Campground tourists?

Murphsmom wrote:

Naio wrote:
I have been known to tour a campground I was staying at, on foot or bicycle, making notes of the best sites for next time.

We do that each time we go into a new campground. We take a campground map and note which sites are particularly suited to us. Sometimes we are on foot, others we are in the car (staying elsewhere, but still checking for good ideas). I have a file folder where we keep all those marked up maps. As a matter of fact, we just made a reservation for a space in an Oregon State Park that I probably wouldn't have looked twice at given the online map information. Then out came the trusty map file and I found that I had given one particular site a big star on the map. That's the one we reserved.

We do this also if it's a park we're likely to return. After 16 years of full-timing, you would not believe the size of my data base on the computer for campgrounds and boondocking spots. I have them in listed by state and city. For each campground I put the sites in order of preference of the ones we'd like. I also make notes about the campground or immediate area and directions.

Since we travel secondary roads and meander we never know where we'll be staying that night so all I have to do is go to the state, then nearest town, and then I'll have campgrounds listed.