School me in public parks camping...
I'm woefully embarrassed to admit that, after 10 years of camping, we have extraordinarily minimal experience with county/state/national parks. We've always done the 'rv park' thing. The kids are ol...
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I haven't checked every state in the Union, but most states have a state DNR web site with links to their campground information. A lot of them will direct you to ReserveAmerica where you put in your desired dates, size of your equipment and you can do various searches. When you find a campsite that looks interesting, you'll be looking at a map. The sites on the map are links that will open up more information about that site: length of parking pad, width, electric hook-up (or no hook up), distance to bath houses, sewer hook-ups, distance to a water source, and usually a photo or two of the actual site. It will also tell you if the site is on a slope, level, on gravel, asphalt, or concrete.
Once you find a site that looks interesting and seems to meet your needs, you can go to Google Maps to the satellite view and drill down to the campsite to get a feel for trees and obstructions in the way. It helps make an intelligent decision before actually booking the site (reservation).
That's how we do it, as we are primary State Park campers. If doing an over night at a KOA we just call in earlier in the day, and let them assign a sight. I don't think we've ever had a back-in site at a KOA. KOA's are always full hook-up. But, you are pretty much at the mercy of where they want to put you. But for an overnight, they work great.
Private campgrounds, you just have to call them individually after checking their web site if they don't have their own on-line reservation system (which ... very few, if any do.)
Once you find a site that looks interesting and seems to meet your needs, you can go to Google Maps to the satellite view and drill down to the campsite to get a feel for trees and obstructions in the way. It helps make an intelligent decision before actually booking the site (reservation).
That's how we do it, as we are primary State Park campers. If doing an over night at a KOA we just call in earlier in the day, and let them assign a sight. I don't think we've ever had a back-in site at a KOA. KOA's are always full hook-up. But, you are pretty much at the mercy of where they want to put you. But for an overnight, they work great.
Private campgrounds, you just have to call them individually after checking their web site if they don't have their own on-line reservation system (which ... very few, if any do.)
