No water hookup at Arizona state park
Notice for those unaware... We stayed at Picacho Peak (Arizona) State Park about a week and a half ago (one night, during our summer road trip)...we get into the site, get the electricity hooked up...
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I never hook the campgrounds water directly to my camper. Never. I always use the fresh water tank and pump, and it’s always full when we travel.
It’s nice having water at the campsite to fill the tank, but I can deal with whatever freshwater routine each campground has, including no water at all. I have a white hose for the standard threaded water faucet, a water thief for the ones that have no threads, a couple of water jugs for the primitive camps that only have a hand pump, and a bucket if all that’s available is a creek. We carry drinking water separately, so I’m not too concerned about how sanitized the creek water may or may not be. I carry bleach for those occasions.
I did run into a new routine just recently at two Cook County Forest Reserve campgrounds in Illinois. Beautiful parks that they have obviously spent millions on improving recently, lots of electric only campsites, but there are no freely accessible water hydrants anywhere in the two parks we stayed at. To get water, you drive to the office and ask them to drag their hose out so you can fill your tank. They do it gladly, but why they’re doing it that way I’m not sure.
:):)
It’s nice having water at the campsite to fill the tank, but I can deal with whatever freshwater routine each campground has, including no water at all. I have a white hose for the standard threaded water faucet, a water thief for the ones that have no threads, a couple of water jugs for the primitive camps that only have a hand pump, and a bucket if all that’s available is a creek. We carry drinking water separately, so I’m not too concerned about how sanitized the creek water may or may not be. I carry bleach for those occasions.
I did run into a new routine just recently at two Cook County Forest Reserve campgrounds in Illinois. Beautiful parks that they have obviously spent millions on improving recently, lots of electric only campsites, but there are no freely accessible water hydrants anywhere in the two parks we stayed at. To get water, you drive to the office and ask them to drag their hose out so you can fill your tank. They do it gladly, but why they’re doing it that way I’m not sure.
:):)
