Where do y'all use your Golf Carts?

We take ours to a private campground @ Lake Gaston in VA, to MB, SC @ Ocean Lakes (Apache CG also allows personal GC's) and to Bristol Motor Speedway. One of the reasons we bought a TH, got tired of loading it in the back of the PU with our old TT.

Some communities allow carts on the street...so much for the golf course only theory :S

Even state parks have a hard time saying "NO" to a street legal, registered/insured vehicle. We often take a 50cc scooter...most I have heard is no "joyriding"...vehicles go "to" and "from" campsite. That goes for any vehicle in most parks. Never had a problem running the scooter to the camp store, shower house, etc...same as many do in their TV or toad (although I did have one CG tell me I would have to pay for an additional vehicle on my site if I took it off the truck).

Michael, I think there are bad apple parents that allow their teenage kids to go wild in their carts giving the non cart owners a bad opinion of the rest of us. It's a shame that parents have such a hard time being parents these days and are more likely to make excuses for their "little angels..."

I appreciate all the responses. It appears that most if not all the sate/ natl parks do not allow GCs. Many campgrounds and RV parks do, though some require vehicles to be street legal. Too bad the parks are not more accommodating.

Most of the campgrounds we visit require any vehicle to be street licensed and insured if operated in the park. RV resorts are more mixed in allowing unlicensed vehicles to operate. We have visited some parks where any vehicle use is discouraged and anyone looping the campground is asked to stop or leave.

Although I do not own a golf cart, I have two dune buggies that are street licensed and insured. One is a fiberglass body based off an air cooled VW Bus and the other is a tube frame with aluminum panels based off a water cooled Honda scooter. The latter one gets more attention because it looks more like an off-road vehicle until I point out the DOT parts that makes it legal to wear a standard license plate. I don't push my vehicle use on the places that I visit, but I will educate anyone that does not understand what I am driving.

we use it in SC and FL state parks, private cgs and well, everywhere we can :)
plus at home my 10 yr old drives up and down our dead end road and all over our land. kids have alot of fun with it.

Michael, we have a Gem 4 seat electric vehicle, street legal car we take in our Forest River Stealth Toy Hauler. My Wife's mother can't walk, so when they go around the Campground, it helps a lot. Just cruising around is cool. Still like to walk, but getting ice and walking with a cool bag of water does not work at 5'oclock!

My understanding that in Connecticut, state parks do not allow carts unless for handicapped.

A couple campgrounds I've been to the carts were WAY overboard - speeding, dangerous driving, etc. Even had an accident between two golf carts near my campsite once... no one was hurt, but one of the carts had to be towed away.

Having said that... at some places, like Fort Wilderness, carts are fun and convenient to have. We've rented carts at FW just for a day, to do "looping" (driving around the campground) and just drive around.

Campgrounds we've been to require carts to have full lights at night, or be parked once the street lights come on!

colliehauler wrote:
A lot of state and federal campgrounds you have to have a legal licensed vehicle in order to use it on campground roads. Some private campgrounds you can use them, call ahead to find out if they are allowed.

My seasonal site you can use a GC or a UTV. I use a licensed scooter that I can take to town.

Some private campgrounds even rent GC's.

Best response above. Just call ahead........

Never had it happen to me?