Campgrounds with Seasonals. Yes/No?
What's the general consensus. We try to avoid CG with seasonals (other than work campers/hosts). We've not had good experience when the parks have seasonals. It always seems they feel its "their" park...
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I'm thinking a clarification of the words seasonal and permanent is needed!!
Seasonal Sites: are people that put an RV (or sometimes park models) on a site they pay for the entire year but only stay seasonally. They are used 'seasonally'.
People up north have seasonal sites and only stay there during the summer months and mostly only use them on weekends and/or their vacation. They don't live in them year round. I.E. seasonal. "MY" observation is that the seasonal sites are kept up quiet nicely in most cases.
Permanent Sites: are people who 'LIVE' year round in their RV.
Sadly in "MY" observation it is the permanent sites that you will most likely see run down and nasty. "IF" the CG owner allows them to.
With the tanking of the economy over the past couple of years I have in my travels seen the population of Permanent Sites grow exponentially in CG's that in the past had only 2 or 3.
The times have seriously changed.
Every CG I have pulled into late at night while traveling that had a disproportionate amount of permanent residents, I would come to find out if I stayed there more than one day that most where convicted felons! I talked with a few of them and seems the gov's/local churches new program is buying them used TT's and 'sticking' them in CG's, because of the difficulty they have finding housing. That one I did stay at in Florida because of business I had to do in that town.....PO's where pulling in every day going to all the permanent residents sites!:B
I now call ahead to a CG that I am planning on stopping and/or staying at and ask how many permanent residents they have. Anything over 5, I don't stay there.
The state of the economy is what has seriously changed the face of CG's.
Seasonal Sites: are people that put an RV (or sometimes park models) on a site they pay for the entire year but only stay seasonally. They are used 'seasonally'.
People up north have seasonal sites and only stay there during the summer months and mostly only use them on weekends and/or their vacation. They don't live in them year round. I.E. seasonal. "MY" observation is that the seasonal sites are kept up quiet nicely in most cases.
Permanent Sites: are people who 'LIVE' year round in their RV.
Sadly in "MY" observation it is the permanent sites that you will most likely see run down and nasty. "IF" the CG owner allows them to.
With the tanking of the economy over the past couple of years I have in my travels seen the population of Permanent Sites grow exponentially in CG's that in the past had only 2 or 3.
The times have seriously changed.
Every CG I have pulled into late at night while traveling that had a disproportionate amount of permanent residents, I would come to find out if I stayed there more than one day that most where convicted felons! I talked with a few of them and seems the gov's/local churches new program is buying them used TT's and 'sticking' them in CG's, because of the difficulty they have finding housing. That one I did stay at in Florida because of business I had to do in that town.....PO's where pulling in every day going to all the permanent residents sites!:B
I now call ahead to a CG that I am planning on stopping and/or staying at and ask how many permanent residents they have. Anything over 5, I don't stay there.
The state of the economy is what has seriously changed the face of CG's.
