In and out of RV park to go sightseeing

2oldman wrote:
Sightseeing is fine, but don't leave your site bare. Someone may think it's a parking space. No, checking out is not necessary. I will say that's there's exactly ONE park I go to where they prefer you drop the parking placard in a box as you leave.

A well run park will know your site, know your departure date and never allow another guest to occupy that site. The only time you may need to do something to mark that site as occupied is if you intend to not return until very late in the evening, after the office to the park is closed. Sometimes, people do enter a park after the office is closed and just occupy an open site with checking with anyone.
We have gates that close after office hours, and still an occasional rig slips in and we have to turn them around. Parks with less stringent hours and security might find those same people occupying an otherwise empty site, either because they are just plain traveling late or plan on slipping out just like they slipped in, without paying. Leaving an item or two in your site isn't the worst plan ever.