Father Daughter Weekend?

**Mobetter** · 03-09-2021, 03:11 PM

I want to do something special with my 7 year old daughter this spring/summer. She's a little hot and cold with outdoor activities but she's showing more interest in camping, fishing and exploring. I'd like to do a long weekend with her that would appeal to both of us.

Is there anything around the NC, SC, TN, GA, FL area that might be a good fit? Weekend camps, campgrounds, parks, sort of thing.

**Baggy** · 03-09-2021, 03:20 PM

Jones Gap is a cool place.

**JABIII** · 03-09-2021, 03:30 PM

Sure is. Lots of cool places in the GSMNP as well. If you want to spend some money, you can add horses to the equation, but it is fun as fun gets to ride in, camp, and fish for a weekend...

**BigBrother** · 03-09-2021, 03:36 PM

Mine has been wearing me out to go camping.

So, as soon as the ground dries up a bit we're going camping.

**wob** · 03-09-2021, 03:38 PM

If you show an interest in doing something with her, she'll eat it up, even if it's not exactly what she wants to do.

**trkykilr** · 03-09-2021, 03:53 PM

Canoe the edisto and stay in the treehouse

**Mobetter** · 03-09-2021, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by BigBrother

Mine has been wearing me out to go camping.

So, as soon as the ground dries up a bit we're going camping.

Same.

We've got a perfect spot on the river when it dries up.

I was hoping to find a little weekend daddy daughter camp. I'm scared if I plan it we're just gonna fish the whole time and she'll get bored.

**justpracticin** · 03-09-2021, 04:08 PM

Great Wolf Lodge was fun for our kids at that age. I would challenge you to make it a standing date with her for a weekend once of twice a year - something to anticipate, to plan and talk about. As she gets older, tailor the trip to her interests, not yours.

In a couple of years, get her mama to do Passport to Purity with her. https://shop.familylife.com/t-fl-passport2purity.aspx
Then its your turn to step in a show her how a man should treat a lady.

**JABIII** · 03-09-2021, 04:10 PM

At 7, everything is new and cool. You can spend hours in the river turning over rocks and looking at the critters. Davidson river at Brevard is easy. Sliding Rock is fun if you don't mind the line, but every kid needs to do it at least once. Tons of trails, and town is real close in case the weather turns on you...

**BigBrother** · 03-09-2021, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Mobetter

I'm scared if I plan it we're just gonna fish the whole time and she'll get bored.

Transition to a turning stuff over mission. Find critters. Talk about them. Stop as soon as she starts drifting. Mine loves to dig for worms. Immerse in the entire process.

Funny story, Brownies meetings have become an outdoor event in the park that has a stream through it. This past Sunday...Addie turned up missing. Quick search found her knee deep in the creek looking for critters with the boys who had to tag along because their sisters were at Brownies.

Just engage and move on when they start to drift off.

**Simple Man** · 03-09-2021, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by JABIII

At 7, everything is new and cool. You can spend hours in the river turning over rocks and looking at the critters. Davidson river at Brevard is easy. Sliding Rock is fun if you don't mind the line, but every kid needs to do it at least once. Tons of trails, and town is real close in case the weather turns on you...

I can smell that ride on the bus from Camp Greenville to that place - all of us wearing our jorts - and I swore there would never be colder water than that found at the bottom of that rock.

And before you smart asses weigh in, that was 40 years ago - not last week.

**Mobetter** · 03-09-2021, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by BigBrother

Transition to a turning stuff over mission. Find critters. Talk about them. Stop as soon as she starts drifting. Mine loves to dig for worms. Immerse in the entire process.

Funny story, Brownies meetings have become an outdoor event in the park that has a stream through it. This past Sunday...Addie turned up missing. Quick search found her knee deep in the creek looking for critters with the boys who had to tag along because their sisters were at Brownies.

Just engage and move on when they start to drift off.

Mrs. Mobetter and I were fishing in TN this weekend. I looked around to see that she had wandered off while her guide was rigging her rod and was flipping rocks in a feeder creek looking for salamanders.

**BigBrother** · 03-09-2021, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Simple Man

I can smell that ride on the bus from Camp Greenville to that place - all of us wearing our jorts - and I swore there would never be colder water than that found at the bottom of that rock.

And before you smart asses weigh in, that was 40 years ago - not last week.

Dont you think it's time to retire those jorts?

**Woodiewacker82** · 03-09-2021, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by JABIII

At 7, everything is new and cool. You can spend hours in the river turning over rocks and looking at the critters. Davidson river at Brevard is easy. Sliding Rock is fun if you don't mind the line, but every kid needs to do it at least once. Tons of trails, and town is real close in case the weather turns on you...

This right here and Davidson river campground is a great place to go there are tons of things to do in town also.

**Simple Man** · 03-09-2021, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by BigBrother

Dont you think it's time to retire those jorts?

I'd go right back down that rock if I could still get in 'em.

**Highstrung** · 03-09-2021, 04:54 PM

Forty years ago Jams were allowable.. but jorts

**Glenn** · 03-09-2021, 05:01 PM

Sunbritches, Bo.

A good short weekend tent camping at Table Rock or Jones Gap would be fun. Good hikes, creeks to play in etc. Table Rock has a beach area also.