How do you pick the RV Parks you stay in ...

Where is a good place to rate the campgrounds or RV Parks/resorts you visit????

I file personal experiences first. I file reccomendations here and on the national Parks and etc camgrounds here second. Park Reviews I look at but pay more attention to posters in these forums.
I have the book , cant' thin of the name, that recomends campgrounds. I find it somewhat handy but not what I expected.

If you are looking for lowcost sites, this is a good site to check. When you are staying at a cheap campground, keep in mind, you get what you pay for. but Free Cammpgrounds can get you some lowcost sites to stay for a night or two.

I travel by myself and don't have any need for amenities that most families are looking for, but I do want FHU including cable and WIFI, and pull thru sites. Once I've figured out the areas where my overnights and extended stays will be (300-350 miles), I use RV Park Reviews to scope out the parks in the area. I ignore 10's and 1's and read the ones in between. It seems that I wind up in KOAs a lot, which is fine with me. I'm more of a traveler than a camper.

mockturtle wrote:
Good Sam's Trailer Life Campground Directory and RV Park Reviews. If I'm looking for a NFS campground, I look here NFS Camping and if I'm looking to find any public campground in an area, this is a good source: All Public Campgrounds

This is what we use when traveling north. PPA is a good choice when we are in their areas. They seem to be mostly in SE U.S.

I use rvparkreviews. So far, I have not been steered wrong.

We mostly rely on Woodalls either the book or online. We belong to Passport America but have found thier member CGs are not too plentiful on the routes we have taken. Only once in 4 years have we found one campground that was in the areas we visited, therefore the membership was a flop (in our opinion).

Some of the other suggestions are great but I'd say the best is word of mouth. Ask other RVers for good campgrounds on the routes you will be traveling either while you are traveling or on this forum.

Another tool that is great and we recently used this past summer is Google Earth--we spent a week in Huntington, WV. We have been there many times and found Fox Fire (a KOA) and one other CG not to our liking. So we found a small CG with an airfield that offers skydiving right on the Ohio River but between the River and a railroad. It concerned us so we went to Google Earth and took a real look at it. Only by seeing it and talking to the campground staff did we determine it was a great place to stay. The railroad had very few trains and the airfield was only busy on weekends.

From now on if we have the time to search we will look in Woodalls then check them out on Google Earth! If you have a personal recommendation too...you can't go wrong.

Since many of our stops are as we journey - we tend to use the Trailer Life Guide to RV Parks. We like that one because it clearly identifies park that might have dog restrictions (we travel with 3). But now that I have internet access on the road thanks to my Smart Phone - I'll be checking rvparkreviews - because that website tells you things that the guidebooks don't: stuff like "a busy railroad line runs 100' behind the campground" or "the nearby Air Force Base may decide to test their air warfare weapons at 2 in the morning" (two situations *I* have reported on that website after spending sleepless nights....LOL!)

Because DH is still working, I choose a few campgrounds based on certain criteria. User reviews, but also proximity to Interstate while traveling.

1)safe RVP
2)with 50 amps and Big Rig sites
3)within a reasonable distance from jobsite.

Then we also inquire about monthly rates, so we keep the cost down. PPA or Good Sam Discounts while traveling.