When planning your trips, do you try and visit the same place, or places, every year (or travel season)? Do you have a favorite campground? Favorite RV park or resort? A favorite boondocking spot?
In one of Gail Marsh’s “Around the Campfire” series, she and other RVers discuss the pros and cons of returning to the same campground each year. You can read that story here.
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake Shore Loop #1.
Heritage Village at Crazy Horse Monument, Custer, SD
Yep. And I ain’t tellin’ you where it is, either. 😀
13 years of fulltiming (200K miles+). We’ve been to every state at least once & Alaska twice, but have no particular spot or park we return to frequently. We are still in full exploration mode, so we like to seek out new spots or sites when we return to certain general areas of the country.
Yep! Mostly any campground in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula!
We have one place we return to yearly to volunteer at. We consider it home. Otherwise it is a new place, new state.
Tunnel Mountain Trailer Court in Banff. Lake Louise would be closer to the best hiking, but the trains sound like they run through the middle of your RV!
Since the early 1980’s we have returned to Chincoteague, Virginia. As a matter-of-fact, when I was a kid, camping with my parents, we camped at Tom’s Cove. But since the 80’s I have taken my family to Maddox Family Campground, now a Sun Outdoors Resort Campground. This campground was always our favorite because we could ride our bicycles over to Assateague Island and enjoy a day checking out the different trails. And yes, I have already made a reservation for this coming spring.
We live 40 minutes from a large National park with 4 lakes and beautiful walking trails and are friends with the camp host. They let me know if our favorite first come first serve spot is open. Bonus is that it has a full hook up and is right next to our friends.
We have favorite places all over the place but can’t visit them very often because after 6 years and over 70,000 miles there is still too much of the country to visit.
We love the Amish area around Lancaster, PA so Lancaster/New Holland KOA.
A little pricey but the view and the area is beautiful…
Our favorite also, even though Spring Gulch Rv park is right across road. Camped @ Spring Gulch for years until the corporate takeover. Glad we discovered Lancaster KOA.
Nocculla Park, Gadsden, AL. Just off I-65. Full hook-ups. Very reasonable in price. Just avoid the massive car show week-end. Have been on the waiting list for 4 years to get a site during the event.
We’re full time RV travelers, and the reason is we want to see and experience all the US and Canada have to offer. In 7 years only stayed in one campground more than once.
There are a few places I have stayed multiple times when traveling from one spot to another and a couple of favorite areas such as the Great Smoky Mountain area and places where I have stayed due to rallies I wanted to attend that are not in “favorite” campgrounds, but the key word in this question is “often.” Is stopping at the same campground for an overnight stay coming and going to a destination “often?”
We have been staying in the same site at a private park at Wallowa Lake, OR for the past fifteen years. We love the area and have been going there every year for over 35 years even before we started rving 20 yrs ago. However, due to a change in the ownership of the park we won’t be going back next year. We are sad about that but it’s time to move on and meet new people.
Joshua Tree
One campground we visit regularly in Townsend, TN area. We’ve also used the same campground on various routes we travel regularly.
We have some favorite USFS campgrounds we use almost every year. We return to Grand Canyon at least once a year, and stay in the dry campgrounds at each Rim. Occasionally we’ll stay at Trailer Village at South Rim. We have some CGs that are regular stops on the way to/from destinations, and we stay at the Tucson KOA to visit friends.
We camp to explore, so location is usually first consideration.
Husband is not yet retired, so we concentrate on the 4Corners States. We base camp and work out of that spot for a few days at a time.
Kartchner Caverns SP in AZ and Wilderness SP in MI. Totally different but equally beautiful.
Shawnee State Park, Schellsburg, PA. What more can I say: Welcome to PA!
we’re off the road now but for us it was the Black Hills, Custer County SD. 👍👍👍👍
We have at least 4 favorite places to camp depending on what state we are in.
Our favorite winter home is Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort. We have no summer favorites. As full-timers we love to see new parts of the country.
We are blessed to live in the Pacific Northwest, where Oregon and Washington have wonderful park systems. We have several favorites, depending on whether we want ocean, mountain, or high desert views!
Sadly, our favorite camping spot is in Southern Arizona. In the summer, when the temperature is around 110, there are a lot of spots open. In the winter snowbirds have all the spots filled. They have also found a way around the time limit by either swapping sites with some or swapping cars parked in the sites.
We have a fave state park in eastern NV but sadly, they have drained the lake (for reasons unknown to the public). It was a great trout lake and we loved the place. Friends who live in the area are unable to explain the drain . . .
We have 3 places we go to often. One of them changed when the owners sold to a major corporation. The next is a state park. The third is owned by a Lutheran church.
Corps of Engineers at Red Rock Lake near PELLA, Iowa. Love camping below the dam at Howell Station. Beautiful walking paths right alone the Des Moines river below dam. Several camping areas on the lake. Secret… 40 minutes from the house.
Yes, but I’m not telling.
Wife and I travel around a 200 mile radius around Ohio during summer months and mainly stay at state parks. But with 6 months early reservations it’s hard to plan, so we mainly stay at the farm we own that has a 7 acre stone quarry, 450 acres of woods and trails, 4 30amp hook ups and 3 adult children with lots of grandchildren who love to swim and ride 4 wheelers. Big family parties and no campground rules. They all would rather camp there than any campgrounds.
We like shipshewana In also Myrtle Beach, SC and winter months Webster, fl for the weather and flea markets.
mine would be the first 3. it is about the area, not the type of campground.
I have a friend that owns a lot of property near-by. There is a quiet waterfront spot I can go to “get away from it all”. I’ve never connected to it but there is a 20 amp electric outlet about fifty feet from it.