
A CANOE RACK 
HANDLING a canoe alone is some- 
what of a problem for one man. 
In placing it on the racks, unaided, one 
is apt to scratch the finish badly. To 
obviate this difficulty, I made a pair of 
frames and suspended them to over- 
head wires by means of pulleys as 
shown in the illustration. It is an easy 
task to slide the canoe up through these 
frames. When in position, the canoe is 
slid along the wires into the boat house. 
Ja Don G:, 
Tenn. 
lowstone Park is now perfecting a 
rather elaborate system of camping 
grounds to take care of over 50,000 
automobile parties who visit this park 
annually. Over half of the visitors 
who come here arrive in their own 
cars. Pure water, firewood and cooking 
grates are supplied at these grounds. 
It has been estimated that more than 
three-quarters of the automobile camp- 
ers who go west visit one or more of 
the seventeen national parks. Rocky 
Mountain National Park in Colorado 
is the most easily accessible of these, 
inasmuch as it is close to the large pop- 

CAMPING SITES FOR 
TOURISTS 
G PECIALLY selected camping sites 
for the convenience of automobile 
tourists are now to be found in every 
state in the Union. Many of them are 
located in the most famous scenic spots 
in the country. 
The conveniences and equipment sup- 
plied at these sites vary from mere 
shelters and a place to cook to the most 
elaborate outfits, including a general 
store, showers, swimming pool, electric 
light and police protection. Some few 
have even been equipped with aero- 
plane landings. 
Until within comparatively recent 
years, automobile campers were re- 
garded with more or less suspicion in 
the great national parks and national 
forests. Today, almost all of them 
have set aside camping grounds for the 
convenience of these tourists. General 
Grant National Park in California, 
which is only four square miles in area, 
has three hundred and fifty prepared 
camp sites available for campers. 
There are over three hundred of these 
sites in Sequoia National Park. Yel- 
ulation centers of the East and Middle 
West. The public camping grounds 
available are in Glacier Basin. Further 
appropriations are being made for the 
purchase of more of these sites. 
The Mount Rainier National Park 
camping grounds are located at Long- 
mire Springs and Paradise Valley. The 
former sites have been supplied with 
electric light.and tables, and stoves and 
grills may be\found in both localities. 
An appropriation of over $25,000 has 
been made for the construction of a 
new camp in addition to the present 
one at Longmire Springs. 
Yosemite National Park, too, in Cali- 
fornia, has an extensive system of 
camping grounds for the use of auto- 
campers. In connection with these, an 
elaborate water system and a sewage- 
disposal plant is in the process of de- 
velopment. Over 40,000 people made 
use of the camping grounds last year 
and as many as 7,000 have been accom- 
modated in a single day. 
Besides those already mentioned, the 
national parks which afford camping 
facilities are Crater Lake National 
Park, Oregon; Glacier National Park, 
Montana; Grand Canyon National 
Park, Arizona; Lafayette National 
Park, Maine; Mesa Verde National 
Park, Colorado; Platte National Park, 
Oklahoma; Wind Cave National Park, 
South Dakota, and Zion National Park, 
Utah. 
A CAMP COOKING DEVICE 
THE Campfire Grub Stake is an in- 
genious, collapsible camp cooking 
device that should appeal to hunters, 
campers and tourists. 
It is composed of five individual 
parts—a 14-inch bayonet-shaped stake 
and an 18-inch length of %-inch pipe 
from which three adjustable racks are 
swung at right angles; a pot hook, a 
skillet rack and a grill. 
The entire outfit weighs less than 
seven pounds and is packed in a strong 
fiber box 19 inches long, 9 inches wide 
and 1 inch high. It can be carried 
under the rear seat of an automobile, 
in a motor-cycle side-car, in the bottom 
of a canoe or in a hiker’s pack. 
The Campfire Grub Stake can be set 
up anywhere in less than one minute. 
The stake is planted in the ground to 
a depth of three or more inches and 
the pipe length is fitted over it. The 
cooking racks are placed directly over 
the camp fire, which is built around the 
base of the stake, and they can be 
turned, raised or lowered in accordance 
with the height or direction of the 
flame. 
The parts are cast of the best grade 
of malleable iron and are practically 
indestructible. 
PRESTO AUTO TENT 
PRACTICAL tent for the use of 
automobile campers is the Presto 
Auto Tent. This can be easily erected 
without poles if necessary by throwing 
the flap over the automobile. By using 
poles the flap forms an awning which 
practically doubles the size of the tent. 
It is made of heavy drill and water- 
proofed by a new treatment by means 
of which the cells of the fibers, through 
electro chemical action, are impregnated 
with a water-repellant substance. This 
makes the cloth permanently water- 
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