How do you guys look for RV Parks?

westernrvparkowner wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:

I'm not advertising my park or anything, just seeing the best way to market.

And you'all just got sucked in to trollsville!

Irregardless of the disclaimer in post (which actually just brings more attention to the fact it is an advertising post}. How many of you clicked on his website listed on his profile?

just joined 11/15/2017
link to his website on profile

He's not asking for how we look for CG's, he just got a free advertising ad for his CG to over 7,000 readers on RVnet forum. This is a very common trick. don't list the link on the post, put the link in the profile and you don't get caught for violating forum rules. :R

He was pretty clear on his purpose. I don't see any hint he was trying to advertise here, he was getting input into where and how to advertise in general. These forums would be the worst place imaginable to advertise a park. In two days this thread is completely forgotten, and so too would any "advertisement". If he has a good park, it would be an advantage to all 7000 members if he can figure out how to get the word out. If it is a bad park, that too will come home to roost and eventually that information would become valuable to that same 7000.
And with some 9 million RVs on the road, targeting any national media with only 7000 potential impressions is a total waste of time and effort. 7000 RVers currently in a 100 mile radius, maybe. All spread out across the country, no way. And these forums actually have an international reach, so it is slightly even worse from a marketing point of view for an individual RV park.

I have to agree. He asked a legitimate question of what people look for in a park and how they find one, and has received a lot of good information.

I am fairly new to RV'ing but have spent a lot of time on Google Maps studying places to go and places to stay. I am basically a National Park/Forest Service/COE type of camper, and look first for National, then State, then City or County parks. Private parks come last for me, but I still research them as a just in case for the areas I am looking to visit.

I like National and state parks for the spacing between sites, and the (generally) decent to real nice restrooms and showers. I have everything I need in my motor home, but try to stretch things out (water and tank dumps) and if the shower house is nice, I'd rather take a nice hot regular shower as opposed to a "navy" shower in my motor home.

Biggest things I would be looking for in a private park is a little space between sites, at least enough for awnings and slides to not intrude on the next guy, and few or no long term or permanent residents. I fully understand having long term residents who are professionals, architects, engineers, project managers, traveling revival preachers, folks like that, but having a park full of day laborers and Wal-Mart night stock clerks living there is not my cup of tea, as sites get trashy real quick.

To me, a private RV park or "resort" is not a destination, its simply a safe, comfortable place to park to allow me to visit attractions in the surrounding area.

Charles