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jeffcarp
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May 26, 2017

How did I miss gocampingamerica.com?

I'm pretty sure I have nearly every campground mobile app that exists and I'm constantly bouncing back and forth between them, never completely satisfied with any of them.

I was trying to find a campground that would provide a specific experience that my wife and I was looking for. We wanted a full hook-up site within 250 miles of our house that was on the water, had a marina, had hiking trails and shaded sites.

Most of the apps really failed when it came to those kinds of specific amenities. But then I found this website and am stunned at how detailed the search engine is. I have no idea how I've missed that this website existed for this many years.

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  • Flapper's avatar
    Flapper
    Explorer
    May 26, 2017
    Just don't go north of Iowa. Apparently there are no campgrounds in Minnesota.
  • jeffcarp's avatar
    jeffcarp
    Explorer
    May 26, 2017
    My point was not to submit this site for a campground search tool of the year award. My point was and remains that I couldn't find any other tool that allowed me to search or filter by the many amenities that I was looking for on this particular trip. This tool gave me some options when that kind of search was important to me. If it fails to give me results then I'll use one of the other equally flawed options to continue my search.
  • accsys's avatar
    accsys
    Explorer
    May 26, 2017
    jeffcarp wrote:
    The database is privately held campgrounds only. It also appears that it's limited to members of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC).

    That may limit the results but it's better than nothing when it comes to centralized amentity searches.

    Just my opinion but the limits makes it unusable for us. For instance, no 50 amp FHU parks in Prescott, AZ when there are actually several? We Have found RV Park Reviews and RV Parky to be much more useful. Even if you use this to find some combination of amenities, you are still going to have to use the other sites to make sure there are not several more with the same amenities and some may be much better. In my opinion, this site is nothing more than a sales tool for ARVC.
  • jeffcarp's avatar
    jeffcarp
    Explorer
    May 26, 2017
    The database is privately held campgrounds only. It also appears that it's limited to members of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC).

    That may limit the results but it's better than nothing when it comes to centralized amentity searches.
  • westernrvparkow's avatar
    westernrvparkow
    Explorer
    May 26, 2017
    12th Man Fan wrote:
    Thanks for sharing.
    Considering it doesn't show any parks within 25 miles of Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park or Billings, Montana I would say it isn't a very useful site for Montana as a whole.

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