Here's one for you. We were at Millerton Lake near Fresno, CA. Last day there, a day user and his family parked in a camp site across the road. Next I know the whole family comes onto our site, takes the picnic table, and starts cooking carne asada in our campsite barbecue pit. Probably 10-12 in the family. As offended as I was I decided to let it go since I was leaving that day, that is until the had the nerve to ask to borrow some salt and pepper from me! That was it, I got a ranger who promptly ticketed all the cars for parking in a camping space. They also were also escorted out of the park!
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Amazing the verbal contortions some people go through to explain and/or justify rude behavior. It is unacceptable to stand under someone else's awning uninvited at 6:30 in the morning. It is unacceptable to walk through someone else's campsite to get somewhere if there are multiple paths for that purpose. Nobody with common sense would argue these points.
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jamie1972 wrote: Ok Ok. I know this topic has probably been thrashed to death, but can't resist getting your take on what happened to us.
We were camping in Beaver's Bend State Park a few weeks ago, and were fortunate enough to have one of the nice pull through sites on the river. Across the road and behind us there were several families set up with multiple tents. We called it the tent village. (No - we do not have anything against tent campers) There were many little paths down to the river, including one that was DIRECTLY in front of our door.
We had finished setting up camp, and were enjoying the beautiful view of the river from under the awning (couldn't see any other campsites from there), when 6 or 7 people came walking around the end of our camper and down to the water. They only said hello when we did (very surprised), and proceeded to set up their children to fish. Hubby and I quietly discussed how rude this was, and decided to smile and hope they didn't do it all week. Fat Chance! It gets better!
I was enjoying my coffee at 6:30 AM the next day, and using binoculars to watch a deer across the river. Hearing something next to me (thinking it was a squirrel) I turned my head to see a man standing with a cup of coffee NEXT TO my camper! I was too shocked to think fast, so I just said "UH, Hello." He grunted a hello and walked down to the water. I told DH when he got up, and he couldn't believe it. He said everyone pays to enjoy the river, but he didn't like the man being so close so early.
Later that day, we had walked a short distance down a PUBLIC path to skip rocks with our son on a "rock bar". We were the only ones there until, you guessed it, here they came with chairs and fishing poles in hand. We quietly took our son and left so that our rock-skipping wouldn't upset their fishing. GOD SAID TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, BUT NOT THAT IT WOULDN'T STING. HAHA
We were fortunate that they left the next day, and we had no more uninvited guests for the remainder of our vacation. I have read somewhere before that the best response for this behavior is to say, in a shocked but polite manner "Oh, hello! Can I help you?"
What do ya'll suggest?
Move to an RV site away from the water, fence-in your RV site area, or go back to the Wal*Mart. he he
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It's not tough to agree that a number of the stories in this thread originated from incredibly rude folks - who deserved to be dealt with as "trespassers".
These scenarios are not the only "trespass" stories.
Those folks who are lucky enough to get a preferred campsite far too often equate this with private access to one of the parks attractions - and inappropriatley expand their sense of "ownership" by blocking access to others - these folks are the source of their own "trespass" problems.
In our own favourite parks their are a small number of sites adjacent to secluded beaches, fishing holes, and lookouts. It is amazing to see how hard some folks will work to claim these spots as their own turf - they use strategic placement of equipment, vehicles or clotheslines - even (and often)moving fireplaces and picnic tables to expand the virtual boundaries of the campsite (never saw a sign though).
All I can say is that if you choose to set your kitchen up on "sunset rock" - then BBQ a few extra smokies - cause company's comin'.
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i still say " shoot a couple of em and hang em from a tree(or your awning) the rest usually get the message!
in all truthfulness, just about every campground I've ever stayed at has their rule either handed out or posted and "RESPECT OTHERS CAMPSITES or DO NOT CUT THROUGH CAMPSITES" AS ONE OF THE RULES. it's not a THING about ownership it's a thing about RESPECT for privacy. Our children were taught from their first outing not to shortcut, but maybe i just hit the nail on the head TAUGHT.
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We have a leased waterfront site in FL.
The docks below the site can be rented by anyone.
If the dock below us is rented, we always invite the people to walk through our site instead of having to carry their gear the long way around.
Personaly I cannot see the big deal , gives us more folks to say HI to.
Well, of course we all see this issue a bit differently. Personally, if someone comes up to me and ask if its alright to cut through, I'll let them be on thier way through. As already stated, that's common courtesy and it works both ways. They were nice and asked, I'll be nice and say "sure!". However, if someone stands next to me, uninvited, under my awning at 6:30 am, he/she is violating my reasonable expectation of privacy and its unacceptable. Yes, you might make the argument that I shouldn't be camping if I don't want to be where people are. But if I wanted to be that "close" to strangers, I'd have asked to share a site with them in the first place.
We've been in a few similar situations to the OP. On one trip, the husband/father of a family who kept cutting through our site, stood and talked to my wife while I was answering nature's call. He did this twice. Never when I was around of course. I told my wife to scream if he did it again. The best part was that I told her when both he and his wife were within ear shot. The wife was not happy with hubby. The family left a few hours later, in the evening, two whole days before thier resevation expired. I wonder if he still talks to strange women in camgrounds?
As already stated, some people just don't get it. In 23 years of camping, I have only had morons do this sort of thing 3 or 4 times. Most people are very considerate. On more than one occasion, we've even had people apologize to us for the poor behaviour of thier children who were cutting through.
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skipnchar wrote: Doesn't seem that they hurt anything other than your own sense of ownership for the rented lot you were using. Not everyone you meet in a campground will have a personality you like. Lighten up and enjoy life a bit more is my advice. As long as you don't have to keep up the lawn what do you care WHO walks on your grass.
I believe it is called personal air space. When renting any rv site, one should expect a reasonable amount of privacy. Someone who is so lacking in common sense by cutting through a persons rented site is invading that reasonable amount of expected privacy. We personally do not like people cutting through our site because they are either NOSY or just plain STUPID... and that trait does not appeal to us.
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