2027 • New Hampshire • Planned
Lost River: The Return
A bigger family campout at the campground that already feels like part of our story.
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Campgrounds • history • family • friendship
Pull up a chair.
The fire is going.
Trail Tater is our rolling campfire: a place for campground stories, family adventures, hidden history, old cemeteries, amateur radio and the friends we meet along the road.
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📻 K1RHH on the road
🪦 History in unexpected places
Around the Campfire
Followers are fine.
We would rather make friends.
This is not a polished travel brochure. It is the real story of the places we camp, the history we stumble into, the things that go sideways, and the people who make the trip worth remembering.
Some pages begin with a beautiful sunrise. Others begin with a missing tent pole. Either way, there is usually a story worth telling.
Next family adventure • 2027
Lost River Valley • North Woodstock, New Hampshire
Back to the river. More room at the fire.
We are returning July 28–August 3, 2027 to a campground our family already loves, this time with a bigger crew and three home bases: Trail Tater at Site 27, Cabin 18, and Double Tent Site 17.
Basecamp Sites 27, 18 & 17
Plan Six nights in the White Mountains
Must-do return Clark’s Bears
Latest full adventure
Plymouth • 2026
A family pilgrimage through Plymouth history.
Sandy Pond became our basecamp for a week of Mayflower family history, Pilgrim Hall, Burial Hill, the Plymouth waterfront and the Jabez Howland House—along with campfires, birthday nonsense and a new member of the Trail Tater crew.
Basecamp Sandy Pond Campground
Best moment Following the Howland story together
Campground verdict Super Tater Park
From the trail to the family tree • August 17, 2026
Walking with the ancestors.
Plymouth made the history personal. After walking places connected to our family, the next Trail Tater branch became documenting the records behind the names—not just collecting a pedigree, but proving the story one source at a time.
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Plymouth changed the trail
The pilgrimage led from John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley to society applications, vital records, town books, census pages, probate files and cemetery clues.
Proof before pedigree
A family tree is the roadmap, not the finish line. When records disagree, the disagreement stays in the notes until better evidence settles it.
The working Howland line
A quick family tree.
This is the working lineage being documented for society review. Dates, spellings and relationships should change only when the evidence supports the change.
The adventure journal
Every campsite gets a story.
Not just where we stayed, but what happened there, what we learned, who came along and what might bring us back.
2021–2023 • New Hampshire
Lost River Valley
The first campground that brought the family back for three consecutive years.
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2024 • Rhode Island
Charlestown
The camping trip that started our cemetery-walk tradition.
Open the journal →
2025 • Connecticut
Lake Compounce
Trail Tater’s first RV weekend, first map state, and first campground decal.
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2026 • Massachusetts
Plymouth
A completed Mayflower-ancestor family pilgrimage, from Sandy Pond to Burial Hill and the Jabez Howland House.
Read the complete Plymouth journal →Read the Super Tater campground review →Visit the Burial Hill photo story →Step inside the Jabez Howland House →Trip complete • Sandy Pond: Super Tater Park • Next trip: Lost River 2027The Trail Tater map
Every pin has a campfire behind it.
Select a campground to visit the place where that chapter began. The map grows as the miles and stories do.
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More roads to wander
Trail Tater is bigger than camping.
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Trail Tater Kitchen
Campground-tested recipes, Blackstone meals, camp breakfasts and printable favorites.
Trail Tater on YouTube
The campfire has a camera now—videos from our trips, family adventures and the assorted nonsense along the way.
Campground Radio
K1RHH, portable operating, Scouts on the air and radio from the road.
Photo Stories
Sunrises, camp life, historic places and family moments.
Cemetery Discoveries
Old stones, veterans, symbols and history found beside the campsite.
Campfire Dispatches
Trip news, campground reviews and stories sent from the Trail Tater campfire.
Friends Along the Way
Scan the camper, send a note and keep the campfire conversation going.
The rolling basecamp
Meet the real Trail Tater.
A 2025 Forest River Rockwood Geo Pro G20BH built for family travel, history runs, solar camping and whatever interesting road catches our attention.
Geo Pro G20BH380W solar12V refrigerator
Honda EU2000i2014 Ram 1500Plenty of personality
The crew
The people—and dog—inside the story.
Ken
Driver, storyteller, history hunter, cemetery caretaker and chief navigator of interesting detours.
Lisa
Co-pilot, family anchor and the steady hand behind the adventures.
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Billie
Scout, adventurer, sharp observer and highly qualified reviewer of Dad’s website ideas.
Stewie
Campground inspector, squirrel-patrol supervisor and chief treat quality-control officer.
Seen us at a campground?
You scanned the camper. Now pull up a chair.
TrailTater.com was made to turn a campground hello into a friendship that can continue long after everyone pulls out of the site.
