Veebyes wrote:
Missnmountains, so don't go to CGs where the caravans go. They seem to need CGs with, if not FHUs, at the very least power, water, pull throughs & an open view of the southern sky for their satellite dishes.
There are plenty places which don't have all that. Lots of SRAs & town CGs don't even take reservations. Wing it. You have a class A. It has a big water tank, a genny, probably a good sized battery bank & inverter. You don't need a CG with all the services. Besides, those SRAs are so much nicer than the dusty carpark camping that so many of the private are.
^^^ This. As an anecdote only, last summer I had my house painted (on the interior): couldn't hack the smell and vapors and wasn't about to pay summer Hotel rates in Los Anchorage, so I grab the ol tent and pickup and call around to all the private CG's between Los Anchorage and Sutton or Girdwood/Portage. Nope, Nada, full up. However, no problem at the Mat-Su Riverfront campground or, where I eventually went, at the Knik River recreation area.