When you get to your campsite at the campground or RV park, how long are you typically staying for? Notice we said typically there. We know your lengths of stay may differ with each journey, but we’re curious about your preferred length.
Do you like to keep moving, staying for just one night as a quick resting stop? Or maybe you enjoy a few days to explore the area, settling in for a week, a month, or even longer?
And we know that choosing how long to stay often depends on what you’re looking to get out of each trip. Some of you feel that one night is enough—a brief stopover before hitting the road again.
Others appreciate a few days to really unwind, soak in the surroundings, and get a feel for the local community.
Then there are those who love the luxury of an extended stay, where they can settle into a routine, explore at leisure, and feel like they’re part of the neighborhood. Each approach has its perks, and each reveals a different style of RV life.
Are you more of a nomad or a nester when it comes to RV travel? Whether you’re in favor of fast-paced exploration or savoring a slower pace, we’d love to hear from you in the comments below. Thanks for sharing!
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We prefer to stay a couple weeks before leaving so we can explore the area without being rushed. I’m a point A to point B kind of guy so we stay overnight until reaching a destination.
Depends upon why we are at that RV spot. Just overnight, or visiting? No strong answer.
It depends on the distance from home. Can’t answer the question, no depends.
Two weeks minimum, three weeks max. I hate the setup-take & down and lately the drive is getting harder as we age. Probably have to sell the MH in the next 6-8 years.
We don’t have a ‘typical’. It really depends on the objective for the trip. At 70+, we really don’t ‘camp’ anymore. We live seasonally in a large stationary RV, but we travel with a much smaller RV I call our ‘rolling hotel room’. We’ve stayed overnight for concerts; we’ve stayed a week plus to explore a region. We’ve mootch parked to spend a long weekend visiting friends or family. Twice a year we do a series of overnights to migrate.
We meander to waypoints so we rarely stay less than 3 days but no longer than 3 weeks. If we’re boondocking, it’s generally no more than 2 weeks due to tank limitations.
We rarely overnight because it just isn’t worth sending out the slides, laying down the rugs and bringing things out of transit position. Said more poetically, we just don’t rush to change the view while the current one’s still fresh.
We plan our trips based on sightseeing and exploring the local area. Some are 4-5 days and maybe longer. We are also in no hurry so it may end up being two weeks depending on overnight stops. We are not in any hurry so we try to limit each day driving to 6-7 hours.
We do not just sit around the campground and chill. We can do that at home.
This year has been different! I have a home in a Texas town and usually travel north in my RV during the hottest months. At $20 a day in a small Wisconsin town, I stay 6-8 wks. In Door County WI, RV parks are at $65 a day, I stay a week at best. Most other locations in Minnesota, RV sites range from $30-$50 a day, with COE campgrounds at $13 a night only for 14 days max. After that staying on a friend’s farm is free, except for picking up the tab when taking out the whole gang, out for dinners. County parks have been raising prices every year, 5 years ago they were $25 a night, but they have raised prices by $5 each year since, and now are $45 a night, with no limit of stays.
It depends entirely on our reason for being in the area, since our long trips (6-8 weeks) generally require us to limit our stays in some of the places we visit. I think this question is better addressed to full-timers.
It depends on where we’re staying, our first trip to interesting areas we may spend a month to get in all the interesting sites. Most areas 2 weeks are enough but one year we pulled our trailer 12,000 miles but drove 38,000 miles site seeing.
Thank you for the question, RV Travel! Our preference is two to four nights. However, when traveling to a particular destination (e.g., Alaska last summer), we have many consecutive days of only over-nighting. Alternately, when we travel to DC to visit former neighbors and friends, we tend to stay eight to ten nights. Were we full-timers, then a different answer likely would be given. Have a great day and safe travels!