Tragedy leads to no camping at Cottonwood, AZ Walmart

swamprat 01 wrote:

cpd520 wrote:
News from my home town. No camping/overnight parking

We seldom park at Walmart etc... over night, but I do hate to see the opportunity to do so disappear.

X 2 Here again a select few will probably ruin it for everyone else that obeys the law and quietly camps overnight.

Exactly. The military calls it mission creep. A quick overnight while traveling was fine with just about everyone, the RVer, the neighbors, Walmart and yes, even the local RV parks. Then, staying a day to see the sights became more and more common. Not quite so fine with Walmart, the neighbors and the local parks. Next was staying for multiple days and, apparently, weeks. Not really fine at all with the neighbors or the local parks and Walmart is then in a bit of a pickle. They could start evicting people, but that creates bad press every time they do it. They could just turn a blind eye, but that eventually leads to what happened. Or they can just put out the "no overnight" sign and problem is solved.