"Sorry, we do not take those any longer..."

This place in California has the same rule.

eastshorervpark.com

My question for the park owner here is:

What's the perceived difference between taking a TC off and driving the truck vs. taking a 5th wheel off and driving that truck?

Both look the same from the front. Not following the logic.


Although I can definitely see the logic with pack rates putting junk everywhere. However, that doesn't seem to be limited to TCs in my experience. A good half of all campers make a mess of a site.

We are actually 100% internal inside the TC. No things outside which probably looks weird to some but is quite necessary for urban camp environments.

Again westernparkowner brings a perspective almost all of us don’t have.

westernrvparkowner wrote:
We haven't taken that course of action, but there are reasons why a park would. The biggest is likely site keeping issues. Since Truck Campers have limited interior space and virtually no exterior storage, when a TC arrives they often move items out temporary storage in the camper to the site. This is often several plastic storage tubs, a couple of folding chairs and all the other bric-a-brac people have. Not everyone thinks it is necessary to keep that outside storage neat and tidy and stuff becomes strewn all over the site.
Also, many Truck Campers wish to remove the camper from the truck during their stay. We do not allow that, and have on occasion received sharp resistance to following that rule. It would not be out of the question for the park in question to have been pushed too hard one too many times.
Finally, we have also found that many Truck Campers feel they should pay a much lower fee for some reason. Often to the point of being very demanding. We really don't care that they take up only half of the allotted pad. Don't care they might use a couple of gallons less water, a few kilowatts less of electricity or don't have a television to connect to the cable. To us a site is a site is a site.
For us, the truck camper market is a tiny slice of our pie. So small in fact, we don't feel the need take any additional action, pro or con. But if a park was having difficulties with truck campers I can also see where a complete ban wouldn't materially effect a park's bottom line making such a decision easier.

Great response. Seriously. There is always another side of the coin, and often, we humans just don't want to see it because we don't like it, not that it doesn't have merit.

So rent a flatbed trailer and haul it in on that ;)

Arizona Charlie's Casino RV park in Vegas has the same rule. No TCs, van conversions, station wagons.

If it's privately owned and the owners want to exclude TC's so be it. Go to another CG and chalk it up to experience.

If I owned a CG and I didn't want say Airstream trailers on my property, I'm perfectly within my rights to refuse them.

Not like it's the only CG around.

Not TC discrimination, but I encountered size discrimination when I called an RV park yesterday in the greater Phoenix area to make reservations for a couple of nights. We have a 24' C Class and the park has a 26' minimum requirement. We have had mohos ranging from 40 to 24 feet and never encountered size restrictions imposed by any RV park in the past.

We also discovered when we bought our 24 footer a couple of years ago RV parks tend to give us the least desirable and tiniest of sites.

I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that place with this noreaster coming up the coast anyway. Be safe in your travels, you could come over to the Eastern Shore and stay on the coast and deal with rain and winds till it goes by.

We haven't taken that course of action, but there are reasons why a park would. The biggest is likely site keeping issues. Since Truck Campers have limited interior space and virtually no exterior storage, when a TC arrives they often move items out temporary storage in the camper to the site. This is often several plastic storage tubs, a couple of folding chairs and all the other bric-a-brac people have. Not everyone thinks it is necessary to keep that outside storage neat and tidy and stuff becomes strewn all over the site.
Also, many Truck Campers wish to remove the camper from the truck during their stay. We do not allow that, and have on occasion received sharp resistance to following that rule. It would not be out of the question for the park in question to have been pushed too hard one too many times.
Finally, we have also found that many Truck Campers feel they should pay a much lower fee for some reason. Often to the point of being very demanding. We really don't care that they take up only half of the allotted pad. Don't care they might use a couple of gallons less water, a few kilowatts less of electricity or don't have a television to connect to the cable. To us a site is a site is a site.
For us, the truck camper market is a tiny slice of our pie. So small in fact, we don't feel the need take any additional action, pro or con. But if a park was having difficulties with truck campers I can also see where a complete ban wouldn't materially effect a park's bottom line making such a decision easier.

Must be doing real well financially to turn away business.