Campground design

dewey02 wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Unless there is something I don't know about, most trees take 30 - 50 years to mature. Pretty hard to anticipate what the needs of RVs will be in 2068.
Design of parks is almost entirely dependent on the topography and unique features of the site. Flat, level sites with straight wide roads might be easy to construct in a Kansas cornfield. Not as easy to carve those features out of the side of a mountain. Placing utilities in the ideal spot isn't always possible. Sometimes that would require removing a 200 year old tree or blasting thru 50 feet of granite.
Personally, I don't want exact uniformity in much of anything other than McDonalds.

X2 on the above. From the standpoint of public campgrounds, many of these were constructed 50 or more years ago, when a lot of camping was tent camping. They have been "modernized" since then, with various amenities added, but the overall layout is difficult or impossible to change do to topography, etc and so remains the same.

And there are many ideas that go into campground design that are done SPECIFICALLY to regulate what the camper does or can do. Rather than posting a sign with numerous "Don't do this, don't do that" signs everywhere, the campground is designed to prevent, or at least discourage the unwanted use. Many of these design elements never occur to the average user, and there have been many posts on this website with people saying things like "Why do they do this, it makes it hard for me to do X." Well they did it that way on purpose, because they don't want you doing X.