Well Silverado, our list may be different than others but with one autistic boy, one ADHD daughter, and a legally-blind DW, I have to be somewhat choosy in my RV parks.
I look for pull through, full hook-up sites, clean bathrooms, level easy-walking grounds, and room to walk around safely.
Safety and convenience are my main priorities...everything else can be worked out.
But we do go out and we have a lot of fun when we do.
"There's no such thing as too much tow vehicle!"
Wes, Linda, & kids
"Tow Twuck" - 2008 Ford F350 DRW CC LB 6.4 Powerstroke
"Cougar" - 2006 Keystone Cougar 289EFS Fifth Wheel Our Website
Totally understand. Actually, I don't have the easy-walking ground. I have been to some campgrounds that have holes from rabbits and squirrel all over the place. Matter of fact, I hurt my ankle. I also camped in the dessert and put my knee down on a cactus. Wow, that hurt.(It was really my fault as I was more interested in the picture I was taking and didn't look down)
Nice post. This actually has turned out to be very informative to me. Many things posted here were not on my list.
Chuck Coughlin "ON THE ROAD AGAIN"
2003 Silverado 3500 Ext Cab Dually Duramax/Allison
2003 Lance 1025
Air Bags and Rancho 9000X Shocks
2003 Jayco 308fbs eagle 33' tt, towed by a 2003 Ram 3500 slt, quad cab dually, cummins diesel ho, trailer towing package, with 6 speed manual. Hauls better 1/2, 3 kids, myself, and a 2003 ez go clays car.. I have added so far, neon lights, clearance lights, back up lights, black light, lift kit, mud tires, and everything necessary to make the golf cart street legal. It's now ready to spend the winter in the garage for more mods. More neon, strobe lights, alarm, a pa system, maintance, and whatever else that comes along. This golf cart does wheelies and travels thru 7 inches of mud when need be. Two honda eu2000i gens twinned to supply the electrical power. Latest addition an 04 Honda Goldwing. [url]http://www.hometown.aol.com/rvnagain/myhomepage/profile.html[url]
The two most important items for us are:
1) proximity to railroads and highways (the further away the better);
2) shade trees and nice grassy "front porches".
Pickle at Pickldom.
Wife, Deb; Daughters: Brenna(13), Alysson(12)
Dog: Chocolate Chip (English Springer Spaniel) "Okay, in or out, but don't keep pawing at the door!"
03' Dodge, 2500, Long Bed, 4x4, HO Cummins Diesel.
2004 29BHBP Wildcat by Forest River.
It isnot a deal breaker ,but I and the wife love a nice hot tub that stays open till 11 .We usually spend a good half to one hour relaxing and chatting with the others in there.
2009 sundance 2997bhs
f350 4x4 7.3 diesel
prodigy 3p curt 20k hitch
trail air suspension trail air pinbox
2 e2000 honda w parralel kit
One feature we like in a CG when touring an area is a shuttle service. This is sometimes provided by the camp grounds or an independent service. For example we went to St. Augustine (FL) this summer and stayed at Bryn Mawr CG outside the old city. Ripleys had a shuttle service that picked us up at our campgrounds and took us into the city where we could board their sight seeing trains. This saved us 3 days of sight seeing driving and diesel in our truck. We find that we last longer on trips if we can take a break from driving. Some CG can be on a city run shuttle service like KOA in South Padre. I am looking at a trip in the future to the DC area and have found that one CG is on the metro line. It's nice to let someone else do the driving sometimes!
Gin & Mike
2001 Jayco Qwest 265
2001 Ford F350 crewcab 4x4
Shucks, I forgot to add an important item to my list but a poster had reminded me!
18. Must be far enough away from an Interstate/noisy highway/loud road/busy railroad track/loud factory etc so the ambient noise level is palletable.
Many times over our 46 years of RV'ing we have pulled into an otherwise inviting CG, got out of the vehicle to register, heard disturbing noises from the above and gotten back in and drove off to another CG. Paying $$$ to be aggravated by unsavory noise is not our bag! Rv'ing is to be getting away from normal city noises/life not just changing the tones.
We have very good RV's with an added generator and inverter/inverters so we are truely self contained and can stay anywhere and be very comfortable. I has awlays allowed us to boondock in the middle of desolation to the fanciest resort and that's just what we do! Camp anywhere we want and are allowed to whether is free or pricey but very very seldom Wal-Mart parking lots!
Silverado Kid,
You are paying $$$ out of YOUR pocket for the time at a CG, so get what you want and what is important to you and your's. What a CG costs are has little to do with how well you will like it or enjoy staying there. Some of our most enjoyable stays were at free to cheap "out of the way" boondocking stops or CG's. You only live once and a bad CG experience can about ruin or put a damper on an RV outing experience.
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2004 Chev 2500HD D/A crew cab LB 4X4 - Air Bags - Loaded
915 Lance Camper with 2'X 8' rear porch (my own design n build)
29 ft Carri-lite 5th wheel - 1 large slide - specially built
36 ft Carriage - 3 axle 5'er -NOW SOLD- Looking at some new 5'ers
swimming pool is nice, too cool off in if its hot, or hot tub if its cold.
pet area
kid and pet friendly
playground area for the kids
fire pit, gotta have a fire, so we can make smores
Travelnuz: "You are paying $$$ out of YOUR pocket for the time at a CG"
You are 100% correct. I lowered it ranking in my list to almost the bottom. At least now I consider everything. Thanks.
I can't believe all the feedback. This has been great. I have a whole new way of looking at things. It funny because I have both a truck camper and 5th wheel. The thinking between the two are much differenct. At some point I will have to post this question over on that forum. But for now I am loving the responses here. I have learned a lot.
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