Is this a Campground or an RV Park?

Campground...the good ol'days.



RV Park



RV Resort

When we started out in the 60's. They were all CG's.
Than came all the Full Hook Ups and all the stuff we have today.
Plus tenting is banned in many now.
Class A only RV PK's.

To us camping was tents or a camper as they used to be called.(TT's, mattress in a Pick Up) you get the idea. With camp fire's (which are gone in many RV PK)

My 2 cents are as follows;

Campground is a place that allows, MH, TT and Tents.

RV Park is a place that only allows MH, TT, NO TENTS

Class A Park only allows Class A MHs.

Resort allows, MH, TT and has a lot of things going on; pool, dances, entertainment, clubhouse, activates for the kids and different ones for the adults, maybe work shops, Classes, Socials and maybe a bar and/or Restaurant.

I've always felt that a campground is one that is in boonies, far from city life. Lots of trees, streams, etc. Typically, they are run by federal, state, or forest services and have little or no hook ups.

RV parks are those that are normally privately owned by a single person or family, with FHU, and organized sites. Some are nice, some are just renamed trailer parks.

RV resorts are also private and usually very large and either corporation owned or HOA owned with lots that are individually owned and rented. Resorts have concrete pads, grass lawns, large and spacious sites, with one or more swimming pools, club houses, laundry rooms, spas, good wifi, and very well maintained. Everything is clean and pristine.

Ok, that's my perception anyway.

Ron

Of course, some privately owned rv parks are called "resorts" by their owners, but are a long ways from being the park mentioned above.

If I park my RV in it, it is an RV park to me. RV resorts are an RV park that charges more money than I need or want to pay. I advised a young couple who at the time we're building an RV park and who had already registered the business as a "resort" to not use that term on their signs or advertizing. They did as I suggested, but initially they had misconception, as some other owners have had, about what constitutes a resort.

If you are in an RV it is an RV park.
If you take a tent site then it is a campground

korbe wrote:

Since you erased the pic you may as well erase the thread altogether.

The photo did not display properly in your original post, it was not "erased". The moderator fixed it so it does display correctly.

korbe wrote:
I notice a lot of different descriptions of where Rvers stay. Curious as to what you would define this place as; an RV Park, a Campground, or some sort of a Resort?

It's whatever the RV campground/park/resort owner wants to call it. There are no legal, or even "generally accepted" definitions of the terms. I think in common usage, RV'ers expectations are for additional features at each "class" from "campground" on up to "resort", but those expectations are not always met. In my opinion, "RV Park" is probably appropriate for the park pictured.

While the words campground, park and resort used to mean different things, people have used them interchangeably for so long the meaning has drifted.

Many members here describe their stay differently. What I was attempting to do was to find out if what many people describe as a campground, my actually be what I would envision as an RV Park.

Since you erased the pic you may as well erase the thread altogether.