[wildwoodfam]

All you have to do is look at the evolving traffic patterns on 3 & 93 north on Friday and south on Sunday....traffic, traffic, traffic.... and indications of it worsening are right there in plain sight! The crowding therefore is obvious, but the problem is that I have spent summers on Winni since the early 70's and on Province lake before that, weekends were NEVER this bad - sure there were more boats - but now we don't boat on weekends, period! We go for a couple weeks vacation now and save all our boating for Mon-Thursday! I also never recalled the drive being more than an hour to Weirs....now I am lucky if I can get to Tilton in an hour let alone the Weirs. Of course there is congestion Friday's and Sundays - but for those of us without summer's off we need to look forward to the lake on weekends. Without our two week vacation and mid-week boating we would never get on the water on the Big Lake anymore. We too have since begun a search for smaller lakes in the region, now that our growing family no longer enjoys Winni and the congestion, and most of our relatives have found their own cottages etc on these smaller lakes. I thought moving to smaller would be boring, but my family reports this is not the case. All the boating pelasures of Winni, minus of course a lot of restaurants, bars, to boat too, though some of the smaller lakes do have some of these things...of course what is missing is that infamous boat TRAFFIC! What summers USED to be like on Winni!