By Chuck Woodbury
This is one of the worst-designed RV campsites my staff and I have come across in nearly 23 years of publishing RVtravel.com. I found this photo on social media, and recall that the campsite and its steep approach was on a U.S. military base. Many military bases have campgrounds. I’m sorry I can’t remember the name or location of the one in the photo. Maybe you know. If so, please tell us in the comments.
UPDATE: Reader Dave Fisher left this comment:
The site is at Kessler Air Force Base, Biloxi, MS. It was supposed to be an upgrade of their FamCamp. Can’t believe it was finished before the design error was noticed. The contractor supposedly refused to fix it. He claimed he followed the specs. It could be a laughable moment if it wasn’t such a costly one.
I do recall that it was built by a company that was hired to upgrade the facility. How could this design have been approved?
Just look at the slope an RVer needs to negotiate to get up onto the pad! Have you ever seen anything like that? I can tell you that I could not make this in my 32-foot Class A motorhome: It would get hung up. And if I were towing my Honda Fit? Well… that’s even more out of the realm of possibility.
How about you? Could you fit your RV easily into this space?
Let’s take a poll and see how many readers could actually get into this campsite. I’m guessing not many of you. But let’s see.
##RVT1177
I’m not sure if even your toad alone could park up there.. Great jump for my motorcycle though.:):)
Maybe I’m seeing things in the picture but they look like they’re poorly designed pull-thru’s.
Looking at the far end, it looks like a level entry into the site. If that’s the case and the FHU reachable, I’d be okay using the site and back out. If climbing that slope was the only way onto the pad, I wouldn’t waste time trying.
Well, if you can get going fast enough, sure.
Looks like you can pull in from the other side.
Just don’t plan on being able to go straight out though!
Yep, pull in; back out.
X2 on pull in and back out.
That means I could not disconnect my tow vehicle and go site seeing. The wheel base on my long bed crew cab dually would high center going out that way. At least the hook ups would be on the correct side if you could pull in.
Wow, poorly written Statement of Work (SOW) possibly, but find it hard to believe a good Contracting Officer would not have spotted this prior to award and/or not be able to enforce correction. Problem is that there are few good Contracting Officer still in government service. Most of us have retired or gone into the much more lucrative private sector.
Welcome back Chuck! What are you doing surfing around on Social Media?! As you see, it’s full of a lot of garbage, IMHO!
Another fine example of “Good enough for government work!” By the way, it’s Keesler AFB, not Kessler.
Look at the posts, I’ll bet you could back in from the other end.
If you backed in from the other side the hook-ups would all be on the wrong side.
It speaks to the oxymoron of “military intelligence” – believe me! I was Army Combat Infantry.
I was a Combat Engineer. I thought we did pretty good considering we did that during combat.
I never stay at military campgounds even though I am qualified as a disabled vet. Why, you ask? Because I carry person self-defense tools on my person “wherever” I go and, sadly, most bases won’t allow that.
Just looked at the Keesler AFB Fam Camp and cannot find that area so if is was there, it has been corrected.
OK, looks like they moved it to a better location. Pictured area is not used.
That’s a crazy slope! Maybe with a truck camper.
Thank you for the pictures, Chuck! 🙂 Nope, no way. 🤔😯 Have a great week and safe travels! 🙂
No evidence here. https://www.militarycampgrounds.us/mississippi/130-keesler-afb-famcamp