What brings you back to a particular campground each time?

A clean natural setting with trees for shade and a good swimming hole. I spend most of my camping time at a north Florida freshwater spring or a Gulf of Mexico beach. The joy of Florida living.

amandasgramma,

Might you really mean you don't like site access at 90 degrees to the CG's interior roads? As in perpendicular. 45 degrees would be great! I agree that perpendicular site access is very tough to get a medium to long RV rig backing into and also in many CG's if pulling into a perpendicular pull thru site.

Narrow CG roads/trees/posts/bushes, vehicles or RV's parked very close to the CG road across from your site, narrow openings between the trees etc on your site, poorly located electric/water posts and/or sewer, and more make for very poorly designed CG sites.

Then there's the many areas of the country where there are no trees for shade or posts to worry about or real site pads that basically resemble camping on featureless blah open dirt, usually dusty when the wind blows and everthing gets covered, with no lakes or rivers to see as the only water wittnessed is what comes out of your fawcett, and just like parking lot spaces that make me wonder why I even was dumb enough to stay at!

For us, it's real trees, real nature, clean bathrooms and CG, and very often being on or near real water, having some green grass or a decent level pad paved or not in a safe pleasant area. Many of the other attributes added are in the plus column. Hookups other than electric desired in a CG are optional. Our RV's come with water, gray, and black tanks plus propane, a decent output inverter and battery bank, a 2000 watt plus generator, etc so are we ARE selfcontained always. In a CG or not!

WoodGlue wrote:
For me, it's trees & vegetation and room between sites. I don't like being piled in one on top of the other.

WoodGlue

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For me its Beer and the cute hot blond at neighbors site 110...( Dont tell the wife)

trees.....I'd make sure there are trees for shade, yet maintained so they don't tear up a rig.

angled parking.....My biggest pet peeve. Campgrounds that have camp spots at a 45 deg. angle and a narrow road....if they were slanted, it would be easier to back into them.

Wider sites.....I, too, don't like being piled on top of others....but at least give us enough room to sit in our camp chairs.......and not be joining in on our neighbors conversations inside their rigs!!

another pet peeve.....ClEAR - LARGE signs directing you to the office.....

For me, it's trees & vegetation and room between sites. I don't like being piled in one on top of the other.

WoodGlue

For us. It is location, Bath house cleanliness, and site size. Location being most important.

If we had to choose one thing as the standard it would be natural environment, especially those with tree's and/or vegetation.
Our favorites have reasonably spacious sites that have "walk/hike to views" and clean facilities.Having access to water for kayaking and fishing is a bonus.