Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY
Cottonwood Creek Park from Dinosaur Trail, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 2, 2011
Cottonwood Campground is a Natrona County park with some shelters, a boat launch ramp, and some campsites with no services. There is a dramatic view of the reservoir from most sites.
Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Natrona County Parks Website
- Locate Cottonwood Creek Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.