At any point in time during your RVing days, have you ever stayed continuously for 3 months or more at one RV park or campground? If yes, how many times have you done this? Several? A few? Once or twice? Or is it something you do on a regular basis? Or never?
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No. We have no desire to become “permanent” campers. Our friends keep trying to convince us to get a spot with them at a campground, but we enjoy traveling the country with our family while we are able. When the time comes to stop driving, maybe, we will find a place to retire the camper or just sell it and stop all together.
YES.. Hubby and I been full timing it 6 yrs. He just recently retired.. before retirement, we stayed at two parks One through the summer, one for winter. He now works part time at our summer time park. We lost our house to a fire and after first summer in the RV, we decided NOT to buy another sticks and bricks home. Now that he is retired, we have the freedom to travel. and Plan to through the winter months in the south. Then return to our summer park in the spring.
For the last 5 years with the exception of this last winter we have routinely made reservations at a campground for extended times (3-5 months) for the winter. This is primarily due to her daughter setting up her crafts and selling them. After our last trip, ‘19-‘20 I told my wife no more. From now on we won’t serve for more than 1 month in any one campground and that will be for economic reasons. We can see everything an area has to offer in no more than 3 weeks. After that you may as well buy a S&B and permanently move there. Even if we only move 150 mile to another park at least it’s new scenery. The daughter says it’s a matter of cheaper rates, but how much cheaper $60 a month? That’s $2 a day to be able to see new places, do different things. We stayed 5 months in Rockport, TX 2 years ago, after 3 weeks I could go anywhere in the area without directions because I knew the little town so well.
In the early years I worked in one place for the winter. After that never longer than a month.
One time, I changed jobs so we stayed in our travel trailer for 3 months searching and waiting to close on our stick and brick home. We were right on the water where the kids could fish everyday so they hated it when we moved into our home.
We finished a 6 month stay at an RV park in Florida in April. Other than a 2 month stretch as camp host, it was the only time we spent more than a full month in the camper.
This question doesn’t reflect the RVing population. We stay 4 months in the winter in the same campground. Rest of the year we travel.
I agree with Sue, I would have like the option to note yes, we have done 3+ months in one place but the rest of the year we are rarely in one place more than 1 week at a time.
Yep. I have a couple parks that I enjoy staying at for the winter season. I don’t do it every year, but I have done it a couple times (been full time RV for 7 years). Also, during the start of the pandemic, I was at the same park for a few months
I think I would travel and see more sights if I was going to be gone from home that long. I love the travelling but cant get past home sweet home.
We are both Workamper’s and Sunbird’s so after spending the winter at our Florida home we find a nice KOOL location to work at or spend the next 6 months at away from the heat & humidity. This year we are in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on beautiful Lake Ossipee.
Doesn’t get much better than summer in nh!
We have done this twice, once last year and then we are doing it again here. Both were in Yellowstone NP as workcampers. Wife and I worked the General store at Bridge Bay Marina last year and I am working as a plumber this year at Old Faithful area! We normally only stay a few days or weeks at any place, but Yellowstone, it don’t get better than this!
Not in an RV park/campground, but spent an entire summer in the RV as we cared for my MIL. Parked in her yard.
Yes, workcamping
We have never stayed anywhere longer than 2 weeks. We don’t full-time and have no plans to do so. I expect that we will never stay anywhere (other than at home base) for more than 2 weeks. Usually we are somewhere for 4 or 5 nights and then go elsewhere.
But…..we do have a long term lease site on a local lake. We have had three different RV’s there since 2004. We also have one we travel in but never stayed one place more than 7-10 days.
We liked the one we are in so much we moved here full-time.
We full time travel. Until COVID never more than 1 month. When parks were closing or not accepting new reservations, we stayed as the campground we were in gave a heavily discounted rate; we stayed 4 months until campgrounds started opening up. Plus we were going stir crazy staying in one place.
We stayed in Oaxaca March-May 2020 waiting for locked down campgrounds to reopen and winter to end in the US. Usually a month is our limit, but the extraordinary circumstances gave us three months in quarantine heaven.
We stayed in 1 RV Park in FL for about 2 1/2 yrs while caring for his elderly father who lived there. He passed in Dec 2019 and we thought “Yaayyy, now we get to really full time it and travel the country!” Unfortunately Covid hit and all our summer plans went out the window. But we did finally leave FL!!
We stay three months or more in Arizona every winter, sans 2020 because of COVID. We have also spent +months in a park on the Oregon Coast.
Nope, 1 month is too long for us, after 2-3 weeks we get the wanders and need to pull up stakes to find some other beautiful place in the U.S.A.
We spent 3 months in Florida at the Tides RV Resort and loved it so much that we booked 4 months this / next year leaving in December 2021 returning to PA in April 2022. I didn’t miss the snow or cold weather one bit. So much to do and see that you will never be without something different.
We are just “weekend” campers, occasionally going out of state for a few weeks. In the past year we’ve often just been boondocking locally.
Full time RVer here who is also a traveling Nurse Practitioner so we have stayed in one campground for 7 months while I worked an assignment. Most assignments are around 3 months typically in one campground.
We own a lot in a Florida RV Resort and spend November through March there. Florida is getting very expensive to go month to month like we use to do. We save a considerable amount of money by owning. If we ever decide to go west for the winter again we can rent our lot.
We do the same.
Summers in Colorado Elks lodge RV park and travelling.
Maybe once, when we were building our S&B. I can’t remember if we ever stayed that long without a side trip. When we’re traveling, maybe a month at the longest in a favorite park.
We stayed six months in our motorhome at a small RV park in Orting, WA while our house was being built. Worked out great & we met some super nice people while we were there!
Yes, for the past several years. We’re full-timers and spend 4-5 months of the summer in our favorite RV park in western Colorado, and a solid 5 months of the winter in our favorite park in Tucson. What’s left over is for exploring new places, like beautiful western Montana.
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We were in a state historic site campground for 4 months when Covid was causing CG closures across the country. Luckily it was a wonderful place to stay and the staff was welcoming and kind.
We have stayed three months or more at nine different State/National parks volunteering.
Absolutely! As F/T RVers and Workampers for 9 yrs and counting, we’ve worked at numerous locations within 7 different state park systems, at 4 Nature Conservancy preserves, for 3 state fish & wildlife depts, 3 national park non-profit partners, 2 private businesses, twice for the Ntl Park Svc, and at 5 national wildlife refuges for U.S. Fish & Wildlife. Stays varied from one month to eight, mostly in the 3-4 month range, all with FHUs provided, most of them free (except the 3 non-profits, since we were paid wages there), and several also provided propane. Not only has this been our way of giving back for all the backcountry enjoyment in our earlier years, it’s been a great way to experience some of the most beautiful scenery in the country … in the world, maybe. Not to mention how it has stretched our retirement dollars. It’s been a challenge sometimes, and issues come up (vehicle repairs, receiving mail, consistent medical services) but the rewards have been unparalleled.
snowbirding in AZ and now we’re in a park in CA closing out my late BIL’s affairs. this could take weeks.
No, we are travelers, not stay-in-place campers. Although not full-timers, we have traveled for 3 months at a time in our RV.
Last summer, but we were work camping there.
Snowbirds, Have spent 5 months at the same Campground for the last 17 years. Decided it is time to end it this year.
Stayed one time for 3 months in Montana. Most memorable and enjoyable trip ever. So much beauty and grandeur to soak in!
We have been snowbirds for going on 13 years, from Ontario to Florida. Have enjoyed the experiences til this pandemic hit.
Yes, twice. Am now a full time resident – liked the park, amenities, location, and price.
Spent 4 months at an RV park in Central Oregon. Nice place well maintained and friendly people
Because of Covid, I’ve been “isolating in place” since March of 2020. Yes, I would LOVE to get back on the road. NO, I am NOT dying to travel.
Pre-Covid, the longest stretch I had done on an RV park was one month (which seemed to be enough time to explore an area but not so long that moss started to grow on my rig.
I answered no regarding parks and campgrounds but we snowbird 4 to 5 months on a private lot in Yuma, AZ. In the area we’re in, many lots are set up for 2 RVs.
Surgeries have kept us in one area for more than 3 months, twice so far.
What a great thread! As new fulltimers just getting started, we had already come to the conclusion that we need to do more than 1-2 nights here or there, and have just booked our first month-long. I would strongly advise newer newbies to just start out 1-3 weeks at a time with the bookings. Driving every day, or every other, to go hundreds of miles for several hours is exhausting, and you miss so much. We only did it for necessity this time. NOW, we’ll go monthly and move along to the next monthly, with hopefully a few days of boondocking in one spot in between.
We plan to land/lot-shop as we go so we’ll have that more permanent 6-month space ready when it’s time for our exit plan. Six months at a warm winter home base…. Six months being touristy.
It’s been very informative reading all the responses here today for other ideas! Thanks, RVTravelers!
We have volunteered in parks for at least 9 seasons as well as workcamping on two occasions. All of those kept us in campgrounds or RV parks for at least 3 months, often more.
We have been wintering in Florida at The Oasis at Zolfo Springs, Zolfo Springs, Florida since 2012. One year in our RV, 2 years in a permanent travel trailer, and the other years in a mobile home in the Park. This fall we are going back in our Class C to spend 5 months. Quiet, small Park located in mid Florida.