Layout of campgrounds

Boondock. It's a lot more fun and you can really get away. Install a good solar package and enjoy the great outdoors.

Rio Grande Valley has a park where you get a lot with a frame only coach house to use as you please. It costs $50,000 plus monthly fees. So as someone quoted about turning the orange grove into a portion of the park, those 40 sites were $25,000 with the land already included. Not a bad price considering the example above.

That is called "parking" not camping and as others have mentioned, state, country and even city parks are usually better than those concrete pads for a price. But saying that, usually they have a small pool, might have a club house and generally all have washers and dryers, so some of us, schedule a stop at them to do our laundry. Also for just traveling thru, they often are better than WalMart or campgrounds due to being easy in and easy out.

Don't know about the eastern US but on the west coast, Thousand Trails are typically well spaced apart and in many, you can't see neighbors at all because of all the foliage and trees. But they're often old and in some of them you've got to be able to put up with low voltage, low water pressure, lack of sewer hookups, lack of 50 amps and/or overgrown trees in the way (can't be cut down or trimmed).

We don't mind being close to neighbors, but we hate it when a row of pull-through share the same pedestals and you end up with your awning almost touching theirs. RVparkreviews.com is good but note that some RV-ers expectations can very widely.

All this is the reason that I prefer boat camping on a nice lake, river or ocean where you can find your own cove away from the masses and nitwits that campgrounds seem to attract. Think I will try to talk the wife into selling the camper.

The state park we go to has strict rules about noise and enforces them. You can get a large site with lots of trees or the sardine can sites. And we have seen state parks with the sardine can sites. Every time you are near a park, drive thru and make a list of the sites you would be willing to take.

Just spent 2 weeks at our favorite SP. And once again im left scratching my head at what was going through someones mind when they laid out the sites.

Mostly, the placement of the fire rings. Some are right in the middle of the site, forcing you to roll up your awning if you wanted a fire. Other are so close to the side boundry, that any decent fire would surely get the trailer next you a tad warm. They even have a few sites where the fire rings are about 6' away from the site behind you.

Im pretty sure that the people that laid out these sits never camped a day in their life. Just like the car designers that never have to repair their own vehicles.