You may be tired of hearing about gas prices (and we know you’re tired of seeing high gas prices at the pump), but it’s important stuff and it’s affecting all of us. After all, our hobby and/or our lifestyle depend on gas prices, right?
Have you had to cancel any upcoming camping reservations due to high gas prices? If so, have you canceled all your reservations or just some? Will you continue to camp the way you normally do, despite high gas prices?
After you vote please leave a comment and explain your answer. Thank you.
We cancelled our trip from Florida to western states that we were planning to take starting in September. Last year we put 17,000 miles on the truck and the possibility of $7-9 fuel was just cost prohibitive for us.
The only reservation I have Cancelled are not due to gas but, to the price of the RV Park going up ! recently had a park in NY, that I have stopped at for over 8 years ,go from 30 a night to 60 a night,
That is another huge factor. Many of these parks are being totally outrageous, pure greed!
It’s very unfortunate that events have caused fuel prices to almost triple in the last two years. However, being in our 70’s, we’re not really in a position to sit back and wait out a return [if it ever comes] to “normalcy.” So, as long as we can afford it, we’ll continue traveling. This is our window of opportunity. It won’t open again.
On our trip to Moab, Ut we did notice the cost of our diesel was more than the cost of camp sites and other expenditures. In our home of Dothan, Al we just paid $5.17 per gal for diesel. On our trip we paid up to $5.89 per gal. My solution would be to take shorter trips and stay longer.
Nope not at all! Life is too short!
If everything goes according to plan we will be on the road twice as many nights as last year.
Booked in Arizona for the winter, traveling from Toronto, Canada. 2,200 miles pulling a 35′ 5th wheel, soooooooo just not sure yet. One way travel will cost about $1,000 or $1,300 Canadian. Yikes!
We cancelled a planned trip to Ottawa, Canada and return through Ontario and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula due to high, high diesel costs in Canada.
Will limit trip to visit friends in upstate New York and return home via Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois instead. Will still travel and be costly, but does save a fair amount. Life today is all about compromises it seems.
We are still going, just not towing. Back to truck, car, and tent camping for now. Adapting and enjoying!
I worked in the oil industry for 38 years and retired. I don’t complain about the price because in retirement the industry is still keeping me going. I don’t hunt, fish or play golf. We enjoy camping and seeing America.
There should be another option in today’s People Poll. No, I did not make reservations for 2022. The cost of fuel and the overcrowding of campgrounds did not “just” happen. So we made one or two campground reservations locally and that, so far is all the further we have gone with future camping plans.
Yes there should have been another option. “No I did not cancel any reservations. But am not planning any (or planning much fewer and closer) RV Trips due to the high cost of fuel and campsites”.
We have postponed a trip due to my wife hurting her back, while doing some landscaping but are looking to next month to travel a little. Nothing more than to get away from yard work for a few days.
We had three trips planned this year. All reservations were made and paid for. We did realize that fuel prices were going to be the biggest expense. One thing we do is put money away for fuel throughout the off season.
This year the first trip in June was great. Then I did something to my lower back. We had to cancel our July trip. That hurt more than the pain in my back. Going through physical therapy now.
Hopefully all will be better for our September trip.
I don’t plan on canceling my camping reservations at state parks this year. But will be cautious with make camping reservations next year. I have my own campsite in the Pocono’s 18 miles from my home. So I’ll always have a place to camp. The price of fuel has been hurting everything. Wait till you have to heat your home this winter. If you don’t like high prices, be cautious who you vote for.
I answered “no” as we made only 2 reservations this summer as we are saving to go on our annual trek to AZ just after Thanksgiving. Need the extra pennies as we traded in a F150 for a Ram 2500.
We haven’t made reservations yet.. We boondock in the forest and don’t make too many reservations..
Same, I like the freedom of road tripping and parking where I land.
I cancelled travel plans for this year. Diesel prices prevented me from making plans.
For decades our travel strategy has been to do long distance trips when fuel prices are relatively lower, and shorter distance trips when higher. There is no reason for us to “hang up the keys.” We will spend about 60 days traveling this year, but will do half the miles we did in 2020 and 2021.
Currently sitting in the Amana Colonies, IA. 4th of July weekend and over half the campsites are empty. The Amana RV Park is 450 sites and I’ve not ever seen it full to capacity, but this is the fewest I’ve seen on a holiday in the numerous times I’ve been here. We were the ONLY people in the private campground we just came from where we stayed three days. Clearly many are cutting back.
We’re fulltimers. Normally, we would travel after Labor Day until April. We camp host in the summer on the Pacific coast. This year we’re just going to park over the winter. So no reservations were canceled. Just a big change from the norm, mainly due to gas prices.
Been traveling for past four weeks Montana, Wyoming. Every campground I stayed had many cancellations and empty sites. I made reservations 6 mo in advance. It seemed people were cancelling last minute
My answer really isn’t fair. We have no reservations for the rest of the summer as I was dealing with elderly parents during the time I could have made reservations.
We ran the cost to fly, rental car, airbnb etc, we would have saved $200. However we would have missed out on the trout fishing along the way, the scenic views from our camp spot. Our camp fires at night and sipping that morning coffee over looking the lake in the morning. We worked hard all year for our summer vacation, and made reservations in January. We are hitting the road as planned. It will hurt a bit more, but tomorrow is not a promise and I guarantee we will never be disappointed that we went. But we would be very disappointed if we had not. Wednesday we take off!!!! Safe travels, I hope your plans work out!!
We are good to go on all our reservations for the rest of 2022 and into 2023. I am not going to be the richest man in the cemetery. As long as we have our health we will continue to travel regardless of the price of fuel until the money is gone or our health does not permit travel. Stay well, Stay safe
I canceled a long summer trip to save money for my all winter trip down south.
We have a month-long trip to Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico scheduled to begin in about 10 days that is in danger of cancellation. The reason it may be cancelled is our new RV may not be ready on-time, not fuel prices. Once we finally get the new one, then we’ll see where fuel prices are and either travel near (if higher prices) or far (if lower prices). Either way I’ll continue enjoying RV Travel. 🙂
Thanks, Neal! I hope you get your new RV in time to head out on your scheduled trip. Good luck! Take care. 😀 –Diane
Have not cancelled any reservations but we are camping closer to our brick/mortar home than we normally would.
We had promised my sister an RV trip to the Grand Canyon before the prices started soaring. When she expressed concern, I told her “we’re going regardless”. It was a great trip. Now it’s time to think hard about the gas (even for a motorhome we get lousy mileage).
We are considering canceling our trip from North to South in fall if gas prices hold. We are full timers in kootenay BC Canada, wowzer our park has never been this empty on Canada day, July long weekend. I would say down 40%.. The owner is getting cancelation feedback, fuel cost, our park is adult only. Just a thought.
We just purchased a used toy hauler and have planned a 2 month cross country trip with trailer w/motorcycle in tow. Diesel is cheaper outside of our home state, so we r actually getting a price break and will be staying in some boondocking locations to average things out. For now, feel good about things, but time will tell shortly.
Haven’t cancelled. But we just came back from a 3 week trip to Albuquerque, my Dad’s funeral and we did some sightseeing on the way there and the way back (live near Tampa, FL). At this point though, I will probably never plan another long trip unless prices come down to at least $3 a gallon.
We rebuilt our camper over 1.5 years, old canned ham. Light enough to tow and not be a gas pig on the truck. We did cancel a trip to Tennessee area for the 127 sale but we been to regions many times. Our state parks take reservations 11 months in advance and they’re pretty booked on weekends. I wish they had a better system for longer stays. weekend camping pretty much wipes out any long week camping. It seems in Wisconsin people multiple book areas and just let them expire or not show up. Any drive longer than 3 hrs we are spending a week minimum at the area. We are young fifties and are only living once and want enjoy as much as possible. Health and things can change very quickly as you get older. Gas doesn’t really affect us work wise since we are both about 9 minutes from our jobs.
Haven’t made any reservations. Just doing some local boondocking this year.
We haven’t canceled anything but we put a temporary hold on travel plans. We decided to “hunker down” for a month or two to reduce expenses. We happened to be in Dolores, Co and liked the area and people, and the temperatures are awesome so we extended our reservation. (This might be an addition to the survey, instead of canceling reservations extending them due to prices.)
Hello we live in Texas heading up to Dolores in a few days where you all staying in Dolores?
Didn’t cancel any reservations but canceled the entire trip for a month to the east coast. As I hadn’t made reservations yet I have to say nope. But the campgrounds did lose our business for this year.
Let me say, the annual trip to see the grandkids in AL, from CA, is off the schedule this year. It would cost twice the roundtrip airfare, in gas bucks, to drive the RV out and back. We are making short 1-hour, 1-way trips to local lakes and campgrounds. I think I can get to about 5, round trip, before I need to refill the tank. Now that’s a good value and gets us out in the RV.
A version of this question might be did you make a reservation only to not show without canceling.
I’ve seen some WY, ID, and MT around yellowstone forest service campgrounds half full but all reserved. Some even reserved 2-3 days before I looked (July 2-3), yet unoccupied. I can see why.. I cancelled a few MT spots in Bitterroot Valley area. Paid $30 for 3 nights (golden age discount). Was charged $20 to cancel.
If they are using Reserve America or another system that requires you to choose a specific site, that WILL happen. Suppose you have a two site campground, and Joe reserves Site 1 from the 15th of the month to the 20th. Steve reserves Site 2 (for no particular reason except that he had to pick a site) from the 20th to the 25th. Then when you try to reserve a site from the 18th to the 23rd the system will tell you there are none available, even though the campground is never more than half full.
That’s a very interesting point. I have done the site shuffle a couple of times to get a longer stay but I bet a lot of people just stop at the ‘nothing available’ message. It’s annoying to have to make 2 reservations on these systems because you have to pay the overhead fee twice.
We were originally planning on traveling up to Glacier National park this summer but we changed it to travel (from Texas) now up to Colorado for the summer to get some relief from the heat.
I just didn’t make many reservations and the ones I did make are fairly close. We’re not traveling far away from home this yesr
Yes, we have canceled most of our plans. With the price of gas we decided to save for the long trips and only go a few places.
Interesting – all the grumbling and griping and it seems to not make any difference to 66% of the people – me included. The fuel shortage in the early 70s made you stop and think because there MAY NOT BE GAS at your next stop. An aside – just yesterday my daughter stopped at 3 gas stations at the interstate exit, before she started on her 40 mile trip home from work. All 3 stations were down because all of their internet computer stuff was down. There have been and are bigger gas problems than the price.
We cancelled one trip because it didn’t seem worth it. It was a 5 day to a CoE park a couple hundred miles away. Between $5.89/gallon for gas, and the forecasted 100º+, hot, extremely humid weather, it didn’t seem to make sense to just to sit in the RV for 5 days.
No, but we had been planning on staying close to home this year after staying in Oklahoma over the winter after I retired – then I got an interesting offer and am working again.
Yes, as we have permanently moved to FL we are now selling our Mesa Ridge 23RLS since we will no longer need it to go to FL in the winter.
No – we are full timers – we always plan a year ahead of time. We survived the 70’s with NO gas so we are thankful there is gas to continue our travels. Stay a little longer in places we love and we take our time getting there.
I retired this past April with our plans to travel….wife n I …we’re still rolling with it..nothing is going to stop us
Good for you, Jeff and Deb! You’ve earned your wonderful new lifestyle. We hope you have many happy and safe years of travel. Woo hoo! 😀 –Diane
We have a trip planned to gather with family to have a memorial for a loved one who passed last year. Rural area, lots of camping nearby. RSVPs were made a long time ago. This is our only big trip for now. Have already altered one plan to fly instead of travel-camp this year.
To elaborate on our prior comment and others posted — yes, the cost of gas is daunting. Also not being sure of getting sites these days in the stopovers we are used to using on I-40. This is relevant to our travel to get to a destination; the kind of travel where we have to make miles each day and not have to go more than a few miles off the interstate for RV sites.
Canceled our annual Upper Michigan camping trip because of gas prices. Normally uner $400, estimated over $1000 with $5 gal fuel.
As a park owner, I am seeing cancellations everyday due to fuel prices. More of my customers are staying local.
Yes I have canceled a significant number of my reservations. Why would I want to continue camping when it now cost more than staying in a motel? It cost $600 to fill up my motorhome with diesel fuel and that can be burned out in one day. Then I get to some campgrounds and they want $80 per night just to park. Although I tremendously love camping, the economics of it are turned upside down and do not favor camping any longer I may go back to a tent
Usually we start heading out in March then in July head to Colorado to escape the Texas heat. But this is our first trip of the year still heading to Colorado.