What's the WORST Experience You ever had at a RV/Camp site?
Care to share any of your Worst Experience at an RV park/Camp site, do to Loud music, Loud neighbors, Intoxication, Burglary, Accidents (auto/RV/TT/5er) or whatever?
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I know from reading other threads that people have lost their rigs, lost family, and such my stories are not nearly as terrible.
Trip to Yosemite in November 2004. It was me, my now DW and her parents. We were in a 8ft 1981 pop up trailer. We were sitting at the table after dinner playing cards, it was getting dark. The winds had picked up. We heard a loud crack and crash, like an explosion. We went outside to see a tree less than 5 feet from our little pop up had fallen over. It fell away from us into the road. Had it fallen the other way, we would have been crushed inside the pop up. It was dead and marked for removal but apparently had been missed. Now we always check our site for marked trees!
Another time my wife, myself, and our 1 year old were going camping to the San Bernardino mountains. By now we had our 22ft Pioneer and a 04 Explorer V8. It was a long drive from where we lived, and by the time we got to the bas of the mountains it was after dinner time so we stopped and got food, which too 30 min and was terrible. By the time we started up the mountain it was dark, and then as we gained elevation the fog rolled in. Fog on highway 18, rim of the world highway is almost legendary. It got so thick I turned on the flashers, locked it in first and had to roll down my window and watch the center line. I had some cars behind me and when I finally found a turnout they simply pulled in behind me, no one wanted to lead! Fortunately I am intimately familiar with this road so I knew the turns and where the campground was. Still, trying not to drop me my wife and baby with a 5000lb trailer off the side of the mountain was very stressful. Once in the campground I had to get out several times to verify where the road was going so I would not just drive head first into a site. Finally got to our site, DW and the now screaming baby went inside the TT while I unhitched. The site was sloped down towards the back with a steep drop I got the TT level and I though secure. At this point I had been running on adrenaline for a couple hours and was spent. I unhooked the car, walked back towards the trailer and heard chains dragging. The chocks had slipped on the wet ground and the trailer rolled off the blocks with DW and DD inside towards the steep drop at the back of the site. Thank God it did not have enough momentum for the second axle to get over the first set of blocks and it stopped. I hurriedly reattached it to the car, then sat and cried for a while.
Trip to Yosemite in November 2004. It was me, my now DW and her parents. We were in a 8ft 1981 pop up trailer. We were sitting at the table after dinner playing cards, it was getting dark. The winds had picked up. We heard a loud crack and crash, like an explosion. We went outside to see a tree less than 5 feet from our little pop up had fallen over. It fell away from us into the road. Had it fallen the other way, we would have been crushed inside the pop up. It was dead and marked for removal but apparently had been missed. Now we always check our site for marked trees!
Another time my wife, myself, and our 1 year old were going camping to the San Bernardino mountains. By now we had our 22ft Pioneer and a 04 Explorer V8. It was a long drive from where we lived, and by the time we got to the bas of the mountains it was after dinner time so we stopped and got food, which too 30 min and was terrible. By the time we started up the mountain it was dark, and then as we gained elevation the fog rolled in. Fog on highway 18, rim of the world highway is almost legendary. It got so thick I turned on the flashers, locked it in first and had to roll down my window and watch the center line. I had some cars behind me and when I finally found a turnout they simply pulled in behind me, no one wanted to lead! Fortunately I am intimately familiar with this road so I knew the turns and where the campground was. Still, trying not to drop me my wife and baby with a 5000lb trailer off the side of the mountain was very stressful. Once in the campground I had to get out several times to verify where the road was going so I would not just drive head first into a site. Finally got to our site, DW and the now screaming baby went inside the TT while I unhitched. The site was sloped down towards the back with a steep drop I got the TT level and I though secure. At this point I had been running on adrenaline for a couple hours and was spent. I unhooked the car, walked back towards the trailer and heard chains dragging. The chocks had slipped on the wet ground and the trailer rolled off the blocks with DW and DD inside towards the steep drop at the back of the site. Thank God it did not have enough momentum for the second axle to get over the first set of blocks and it stopped. I hurriedly reattached it to the car, then sat and cried for a while.
