Satellite vs. Cable

Awful hard to drag enough cable behind you to get too far away from home!
Seriously now, this has been beat nearly to death. Satellite allows you to receive the same stations at the same locations where ever you go. Park cable may or may not be OK for a night, but every parks channel lineup will be different so you will have to learn them all over each time you move.
There are two satellite providers. They offer similar packages at similar prices. One has better sports lineup if that is your thing. One has a better HD lineup too. So do your research and pick one.

Not sure how you plan on getting cable to follow you from place to place? If putting at a seasonal site cable maybe an option, but only at that location.
We use dish on the road and like it a lot.

satellite will go anywhere you go you can only get cable in parks that provide it which is usually private parks

I'm still waiting for the question.

Many of the private parks offer cable. Some good. Some terrible. Many places TV antenna service is almost no existance, and seem to coinside with the parks that have poor cable service. If you watch TV a lot satellite is best.

Suggest you take several trips to see if over the air TV and rv park cable (when available) is OK for you. It may depend on how TV addicted you are. In six years with trips up to 8 weeks we haven't had a desire for satellite.

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I have Direct TV at home and have an extra receiver from when my daughter was at home. I put the extra receiver in the RV and bought a dish off of Craigslist for $20. Takes me 10-15 minutes align it each time I move but it works like a charm.

I have Dish Network.

But if I'm making a short stay (1 or 2 nights) at an RV Park with cable - I'll hook up to the cable and see if it is worthwile. I don't bother to get the satellite antenna out and set it up. I'll also see what I can pick up with the OTA (over the air antenna).

In a stay that short - the main thing I'm looking for is local weather and any traffic news.

We have dish at home, we love the TV portion hate the broad band internet. we use a tailgater and one of the satellite receivers from home to receive satellite while on the road. works pretty good, and will self align.

If you enjoy having TV when you travel, you need a satellite system. Like others have said, there are many parks with cable TV, ranging from exceptional to the only channels available are the 24 hour snowstorm channel. The easiest setup will be a carryout satellite antenna and some coax cable. Use your receiver from home and the only thing you will be missing are network channels when you are outside the spotbeam. You can upgrade that to an RV package that will get you east and west coast feeds for the networks. Something else to consider is eventually many of the cable TV companies are migrating all their services to scrambled, digital feeds. This will require the RV parks that provide cable TV to either spend a lot of money upgrading their system to decode the signals and then mix and re-broadcast them, or have a system where you will need to check out a cable box and return it when you leave. If they chose the first option, fine. The Cable box method can be a PITA.