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tcg · 06-12-2022, 04:10 PM

They paid for the site, the park allows it, who cares.

Is the problem they are having just as good a time on a full hook up site with a $100 tent as people who spent 10s of thousands and more to have the same amount of fun.

I've seen people rent a site for a day and never put up any tent or RV, they just have family and freinds over for a cook out. Again, who cares?

Mudfrog · 06-12-2022, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by TXiceman

We stayed at one state park a few years back that had a camping area with no electricity but did have water for each site. They were paved back in sites. Restrooms were in the loop. The other loop was 30-amp full hook up sites.

The park manager would not allow an RV of any type in the water only loop...had to be a tent. But in the full hook up loop, he allowed tent campers to occupy a site. It made no sense to us as he would turn away small RVs that would have been happy to have the water only site for a night. I think it takes stupid people to make up stupid rules.

Ken

Our favorite Texas state park has the same policy. Most every tent site in this park has a parking spot that an RV could park in but RVs aren't allowed to use them. I don't have an issue with tents in RV sites, a paying customer is a paying customer. But at the same time, it's not right that I can't park my RV in a tent site when RV sites get filled by tents.

Bedlam · 06-12-2022, 04:58 PM

The restriction of RV's at tent sites is no generator use. If that was enforced, an RV is just a hard sided tent.

runamuck · 06-12-2022, 05:19 PM

we often book rv spots at .gov parks online. even the state parks here in texas have online reservations and oklahoma state parks are available to reserve online. seems like many states have something similar.

DADSDOGHOUSE · 06-12-2022, 06:02 PM

I remember way back in my m/cycle tenting days, I never considered whether or not a site was a trailer or tent site, I was looking at the tent pads , the firepit was close to the pick-nick table, but mostly what shade was available during the mid day or morning times, as well as prevailing winds. It never occurred to me that I should not use a longer site just for motorhomes or larger trailers, just not on my radar screen

bizzerbiz · 06-12-2022, 07:47 PM

There is no 50 Amp service in the Yukon so your not missing out on that. We enjoyed a first come basis while going through there. Much better than the attitudes of a few of the rv park owners we encountered. Free firewood a plus. Look for the simple pleasures your trip is going to bring and pass them along.

Zulu Kono · 06-12-2022, 08:48 PM

Once when we arrived at a particular lake where we like to camp,
there was a tent pitched at the end of the lake in the best camp spot.
No people or other belongings, just the tent.
I walked over and took a peek inside of it, and the only thing in there
was a large round of firewood, presumably to keep it from blowing away.
I carefully broke that tent down and stored it off to the side of the campsite.
We camped in that spot for the next three nights, and I burned the round.
This was pre-RV for us; we were tenting it, and in fact
it would have been difficult to get an RV down in there.
It's a free dispersed camping area, so I called BS on their trying
to "save" a spot until they decided to show up and camp in it.
No one showed up to claim their tent while we were there.
I was hoping they would.

Toby Dog · 06-13-2022, 03:31 AM

Wrong to look in the tent and wrong to burn the wood. Also wrong to want a confrontation that may have gotten you badly hurt or incarcerated.
There are plenty of other sites.

glwinger · 06-13-2022, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Zulu Kono

Once when we arrived at a particular lake where we like to camp,
there was a tent pitched at the end of the lake in the best camp spot.
No people or other belongings, just the tent.
I walked over and took a peek inside of it, and the only thing in there
was a large round of firewood, presumably to keep it from blowing away.
I carefully broke that tent down and stored it off to the side of the campsite.
We camped in that spot for the next three nights, and I burned the round.
This was pre-RV for us; we were tenting it, and in fact
it would have been difficult to get an RV down in there.
It's a free dispersed camping area, so I called BS on their trying
to "save" a spot until they decided to show up and camp in it.
No one showed up to claim their tent while we were there.
I was hoping they would.

That could have turned out bad. Would you have moved if they showed up?

Being Frank · 06-13-2022, 06:58 AM

I started as a tent camper, using basic non electric sites because I didn't think there would be a reason to go to the "other side" with a tent. We eventually got a camper, then a bigger camper, but my friends and family I camp with still use tents. So I book one site for myself, then I book one or two for them depending on how many are on that camping trip, all sites connected. We go to the same State campground Memorial day and Labor day each year, sort of a friends/family reunion.

The thing is, I never care which site I have, since I use the Anderson leveling wedges, Levelmate Pro, and then the tongue jack to level front to back. However my friends and family struggle to find nice flat spots with shade to put up their large tents. I say this to say, I think the actual non "drive way" part of a campsite is much more important for the tent campers. I don't really care if my chair is a little unlevel at the fire pit, nor if my site has tree roots, holes, etc. So I let them tell me which sites they remember preferring and I book those. I just take the "first" site so my camper door and awning is open towards their campsites.

A side note. When my family of 3 used to take out of state trips in our tiny Wolf Pup camper, I would always call the campground and tell them we had a pretty small camper, so we planned to spend a lot of our time outside under a canopy or just in chairs. As such we would prefer a roomy site. I'm sure some of the larger rigs wondered why my tiny camper was on a bigger site, but again there are always (at least) two perspectives.

Zulu Kono · 06-13-2022, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by glwinger

That could have turned out bad.
Would you have moved if they showed up?

Not unless they would've brought a sheriff's deputy or a USFS LEO with
them and he asked me to, but I was confident I had the law on my side.
Like I said, no one ever showed up to claim the
tent or the spot the whole time we were there.
They may have showed up to the lake to camp,
but if they did, they didn't make their presence known
to me because they knew what they'd try to do was BS.

tcg · 06-13-2022, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Zulu Kono

... but I was confident I had the law on my side.

What law is on your side of stealing?

Sokcap48 · 06-13-2022, 12:37 PM

First come first serve. A lot of tenters carry electric appliances-coffee pots to electric grills, and want power. Nothing wrong with that. We have camped and glammed in everything. Tenters $ is worth the same as anyone else’s.

twogypsies · 06-13-2022, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sokcap48

First come first serve. A lot of tenters carry electric appliances-coffee pots to electric grills, and want power. Nothing wrong with that. We have camped and glammed in everything. Tenters $ is worth the same as anyone else’s.

I see nothing wrong with a tenter on an electric site. However, usually there are smaller electric sites and if so, please don't take the biggest one. It's just common courtesy to others even if there's no 'rule'. We've found the smaller sites are usually the best. They're tucked away in a corner or on the perimeter and are much more quiet and away from congestion.