Dislike of 'Reservation Only' camping

ozkamper wrote:
Hi All,

Love camping, usually take one big trip for about 2 weeks every year. It's becoming tough to find places to camp where you can just show up. I don't like making reservations, in my opinion it limits you on where you can go. Weather, health, breakdown occurs and things change. Am I the only one who feels this way? Planning to visit all of Utah's National Parks in June of this year and it's tough finding places to go.

Thanks for listening,
Ozkamper

It's a fact of life today with the popularity and limited destination resources that proper and detailed planning is almost a must if you don't want to have your plans compromised. To provide the flexibility you mention you can just put in a couple of "FREE DAYS" so "adjustments" can be accomodated.

I guess I'm really used to this since i've been doing it for every trip for the last 20 years or so and haven't found it to be limiting at all and I would say while you're not the only one that feels reservations are a hassle, but are in the minority since you have found not making them does in fact limit your options to the point you have started this particular thread to discuss them.

Larry