Fall Means Family Fun for RVers

Posted by RV Pro on Oct 21, 2009

Fall is a great time for weekend RV trips with the family. Sunny days and cooler temperatures make perfect hiking weather. Even when the temperatures plummet into the 40s at night, you and yours will be toasty warm inside your RV.

Trips to apple orchards for a U-pick experience are fun for the whole family. Many orchards operate cider mills and it’s fun to watch the applies shoot off the conveyor into the grinder before being pressed. There’s nothing better than fresh apple cider — unless its fresh-baked apple donuts or apple pie offered at many apple farms.

One of our family’s favorite apple farms is Long’s Farm in Commerce Township, Michigan, northwest of Detroit. The kids run off some energy picking a couple of bushes of apples. We refuel with cider and apple-cinnamon donuts at the farm stand. Watching through the window as they press the cider and cut and fry the donuts is always a highlight. Recharged, we hit the corn maze. We’ve developed a “Marco”- “Polo” system for finding each other so we don’t lose anyone in the maze.

A stop to pet the farm goats and watch them romp around their 3-story jungle gym rounds out the day before we head for the campgrounds. The kids love roasting hot dogs on sticks over an open fire. But my favorite fall treat is baked apples (core and fill with butter, sugar and cinnamon) wrapped in foil and roasted in the coals for dessert. Yum!


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