How much should a night of camping cost?
Okay all, I pose that question to you. Now, I am talking about trailer camping, electric at least and more than likely water. We live in Hamilton County, Indiana. It's a quite wealthy set of towns ...
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Campgrounds, RV parks, resorts are all different things, with different cost structures, and in some cases, tax supported subsidies. Then there is the value of land, demand driven.
On the Great Plains, particularly where land is not arable, at best pasture, I expect to pay $5-18for a spot in a public CG or RV parking lot, though some are free for on overnight stop. $12-30 for a RV park depending on amenities, and whether or not it is lakefront property.
Put that out in an Illinois cornfield, it will be maybe 50% higher, in my experience, and you can double that again if you put ir oceanfront or on or near property of a major resort destination or theme park. Prices go sky high when you try to put a RV park on million dollar an acre land, such locations are thus extremely rare, when a parking space is over $100 a day you start thinking pretty hard about that $200 hotel room right in the middle of where you want to be vs the hour or two of commuting.
Just as I can buy the same hotel room for $60 in one town or $300 in another, it is going to cost depending on where you are.
Even where land prices are generally modest, the RV park within sigtht of an Interstate Highway exit will be about twice as expensive as one 15-20 miles off the highway on county roads. Exits create their own land value hot spots.
My choices, both where I choose to travel and where I choose o stay, mean I budget about $30 a night for a place to park to RV for overnight, but $8 to $20 for camping, because I usually camp in campgrounds on reservoirs, not at full service RV parks, which I prefer when traveling.
On the Great Plains, particularly where land is not arable, at best pasture, I expect to pay $5-18for a spot in a public CG or RV parking lot, though some are free for on overnight stop. $12-30 for a RV park depending on amenities, and whether or not it is lakefront property.
Put that out in an Illinois cornfield, it will be maybe 50% higher, in my experience, and you can double that again if you put ir oceanfront or on or near property of a major resort destination or theme park. Prices go sky high when you try to put a RV park on million dollar an acre land, such locations are thus extremely rare, when a parking space is over $100 a day you start thinking pretty hard about that $200 hotel room right in the middle of where you want to be vs the hour or two of commuting.
Just as I can buy the same hotel room for $60 in one town or $300 in another, it is going to cost depending on where you are.
Even where land prices are generally modest, the RV park within sigtht of an Interstate Highway exit will be about twice as expensive as one 15-20 miles off the highway on county roads. Exits create their own land value hot spots.
My choices, both where I choose to travel and where I choose o stay, mean I budget about $30 a night for a place to park to RV for overnight, but $8 to $20 for camping, because I usually camp in campgrounds on reservoirs, not at full service RV parks, which I prefer when traveling.
