Seven People

Executive wrote:
Usually there is a limit imposed on the campsites. That can be from 6-8 depending on the park. Most parks will make exceptions but may charge an extra fee for the extra person(s). That said, it's entirely up to the park...their park, their rules. Simple answer is find another park. I understand why the rules in place, think spring break, but most parks have leeway in it's enforcement. I'd rather have a FAMILY of 7 or 8 camped next to me than a rowdy bunch of drunks numbering 6.....best of luck...

BTW, that 30' camper is going to feel like a 10' camper real quickly...Dennis

During a recent camping trip, I experienced the difference over the course of a weekend. My first day at the campground, a group of 20-something guys set up camp one site away from me. At first there were 2 guys, then 4, until there were about 12 guys in two campsites (they also took the one across the road from their first site). Around 3 p.m., they came over and pre-apologized for any noise/obnoxiousness. They explained they were having a bachelor party camping trip and if they got too annoying to just tell them to shut up and go to bed. They drank, they got drunk. They invited everyone in the vicinity to join them in the evening. They had fun and made noise, but there was nothing extreme. They had a couple moments in the night when they got a bit loud, but settled back down in a few moments. The day they left, they made a VERY DETAILED cleanup of their campsite. They had a dog who stayed with them in their site the entire time and no one ever trespassed on the other campsites.

A couple hours after they left, a group of two families arrived and took the campsite right next to mine (there were no other campsites taken at this point and these two sites were closer together than any others) and the one across the road. They drove around the loop the wrong way and blocked folks on the other side from driving out. They had three dogs, two of which who fought, the third repeatedly wandered into my campsite. They were loud and obnoxious - yelling at each other and the kids. They repeatedly told the kids to "poop behind the tree" rather than take them to the restrooms 4 campsites away. When the ranger came by and told them to park their cars correctly (they parked backwards since they drove in backwards), they moved one car into my campsite and left it, while turning the other car around - rather than park it in their own second campsite. Not once did they acknowledge that I even existed. When they left about 4 hours later, they left trash all over the campsite (and did not pick up any feces - dog or kid).

I'll take the group of drunks any day!