GPS WITH CAPABILITY TO FIND RV PARKS
I am interested in a GPS that will take the work out of travel I would like to have a program that after each 300 miles shows me the nearby RV overnight parks. I just want to tell it 300 miles fro...
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I've used both TomTom and Garmin but have a lot more experience with Garmin. With both you can install files call Points-of-Interest (POI) and there are a number of places on the Internet where you can find these files containing camping information. The RV group called Discovery Owners has a very extensive list of these types of files for almost every kind of GPS.
However, one problem with this is that RV campgrounds that are not part of some collective like Good Sam may not be included in any POI files. The POI files generally encompass a set of similar locations like all Walmarts, or all Good Sam parks, State Parks, etc. So using the GPS databases is far from perfect.
As others have said, there are phone applications which can be just as good. RV Parky and AllStays are two of the more popular ones. RV Parky contains park information that is user contributed, so if you use it and find a park not listed or want to provide more information on a park, just submit the data. Because of this it doesn't contain nearly as many parks as AllStays, but the really nice thing is it doesn't require a phone connection to use. AllStays has a much larger database of parks and such, but it requires a working phone connection to use it.
So if you have a good cell connection then AllStays is the one to use. If you have no cell connection and don't have a GPS with POIs then your best option would be RV Parky.
However, one problem with this is that RV campgrounds that are not part of some collective like Good Sam may not be included in any POI files. The POI files generally encompass a set of similar locations like all Walmarts, or all Good Sam parks, State Parks, etc. So using the GPS databases is far from perfect.
As others have said, there are phone applications which can be just as good. RV Parky and AllStays are two of the more popular ones. RV Parky contains park information that is user contributed, so if you use it and find a park not listed or want to provide more information on a park, just submit the data. Because of this it doesn't contain nearly as many parks as AllStays, but the really nice thing is it doesn't require a phone connection to use. AllStays has a much larger database of parks and such, but it requires a working phone connection to use it.
So if you have a good cell connection then AllStays is the one to use. If you have no cell connection and don't have a GPS with POIs then your best option would be RV Parky.
