Do I need to reserve in advance?
I'm planning to start my first rv trip in May. I have already read information about some locations that are booked in advance in minutes, but what about parks (private and public) that are not in th...
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We don't go anywhere without booking every CG well in advance, private or memberships CGs. You only have to find yourself without a place to stay once and won't travel without pre-booking again.
If you want to go free-wheeling gypsy style, wherever, whenever, it'd be a really good idea to have a laptop and a mobile hotspot like Verizon mifi. Also very helpful to check out road conditions (traffic, construction, road type, etc.), wildfires, weather, tourist attractions and much more. Wifi? Fuggedaboutit - it's usually pretty unreliable. If you can't get into a CG en route for some reason, it'd be a good idea to be prepared to have a plan B like a Walmart, rest stop, etc.
When we go on longer trips, we've always pre-booked everything based on length of stay and travel time. Never been a problem except when there was a forest fire in Montana and we had to change plans on the fly or the time we tried to add a couple of days on the Or. coast and they just laughed at us.
I would try planning a hypothetical route now and find places where you'd want to stay and contact the CGs and see what they say about booking in advance. Consider a membership in Coast-Coast, Good Sam, Passport America, Thousand Trails, etc. We're T/T members and it's worked great for us. Not everyone's cup of tea tho.
If you want to go free-wheeling gypsy style, wherever, whenever, it'd be a really good idea to have a laptop and a mobile hotspot like Verizon mifi. Also very helpful to check out road conditions (traffic, construction, road type, etc.), wildfires, weather, tourist attractions and much more. Wifi? Fuggedaboutit - it's usually pretty unreliable. If you can't get into a CG en route for some reason, it'd be a good idea to be prepared to have a plan B like a Walmart, rest stop, etc.
When we go on longer trips, we've always pre-booked everything based on length of stay and travel time. Never been a problem except when there was a forest fire in Montana and we had to change plans on the fly or the time we tried to add a couple of days on the Or. coast and they just laughed at us.
I would try planning a hypothetical route now and find places where you'd want to stay and contact the CGs and see what they say about booking in advance. Consider a membership in Coast-Coast, Good Sam, Passport America, Thousand Trails, etc. We're T/T members and it's worked great for us. Not everyone's cup of tea tho.
