Corona is 45 minutes to Newport Beach, nice......about the same to Wrightwood. There's not a lot of places you can live and go snow skiing in the morning and then surfing in the afternoon, and do it as easily as you can from Corona. Corona is located about 60 miles east from downtown Los Angeles, and about 35 minutes east of Disneyland/Knotts Berry Farm. I suppose that would be enough for some but it's also about an hour from the Hollywood scene, and hour and a half from Magic Mountain, or is it called 6 Flags now...I forget, lol.
But today, I want to talk about a get away that's close, but puts you at the base of Alpine mountains along with a lake for fishing and boating, water skiing and camping. And it's about 45 minutes from Corona, nice huh?
Lake Silverwood
Lake Silverwood is north on the 15 out of Corona and is close enough for day use, and far enough away to feel like your away for the day or even for a few days like we did a couple of weeks back. We had decided to do a family camping trip, with kids, dogs, girl friends, and all. We had a blast. The camp ground itself was clean, with showers and toilets that flush, this was big for the women in our group, they loved having the showers. 18 of us packed up on a Friday and headed out to the "wilderness" for an adventure, not really knowing how well this "family " idea would work out.
We arrived around 2 ish and found our two connect campsites, right where we reserved them I might add...at the end of the campground as we knew we would be up late having fun and we also knew we would be noisy. We're always noisy! 18 people are GOING to be noisy! We set up tents, got things arranged and I have to say, for several different families we did a great job of working together for the common goal....to get it all done and have a beer!
All set up and ready for anything the kids played, the dogs enjoyed sniffing around and we humans of the older variety had a few drinks and started working on getting the dogs and burgers ready for dinner. We had a great dinner, a very fun night around the camp fire and we all settled into a peaceful slumber in our tents around 1 in the morning.
Saturday was our one and only play day this trip so we all made and ate bacon and eggs and I'm telling you right now, bacon and eggs tastes sooo good when your camping, way better than at home. After getting things cleaned back up, we all got our swimming stuff together and headed for the lake. Now I guess for some you could call it walking distance, but we took cars and it's a couple of miles to the swim beaches so we really did do the right thing, lol. The day was hot, the water was cool, and felt sooo good. Most of spent most of the day floating on our floaties in the lake.
That night we BBQed steaks and baked potatoes on the camp fire, did the whole smores things with the kids and had a great time...up until about 3am. That's when it started to rain. My tent enjoyed it, the sound of the rain drops on the tent, we were dry and cozy and slept like babies thru the night. The morning was wet, it never stopped, lol, but we made the best of it. A couple of tents had leaked and those people packed up and left pretty early, not mad or angry, just wet. The rest of us figured it would stop soon so we fried bacon in the rain and had a great time packing up and we all left around noon, the sites check out time. A total successs I guess, we didn't even let the rain get to us.
Our home away from home
The entire crew at the lake
Ahhh, camp life, the best!
Well, enough for now, stay tuned for another trip close to Corona, a get away that can be done because of the location of this great town! I hope you enjoyed reading this half as much as we enjoyed out little camping trip!
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