What's the WORST Experience You ever had at a RV/Camp site?

jimh425 wrote:
It wasn't "one" time. Mostly, it's just noise. Extreme noise from kids, adults, dogs, or stereos. As long as they are quiet during quiet time, it's not that big of an issue. The other annoyance for me is people cutting through our area because it is a few feet shorter walk for them. I also don't like unleashed pets that poop everywhere. Of course, nobody to clean up after them because they don't know where they pooped when their pet was having "freedom".

In other words, about the same as neighborhoods anywhere. :)

LOL. Our in our neighborhood, Our neighbors know better. They walk across the street from our property now. I (hubby) am quick to call them out. Once a lady let her dog poop on my lawn, I walked out and when she saw me she said :"OH, uhm, I live around the corner I'll be right back to pick it up." well she came back and picked it up. LOL.

When at the camp grounds is one allowed to put up those retractable 2 foot baby fence look alike fences?

sgip2000 wrote:
Had to deal with a "permanent resident" at a county campground once who let her dog roam all over unsupervised and even took him into the shower with her. The dog's name was Bob Barker.

Maaan, I love dogs, but like children they have to be well Reared.

well so far I have to leaving , end of trip:(

Lwiddis wrote:
Biggest wind I've experienced...early this year at Tuttle Creek USFS campground near Lone Pine, CA on U.S. 395. Just east of Movie Road in the Alabama Hills. Blew the TT tongue jack off my wooden block, lost my spare tire cover but no damage!

Thank God, all is well. Must have been scary. Did others suffer any damage?

BB_TX wrote:
Lucky so far. Only semi bad experience was having to leave on the 3rd day of our planned 3 week stay at a Colorado RV park due to approaching massive forest fire and then having to find a place to stay. Nice about RVing though, just pack up and go any direction you want.

Oh yeah, there was the one time when our neighboring RV site had a twirling multi colored disco ball hanging from a tree limb throwing colored lights all around. :S

wow, scary stuff a wild fire. Glad you made it out w/no prob. We love the disco light stuff and music, But having Consideration for others comes 1st. I can't stand inconsiderate folks. I understand we are on vacation and want to let our hair down, but so are others and may not have our same tastes.

Two Jayhawks wrote:
Rolled my ankle exiting the RV at a CG once and ended up in the ER & crutches.

Wauw, how did you drive the rig?

I've fished/camped since the mid '40s with folks and their friends. Married in '61 and the wife and I continued fish camping mostly on one of the many big COE lakes here in eastern OK.
So all those years lots of excitement from weather events to the usual trouble makers.
The scariest was in the early '70s the local KKK group showed up with their banners .....two pickups bed full of beer........two 8' long stock tanks full of ice for the beer. They dug two fire pits and roasted two whole hogs.
Then the idiots broke out their guns including two AK's and blasted away out across the lake and tracer rounds up into the air.....even over the campground.
Thanks to CB radios several state troopers and several car loads of deputies showed up later. Everyone of those idiots (men and women) went to jail......vehicles and weapons were confiscated.
Back then COE campground in this district had no locked gates or anyone to monitored campgrounds so drunks and guns were the norm. Thankfully it all changed.

A few years ago I went to a big model airplane meet at lakeland (FL) airport.
The area for camping was about the size of a football field.

I'm all set up and go to participate in the event. I come back to find a big class A parked so close to me I can't squeeze between his slide and my trailer, and, he's running a diesel generator with the exhaust blowing into my trailer. There is no other camper or vehicle on the field.

I asked him to move a bit but he refused, even the event organiser couldn't get him to move.
He did agree to shut off the generator before midnight. I did move away from him.

He wasn't even part of the event, he just sat in the motorhome and you could see he was just flipping through tv channels all day long!

I left very early on Sunday AM..5.30..and knocked on his door and had a few choice words for him..he just couldn't have cared less.

We've been relatively lucky, but two instances stand out

First was last year at Coulter Bay campground in Grand Teton. A guy with a 30 ft trailer pulled in down a site and across from us (in that loop everything was pull out type sites). At 7:00 AM the next morning he fired up his construction generator (generator hours were 8am to 7 pm). Apparently momma needed her coffee.

Next morning the same thing... but he moved his generator 20 ft down the road (towards us) because I guess it was too loud for him. I was very tempted to sneak out and cut his cable.He skipped a day, probably because he got a visit from the campground staff, but the next day (and thankfully last) he was at it again. Apparently his batteries were bad and couldn't power anything. In the evenings he ran the generator (within generator hours at least) and then had his truck connected to the trailer plug and ran the truck until midnight.Noisiest generator I've ever heard.

The other case occurred in our tent camping days (late 1970's) - we stopped at Castle Crags State Park in northern California. The campground was deserted - we were the only people when we got there. We were half set up when some guy pulls in in a Class A (huge at the time, but its probably minuscule compared to today). He's got the entire campground to chose from, but chose the site next to us. We got anti-social and picked up our stuff and moved across the campground. Never talked to the guy, but we were interested in solitude and at the time, the tent camping folks thought little of the motorized crowd. I think most still do, but now we have out own Class A, we aren't so bad.

Stayed at Lakeside RV Park in Pahrump NV many times. My last stay was unique. When I returned at noon to my MH my neighbor came over and told me that two guys who were camped about 15 spaces away were trying to get into my rig by attempting to open the bay doors and checking the windows.

And I would have said to my neighbor 'So you just stood there and watched them without doing anything or calling anyone?'