Standing Indian NRA (May 24 - 27)

We took the motorhome for this trip, which is about 39 miles from Trackrock. It is west of Franklin, NC and has an elevation of about 3500 ft. The headwaters of the Nantahala River pass thru the campground. It is a beautiful river that gets a lot of fishing pressure, but is not stocked. It has mostly wild rainbows, but also some wild browns. Armed with some tips from the locals, we fished downstream from the campground with flys that would get down into the water column. Joan, however, caught the only fish, two nice rainbows, although we both lost a few. Given the type of fishery, we still consider it a successful outing. The motorhome behaved wonderfully, and the weather mostly cooperated, with only a few storms. There was a bear that came into the campground at night and campers who left food out found it gone in the morning. One group left a few days early and misses out on their holiday weekend. We were not bothered. This was our first time in our new rig dry camping (no elec. or water hookups), so we had some things to learn about keeping the batteries charged with the generator. Joan successfully drove the motorhome back down the mountain. We had a great time.


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