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Retired in January and spent almost 2 months on the road in Arizona and Nevada. I found my self spending hours each day searching websites for campsites and cancellations. Eventually I became very discouraged and went back home. I appreciate your video because I did not know of that app/website that would help find and book sites. Thank you.
I think I would rather have a very small set up and boondock.
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It's difficult to predict what the demand will be 5 or 10 years from now. I don't know what the ROI is for a campground but surely that plays a big part also. And what's with mega corps buying up RV space then jacking up pricing?
stop making the sites so cramped I don't go camping to to do the same thing I do at home house 5 to 10 feet away and hear the noise. looking for land to camp on with select crowd.
Expensive.
The number of glamping seems to be going up. Camp ground with limited services still tend to be easy to grab. I suppose the problem is for those who want power to run their AC, and fridges, and to have pools rather then people who want to camp to get away.
We brought our first RV in our mid 20s, we upgraded due to many camp grounds not allowing older models. So we got a 2022 c class and then had problems getting campsites due to being full. So we had to purchase our own. We’re millennials with kids from kindergarten to high school. We don’t do full time, we are part timers. But I believe families especially that are part time should be able to get campsites.
RV people… burning gasoline… a non-renewable resource…. like it was going out of style. Just for… ugh… a lifestyle. Really?
Anyone have experience with hipcamp? Might help with some of the crowding out there. I dunno, I'm not out of the rat race yet. 🙁
LOL!! Who in his/her right mind likes to 'geek out' when you have the opportunity to leave all that behind? My friends and I all love the opportunity to get away from electronics and live the life when we take to the road for traveling and camping out. There's nothing better than getting back to the open road, boondocking and living free on the land with not a care in the world.
This video tells us nothing .
Other than its all crowded , and to push a silly RV app .
Plenty of spots here in Tennessee and Mississippi.
Those points are not really "Threat". Those are more like inconvenience.
Many popular sites are always overcrowded. But some RV parks are almost empty.
Real threat is so many people have become RV homeless because the price of rent become so high in some area.
I own a new RV — good for me, as many RV Camp spots no longer allow anything over than 10 years. But, bad for me, figuring all of the money spent and everyone in town is out in the woods or on the coast, sucking the life out of "getting away". More peace staying at home. When it rains, my wife and i go out and sit in our 2-year-old RV and have hot chocolate. An occasional sleepover in our motorhome, driveway, parking spot — no charge, and actually, more peace and quiet than other places. Lucky, we are old and retired and enjoyed the coast and the great outdoors, without all of the people that have swamped the open spaces, not so open anymore. We have seen it, however, in times past, when the excitement dies out, the glut of RV sales — usually when the money runs out — but this seems to be hanging on a bit longer. We will see. For now my favorite parking spot in along side my house.
Signed up for Arvie, but it doesn't list any Campgrounds in Yellowstone.
We're retired and of course on the "fixed" income and we're being pushed out of the RV travel/camping lifestyle by not just over crowding of campgrounds or shortage of campground sites but by the prices of campsites. As these corporations buy up the mom and pop campgrounds and yes improve them they also have a bottom line to improve for investors. In some cases prices have tripled for a campsite and the reservation deposit requirements are full payment up front which could be many months in advance, we can't afford to put out thousands of dollars on paid in full advance reservations so camping now is becoming only for the affluent who can afford the prices and deposits. We'll probably just sell here shortly as our relatively new RV has been sitting for months with no place to go, it will mark the end of 50 years of Camping/RVing.
Don't worry Bidenomics will fix this.😊
TOOO DAM EXPENSIVE
#1 threat is high fuel and food prices
That vocal fry needs some abatement
Thank you for the info. I am guessing with bidenomics, unaffordable housing, crime, and over populating city/urban areas– camp grounds will be a premium, with people escaping and living in parks. I am looking for traveling, to see large areas traveling for weeks at at time, not vacation plans. It never occurred to me that I can't just pull up to a site and stay for a week or so. I am not talking about the 150 million snowbirds who travel south and demand to be catered to. I am looking to see the country, year round, not looking for a snowbird camp, or a place to live.
Awesome Information!
So far we have not noticed an issue of not finding a campground available. Our plans have been liquid in the past 3 years.
We have an American Fifth Wheel over here in the UK, and we are a rarity but our parks are pretty good, but their pitches tend to be too short.
But that aside, I'd like to ask if the USA campsites have the concept of a 'firebreak'? Where there is a set distance between campers, so if there is a fire the unit next door wouldn't be impacted (well that's the theory).
We have it here in the UK and the main problem we find is that because our door is on the 'opposite' side to most UK campers, we aren't allowed on site unless we have the 'odd' pitch at the corner of the park.
I get the impression as a full timer you expect preferential treatment.
so now you are pitching a bot service to snatch the camp sites first.
not sure I agree with or support your choice.