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agesilaus
Aug 22, 2014Explorer III
I don't think they are worth it unless you plan to:
1) stay in the region
2) camp only at their parks
If you want to wander the country and stay when and where you feel like stopping for the night. Then you'll find 90% of the time there isn't a 1000 trail park near there.
I rarely even find a Passport America park in the right place and they are only $30/year and have hundreds of parks across the country. Good Sam parks are quite common and you'll find many of them. I think the majority of parks we stayed at during our 6 week trip to TX, NM, CO and UT were GS.
The other question is: at $30 night (in the summer we found most parks around $30 or less, these were parks not resorts) are you going to camp more than 18 times in the next year at one of their parks. That's what it would take to break even.
BK
1) stay in the region
2) camp only at their parks
If you want to wander the country and stay when and where you feel like stopping for the night. Then you'll find 90% of the time there isn't a 1000 trail park near there.
I rarely even find a Passport America park in the right place and they are only $30/year and have hundreds of parks across the country. Good Sam parks are quite common and you'll find many of them. I think the majority of parks we stayed at during our 6 week trip to TX, NM, CO and UT were GS.
The other question is: at $30 night (in the summer we found most parks around $30 or less, these were parks not resorts) are you going to camp more than 18 times in the next year at one of their parks. That's what it would take to break even.
BK
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