Please help! Alaska itinerary for RV newbie.

greeholiday wrote:
At the risk of further exposing my novice self, I have a basic question -- If you stay multiple days at a campground but want to take your RV to visit nearby sites (or store or restaurant) that are not in walking distance, how do you hold your campsite or do you give it up? Do you put folding chairs there or is there some other way to mark it as occupied?

Thanks!

That depends on the campground.

If it's run by assigned sites and reservations, once you've paid and gotten your site it's yours. It might be good to mention to the office that you're out for the day so they don't get the wrong idea, but even that oughtn't be necessary. If you find someone else in it when you return, you complain graciously to them or the hosts/office if needed. Usually there's no difficulty at such campgrounds, though, since everybody has their specific site.

If it's a first-come, first-serve campground, it's wise to leave some markers. Some people build portable signs they can leave set up. Chairs are also good. Make sure it's a little more than could be readily mistaken for something left behind accidentally; I lost a welcome mat and a couple of wooden leveling ramps at a state park once when gone for the day, presumably because the campground host came by and thought I had left without them, rather than merely left for the day and was expecting to return to them. That was a park reservations/assigned sites.