Conversion Vans not allowed at some RV Parks?
I've been happily turning a new Transit T250, medium-high roof van into a "travel van" to get us back and forth from FL, and to do some sightseeing and weekend camping. The dinette turns into a bed w...
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pira114 wrote:
Here's a practical option. If you don't need hookups, you can rent a tent site and just not set up a tent. Doubt anyone would care or notice.
Well, when you first pull in, the tent campers will give you the Stink Eye....LOL! Two years ago, we toured the Pacific NW in an old pop-up truck camper that had been stripped of most of its systems - all it needed was electric, and we were capable of living without that, if need be. As we called ahead for a campsite, I would ask if they would let us into a tent site; or many parks have a half-way site with electric only. In many cases, we'd be let into the tent sites provided we didn't run a generator (we also didn't have A/C) - the idea being that tent campers expect a quiet environment. We had some pretty nice sites! And when the tenters realized we'd be quiet neighbors, they warmed up :-)
Our new van will be a silent creature, too - so we'll try to utilize these rustic sites when possible, and leave the full H/Us for the true RVs.
