My dad and I went for a drive on Friday, looking for somewhere that we could overlook a nice lake while having a picnic lunch of turkey sandwiches. It was annoying, because the only wheelchair access to the park I had thought I knew of up past Big Lake was closed down because they were planting grass or something. And the entrance by the roofed over picnic area was not wheelchair friendly having a narrow entrance and one of those fenced offset just inside the opening. I’m not sure what those are meant to be fore, but it makes it very hard for anyone in a wheelchair to get into the place.

So, we went around to the dock entrance, but there was someone there with a bunch of little kids, so we left and went to the boat launch campground area a few miles away. That was a wasted trip, since the only handicapped accessible place where you could see the lake was the boat launch, and there was no parking there. So… back around to where there had been a resort before the Miller’s Reach Fire years ago. That is now some kind of private place with a gate to keep you from being able to see the lake.

Rocky Lake was the next option, however that failed to work as well, since there were no decent places to enjoy the lake from and the one place you can park and sit in a car at there was a bunch of people camping.

We ended up going back up to park by the creek near our house and eating the sandwiches there. I’m going to jump out on Google Maps and find a bunch of good places that me and dad can go picnicking at when we go to town and stuff this year.

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