Membership Parks-Thousand Trails,,,,Escapees etc

My experience with Thousand Trails parks is that they push quantity over quality. They frequently take large wooded tracts in inconvenient locations, cut rough, poorly maintained roads through them, clear huge numbers of narrow, off-level pads and furnish only water and electricity at them. An RV can provide those two amenities by itself. You are expected to use a communal dump station and while I generally do not complain about trees on a site, if a site is so heavily wooded as to preclude Sat TV reception, I expect cable TV. I do not go camping to watch TV but like to watch the morning news with my coffee. Wireless Internet is usually only furnished at the clubhouses. If I still wanted a primitive experience, I'd use state and national parks. TT generally does not assign a spot, you are left to your own to find a place to park without someone to guide you along unfamiliar wooded trails. I didn't spend what I did on an RV to be annoyed by poor service. Just my take on several TT experiences. The corporate attitude at most send me looking for a more friendly mom and pop park. Join Passport America. They will not disappoint!