Reservations for popular campgrounds
I have tried multiple times to book a national park campground when the booking window opens and found the sites already booked. I have tried to time it to the second but no luck. I suspect that t...
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garmp1 wrote:
My issue is that there are many parks we'd like to visit, and being retired should have the opportunity, but between family and health issues, we're not always sure exactly when we will be where. To me retirement is to go "as the breeze blows". And the other issue is that we are from the mid-west and really like to camp among trees, vs a field. We need space between camps.
We're with you! As constantly traveling full-timers we hated to have to make reservations. We rarely did unless we really needed to be somewhere on a given date. If you're flexible you can easily travel without reservations. That is, if you don't need all the frills.
We stayed in many major national parks, state parks, forest service campgrounds and COE without reservations including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, Zion, Bryce and many others. We don't need hookups. We didn't have problems even with our 40' motorhome.
However, nowadays, if you have limited vacation time you do need reservations because everyone else is seemingly making them.
