Originally Posted by
spinnaker
Not sure where you were looking at camping. Most of the GAP / C&0 is free camping. The KOA in Connelsville used to be very reasonable though there is free camping there too. Husky Haven in Rockdale has decent prices. YMCA in Cumberland is only $20 a person.
Lots of free camping on the C&O though the mosquitoes are a good reason to take a hotel along that stretch.
Yep. I rode the GAP twice last year. Once on my own, camping, and once with family, without camping. Far more expensive to get a room than camp. In a trip that went from Cleveland to Cumberland, incorporating the whole GAP, the most expensive place I camped was Ohiopyle at 20-something dollars. In retrospect, I would have paid double to not have to hike up that hill into camp, but I'm not sure even double would get you a room in Ohiopyle.