't go wrong with any of them. Clean bathrooms and hiking/biking trails, too!
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My family (wife and three kids, sometimes the dog) and I have been RV campers since 2007. We own a 2000 Trail-Lite B22 Bantam hybrid, our tow vehicle is a 2006 Trailblazer LT EXT (5.3 V8 with 3.73 Rear Axle Ratio), and our setup includes the Equalizer sway controller. Looking to upgrade the camper in the near future, but until then we get out 2-3 times a month in season.