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DIY River Grove Tour (Peaceful Waterside Campsite)
21 June 2026 · 15 min · 1K views
What this video covers
Daniel tours a DIY riverside campsite he built over several months in a valley at the foothills of the Adirondacks.▶ 0:01 The site, which he calls the River Grove, centers on a hand-built outdoor hot tub — a concrete-base, epoxy-stained-wood tub roughly 5.5 by 6 feet — heated by a coiled copper pipe hot-water heater fed by a bilge pump drawing directly from the river, with the fire fueled by either wood or a propane burner.▶ 4:07 The same fire structure doubles as a grill.▶ 7:32 Other features include a rope-and-paracord tree net hammock, a standard hammock, four Adirondack-style chairs around a campfire, tiki torches, hummingbird feeders, and a Kelty tent for overnight stays.▶ 3:20 Daniel engineered a rock dam to raise oxygen content and reduce algae, cleared logs and debris from the river channel to reduce mosquitoes, and hammered slate into the clay riverbed to stabilize the bank.▶ 10:19 He transported roughly 500 pounds of dam stones by paddleboard raft.▶ 12:44 A church pew serves as a riverside bench.▶ 13:01 The site floods annually, which constrains permanent construction.▶ 14:01 At the end, Daniel mentions he may have bought a boat and will reveal it in the following upload.▶ 14:15
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