Holiday weekend camping

tatest wrote:
Not just the weekend. For many public parks with a 14-day stay limit, folks will book the 14 days with the weekend they want at the end of that period, blocking availability for a couple of weeks on a site they'll occupy for 3-4 days.

Having that weekend for them is worth paying $150-200 to hold a camp site they are not using. They even do this for unreservable sites, come out a couple weeks ahead, pay for the two weeks, put up a play tent to "occupy" the site until they are ready to come use it.

If you want to go RVing on holiday weekends, you'll need to learn how the game is played in your area.

....and there are many public parks that are finally wising up to this terrible, selfish practice and are not allowing it. Their new rule is that you must occupy the site the first and subsequent night and some won't hold your reservation past noon of the next day. That's when we've gotten nice sites without having reservations - when people don't show.

There are definitely ways to not be left out on holiday weekends.

- do you really have to go to a specific place? There are many parks available that you can easily get a site.

- don't go to a place that has 'water activities'. Stay away from rivers, lakes and even pools.... unless those are an absolute 'must' for you and then you'll just have to deal with trying to get a site.

- find someplace new to explore

We full-timed for 16 years so we've survived many holidays and not just the 3-day ones. Also, we rarely make reservations except if we really need to be at a certain place at a certain time, such as visiting the kids. We always got a nice quiet site somewhere on the holidays.

It can be done. :)