How do you use your RV? Is it for quick summer camping trips close to home? Or do you head off to explore North America for months at a time? Or maybe you use it to head south for the winter. Or heck, maybe you just use it for a few weekends a year, maybe when the kids or grandkids have an extra day off from school.
Some RVers prefer short weekend getaways, using their rigs as a way to escape the daily grind without straying too far from home. Others take extended road trips, carefully planning routes to visit national parks, scenic byways, or bucket-list destinations. Then there are the seasonal snowbirds, who trade icy winters for warm desert landscapes or sunny coastal retreats, making their RVs feel like a second home for part of the year.
For some, an RV is more than just a travel vehicle—it’s a full-time home. Whether they’ve embraced a nomadic lifestyle by choice or necessity, full-timers find creative ways to balance work, community, and adventure on the road. Some work remotely, running businesses or working as traveling professionals, while others pick up seasonal jobs at campgrounds, parks, or resorts to sustain their travels.
Then there are those who use their RVs in less conventional ways—stationary living, tailgating at big events, or even as mobile offices for work on the go. The flexibility of RV life means that no two RVers use their rigs exactly the same way.
Here are some popular ways people who own RVs use them. How about you?
MORE POLLS YOU MAY ENJOY
- Do you agree with this statement: “With an RV you can go where you want, when you want”?
- For long-time RVers: Is RVing today as enjoyable to you as it was 15 years ago?
- Do you think you’ll ever become a full-time RVer?
- For couples: Do you and your partner get along better or worse when RVing?
- After settling into a campground/RV park, how often do you introduce yourself to at least one neighbor?
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My husband & I only work weekends and, as new owners of a seasonal campsite only 1/2 hr from home, we will be using it most weeks (Mon-Fri). Added bonus…not having to deal with weekend campers!!!
One week per month, 12 month per year.
This poll should have been multiple selections. For us, three RV’s which each fit into one of the categories. Late Spring & Summer in a destination in the Adironadack to beat the summer heat. Snowbird to Florida in a 30 ft bunkhouse TT to avoid winter’s chill. Then we take our small cargo camper (toyhauler) out to more wilderness campsites with 2 ebikes and 2 kayaks to enjoy the great outdoors.
Out for about two weeks a month. Except Dec and Jan. No fun in being cold.
We use it on the weekends and for a couple of weeks away from work a couple times of year.. I get 6 weeks off a year…
We use our motor home for long weekend getaways (4-5 nights) which sometimes include participation in dog sporting events, typically FastCat. Usually we are out and about 2 weekends a month.
We use it for one-week trips in the summer, plus last winter we snowbirded for 4-1/2 months.
Our Class A mainly used as transportation between homes in NJ and FL several times per year. Otherwise for occasional 3 or 4 day short trips. The wife and I and the two Labs always travel together.
We were fulltime in our 40′ DP until DW found a house in FL. Now it sits in front and gets used on a few weekend trips and one 2 o 4 month trip. Still kind of wish we were full time though but… happy wife, happy house
I use my rv for a yard ornament. Way things are going can’t afford to go anywhere.
We typically use our Class B for 3-4 day trips throughout the year, with a week or two vacation thrown in. Last year we took a 3-weeks vacation.
I use it to get away from the very confused world. It’s an escape from the masses. More off grid then in campgrounds and ask for the more out of the way site if staying in one. It’s nice being retired as you have the options of coming and going to the home base.
5 Thumbs up.
Can only vote for one option. Chose seasonal as that is how we use our larger RV. It stays year-round in the south. We have a much smaller TT for both the migration and our travel adventures. It has fewer bed-nights than the larger one, but a lot more travel miles.
High prices and too many smart *** people anymore have ruined camping for many folks.
Those thing can if you let them. Look harder and you can still find good places without those things, especially weekdays. Or, you can choose to complain and miss out on good experiences.
There’s an old saying: “If you move and your new neighbors are always a problem, maybe it’s not the neighbors.”
We use ours seasonally now. It’s parked about 2hrs away from home. We spend weeks there at a time from April through October.
One to two weeks at a time, about three times a year. Try to keep travel times to two to three days. We always schedule one spring and one fall trip while school is still in session. Less crowding except maybe for weekends.
Maybe a three to four day stay during the week.
Three or four days a week, mid-week for campgrounds, occasional weekends for rocket launches at various rocket club launch locations, plus one or two two-week vacations. I picked the one or two week vacations choice.
We use our rv for both weekend camping trips as well as 7-14 day vacations to points around the country.
Same here. It’s great for quick getaways between vacations.
I go as often as I can afford too.
We have a Durango Gold 5th wheel that we live in in Arizona for 6 months each winter. We have an Adventurer truck camper that we use in the summer for travels from our Utah home. Alaska this year we hope!
I have a diesel pusher and we use it to go to fiber shows, where I sell fibers and yarns. Then we use it for a several short trips a year plus a couple of two week trips.
This is one survey that should have allowed multiple answers. We usually do a couple larger trips of 5 to 6 weeks each year. We also do several smaller trips of a week to ten days.
Not yet retired, so we use ours for exploring new and familiar areas. Mostly 8-16 nights. Seldom a weekend only.
We’ve also used it in lieu of a hotel room and/or to give us our own space. I used to drive cross country to my late MIL’s, park it in her yard, pick my husband up at an airport (saving his vacation time), and stay for a week.
From May 1st to October 31st, we take 2 week trips, then 2 weeks at home. This way we get caught up on keeping up the house and see different parts of the country.
We use our truck camper for a combination of shorter trips and longer extended journeys. Each have their own benefits and we always enjoy getting out regardless of the length of time away.
We use ours for a week every month except December. Then every June we go to Oregon for a month. 3 Destinations: on the coast for the Wood Carving Festival and Kite Festival, then inland to visit granddaughter, grandson-in-law, and their 2 year old (my first great grand son). Our favorite trip of the year!
We actually consider it a multipurpose asset – it is our weekend (midweek, if possible) getaway rig, our lodging at dog sporting events, our emergency housing if anything happens to our house and our guest cottage. And one summer it was our bedroom while we cared for my mother-in-law during her last summer on this earth.
We added Canada to our travel plans to show a little support for our northern neighbors. Never had a bad trip to Canada.
Thank-you.
This question would have benefitted by allowing a couple of choices. We have a hybrid camper that we use 50-90 nights a year in a mix of multi-week trips to different areas, and some short weekend trips to regional state parks.
We use our fifth wheel for 2-3 week trips and then 2-3 weeks at home to clean, restock, etc. Currently not using it in the cold months. Would like a trip north this summer for 4-6 weeks but the price of a FHU is crazy high…so likely will be staying local.
So wonderful to have a full kitchen, our own bed and bathroom…whats not to love!
Golden Age Passports help with the cost in COE/Federal parks.
We live in our camper all summer. Store inside at home after 1 Oct.
Dog trials. How long we are away depends on how far we have to drive to get there
I use my travel trailer for accomodations during an annual Jan to May trip to visit family and friends between my home in the Northwest and East Texas. I supplement that trip with 3-4 one week (or less) trips within a few hundred miles of my home. My wife and I started this “life style” in 1999 and missed only one year, thanks to Covid.
Thank you for the question, RV Travel! I voted for “use it most of the year,” but we do not live in it. We tend to go for three or four nights at a time and about once a month. This year we haven’t gone as frequently as usual. We did not go anywhere in February and have no plans for April. But, we plan to head out in mid-May for 4 to 5 months. Have a great week and safe travels!
I answered the question about how I use my RV as other because I use it to go to a cooler area in the summer to escape the heat of the Arizona desert!!