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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I traveled for 6 months and stayed in the park for 6 months to work and make the money to travel for another 6 months.
We’ve gotten stuck a few times in Houston for medical reasons. We never know for how long. And, we’re tired of it!
For my first six winters full-timing, I worked at a CG in NM for three months during the winter.
Snowbirds in Arizona. 5-6 months in park.
Two years straight thru the winter in Rhode Island even though the water was shut off at the campground for the winter months. By my own choice I chose to camp bringing water daily to my camper from my work. Wonderful experience. The roads weren’t snow plowed so I purchased a plastic toboggan and tied my two large dogs to it daily when I returned after work. They loved it and so did I .
In 1976, while still in the military, we moved from South Carolina to Florida. Four children, a dog and me and my wife lived in our 19′ travel trailer while trying to find the right home and then closing on the home. Good thing was we were right on a lake where the kids could fish and there was a playground
.I was working Air Traffic Control so if I worked a night shift, I would come home and sleep 4-5 hours in the A/C while the wife took the children fishing or a long walk. The children were 1, 3,4 and 5. I just thank God my wife was dedicated to the children and me.
Thank you for your service and the family .
We have spent 4-4and half months in Florida, But not this year. Price of fuel and campground fees. Plus now after the hurricane we want to stay out of the way of repairs.
Our 1st year of retirement we spent 4 months in Florida. 1 month in one campground close to my brother for Christmas then moved to the Tampa area for 3.5 months until the pandemic forced us to go back home to Canada. This year due to fuel costs we will be in one resort for 4 months.
I get weary after traveling for so long so we settle in FL for 4 months in one campground. Next year that might change though.
In 2020 we worked in Yellowstone NP for 3 months, then in 2021 we worked again in Yellowstone NP for 7.5 months. Longest we have ever sat in one place.
Yes, twice, once when we first bought the RV waiting for my travel partner to get ready and once last winter.
We have workamped ever since we bought our 5th wheel and went full-time in 2018. Summers have been spent in upstate New York, Montana, Oregon, and Minnesota. We have spent all of our winters in the Rio Grande Valley of southernmost Texas. Great experiences and have met so many fantastic people.
As workkampers its very common for us to stay in a park or campground for 3-4 months at time. If it’s a nice campground in a great area we don’t mind. We weren’t a fan of the “RV resort” (to many parks use the “resort” word when they should use trailer park) we were in prior to where we are now. Got to be a little picky when choosing our next workkamper gig.
Never, and don’t want to do so.
Not in an RV park/campground, but we did spend 4 months sleeping in the rig, in my MIL’s yard while we cared for her.
Several times in either winter or summer we’ve spent 3-4 months in the same campground, RV park, or LTVA in order to save money and explore an area more thoroughly. We started doing this later in our RV travels when we’d already visited so many other places around N. America and returned to our favorite areas.
The first 5 years we were married, now 6 1/2 years and we’re octogenarians, we went to FL and once to southeast TX for 4-5 months in one campground each time. I told DW I didn’t care for that experience as after you’ve been in one place for a month you no longer feel like a tourist but more like a new resident. I’ve seen everything I came to see. Last year we went to FL with the intentions of finding a permanent place to live. We eventually settled on Leesburg and bought a home here, now we’re not tourists but new residents. It takes some getting use to, everything in FL is a price and a half or more. The price for tags for our truck and camper and two drivers licenses was $719.11, in TN it cost $26 each for tags and $18 each for drivers license. When I questioned why it was so high the lady behind the counter said “but we don’t have state income tax” my response was neither does TN. She was beside herself at that point. Lol
Nope. After 2 months I get the itch to go even if only 100 miles away to set up again.
Does workamping count? We stayed near Pigeon Forge last winter from mid-October until May. We are staying this winter in AR from mid-Oct until spring. By the way, we are fulltime rvers.
Sherry, we are workampers also and will have a job in Mesa this winter.
My wife and I lived full time in our 2 Arctic Fox trailers for 8 years. We volunteered for NPS/NFS/USAF for 3 to 6 months at a time on each site. California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington State, Oregon and Florida. We also parked our trailer in Elkhart, Indiana May through November (2 yrs) living in it between trips delivering new trailers for a company throughout U.S. and Canada. Additionally, several winters in Arizona at a snowbird acre+ that we owned. Stopped only because of health reasons. Sure miss that lifestyle.
Gary, where in Arizona did you have an acre? We would like to look into that.
Spent June through September at a nudist campground in the PNW. Wonderful. Will do the same next summer.
Once for 5 months while having a house built
We have a sticks-and-bricks house located in the middle of a 120-acre tract that my grandparents and my parents farmed. Although we do not “farm,” there is an abundance of work to care for the property. We might travel for 3 or 4 months, but we’d never stay in one location other than our house.
We have a permanent site so our answer has to be 18 years
Every winter, November thru March, since 2001. Used to be in Tucson until they got too expensive. Tried Florida twice, Texas once, learned my lesson. Now it’s the Yuma Foothills.
Our longest has been 9 days.
We spend exactly 3 months in Florida each winter and travel the other 9 months and move about every 2 weeks during the exploring months.
When we were relocating back to Arizona and house hunting we stayed in an RV park in our small 5th wheel, with two very small kids from June 2008 to November 2008. Then we moved our 5th wheel and parked it beside our house and lived in it until July 2009. The house we bought was a foreclosure and we couldn’t move in until we had replaced a lot of stuff. We still have the same 5th wheel and take it on trips and I still love it.
We are travelers, that is why we have this bed on wheels. “Big wheels keep on turnin’ – rollin’ rollin’ . “
The wife has twice.
Yes, we have stayed more than three months because we are Workampers. We usually stay for a six-month commitment.
I said no but we had a seasonal site for over 10 years about 5 miles from our home. We didn’t stay there continuously but almost every weekend and most holidays. It was actually closer to where I worked, less than a 5 minute drive, with no traffic lights and one stop sign.
Every summer from mid May to early October at Pacific Shores Motorcoach Resort in Newport Oregon. 65 degree weather all summer long plus many restaurants serving excellent seafood. What could be better?
I live in my RV year round and have for the last 6 years and I love it
We stay in our Venture Sportrek 310 June thru October at the Moose Lodge in Waterloo, NY.
We work-camped at West Yellowstone for the 2020 summer. We are planning on a work-camp gig for this summer (2023) also.
Does Boondocking count as a “Campground”? It is our Campground by ourselves and some friends at times. There are some restrictions that you need to move but you’re relatively in the same vicinity. (Works well for dumping and filling up).
We didn’t vote.
I use my 5th wheel during employment instead of motel/hotel stays. I am at a site anywhere from 1 week to several months, depending on the length of the outage. The thought of staying at a site for me is no problem unless I find problems there when I get there. I have seen myself move to another campground in the area due to unwanted situations, or unforseen circumstances.
We snowbird, but not for 3 months in one place. We also spent 3 months in our travel trailer to and from Alaska, but obviously not in one place more than a few nights.
We stayed in one place for 3 month for my hubby to have his 2nd total shoulder replacement surgery and for him to have 3 month of physical therapy (that was in the fall/winter in San Antonio,TX). The other 2 times was as camp hosts on Dillon Reservoir in Colorado. We stayed from early May until October in 21 and 22…. During those stays we always wondered why people go through an amazing amount of work to set up their campsite for 2-3 nights. Most of our campers stayed less than 3 days since “our” campground (Heaton Bay) is in the heart of the Rockies, close to I-70, the towns of Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne plus Keystone and Breckenridge are oh so close, 60 miles west from Denver and on the way to Moab…. our personal normal stays are 7-14 days aka just enough time to explore an area and get our outdoors/indoors fully setup….
We used to winter for three months in Tucson at Desert Trails R.V. Park, for three years in a row, until the park was sold for $4.5 million and the rents were raised forcing many of us out. DTRVP was a unique, one-of-a-kind community and we sure miss the wonderful people we met and lived with. After a year off, we are going to be wintering at the KOA in Desert Hot Springs in 2023. A different and refreshing change. For us, it is a get away from the cold and damp of the San Francisco Bay Area. And we will be closer to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park for the potential wildflower bloom in spring. Can’t wait!
My husband works 13 week travel nurse contracts and then we take a break and travel a couple of months before taking a new job in a hopefully fun new location.
We have been full-time for almost 6 years. For the past 5 we have stayed in the Rio Grande area in Texas for winter. We are close to South Padre, and have enjoyed more than one winter holiday on the beach! Originally from Iowa, we enjoy warmer temps and little, if any snow.
I am an experienced 60 yr old travel nurse, just bought a new travel trailer and will be staying at RV parks for at least 3 months at a time. My assignments as an operating room nurse are usually 12-13 weeks or more if asked to extend. My first TT RV park will be in Louisiana. I am leaving the snow here in my home state of PA for others to enjoy. I did my tenure with snow. Next stop, who knows but it will be in an RV park for months.
We do when we work camping, but I said no since we’ve never stayed 3 months or more paying for a site.
I’m doing it now. I have no other choice at the moment.
The park I’m in has plenty of full time spots & plenty of short term spaces. It was developed that way to accommodate all the different types of RV’ers.
It’s not fancy but the people are great, its safe & ALL basic utilities are covered. You can get cable & internet for extra.
We live in our fifth wheel. Stayed in one place for 3 months for the winter. Then rent went up. Moved up the road 60 miles. We were there for about 4 months. Didn’t like the place, or the work I found. Moved about 30 miles further. Landed a good job and have been in the same lot for 13 months now, with no plans on moving anytime soon. Okay place, upkeep is GREAT. Close to my job. Rent is only $400 a month, everything included, except propane. No reason to move, as long as they will have us. Several trailers here, were here before we moved in, and are still here. Along with a lot that have came and went.😁
Where is this location?
Every year my family and I spend all summer and parts of spring and fall in Wisconsin. We spend a lot of time at the Renaissance fair while we are there.
We are just completing our third summer as seven-month seasonal campers at Piedmont Lake Campground, a part of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District in Ohio. We have a comfortable mix of seasonal and transient sites throughout our facility which was recently remodeled with excellent upgrades including full hookups, concrete pads, and a new bathhouse. Potluck dinners have been organized by campers and management, including fish fries, chicken barbecues with live music entertainment, soup dinners, and a Trick-or-Treat night. The popularity of these social events has become so popular as to draw a few invited guests from outside the general camper population.
Our decision to commit to such a permanent site was driven by the uncertainties of the COVID lock down and travel restrictions that were just lifting in Ohio and surrounding states. While we do miss many of our travel experiences with friends and family, we now enjoy the sense of community with our new campground families.
We meet friends at a campground every winter for a few months every year.
We also moochdock a few months at my kids
Stayed 1 month at Henry’s landing in Scottsville mi this past summer. Have considered a seasonal .
2 1/2 months in a 10 foot cold water only trailer. 2 little kids, temperature over 100. Thank God for the pool. Being btwn homes is no fun.