Originally Posted by SteveA

We car-camped (with the dog) at the Nothern end of LBTL a couple of years ago. It may not be ordinary - but the ticks were just terrieble there that year (getting on us and the dog). We drove to Shiloh battlefield while there and saw the same problem there. I'm talking - walk 100 feet down a trail in the battlefield and have 10+ ticks from the knees down. I realize that they are out a lot everywhere during the summer - but we've camped other places in most years and have not seen them anywhere near that bad.