Ogordont,
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"How about quality? Almost all sites here have electric and water and many have sewer hookups."
So do nearly all Michigan SP's have 30 and 50 amp elctric, some have water and sewer also.
Both states have very fine quality SP's and that's a given.
After 50 years or RVing, I still don't have a clue as to why any CG offers water at every site without sewer also. It makes no sense not to! When the black/gray tanks are full which happens so much quicker with a freshwater hookup at the site, they HAVE to be emptied. Also, if using the freshwater tank, it's time to refill it anyway. Just bring the RV to the dump station in the CG to dump and refill the fresh. OR If you do or can use a tote to haul and dump the holding tanks, why can't you simply fill a fresh water tote since you're there already to refill the fresh and not even move your RV? Last thing we want is freshwater at the site of what? quality? or taste? etc? running thru our RV system from a lot of different areas. Many states have putrid water!
We use a 2 gallon tasteless container with a spigot sitting on the counter for coffee and drinking and filter the refilling of. Why? Because we are so spoiled by the clean tasteless pure water we have at home which comes directly from Lake Michigan naturally filtered thru about 50 feet of pure deep quartz beachsand. No salt water around here, all fresh! It's so pure that Nestle and the other water bottling companies bottle many billions of gallons of it and it's shipped all over the USA. Ice Mountain water doesn't come from the mountains, it comes from Lake Michigan filtered a long way thru the sand to huge well points about 50-60 miles north of our home and if we buy some of their water in Florida, it has the Michigan plant number on it which is 1500 mile to the north of Florida. DUH!
Over 400 employees owe their jobs to the highly profitable bottling of water. We get all we want or can possibly use free by pushing a well point about 20 feet into the sand near Lake Michigan. Same for the other Great Lakes as over 50 million in the USA and Canada get their water directly from the Great Lakes.
We've done it with one of our wells for 46 years and have it tested about every 2 years. Never had even one point of nitrates or any other pollutants/chemicals. How do you filter swimming pool water or other water for drinking getting it in your mouths? Run it thru pure sand!
The Great Lakes has more than 20% of all the on the surface fresh water on the planet and 40% including it's vast underground aquafers. That's a lot of fresh potable pure water storage!
As for snow? It's recreational use is a huge business in Michigan and many CG's are open all year including in the U.P. We've see the CG's full many times in Dec, Jan, Feb, and even March. Snow in Michigan is clean and white and fluffy except for the Detroit area but that should come as no surprise. We have plows in our state and they use them! This winter has been the snowiest I've seen in my 72 years but one out of 72 is great odds. Where we live 66% of our Christmas's are green. The news media hunts for isolated news about the weather or they'd have nothing to report as it's normally very mild along the big lakes east of Wisconsin and we usually wear zip up sweatshirts in winter or put a nylon light jacket over it if the wind is blowing. Yes, colder inland or in the U.P. Heck, the shipping season on the Great Lakes does even end until mid to the end of January and opens again in early April. Check it out! Indiana get very cold at night as it doesn't get the rising stored heat off Lake Michigan and has heavy wet ground that makes it very humid. It's a bitter cold to us when we go down there in winter and I know what the OP is talking about.
BTW, where we live on the Lake Michigan shoreline, it has not been below zero once this year (check it out) but the news would have you think the entire Midwest is 20-30 below. Total BS!
Just a little insight for you. Others may find it interesting also.
