I stayed at a campground (they're all campgrounds to me) last week that had week, month or seasonal sites w/o waste hook-ups. Is there a term for these types of sites and where do you find them on the net? This place I stayed had a whole sheet of rules they hand out, i.e. No clothes lines. You cut the grass at your site if you stay more than a week with their mower. No entering or leaving the CG after 11pm, and the typical rules and reg. you see a lot. Are these rules common? I boondock at NPS CG's often where the maximum stay is two weeks so this stuff is new to me.
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I don't know how anyone could stay at a site for a week, month, much less a whole season, without a sewer connection. It would be quite inconvenient to have to tote your waste on a regular basis or drive your RV to the dump station once or twice a week or more. Sounds very uninviting to me.
It's rare to find a campground with monthly and seasonal rates but no sewage hook-ups at the sites. However, we plan to drycamp for a month this winter at one that has an "overflow area" with no hook-ups at all. We have enough holding tank capacity to go 2 weeks without dumping and frequently boondock for long periods and don't mind just going to the dump station a couple of times a month.
We've never seen one where you cut your own grass after a week although I've heard of some. We certainly wouldn't want to STAY there, though, since we sold our house to avoid grass-mowing!
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Yea, I have spent many a months at places that you describe. They give you this fancy memographed (remember that) and it has all those rules on it. On many occasions, in those type places, we simply buried a barrell and never had to worry about dumping. Probally buried close to 100 so far.
The better ones were on a lake and you got water from the lake, and on the rule sheets, it plainly states, NOT FOR DRINKING. Always ended up with one neighbor having arguements with others about their dogs. (here we go again), or who was parking their cars in the wrong sites, who tore the mower up, who forgot to fill the gas tank, etc.\
Sharker6, I believe what you're looking for are campgrounds with mobile pump out service. A truck comes through the campground on a set schedule, hooks up to your sewer outlet and removes all the waste. There is usually an extra fee for this service. If you're looking specifically for campgrounds like this, try a Google search with the state name and "campgrounds with mobile pump out service"
Good luck.
A guy came by running a mobile pump out service, 20 bucks for 2 forty gallon tanks. Sounded expensive to me because it's not that big of a deal to empty them myself once a week or so. What I'm really looking for are campsites that offer month and seasonal rates east of the Mississippi on the waterfront.
99% of the time we stay in the long term sites at RVP's. And we only stay where they have FHU's. We've only been to a couple that say you must mow your own little patch of grass. One we left after 2 days. But it didn't have grass, just a patch full of weeds.
One which has mostly seasonal sites has great grassy areas. They had a sit down mower that took care of most of the park, but he can't get everywhere. I'd rather not have rocks thrown at the RV from his chute anyhow. The owner provides small mowers to mow around the RV's.
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"I'm really looking for are campsites that offer month and seasonal rates east of the Mississippi on the waterfront."
You might try Logans landing in Ala, or go down to no ala,no ga and there are many private rv parks that rent seasonal or monthly rates on the lakes.
You just have to go find em, they are there. Ferget about the coast, unless you have a printing press.
Can't offer waterfront, but we're in a "seasonal only" campground in southeastern Wisconsin. There is a fishing pond; no license required; and people actually catch fish in it. There is also a heated pool. It has no sewer connections at sites; a weekly appearance of the "honey wagon" is included in the rent. Yes, we're expected to mow our own grass. Most people have been here for years and have their own mowers; so a neighbor lets me use his. Our site is too tight for the big riding mower the groundskeeper uses, or he would mow it for me.
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We stayed for 3 summers at a campground in Michigan that did not have sewer hook-up. We used one of the blue tank and only had to empty once every 2 weeks or so. It wasn't bad at all. The rules sound normal, but the two different campground that we have "seasoned" at did not stick real closly to them for the seasonals.It was explained to me before that they are more for the "weekenders".
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