The Trail Tater Geo Pro camper at a wooded campsite

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.

🥔 Real Tater ratings 📻 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.

Trail Tater resting at home after the completed Plymouth family pilgrimage 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
Read the complete Plymouth story

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.

Rain falling on the rocky Lost River
2021–2023 • New Hampshire

Lost River Valley

The first campground that brought the family back for three consecutive years.

Open the campfire story →
Historic cemetery at Burlingame State Park
2024 • Rhode Island

Charlestown

The camping trip that started our cemetery-walk tradition.

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Two bulldogs from the neighboring campsite at Lake Compounce Campground
2025 • Connecticut

Lake Compounce

Trail Tater’s first RV weekend, first map state, and first campground decal.

Start at the beginning →

The official Trail Tater scorecard

No stars. Never stars.
Campgrounds earn taters.

Our ratings look beyond a pretty campsite. We consider the site itself, campground care, friendliness, practical RV needs, nearby discoveries and the one question that matters most: would we gladly return?

See the complete rating system
🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔Pack the camper—we would return tomorrow.
🥔🥔🥔🥔An excellent campground worth recommending.
🥔🥔🥔A solid stay with more good than bad.
🥔🥔It worked, but we would think twice.
🥔Keep driving and find another patch of ground.

The 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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5States
2023Archive begins
Detours ahead

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More roads to wander

Trail Tater is bigger than camping.

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Campground Radio

K1RHH, portable operating, Scouts on the air and radio from the road.

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Photo Stories

Sunrises, camp life, historic places and family moments.

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Cemetery Discoveries

Old stones, veterans, symbols and history found beside the campsite.

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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
Trail Tater camper in its campsite

The crew

The people—and dog—inside the story.

Ken seated inside Trail Tater

Ken

Driver, storyteller, history hunter, cemetery caretaker and chief navigator of interesting detours.

Lisa seated inside Trail Tater

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 sitting inside the camper

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.

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