Right on yard art

[rickhise]

What extras catches your eye.
Not so much the xmas lights hanging from the awaning.

Tips on lighting for ground effect
an or lighting in general that serves both as eye catching and
Serves a purpose

Thanks

[fj12ryder]

Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em! I've never been in a campground so dark that it needed to be lit up by extraneous lights.

[rockhillmanor]

I think I win for seeing the most scary extreme!

I woke up late one night when the dog had to go out.

THIS is what I saw behind my MH when I stepped out the door.
I thought the Aliens had landed!! :E

NIGHT

This is what it was in the daylight.


Along with this! What a crazy cool rig!



All owned and driven by a 5 foot tall young lady. :W

[D_E_Bishop]

qtla9111 wrote:
We try to keep all lights off at night. Nature provides all the light we need outdoors.

Sit and watch the stars without a fire and lights. Amazing how much you can see.

That's why we boondock. Away from lights and noise.

I am in complete agreement. In many locations if all the lights are off, it is virtually impossible to safely enter your rig. To briefly illuminate our entry, I installed a 12" waterproof LED strip on the bottom of each of our steps(two) and connected them to a 12vdc remote switch with a ten amp relay. The whole thing was less than $20 on eBay. We drive up to our rig, turn on the under step lights, open the door and turn the lights off. Easy as can be and in my opinion very inexpensive. Hope it doesn't bother anyone but at my age safety is important.

[DutchmenSport]

We use to put out all kinds of lights and yard ornaments and had our camper lit up like the Las Vegas Strip! But after a while, we really did not enjoy having to put it all away when we broke camp.

Now, IF we need extra lighting, we just lay a rope light (purple in color actually) on the ground. It creates a nice glow, and doesn't overpower light to neighboring campsites.

But even that becomes too much work. So we just really prefer the dark, and if we need light, just turn on the light by the side of camper.

However, for Father's Day this year (for the guy who has everything), my dog (yes, my dog... so my wife says), got me this. Easy to put up, but casts light everywhere and gets a lot of attention. We do turn it off when we go inside the camper at night.

[qtla9111]

We try to keep all lights off at night. Nature provides all the light we need outdoors.

Sit and watch the stars without a fire and lights. Amazing how much you can see.

That's why we boondock. Away from lights and noise.

[rv2go]

Count me in for the "less light is better." Also goes for "yard art" The only thing that I put out is the bird feeder.

[spoon059]

Over 4th of July we had the "privilege" of having the site next to us get occupied by a DJ. He promptly put out a laser light show device that reflected off his camper, put out his professional speakers and subwoofer and his large outdoor TV.

All day, all evening and until after midnight he was blasting music and projecting his lights off of everything. That was certainly eye catching... especially at midnight as I had to go up to his camper and ask him to turn that s--- off so that I could go to sleep (he was inside, music blasting outside...).

My objective when going camping is to enjoy the sights and sounds of the campground... preferably wind through trees, crickets and frogs, thunder etc. Putting up cheesy stuff and "eye catching" things isn't really my thing.

[WTP-GC]

Different strokes for different folks.
We live in nature and I've always lived way out in the "country". That being said, we hate light at night when we're trying to sleep. No street lamps where we live, just pitch black dark. But when at campgrounds, the light situation varies by place. At places like Fort Wilderness, you must have at least half a dozen outdoor light fixtures just to fit in 😉

In general, we have rope lights for the edge of the awning and an LED light strip on the camper (below the awning). Since we spend a fair amount of time socializing outside under the awning, this lighting is good to have. We also have a lighted name/sign post outside at the front of out campsite, which puts out very little light. The sign post stays on 24/7, but the awning lights go off when we call it a night.

In general, I'm not annoyed by campers and their lights. A few years ago, though, our neighbor had a workshop-style hanging light with a bright incandescent bulb hanging on his rig...and that was super annoying.

[sch911]

White rope lights under the awning. Green rope lights under the coach. Enough to see but not intended to be seen.

[Tvov]

At a large, busy campground with lot going on, I enjoy the various lighting at campsites. Funny that people mentioned those "star lights". We were just camping last week at a busy family campground and my wife kept saying that the stars looked odd. Took us a long time to figure out that it was coming from one of those laser star projectors at a neighboring campsite. That was the first time we had seen that! Very cool!

We walked over, the neighbors welcomed us, we checked out the lights, talked, laughed, and just had a good time.

Rope lights also seem to work well. I like when they are put underneath the camper, and on the ground around the outer edges of the awning. Lights up the campsite in a cool way.

I agree that at a quiet, "woodsy" campground a lot of lighting effects would be annoying. But at a large busy campground, I find it interesting and cool how people setup different lights.

[gbopp]

Why not just boondock at a Walmart, or other big box store?
Park out of the way but, under a light if you need a bright, well lit area for camping.

[JFNM]

rk911 wrote:

less is more. we prefer no lights.

X3!

[colliehauler]

Up North I just use my amber porch light. It's low enough wattage that I can still see the stars and sometimes the Northern lights. Other people have taken a white 5 gallon empty bucket drilled a hole and put in a blue light bulb. This gives a soft glow.

When you get away from the city it's surprising how vivid the stars are.

I love sitting outside of a evening and listen to the Loon's and Wolves howling off in the distance.

[craig7h]

None is better, enjoy the night sky. Hope I am not the guy next to you

[Halmfamily]

We have the laser lights shined up into the trees above our site, get a lot of people saying they enjoy them. Also have red rope lights mounted under our fifth wheel, gives a nice red glow at night and able to see arou FW without any bright lights.