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?
Some RVers swear by returning to familiar locations, cherishing the sense of community and predictability. Knowing exactly what to expect—be it a scenic lakefront view, friendly neighbors, or a specific site number—can make planning and packing a breeze.
Others might argue that this approach stifles the adventurous spirit of RVing, preferring instead to explore uncharted territories and uncover hidden gems on the road.
Another benefit of revisiting the same campground is the opportunity to build lasting relationships. Many RVers form close-knit friendships with fellow travelers they see year after year. On the other hand, some enjoy the thrill of meeting entirely new faces and hearing fresh stories with every new camping 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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Two, Wilderness State Park and Platte River in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Moochdocking 4 months every year at our friend’s place in the Adirondacks. The put in a gravel pad, water and electric for us.
I have revisited a few twice but I like wandering and make a list of camp grounds rather a short stay or longer stay that served my purpose or fell short.
Not a favorite place but a very nice county CG near my mother-in-law house. We return often to visit.
Baja Mexico. Fabulous – Cheap!
Not yet. We haven’t camped enough to want to go back to the same place twice. We were at the same campground 3 times, but that was only because it was close to activities we attended in 3 different seasons.
My wife and I are in the process of finding a new place to be our favorite. South Llano State park had been our favorite but after the big flood the new management adopted policies that made it difficult to access the river. There is still great hiking but between the brush and ladders that stopped 3 ft. from the bank, we have lost the desire to go there. I’m sure we’ll find a new place as there are many other state parks in Texas to choose from.
We enjoy wagon wheel rv park in Door county wi. Mirror Lake State Park in Baraboo wi.
We camp in our small TT to explore and do return to favorite areas. We visit Grand Canyon, for example, at least annually, my husband still has plenty of hiking to do there. We also return to areas in Colorado and Utah, again to do exploring. My husband won’t retire until next year, so our trips are usually limited to the 4 Corners States, 1-2 weeks at a time.
Well we leave a RV stationary year-round at an RV park – use it seasonally. I don’t consider it ‘camping’. But there was no where to vote for our favorite camping spot. My wife’s family has a seasonal cottage on a Lake Superior sand beach (electric, but no potable water). The 5th generation is starting to use it. When there is a crowd, we take our smaller trailer and park it. Gives us a better bed, a flush toilet, and we still have the beach fire-ring and the oversized refrigerator in the cottage.
I had to say yes. We recently left Florida as our home base and residential home. We had two parks we used across I10 each year. Now that we are residents of Texas we will probably find parks we use to come back from west and east each year. When you find a good priced, nice park with great staff on a regular route you return.
Depends upon direction of travel. But we do have favorite overnight spots.
We’re lucky enough to have a few AVISTA (formerly Washington Water & Power – dam operators) and USFS campgrounds close by. Our favorite is at the confluence of the Bull & Clark Fork Rivers. It’s high enough to not be concerned about flooding, but on the water for some sites, and except for the “bounce-bang” at one end of the highway bridge & the few trains that cross the Clark Fork there, it’s a quiet campground. We usually do our spring “shake-down” trip and often a fall anniversary trip. It’s less than a half hour from the house, typical USFS no hook-ups campground with lots of USFS roads to explore nearby. And a small pizza & sandwich restaurant if we get lazy.
Not a favorite spot, but a winter boondocking spot near Yuma. The rest of the year I am visiting new places.
Game Lodge Campground, Custer State Park, Custer SD. 5-stars!
3 times per year (May, June, September), we travel to Shawnee State Park near Schellsburg PA. Lake, walking path, and many friends that we have made through the years.
My wife has a cousin in Tennessee whose father lives in Florida. He would come to visit his daughter every summer with his camper. He installed electric and sewer hookups so he could stay on her acreage when he came to visit. She invited us to stay there last year for two weeks. It was a beautiful place to stay! We plan on going back there this summer for several weeks again. She has already invited us back for this year as we didn’t invite ourselves. She has a large yard and enjoys me mowing it with her riding lawnmower as part of the payment we give her for water sewer and electric usage. The scenery with the Appalachian Mountains around us is a priceless view.
We have both favorite boondocking sites and a few government campgrounds (Heaton Bay Campground and Camp Hale). The campgrounds are difficult to get reservations for.
Cumberland Mountain State Park near Crossville, Tennessee. Quiet, well-maintained, always good campground hosts, friendly rangers, near enough to town to be convenient. This is where we almost always camp.
We have many favorite places all around the country that we have purposely returned to multiple times in our 16 years of full-timing so far. Some of the states are Arizona, Utah, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Michigan, & Alaska.
Keep camper on lot (1/3 acre) which I own in So. Indiana, but as I get ready to retire, will be researching places in florida for 4-6 weeks in winter. The adventure part of new places comes with caveat, as you can run into poorly managed, lack of etiquette camp neighbors to offset a new experience/adventure
Dry camp with friends on their property most of the summer holidays. Some holidays there might be upwards of 50 friends, kids, and dogs! We are the oldest couple (70+) and the current youngest is about a year. Their property is on a river which we kayak and is also swimmable. Fourth of July we have fireworks that rival many small towns.