Whats the truth? What % of nights spent where?

7 years of full time travel:

WalMart or other commercial parking lots....0

Boon docking................................0

Private campgrounds.........................10%

State, COE, Federal Campgrounds.............90%

colliehauler wrote:
Last spring I spent one night in Wallyworld because the campground in the area did not open for two more weeks.

What's your name......Clark Griswold from National Lampoon Vacation. Hope you didn't kidnap the security guard to get to the park !:B

Very hard to answer accurately as it changes from year to year so I'd have to estimate percentages or the number of times if a small amount during about the last 10-12 years. Been retired for almost 14 years including the nearly 3 years of being semi-retired and letting go of the business etc.

Approx 60% public CG's: (State Parks, National Parks, County CG's, COE CG's, etc). Our favorites as you can see as they have real nature and things to see and room to roam!

Approx 25% private owned CG's: (Passport America, Ma & Pa, a cusino CG maybe 10 times total, etc). Mainly when wanting to do something in a city or a nearby town or when visiting the friends we have all over the country.

Approx 15% boondocking: (public state or federal lands, a FJ's just to sleep over night if tired, only 1 times in a Walmart). Never in featureless or barren land areas but rather in deep forests or on a secluded lake/river.

Only one year was under 100 nights for an entire calendar year (1/1 to 12/31) of overnighting in one of our RV's during the last 10 years. The most nights in any one year was 152 during the approx 10-12 years. Have to remember that each trip from Michigan to either Alaska, the west coast, the southwest, Maine/Nova Scotia, etc was 45-70 nights alone. Then all the trips to the Smokies and the southeast and it really adds up. I didn't include winter trips to Florida where we'd stay put in 1, 2, or 3 places for 1 to 4 weeks each. Only place we like to be for more than 4 weeks in at our wonderful S&B home by Lake Michigan as that's home!

Prior to retirement while I was running my engineering company, it was more like 60-80 nights a year and much of it was on weekends.

We are diehard boaters so we often have a decent sized boat behind either the TC or the 5th wheel and also behind the MH's when we had them. Most CG's on navigable waters are publics CG's as we've found the private CG's have small tight sites and you have to park your boat/trailer off lot or site and that's not for us!

In 7 yrs. of FT traveling weekly/bi-monthly we have never Wallydocked or spent one night in a parking lot/rest area.

80% of time has been spent in some type of CG...be it private/public/state-national-COE/fairgrounds.
15% has been boondocking-------unimproved out of reach sites/patches of dirt
5% utilizing family/friends property (semi-boondocking)

We took off to travel....go places we had not been too before. That's why our rig has wheels

Last spring I spent one night in Wallyworld because the campground in the area did not open for two more weeks.