Thousand Trails Membership

We did a free camping weekend and got the sales pitch. Personally I never wanted to be that restricted. Also it is my understanding you can buy memberships from private parties wanting to get out. Just my take on it. Best of luck

We checked into it for our 4 month trip this year but even using the 2 zones we were going to spend most of the time there were only a couple of TT parks that would have worked so we forgot about it.

There are a few on ebay. Pricing varies. A couple of them have an asking price or best offer.

If (and that is a big IF) you are going to travel in the area of the ZONE where TT CGS are and you are going to use them....just figure how many of them and how many times you would use them in one year....... LESS than $595 worth or would it cost you more? (At $35/nite....17 stays breaks even)

Besides it's only for 1 year.......no long term commitment.

I would read reviews of various TT parks in the zone where I thought I might stay before committing. Some are glorified parking lots with hook ups.

Passport America has many of them in their 1/2 price membership. You could try a few out before buying.

If you like enough of the parks in the zone/s you are buying, and you will be spending enough time to make it worth it (at least 30 nights per year) in those particular parks, go for it.

We were given a free membership when we purchased our rv in January. We haven't used any of the parks in our selected Zone. They either get mediocre reviews or don't offer FHUs. And then there are those restrictions.

I can find bad campgrounds on my own. I don't like the Zone concept. I don't see anything special about Thousand Trails when there are other discount options out there, i.e. Passport America.

We will not renew.

helperzack wrote:
There are a few on ebay. Pricing varies. A couple of them have an asking price or best offer.

X2, not a TT member as that type of camping is not our cup of tea, but there are lots of memberships available on the secondary market.

I have a different take on TT. We live in So. Calif, we stated with a Zone Pass a few years ago at an Encore Park in Lake Tahoe( a very nice park)to say the least. It so happens that Ca has many TT facilities and with that in mind, we upgraded to a full membership. Out of approx 150 days of camping this year so far, we've use our membership at a number of different locations and for about 95% of those 150 days . As stated, many of the parks within the system are no where's close to being resorts but there are enough Gems for us to get our monies worth plus every year. It may be location for us but I'm an advocate for what we have received out of it and the Zone pass was and is a good value if you use it...IMHO

Not impressed with their park in South Beach, OREGON. Over priced, little space and buggy.

We've looked at the program closely and found that Passport America just works better for us. We like to try different routes and visit maybe 30 campgrounds each year. It all depends on what type of traveling you like to do and where you want to do it.