Camping with Friends: Edgar Evins

Last year we realized that we had several friends who had campers and we started camping with them semi-regularly. Besides the mutual love of camping, we all have similar age kids (mostly boys) which makes these camping trips a lot of fun.

In March we started planning out our camping season with them, adding in dates we were all available through the end of summer. Coronavirus quickly put a dent in our carefully made plans. First, with Rock Island closing and refunding us our reservations. Talk about a bummer.

Anyways, as our state opened back up, we revisited the idea of camping again and were able to tentatively pencil in some new weekends. Last weekend marked the first of such camping trips for this year.

Our family was actually supposed to go to Rock Island for the first part of the week since Daniel had onsite work at the Rock Island Dam. Unfortunately, due to circumstances outside of our control, we ended up missing that portion of the trip. Click here to read why.

Thankfully we were able to still join our friends at Edgar Evins for the weekend. We had six little boys running around, ranging in age from one to eight. They had a blast. The parents all had a good time too.

We had late night meals, chats around the campfire. The boys did a little fishing in the lake. We took a hike down to Cummins Falls, where all of the boys were troopers. It was just such a good weekend.

This was our first time to camp at Edgar Evins. All of the sites are on elevated decks and some of the sites had pretty steep angles for trying to park a camper. I would suggest making sure you read about every site to make sure you reserve a level one if you are planning to camp here.

Before leaving, we scoped out the sites that are on the water and hope to come back and snag one of those in the future.

I am so thankful we were able to get back to camping. Next week we will be heading to Florida to see my family again and then camp at the beach. We cannot wait!