Lake Degray only 96 more to go

Every year my family goes to Lake Degray for a family reunion for my husband’s side of the family. Lake Degray is a beautiful state park. We went to Lake Degray on September 19th. Here is the link http://www.degray.com/ We have done every type of camping at Lake Degray, tent, pop up, and then we booked a Yurt. We were at Yurt 3 to be exact. It was love at first sight. The Yurts book up very fast so we decided to book it a year in advance. It sleeps 6 and so we used the extra bunk for storage. Yep, you read that correctly BUNKS. I felt like I was a kid again sleeping in the bunk bed. It also comes with the norm like a picnic table, fire ring, charcoal grill, water and electrical. The extras are folding table, cooler, folding chairs, two eyed gas burner and a battery operated lantern. It was perfect. We all felt like we were living in a tepee. The site that the Yurt was located on was absolutely the BEST camp site I have ever seen. Trees surround you and your closet neighbor was about 300 feet away. It felt as though you were on your own private island. The previous guests had made a fire ring out of rocks farther away from the Yurt and right next to a huge rock. We were also about 20 or 30 paces from the lake. The kids went swimming and I got my feet in. The kids also decided to have a mud fight and that broke up shortly after my son threw mud in my daughters eye and she screamed bloody murder. It's all fun and games until someone pokes an eye out. That evening after all the kids were asleep my husband and I grabbed a bottle of wine and took our chairs down to the lake to sit and listened to the water and look at the stars. The sky was full of stars and there were so many of them. We saw 13 shooting stars. I didn't think that was possible to see that many in a lifetime much less in one evening. It was one of those moments when you closed your eyes to soak in the perfect moment. One thing I can say is that Lake Degray doesn't have very many hiking trails. They have a few but they are all very short and not enough to really break you out into a sweat. The next day we went to Hot Springs. It's about 45 minutes from Degray and the drive is beautiful. The National Park is in Hot Springs and so of course we had to check that out. If you ever decide to go to Hot Springs fill up your water bottles there. That is the best water that we have ever drunk. It's 100% pure water with no filtration involved.