chiefcramer wrote: I like to check www.rvparkreviews.com. I use the Trailer Life Book to check out the campgrounds I find with Microsoft Streets & Trips.
We do this, too. I like the rvparkreviews website because it will tell you IMPORTANT stuff - like the park you *think* you want to stay at, is next to a busy railyard....LOL!!!
You don't say what kind of an RV you have so it is hard to guess whether this will work for our but here is what we do:
1. Run Street Atlas 2008 on our laptop. For $69, it provides you with mapping software and a GPS to track you on your route. For my money, it is easier to follow than a AAA triptik and we've used those ourselves for years
2. Download "map overlay" files from www.discoveryowners.com. These folks have collected Passport America, Wifi enabled campgrounds and a bunch more categories and make them available to all of us for free. You plot your route with Street Atlas and then "import" the overlays. The Passport America overlay, for example, puts PA logos along your route where those types of campgrounds are available. We plan the route, decide about where we might want to stop and look in those vicinities for campgrounds. The nice part is that you don't have to be connected to the internet for this to work and if your plans change, you can change your route in Street Atlas and it will continue to show any campgrounds of the types that you select that are along the new route. You can even add one of the campgrounds that you find as a "stop" to the route and the GPS will guide you right to it. Pretty slick.
We keep Street Atlas running on our dashboard as we drive. It also provides voice turn instructions for the route and will respond to voice commands to change the map display or repeat the voice instructions. I love asking it "are we there yet?" and having it come back with remaining mileage and estimated time to the finish point.
