How do you pick the RV Parks you stay in ...

[steve_sheldon]

Hey Guys,

This is probably a silly question but how do you pick the RV parks you choose to stay in while on the road?

There are so many websites I am never quite sure which to look at? Is there a particular IPhone application any of you use?

Save Travels,
Steve

[JoeChiOhki]

Allstays RV & Camp app on my phone which loads the reviews from RV Park reviews, though, I usually tend to use walmarts and other overnight stops more than campgrounds in most cases (I'm usually moving along each day and save the campgrounds for when I'm staying put for a while).

[2012Coleman]

I do what most others have been saying here, but I also Google the CG and click on the images link. Most FL state parks show up to 3 images per site as well. I have seen good reviews for a CG only to be quickly crossed off the list due to the images.

[Crowe]

Location, reviews.

[Community Alumni]

We use the Allstays rv & campground app as well as recommendations from the forum members here.

[down_home]

We have two or three books. Don't reply on Woodalls any more for reliable accurate info on quality of and amenities of campground,
Nor any of the others. Use it for a guide and have found as advertised some times.
Whatever we have seen here we make a note, of it, and word of mouth.
There are other sites but don't spend enough time to check out recomendations.
If we have a good experience I will make a not of it and pass it along here...if I don't forget.
A whole bunch of times it is a last minute decision and a gamble.
A few, for us stand out such as Patriot Point in La. Traverse Bay RV Resort in Mich and several others there and elsewhere.
Would be good if there was a silent shopper here but who could see all the RV parks. Might take several years of RVing enjoyment.

[TOOBOLD]

Location, Location, Location! We spend a lot of time at the beach especially in the summer to avoid the Central Valley heat.

[deleted-2]

Kalait wrote:
Where is a good place to rate the campgrounds or RV Parks/resorts you visit????

RVParkReviews.com

[Kalait]

Where is a good place to rate the campgrounds or RV Parks/resorts you visit????

[down_home]

I file personal experiences first. I file reccomendations here and on the national Parks and etc camgrounds here second. Park Reviews I look at but pay more attention to posters in these forums.
I have the book , cant' thin of the name, that recomends campgrounds. I find it somewhat handy but not what I expected.

[RVToadless]

If you are looking for lowcost sites, this is a good site to check. When you are staying at a cheap campground, keep in mind, you get what you pay for. but Free Cammpgrounds can get you some lowcost sites to stay for a night or two.

[Jim_Shoe]

I travel by myself and don't have any need for amenities that most families are looking for, but I do want FHU including cable and WIFI, and pull thru sites. Once I've figured out the areas where my overnights and extended stays will be (300-350 miles), I use RV Park Reviews to scope out the parks in the area. I ignore 10's and 1's and read the ones in between. It seems that I wind up in KOAs a lot, which is fine with me. I'm more of a traveler than a camper.

[tomkaren13]

mockturtle wrote:
Good Sam's Trailer Life Campground Directory and RV Park Reviews. If I'm looking for a NFS campground, I look here NFS Camping and if I'm looking to find any public campground in an area, this is a good source: All Public Campgrounds

This is what we use when traveling north. PPA is a good choice when we are in their areas. They seem to be mostly in SE U.S.

[ncrowley]

I use rvparkreviews. So far, I have not been steered wrong.

[sowego]

We mostly rely on Woodalls either the book or online. We belong to Passport America but have found thier member CGs are not too plentiful on the routes we have taken. Only once in 4 years have we found one campground that was in the areas we visited, therefore the membership was a flop (in our opinion).

Some of the other suggestions are great but I'd say the best is word of mouth. Ask other RVers for good campgrounds on the routes you will be traveling either while you are traveling or on this forum.

Another tool that is great and we recently used this past summer is Google Earth--we spent a week in Huntington, WV. We have been there many times and found Fox Fire (a KOA) and one other CG not to our liking. So we found a small CG with an airfield that offers skydiving right on the Ohio River but between the River and a railroad. It concerned us so we went to Google Earth and took a real look at it. Only by seeing it and talking to the campground staff did we determine it was a great place to stay. The railroad had very few trains and the airfield was only busy on weekends.

From now on if we have the time to search we will look in Woodalls then check them out on Google Earth! If you have a personal recommendation too...you can't go wrong.

[Deb_and_Ed_M]

Since many of our stops are as we journey - we tend to use the Trailer Life Guide to RV Parks. We like that one because it clearly identifies park that might have dog restrictions (we travel with 3). But now that I have internet access on the road thanks to my Smart Phone - I'll be checking rvparkreviews - because that website tells you things that the guidebooks don't: stuff like "a busy railroad line runs 100' behind the campground" or "the nearby Air Force Base may decide to test their air warfare weapons at 2 in the morning" (two situations *I* have reported on that website after spending sleepless nights....LOL!)