Happy August! AUGUST?! Yep. Where did the time go? Summer is flying by. (Wahhhh.)
We hope you had a wonderful July—a month of campfires and s’mores and hot dogs and beaches and sunburns (hopefully not, but… probably) and BBQs and chlorine and sunsets and ice cream and… well, you get the point. It’s one of the best months of all!
Did you get caught in a summer storm or two? Did you run your A/C nonstop, or were you lucky enough to camp somewhere with cool mountain breezes and chilly nights around the fire? Everyone’s July looks a little different depending on where the road took them.
Maybe you stayed close to home this time around. Or maybe you crossed off a bucket list destination and finally saw that national park or quirky roadside attraction you’ve been dreaming about. Either way, we hope you made some memories worth keeping.
So tell us: This July, how much time did you spend in your RV? Did you go out for just one weekend trip with the family? Did you spend about a week camping somewhere? Two weeks on a road trip? Three weeks? The whole month? Or did you not spend any time in your RV last month?
After you vote, will you leave a comment and tell us about where you went in July? If you went to more than one place, just tell us about your favorite. We’d love to hear. And now… Go have fun in August!
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We chose not to RV this July for several reasons but the main one is that we don’t like crowded campgrounds. We are retired and can RV any time. We know families with children will often camp in July and we will get back in the RV when school starts again.
In total about 8 hours fixing things. No trips .
At this point in our life, we only use our Class A to travel between our homes in FL and TN. Once we arrive at one of the homes, the motorhome is parked in covered storage, and we don’t use it at all until we’re ready to travel back to the other home. We typically take 3 to 5 days traveling at a leisurely pace. So, for July the motorhome was in storage.
One week (+/-) every month, year round.
I did a work project in my fifth wheel with the RV in my backyard. I tore out the carpet and installed vinyl laminate flooring.
Wow. Who would have thought almost half of the RVTravel readers didn’t RV in July. That kind of surprised me for some reason.
None, waiting on repairs
We normally try to avoid the summer months. Campgrounds are over crowded and noisy.
This year would have been one of the worst with the temps hovering above 80 in most of the country, plus the number of intense storms.
If we do make reservations during this time, it’s normally Sunday through Friday. Leaving the two other days for the weekend warriors.
Only 80…? How about 100+ almost every day with forest fires nearby.
Our house is in a tourist destination area. The family acquired a summer-only beach cottage on Lake Superior 80+ years ago. We rarely leave the area in July. The local roads hum with RVs of all sizes & styles in July and August. We mostly use ours in the shoulder season and migrate south for the winter.
This year was the first time we did a two-week trip during peak season. We spent exactly two nights in campgrounds, one in a state park and one in a provincial park in Ontario. The rest of our time was spent at Boondockers Welcome and Harvest Hosts locations. The first week was planned in advance, but we decided to leave the second week open for exploring. It was somewhat challenging to find locations to stay, but it worked out fine. We’ll probably avoid peak season in the future, in order to have more options available, but also to avoid the hottest part of the year. In our experience, May-June and September-October are better travel times, with fewer crowds and better weather.
July in So. Texas? It’s too friggin’ hot (BTW so in August) to be camping. I spent July and August upgrading and maintenance of the RV. I also volunteer Maintenace at a local Humane Society. October starts the camping season for us
Too hot!
We have been out a little over three weeks and another three to go before we get back. Have been staying mostly in state parks on this trip to Western NY and across PA end-to-end.
Every campground we’ve been in has numerous open sites every night. The rangers at a nice state park in NY right on Lake Erie told us they are concerned as their average occupancy this year is only running around 50%. The PA state park we are in right now, right in the heart of South-Central PA near many big historic venues has around 350 sites of which perhaps 50 to 75 are occupied.
We found the same thing in Georgia at a state park. It wasn’t even 1/2 full! This was in July.
I am having some health issues that keeps us closer to home. But we have several State Parks within a 2 hr drive to visit. It’s been so hot out that the week days the number of campers are lower than normal. We go for a day or two each week.
Sorry about your health issues which are cutting into your RVing, Roy. We hope you’re better and able to do more RVing soon. Take care. 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com
Recovering from a nasty infection put a damper on things.
Sorry to hear that, Bob. We hope you get well, and back on the road, soon! 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com
June, July, August are the craziest times to try and go camping. Fighting the crowds and increasingly more and more rude and inconsiderate people. I go in spring or fall and avoid the crowds.
We stayed home the week of 4th of July. After that we hit the road for 3 weeks in northern Idaho and Montana. Temps were getting pretty warm so we headed up to Canada to the Columbia Icefields and Jasper National Park. Daytime temps were moderate and evenings were cool for great sleeping. We boondocked a few nights, spent 2 nights in Icefields parking lot, and the rest in campgrounds. We rarely make reservations and had no problem finding a place to camp and spend the night.
We live in our coach so we spent all of July in it. 🙂
Thank you for the question, RV Travel! Usually our answer would be “a few days,” but this year it was every day. Atypical, but true for 2025, for us. Have a great day and safe travels!
We had our annual family reunion camping trip just last week. Only 4 days of camping. Wish it could have been longer!
July–no camping. January, February, March–all month. We’re snowbirds. Our sticks and bricks is in rural Wisconsin. We get to enjoy the outdoors and sleep at home all summer. Central air for the hot days. Besides, there’s the lawn and garden and fruit trees to tend to, and fairs to visit (and judge at), family in the area. Camp in summer? Only when we’re visiting someone and need to bring our accomodations with us.
We head to cooler elevations for about 2 weeks in July and also in August to escape the heat.