Camping in Cutie RV: Laurel Hill State Park, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Last evening, we used our air fryer to roast chickpeas as appetizers and since we had a big lunch of bratwursts we then baked oatmeal raisin cookies. Since we were on a roll, we made blueberry biscuits for breakfast before heading north to Pennsylvania. We did mostly interstate today and then crossing from West Virginia we were on the back roads through Confluence where we stopped for ice cream. We have a beautiful grassy and shady campsite at Laurel Hill State Park for two nights. A few miles away we stopped at Glade Pike Winery for a tasting of dry red wines on the way to Somerset.

Our campsite at Laurel Hill State Park

Our groundhog visitor at next campsite

Glade Pike Winery

The winery ships in grapes from California and New York to make their wines

A beautiful afternoon in the '70s for a wine tasting

The vineyards beyond the wine tasting porch

Happy flowers

It was misty early in the morning before we cooked breakfast outside and then headed to the trail heads at the state park. We started with the Pumphouse Trail to the dam built by the Civilian Conservation Corp and then ended up on the Waterline Trail back to the parking lot. We stopped at the boat launch and picnic area for a snack before heading on the Hemlock Trail along Laurel Creek. Since we were within 20 miles of the Flight 93 Memorial Park in Shanksville we drove there and were glad we did. It was an impressive memorial to those 40 who died on 9/11. We finished the day by stopping at Tailgatez Pub in Somerset for some yummy pulled pork nachos before heading back to camp.