Outside camping lights

Tvov wrote:
Why would people put blue lights on their camper? Isn't that what is used in bug zappers to attract bugs?

At busy, commercial campgrounds I kind of expect a certain amount of stuff - loud people, kids running around, a lot more lighting. At virtually all of the private and state campgrounds we've been to that I remember, everyone abides by the 10 or 11pm "quiet" time and pretty much shuts most lights off (along with quieting down).

Actually, I do remember once a 5th wheel next to us had a big light on the front of it, mostly designed to light up the area while hitching I think. I mentioned it to the owner the next morning, and he was surprised, apologized and shut it off - he simply hadn't realized it had been on.

At a local PA state park we frequent they upgraded 12 of 270 sites to full hook up. The full hookup site are (6 on each side of a road which splits a loop in half) is always now lit up like the Vegas strip, noisy, and it seems the people who book those sites have no idea of camping etiquette. I booked one once the first year they were open and quickly learned to book in the future far away from that area. Sadly a large field right next to those sites was a popular dark sky area for amateur astronomy. It's not anymore. Even the local deer population who used to graze that field all night long stay away. When we had one of those sites which was in the fall a special touch was the old fart in a large class A who had the need to fire up a gas leaf blower every time a few leaves fell off the trees and he had two bug rappers zapping away 24/7. That was special since we were on a mountainside, in the woods, next to a lake and he could of zapped bugs till the end of time and not made a **** difference.