Dan McCaslin: The Splendors of Easy Backcountry Car-Camping
Head to Davy Brown or Nira Camp to escape everyday pressures; little gear is needed, and children could use a change of scenery, too
A Davy Brown campsite next to the creek. (Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo) By Dan McCaslin, Noozhawk Columnist | @NoozhawkNews
May 15, 2021
| 3:15 p.m.
Midspring days sparkle amid great beauty all around like omnipresent surround sound, but visual and fragrant. Nature’s synesthesia of color and sound blares out like a giant megaphone in your face while hiking as your toes touch the dirt path and you chew tasty brodiaea bulbs (blue dicks) or munch waning miner’s lettuce.
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Honestly, I gain absurd joy from roaming around the backcountry, out past Cachuma Reservoir and into the dry hinterlands beyond Nira Camp. Today, we have some truly depressed children and adults. Vitamin N nature therapy is an infallible cure for such conditions! Despite the driving and gasoline costs, day-hiking and car-camping is pretty inexpensive ($20 a night at Fremont Camp along Paradise Valley Road vs. $200-plus a night at El Capitan Ranch glamping center).