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Mt. Pleasant was, for years, the center of the phosphate industry. Plants like Stauffer pumped their wastes into deep wells, thoroughly polluting the groundwater. When the plants eventually closed, the city tried to attract other noxious plants and recruited major polluters like W. R. Grace...

I would still avoid Mt. Pleasant on account of the environmental hazards, the poor schools and the long commute. Columbia is closer and has much better schools, some excellent. Chapel Hill is nice enough, but it's small, and there won't be many choices. Marshall County schools aren't that...

I would personally avoid Mt. Pleasant; they have a terrible environmental record (attracting polluters, ineffective wastewater treatment, etc.). I also think the schools tend to underperform other Maury County ones. And do you really want to be behind a steering wheel an hour and a half a day...

. What? Why would anyone from Mt. Pleasant go through Nashville to get to Franklin? It would be about a 30 minute commute, and they would even skirt around the edge of Columbia. Many of the Maury County schools are very good; however, I would not put the Mt. Pleasant ones in that category...

I lived in Maine three years and would rather sleep naked through May and June outside in black fly and mosquito season there than I would to wander fifteen feet through tall grass here infested with chiggers. Not only do they burrow into your skin, they lay their eggs there, and then their...

No one has told you about chiggers yet, I imagine.

It may surprise others, but there are more black bears in parts of Tennessee than anywhere else in the United States. In the Great Smoky Mountains, there are about two per square mile, one of the highest ratios anywhere. There is just so much mast and food for them. You read a lot about bears...

Hello, I am here in Middle Tennessee (but worked in Maine a few years, living Downeast on MDI. Where are you in Maine?) Middle Tennessee is pretty decent country for camping. You can camp year-round due to our climate, about the only months I'd advise you to avoid are July and August. This...

There are many valid reasons for some parks being day-use units. Sometimes, the resources can't support camping, or there just isn't enough room, or the type of park doesn't call for a campground. Here in Tennessee, our best-in-the-nation state park system has 55 units, and of these, about 33...

Another reason I will never have a travel trailer. I don't see that happening with my super-light a-frame pup.

I would hasten to bet your park report doesn't conclude that the "doner" (sic) wasn't thinking it would take 30 years to plan, that it was "wierd" to have horses but not dogs, that it states that the parks are for naturalists only, nor does it call pup campers "an abomination." I would call a...

There are a number in your system that are day-use only. Park systems generally are sensitive to the carrying capacity of an area; you don't place campgrounds in parks where they will negatively affect the landscape, or where there simply is no room.

That may be your take on how parks are created in Colorado, though I imagine the real story is somewhat different. Here in Tennessee, we have had two new parks designated in the last year, the first in more than twenty years. Cummins Falls SP was purchased largely with funds raised by a...

I've never encountered a problem, and feel much safer in the woods and the boonies or in a campground than I do in cities and towns.

At our Costco, these were in addition to the Champion and Generac generators they'd been carrying for a long time...and some other one I don't recall. I think it's a new buy, and not replacing anything.

Expecting someone else to be responsible for your safety.... not a good idea. Always check your own cylinders; you can't rely on others to do so for you.

On the other hand, it's in a red case, so non-discerning types might link the Honda with the problems. It's been my experience that if a Briggs and Stratton engine fails, it's the maker of the lawn mower or air compressor, etc., not the maker of the engine, that tends to get blamed.

I always do my own inspection as I have never once seen a propane refiller make the effort to do so. Not once, ever. Expecting someone else to do so is just too risky. That said, I have maybe only had my cylinder weighed once or twice; usually they refill them on my trailer tongue... under my...

These are Yamaha generators; the company merely purchased Yamaha engines, which is much many lawn mower manufacturers purchasing Briggs and Stratton engines. Users of actual Yamaha generators will always attest to them.

The natural landscapes in which we camp cannot be improved upon. Besides, one of the tenets of the Leave No Trace ethic is to camp as unobtrusively as possible.