RV park rates

Where we boondock, there are no services, no cell, no internet, no electrical, no dump stations, no water . U pac it in,U pack it out.
yeah it's free, but you do need to watch where you step, or you'll step in horse do-do. but the elk wander thru the camp, and stop and feed from the horse buckets.
It's in the state forest, but no permit required.

Location, Location, Location, if you want to be in a popular area you have to pay. I prefer the road less traveled and it's usually more economical.

pianotuna wrote:
Hi Western,

It is run by the community. I think the intent is to offer accommodation for family members who come back home in the summer time (when the living is easy). There are no services in town except for a post office. There may be a place to buy groceries.

Have a look on google maps with satellite view:

50.937951, -105.689746

westernrvparkowner wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
I stayed in a lovely grassed park last night. There are 12 sites with 15 amp power, flush toilets and showers for a fee of $10.00 per night.

I was the only camper.

WOW, that sure proves that having a low price really brings in the business. Every so often we get a thread about how if there were parks with $10.00 a night rates people would flock to them and no longer need to use places like big box parking lots, rest stops, truck stops and boondocking. Somewhere there must be a Walmart executive panicking over the lost business we so often hear about that is driven by them allowing free overnights. I wonder if the owners of that $10.00 park have considered franchising their concept. It sure looks like a winner.

Whether it's pertinent to this thread or not, it's nice to hear of alternatives. Especially if we're just 'passing thru' and don't need frills. That said, IMO, and it's just that...the LAST line says it all...

pianotuna wrote:
I stayed in a lovely grassed park last night. There are 12 sites with 15 amp power, flush toilets and showers for a fee of $10.00 per night.

I was the only camper.

This pretty much indicates why a $10/night concept might not work.....Dennis

If I feel like I am getting price gouged I just go somewhere else!

There used to be a little place almost on the FL / GA border. It wasn’t really a campground as most people would define it. It was a little bungalow on a probably 10 acre lot with a horshoe-shaped driveway that went down the back and around back to the road. In the middle of the back area was a small bathhouse and a source of potable water. The only ‘services’ were 20 amp elec and a place to park for the night.

If you went through off season it was pretty empty, but during the snowbirds migrating times it was often full to overflowing.

It was ideally located, right off the highway and an easy day’s drive north of the entire west coast.

It too was something in the order of $10 a night, and if the owner (who was a vet) knew you were a vet you’d have to nearly arm wrestle him to get him to take the money.

I used to find I had a ‘spare’ bottle of Crown Royal that I could somehow convince him to take instead.

Last I heard the old fella passed away a few years back and the family stopped hosting.

We are past long time (we done very well) business owners so we know that to stay in business you have to make a reasonable profit or will or be shut down. That said, we are not penny pinchers by any means but also not stupid and be overcharged for a CG site or overnight site either.

Have seen many CG's that were always busy and fairly priced for what they offered their customers selling out to mew owners big or small and then raising their prices higher than the rate of inflation and soon become half full even at peak times or well less than half full or gone out of business as most RV'ers are NOT stupid! They can make some well needed improvements to the CG and raise the price slightly but most seem to think a $30,000 or $60,000 needed upgrade done must be paid back in just one or two years and smart RV'ers refuse to be fleeced with big rate increases and there goes the bulk of their customer base. Word travels so fast and there goes the long time repeat customers including us and we are big on spreading the truth and factual details both positive and negative on such CG places.

A dressed up to the nines pig is still a pig in actuality and almost nothing more!

It's your money and only you have the right to decide if you are getting what you want for the cost paid. Your RV has wheels under it and rolls so easily to a more desirable in terms of needs and price worthiness CG's. You get nothing more than a receipt for the monies spent at any CG whether you paid $10/night or $70/night+ for your stay. How gullible are you???

It's amazing the lengths some will go to in order to squirrel away a nickel.

The best I have seen lately was the couple in a new class C Dynamax Force who arrived late, took an undeveloped site using an honor system envelope near 3 different tent camping families, then thought they were going to run the onboard genny all night for the AC. This when there were dozens of electric sites unoccupied. When the gent was confronted about the noise of the genny and told about the electric sites, he even admitted he took the undeveloped site to save the additional $6.50 the electric site would have cost. Can you even run an onboard genny for 8 hours or so for an AC on $6.50 in fuel. :S

$140K new super C + squeaking for $6.50 = priceless.

It sounds penny wise and pound foolish to me. I head for an inexpensive electrical site when I need the air conditioner. Not because it saves money(it does, at least in Canada)--but because I will not use the generator when I sleep.

BillyBob Jim wrote:
Force who arrived late, took an undeveloped site using an honor system envelope near 3 different tent camping families, then thought they were going to run the onboard genny all night for the AC. This when there were dozens of electric sites unoccupied. When the gent was confronted about the noise of the genny and told about the electric sites, he even admitted he took the undeveloped site to save the additional $6.50 the electric site would have cost. Can you even run an onboard genny for 8 hours or so for an AC on $6.50 in fuel. :S

$140K new super C + squeaking for $6.50 = priceless.

I hate paying high prices just like the next person, but... Many campgrounds have been owned for many years and the big overhead of a mortgage for the property has long disappeared. When the property is sold, the new owner now has a huge mortgage to pay. The campground that was bought 40 years ago cost maybe $200,000 will sell today in the multi-millions. Huge difference in the monthly bills.

So the campground decided to not offer long term (other than 1 week) stays. I have seen my share of run-down long-term "RV"s in campgrounds that I can see (at least partly) why they may have made that decision. In any case, their business decision, their right. Your rig has wheels; it makes it easy to go elsewhere if you don't like the new pricing.