buying campground

jkhorner wrote:
I only asked if anybody knew of any that were for sale.

search ""former" campground for sale" on Google. Be sure the word "former" is in quotations, that will force the search to include that word in the results. I found around 5 or six parks within a couple of minutes. Some are on LoopNet, which is a subscription service listing businesses for sale. It is a good resource. I still think you are barking up a very wrong tree, but it's your time and money, not mine.

I only asked if anybody knew of any that were for sale.

westernrvparkowner wrote:

amandasgramma wrote:


My only suggestion to OPer.....if you find one, and have to regrade the sites, and can do it, PLEASE put them at an angle ......why are all the parks (or most) having people park their rigs at a 90 degree angle???? That's HARD!!!!!

If you angle the sites, you get less sites per row. You COULD partially overcome the loss of sites by creating more rows with less sites per row, but that would require relocating the roads, the utilities, removing full grown trees, redoing all the landscaping and probably needing to get new permits from the licensing authority. Older parks were built when there were many fewer giants roaming the earth. Angled sites were not an issue when most rigs were 20 foot Scotties, with no slides pulled by the family station wagon. Other than the fact an existing park would have buildings, advertising and a customer base, it is more expensive to completely re-configure an existing park than it is to build one from scratch.

I figured.....but a gal can wish, can't she?????

Perhaps the OP has just "moved along". He has two posts on this forum, both of them in this thread, which he started. Perhaps his second post was a parting shot? A mod did change whatever he had posted in his second post. :h
Or perhaps, unlike me, has better things to do with his time, than spend it on internet forums. :B

I know of a campground for sale in Illinois along rt 80!

v10superduty wrote:

paulcardoza wrote:
Why is it that no threads in here can exceed one page, without members doing battle?

I have my setting at 10 posts per page and it took till page 4.... :h
Not that bad really? :B

Should we now argue about how long it took for members to start "doing battle" ? :B

paulcardoza wrote:
Why is it that no threads in here can exceed one page, without members doing battle?

I have my setting at 10 posts per page and it took till page 4.... :h
Not that bad really? :B

Why is it that no threads in here can exceed one page, without members doing battle?

valhalla360 wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Supporting any business idea simply because it is someone's dream is irresponsible. Most of the responses here have been pretty spot on.

Really?? Ya think so???

Here is the original question.

jkhorner wrote:
I am looking to buy a campground that has closed. Having a hard time finding them. Any suggestions?

The OP wants to know where to look for CGs for sale. He didn't ask for your advice on running a business or a validation of his idea. He also didn't ask if buying a closed park is a good idea. None of these respondants knows the OP's financial situation or business experience - again, his question had nothing to do with that. Later in the thread, he states that he wants to start from scratch. Who are you to tell him if that makes sense or not?

He's not asking you to support his business idea - he's coming to a place to where a simple question shoul dbe able to be answered.

So no - most of the responses have not been spot on.

Seriously - get over yourselves.

When you open yourself up to ask for advice, people give advice. If you are asking the wrong question, it is perfectly acceptable and appropriate to clarify that.

To blindly urge them off the edge of a cliff may technically be answering thier question, it's certainly not helpful.

If he really knows what he's doing, it is highly unlikely he would be asking a question the way he did. If we were getting it wrong, a reasonable presumption is he would come back and correct any misconceptions.

So somehow you know what his question should be?

If you tell him where to find closed RV parks for sale, he buys one based of that advice and then fails miserably, your saying its your fault for pushing him twoard it?

So what/who else in the world are you responsible for?

What better place to research CG's for sale than a forum about RV's? Well, maybe he just picked the wrong one. I'm sure he has gone elsewhere where people aren't as presumptious.

amandasgramma wrote:


My only suggestion to OPer.....if you find one, and have to regrade the sites, and can do it, PLEASE put them at an angle ......why are all the parks (or most) having people park their rigs at a 90 degree angle???? That's HARD!!!!!

If you angle the sites, you get less sites per row. You COULD partially overcome the loss of sites by creating more rows with less sites per row, but that would require relocating the roads, the utilities, removing full grown trees, redoing all the landscaping and probably needing to get new permits from the licensing authority. Older parks were built when there were many fewer giants roaming the earth. Angled sites were not an issue when most rigs were 20 foot Scotties, with no slides pulled by the family station wagon. Other than the fact an existing park would have buildings, advertising and a customer base, it is more expensive to completely re-configure an existing park than it is to build one from scratch.