The park is named after the nearby Great Indian War and Trading Path, a system of trails used by Native Americans for trade and war. Due to the weather, we did not explore the trail. As you can see below, our warriors were getting back into the comfortable routine of being back out on the road.
It’s often difficult to get a feel for a campground when the rain is coming down and it’s cold outside and all you really want to do is get your coach as level as you can and get inside where it will be dry and warm. The small section of the campground that was open, while convenient for park staff to maintain, was older and full of gravel and dirt (OK, mud) pads that were decidedly not level and not long enough to handle the assigned vehicles. Our assigned site didn’t have working breakers so we called the office and asked if we could move to another. We settled in on our forth try and then tried to get level and generally stay out of the small lakes that formed from the heavy rain.
In the morning one shower was fine and the other had a non-working diverter valve; lots of nice hot water shooting at your knees in the unheated space (37 degrees inside and out)!
That being said, the park is open all year and there is a active rail line nearby that provides ambiance. It’s not far off I-81 and we heard no traffic from the highway.