Anyone take their PopUp South for the Winter?

[rvnetter]

Do any of you take or use your popup in the South during the Winter? Are there others doing the same, or do you feel out of place with all of the motorhomes, travel trailers, and fifth wheels?
Thanks

[_tiredTeacher]

rvnetter wrote:
Do any of you take or use your popup in the South during the Winter?

Seems as if most of the responses have been, "No, but I've seen it done." You may have to wait until April when they all get back to repost your question.;)

Teach

[Wrong_Lane]

Our neighbor and friend took his pop-up and family to Fort Wilderness one year for a couple of weeks in the winter. It is a 3400 mile round trip.

They stayed in motels until they hit warm weather.

It allowed him to get his kids to Disney on a budget.

Not exactly south "for the winter" but certainly south during the winter!

[tatest]

Not me doing it, but I have met full-timers in pop-ups who move right along with the fiver and motorhome full-timers and snowbirds. They do not necessarily stay in the same places. Some of the big guys go to the "no camping" resorts, while I more often PUPs and TTs in campgrounds and mixed-camping RV parks.

At the RV park I visit at Grand Lake there is a PUP off in the corner in November, and he is there again when I return in March. Don't know if he is permanent, or wintering (gets quite cold though the park stays open), or just at the tail end of the southern migration and lead of the northern migration.

[rockhillmanor]

I full time and I see quite a few pop ups every time I pull in a CG for the night.
Pop ups have come a LONG way in regards to comfort from years ago.

Last year I met a full timer in a pop up. They sold their 40 something foot DP for the pop up. Not because of financial reasons either. After several years on the road they found they could experience far more places traveling with the pop up than they could in the DP.

[lizzie]

We spent most of the winter in various state parks in the Florida Panhandle. There was nearly always a pop-up or two there as well. We had four or five really cold nights (low 20's) but there were tent campers there also and everybody survived. lizzie

[RoyB]

I Never feel out of place anywhere. The only one we really have to please is ourselves...

ALthough we have never gone south for the winter and setup is some fancy camp ground for the winter months We have pulled our OFF-ROAD POPUP setup all over the East Coast, gulf States, southern states and as far west as Texas and Okla. Even in the winter months...

Our real love is camping off the power grids and sitting on a creekbed site enjoying the great outdoors. I guess being avid TENT Campers from the 50s and 60s may have had something to do with this style of camping.

We are outdoor lovers and get our outdoor fix when-ever and where-ever we can. We always like to end the day with a nice country cooked peaceful meal, catch some HDTV, check-in with the kids, and pay some bills online no matter where we might be at the time.

Has been a most enjoyable ride so far. Hoping for many more camping adventures...

Roy Ken

[Steeljag]

Meaning to live in for extended periods of time (months)? I'm sure some adventurests have done it, but living in a PU for months would be tough!

Will be interesting to read the replies.

[Dog_Folks]

I have seen it often in Florida State Parks. They are not "out of place" there.