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12-29-2019, 02:47 PM
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Southern camping
From Michigan, just started full timing this summer. Currently in Myrtle beach until Jan.15th then going to Florida until April.
We have noticed the strangest thing here. Soooo many people coming out camping just after xmas. This weekend alone there must have been 30 or more campers coming in, even Sunday.
Obviously back where we are from its impossible to camp after mid november, no place is open anyways.
Just weird to us to see so many people go out camping just after xmas and over new years. Its like july 4th weekend back in Michigan.
Is this a normal thing in the south. Because you can?
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12-29-2019, 03:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DonB2
This weekend alone there must have been 30 or more campers coming in, even Sunday.
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Are these local campers doing what campers do on the days off when school is out or snow birds avoiding ice or snow?
Where my son lives parking an RV on the street over night will get you a ticket. I am parked beside the house. During the holidays I have seen numerous RV parked for a couple of days with an extension cord running from the house. I suspect when school children are walking to school the police will be back.
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12-29-2019, 04:36 PM
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So why not ?
Yes
People cant go snowmobiling
So they go camping [emoji6][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
Quote:
Originally Posted by DonB2
From Michigan, just started full timing this summer. Currently in Myrtle beach until Jan.15th then going to Florida until April.
We have noticed the strangest thing here. Soooo many people coming out camping just after xmas. This weekend alone there must have been 30 or more campers coming in, even Sunday.
Obviously back where we are from its impossible to camp after mid november, no place is open anyways.
Just weird to us to see so many people go out camping just after xmas and over new years. Its like july 4th weekend back in Michigan.
Is this a normal thing in the south. Because you can?
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Year round outdoor activites are why many people choose to live in the south.
Look at the value they get from camping equipment, camping trailers and motorhomes, motorcycles and jet skis to name a few.
Devide the cost by 12 months instead of 4 or 6 months.
If people from Florida move to Michigan or Colorado.
Then snowmobiling and snow skiing would be the holiday sport.
But then again
Those investments may sit 6 months during summer months.
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12-29-2019, 04:57 PM
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I would think part of it is, alot of people want to do Christmas at their home and then pack-up and head south.
who wants to visit Grandma and Grandpa in an rv park, and try to have a holiday meal with family all jammed in an rv with 'cousin eddie'.
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12-29-2019, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by HJLowell
So why not ?
Yes
People cant go snowmobiling
So they go camping [emoji6][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]Year round outdoor activites are why many people choose to live in the south.
Look at the value they get from camping equipment, camping trailers and motorhomes, motorcycles and jet skis to name a few.
Devide the cost by 12 months instead of 4 or 6 months.
If people from Florida move to Michigan or Colorado.
Then snowmobiling and snow skiing would be the holiday sport.
But then again
Those investments may sit 6 months during summer months.
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You are so right. We moved from Colorado to Florida 3 wks ago. Sold the snowmobile, brought the side x side and golf clubs, will get way more use out of them down here. We have seen a lot more camping traffic since Christmas as well.
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12-29-2019, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ike66
You are so right. We moved from Colorado to Florida 3 wks ago. Sold the snowmobile, brought the side x side and golf clubs, will get way more use out of them down here. We have seen a lot more camping traffic since Christmas as well.
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Wowww
My sister was married in Woodland park
In the early 80s.
We have visited the Fossil site, fossil musium in Florissant many times over the years.
We always learn something new.
And to think they farmed and grew potatoes in the 1800s in the area.
You come from a beautiful area rich in undisputed ancient Historic & revolutionary knowledge.
Petrofied Redwoods and Fossils.
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12-29-2019, 09:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DonB2
Just weird to us to see so many people go out camping just after xmas and over new years. Its like july 4th weekend back in Michigan.
Is this a normal thing in the south. Because you can?
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The southern states are just the reverse of the northern. They camp in winter and seek out cooler temps in the summer. Nothing strange about it.
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12-30-2019, 05:47 PM
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I live in Louisiana and don't see anything particularly strange about it, though we have yet to take an RV trip in December or January, things are just too busy for us around the holidays, though we have done weekend getaway trips to a regional state park (120 miles from our house) the first weekend of February for the last couple of years.
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12-31-2019, 10:22 AM
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Yep. Schools out and weather is nice so load up the RV and the family for a long weekend or more.
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01-02-2020, 01:21 PM
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Several reasons, weather is not too bad, hard to get a spot in many of the parks in the season, and it is a lot cheaper than in the summer. The rates at the private parks are astronomical during the summer. The state parks are impossible to get in from spring on.
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01-03-2020, 06:28 AM
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There IS camping all year long in Michigan. Many state parks, state forest campgrounds, etc. stay open all year. CC skis, snowshoes, snowmobiles are used in abundance. With that said, If you want to 'get away from it all', you can't beat winter for quiet camping.
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01-03-2020, 06:48 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Lars
I would think part of it is, alot of people want to do Christmas at their home and then pack-up and head south.
who wants to visit Grandma and Grandpa in an rv park, and try to have a holiday meal with family all jammed in an rv with 'cousin eddie'.
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X2.
We always see an influx of snow birds right after the holidays. Seems folks want to stay home and spend them with family, then go south for the remainder of the winter. Happens every year.
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01-03-2020, 06:58 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twogypsies
The southern states are just the reverse of the northern. They camp in winter and seek out cooler temps in the summer. Nothing strange about it.
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^This.
In Texas the really big weeks are Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years and, of course, Spring Break - which lasts about 6-weeks down here.
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01-04-2020, 09:01 PM
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Location: Tempe, AZ
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Camp year round in Arizona. High mountains above 7,000 ft to escape the summer heat to the deserts in the winter, fighting for space with the snow-birds. Anything in between for the Spring and Fall.
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