Going all-in on urbanism doesn't mean you have to give up on spending time in the outdoors; in fact, many urbanists love going camping! We'll talk to a city planner about creating car-free camping opportunities, and then follow a group on a hare-brained winter bike trip to ski and camp at Afton.

Episode summary 00:00:00 | Intro 00:00:59 | Park amenities encourage different types of camping 00:09:51 | Comprehensive plans 00:18:13 | Ian's ideal urbanism 00:23:15 | TransitLink 00:27:36 | Winter ski and campout at Afton 00:33:29 | What drew you to this trip? 00:36:32 | Brief summary of the trip 00:41:11 | What was your favorite part? 00:44:20 | What was the biggest challenge? 00:50:12 | What changes to the system could have helped? 00:57:54 | Would you do it again? 01:01:06 | Outro Photos from the Afton Trip

Further reading

• How to ride TransitLink to Afton State Park
• Ian's original bike-to-ski trip

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Attributions

Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet on their website.

Unless otherwise noted, photos are by Ian R Buck.

This episode was hosted and edited by Ian R Buck, with transcript by Mike Allen, first of his name. Christy Marsden is our awesome guest booker, and technical assistance is provided by the super professional Brian Mitchell. If you're able to help make sure this team gets paid for the hard work they do, please consider donating. We really appreciate it!

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