to reserve or not to reserve
I’ve been RVing for about a year now, and every time I plan out a road trip I am careful to include reservations at parks along the way. However, I’m getting the bug to just get on the road and go – n...
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Frustrated here. Not by overnight reservations, we usually just drive & figure it out along the way. But to stay in National Parks ... or even State Parks these days, it seems like we almost need reservations. You'd think I'd have learned that lesson last winter... but no, back in March I was having trouble with reservations for Winter 2017/2018.
If you really want to camp somewhere, be sure you know what the reservations "rules" are -- 6 months (vs 180 days), 11 months or some other magic number. I'm hopeful that we'll get somewhere to live in south Florida February 2018 .... because I waited too long for the best (read, most cost effective....) reservations.
And spring? Forget Amelia Island, St Augustine .... no reservations available at the state parks we wanted. Oh well, maybe I'll learn next year?????
Not like what we expected. We really thought we could go to nat'l parks west in September and have open spots on a first come first serve basis.... not so last September ... even the rangers were saying they've never seen it this busy in mid-September. Plus alot of campgrounds close because it's "out of season" so spots are limited. Aaaarrrgggg.....
Not sure what the conclusion is ... but our experience since 2015 is not what we anticipated.... we wanted to wander ....
If you really want to camp somewhere, be sure you know what the reservations "rules" are -- 6 months (vs 180 days), 11 months or some other magic number. I'm hopeful that we'll get somewhere to live in south Florida February 2018 .... because I waited too long for the best (read, most cost effective....) reservations.
And spring? Forget Amelia Island, St Augustine .... no reservations available at the state parks we wanted. Oh well, maybe I'll learn next year?????
Not like what we expected. We really thought we could go to nat'l parks west in September and have open spots on a first come first serve basis.... not so last September ... even the rangers were saying they've never seen it this busy in mid-September. Plus alot of campgrounds close because it's "out of season" so spots are limited. Aaaarrrgggg.....
Not sure what the conclusion is ... but our experience since 2015 is not what we anticipated.... we wanted to wander ....
