Boondocking Article

rfryer wrote:
...I rarely ever stay in a commercial park and it’s not because I don’t like campground owners or want to put them out of business. What they have to offer me is nothing more than I could get “camping” in the city. Blacktop, pavement, neighbors within spittin’ distance, pools, rec centers, playgrounds, etc.
I might as well sell my TT because that’s exactly what I’m trying to get away from.

If they were willing to bulldoze all that out, remove the utilities and give me 100 yd to the next campsite they might get more of my business. But that’s not going to happen. They serve a niche market and they should be satisfied with that. Trying to coerce people into using their facilities is counterproductive; they will just make a lot of enemies and not gain any more business.

This is a very good point. Some campground owners, focusing on adding more facilities to compete with other campgrounds, may not understand that many people absolutely don't want the facilities they are offering at all, and beyond that don't actually want to be at a campground that is stuffed full of such facilities. Unfortunately where I live there are very few boondocking opportunities. One of the major websites I use for finding campgrounds has exactly this bias - you can check lots of boxes to ask it to find campgrounds that include pools, recreation areas, restaurants, hard standing, etc. but I would prefer the opposite - to be able to EXCLUDE campgrounds that had certain facilities but to the people running the web site (and probably the campgrounds too) more facilities = better.

Steve.