Getting ready to Hit the Road----finally retired

enblethen wrote:
If you are eligible for for a America The Beautiful Senior pass, one of the great places to stay is Corp Of Engineer parks, BLM sites. Many have full hook ups and great scenery.
UScampgrounds.info is a good source for locations.

I totally agree.
There are also campgrounds owned by utilities, like PG&E that are VERY nice, well kept gems.

You’ll double your camping options if you can dry camp/boondock for at least a few days. You’ll triple them if your TV, TT and you can handle some easy dirt roads.

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on retirement.

There are so many options when traveling. State Parks, National Parks, Army Corp of Engineering campsites, private campgrounds, RV Resorts, and special club member only resorts, etc. They all have benefits and limitations and costs as you can imagine.

I would start before your trip with mapping out your route and then looking at sites like Allstays.com for RV sites along your route. They also include descriptions and reviews which also helps identify what to expect. I also have used google maps to look at aerial views and street views of campgrounds, access routes and roads.

I like the Allstays app on my iPad. This gives me maps and helps make the search easier. Other apps and services are useful too. RvParky, RVParking.com and others.

Let us know what you are towing and where you are headed and someone on here will have an opinion (guaranteed). ....and will gladly share it. Take only the good and ignore the rest.

Again, welcome!

If you are eligible for for a America The Beautiful Senior pass, one of the great places to stay is Corp Of Engineer parks, BLM sites. Many have full hook ups and great scenery.
UScampgrounds.info is a good source for locations.

The internet can help
https://www.campgroundreviews.com/
www.rvparky.com
and some others will give some reviews for different parks, but these reviews can also be like the reviews for anything from movies to restaurants, namely angry or disappointed folks are more often motivated to leave a review than satisfied people, and some reviews are possibly from the owners. You can also use Google earth to look at a sat view of a park and get an idea of how stacked on each other some parks are.
Also a lot of material is now on you tube. Find a park in a given location and check, someone may have done a video on it, and the same can be said for destinations, if you want to visit a recreational area, there are likely a dozen or more rv'ers who have been there and done videos which include where they camped and other information on parks in the area.
Happy huntin