Depends on where one lives maybe. Here in California, everything is expensive and crowded so there is no way around it. It hasn't changed our plans as a family, it just means making plans much earlier and then sticking to them like it or not. It's a small price to pay to be a days driving distance to more National Parks than any other state in the US. Not to mention the amazing coastal camping here in Cali and the other National Parks super close in our amazing neighboring Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon. It's always expensive to live in popular vacation destination areas.
Now if gas were almost $5 a gallon again, that would make things a little harder from a family vacation perspective but we all know that RV'ing isn't about saving money in most cases for us weekend warriors, but rather about getting closer to the things we love. It's kind of hard to complain about campground prices when driving a $50-$100 thousand dollar RV that gets 8 mpg.
All that said, yeah, it still hurts to pay $80 for a CG site even when it is right on the beach.
