Do you think the overall price of camping is starting to get to high? The price of campgrounds, diesel to get it there, camper payment if you have one. Etc. Just wanted to get some thoughts and opinions.

Doesn't it make sense for prices of camping `stuff' should go up with all of the other items for sale? How can a site be $25 (or whatever price you want to put there) forever?Cars don't cost $1000 anymore like they did 40 years ago. Why should camping be any different?

I agree that prices are going up, not much that we as RVers can do about it though. Taxes on the RV parks have gone up, minimum wage and medical insurance for workers has also increased which jacks up the price for camping on privately owned parks. The costs for an RV and any parts/supplies has also certainly increased in the past few years. Only good news right now is that fuel prices are way down, but doubt if they stay low for very long.

Let us see GAS (I HAVE A GASSER) lowest in years. Government CG no rise in prices many years, Resort I stay at in winter same price last 3 years. Camping on the beach still free. Nope do not see it

Looking at new trailers, they appear to be priced about the same as what they were when I bought mine 6.5 years ago. Cars have gone up, but not more than they ever do. Gas has gone up (although not for a couple years now). Some campground fees have gone up - this varies quite a lot by state/region. Around here, they're not that much more.In the meantime, airfare has also gone up a fair amount, as has the price of staying in a hotel.Seems like a wash to me. If I'm going to go on vacation, I'm going to travel somehow and stay somewhere. The options here have all gone up. Camping is about the same value it has been, relative to the other options.I think part of the issue here is that while these costs have gone up, incomes among the middle class by and large haven't. Incomes in the top 1% (and even more so in the top .1%) have gone up a lot, but that's not most of us.

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darsben
Explorer II
Oct 22, 2014
Let us see GAS (I HAVE A GASSER) lowest in years. Government CG no rise in prices many years, Resort I stay at in winter same price last 3 years. Camping on the beach still free.
Nope do not see it
ccbb088
Explorer
Oct 22, 2014
True but is it still worth it?
Islandman
Explorer II
Oct 22, 2014
I agree that prices are going up, not much that we as RVers can do about it though. Taxes on the RV parks have gone up, minimum wage and medical insurance for workers has also increased which jacks up the price for camping on privately owned parks. The costs for an RV and any parts/supplies has also certainly increased in the past few years. Only good news right now is that fuel prices are way down, but doubt if they stay low for very long.
Dick_B
Explorer
Oct 22, 2014
Doesn't it make sense for prices of camping `stuff' should go up with all of the other items for sale? How can a site be $25 (or whatever price you want to put there) forever?
Cars don't cost $1000 anymore like they did 40 years ago. Why should camping be any different?

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