Advanced reservation???
My wife and I are planning a 2 week trip, starting the weekend after Labor Day. We are leaving Michigan, going thru Colorado, (this is where we will start to camp) into Utah, around the Grand Canyon, ...
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fanrgs wrote:MPond wrote:
We've always planned our trips with a full itinerary and reservations, and then make changes as we go (if the changes we want to make are available).
We went to Alaska last summer without a single reservation before we left, even at Denali National Park and on the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry. That was because we never knew how far we could travel in a day--road construction, frost-heaved pavement, flat tires, wildlife encounters, and photo stops determined that distance. Only place we didn't get the first campground we tried was on the Kenai Peninsula on the weekend before dipnet season for reds opened. And there we got the second campground we tried.
It just depends on how flexible you are when you travel. But I understand that the comfort of knowing ahead of time is more important for some people than for others.
Agreed about flexibility. Unfortunately, I'm still limited to time off of work and kids being out of school. In time that will change...
It also depends on where you're going. Some places have fewer campgrounds, and more people trying to get into them, and vice-versa...
