Question Empty Campgrounds?

[Rollin Ollen]

You might try this spot instead of the Alameda Fairgrounds. Both are less than 20 minutes from our home in Fremont.

Dumbarton Quarry Campground on the Bay

www.ebparks.org

Pleasanton is a beautiful old town but the Quarry is a nicer park.

We know the Fairgrounds are certainly not a destination but it's only a five minute drive to where our friends live in Pleasanton. Okay, lets be honest. The Fairground's RV Park is pretty much a dump (even the new section). Pleasanton is nice. Downtown is very walkable. Love it there.

 

[Jim]

Sorry Jim. We will be close to Deer Springs but we don't want to stay the minimum 3 days.

We make exceptions for royalty.

 

[Trav_lr]

Something tells me the Canadian diaspora won't be the same this coming season.

We took our coach out of storage yesterday and landed at the Birch Bay Thousand Trails to get it ready for a three week trip to the Oregon coast. The park is about 3/4’s full (about 225 sites) and about a third of those are Canadian. In conversation with my neighbor from BC, he says there’s nothing likely to stop them from being in Arizona for the winter. I suspect the experienced Canadian snowbirds will be business as usual.

Edit: forgot to mention, we had no problem booking sites for this trip.

 

[gtm1086]

This trip Starting Monday, so far camp grounds are empty. Large KOA in a Jennings Florida off I 75, only 4 rigs. Whole rows empty.
When planning this trip I had campground hosts say to me, the place is empty no need for reservations.
Is this Normal for this time of year??

For Florida yes for at least another six to 8 weeks

 

[Rollin Ollen]

We make exceptions for royalty.

Thanks for the offer Jim. Sadly, the dates that I have for your neck of the woods have already been booked. Your park is busy probably to the the "fall colors". Next time I'll book plenty early. But again, thanks for the offer.

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

We've been traveling from Texas since April. We have traveled almost 9000 miles and camped in 14 states. We have stayed in commercial parks, state parks, BLM, COE, national forests, mom and pop parks, Elks Lodges, Harvest Hosts, and Walmarts. We have not stayed in a park yet that has been full, usually 20% - 50% empty. We generally make reservations the day before or the day of arrival, even on Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day. We were in the Adirondacks area for the last 6 weeks, and the parks are not close to capacity. We are in VT this week, staying at HH (Hick's Orchard and Goodrich Sugar Maple). We are alone. I was visiting with the owner of Goodrich Sugar Maple, and their traffic is down 80% from last year. Yesterday, we found a nice park to stay on Saturday and Sunday to do laundry, etc. I pulled in and asked if they had space available, and the response was How many spaces would I like? Its a nice gated park with full hook-ups + cable. Heated pool and other nice amenities. $60. When we stayed in Lake Placid, we stayed at the local VFD with full hook-ups for $40. KOA was $130, and it was practically empty.

Finding a place to stay has not been an issue. It brings back the memories of camping pre-covid when prices were more reasonable and there was always someplace available.

 

[Holdmybeer]

"It's the economy stupid" J. Carville

 

[Kevin D Pem]

Really?!!!

 

[Trav_lr]

"It's the economy stupid" J. Carville

We’re at South Beach state park on the Oregon coast. The campsite is full, more than 200 sites, and has been since we got here. The site next to us has 6 tents. A couple other sites around us also have multiple tents. The place looks like a refuge camp!

 

[Neal]

I'm headed to Luray, VA tomorrow for a week stay. Got the last site.

 

[Tip&Tina]

We are at Hilton Head National RV Resort. 30% full. We chatted with the bartender in the restaurant and she said last weekend was packed. Not this time. Our row has three rigs on it.

It’s about 25%. Were happy. No kids. All adults on scooters and bikes.

 

[Joe Dutchstar]

Weekends can get busy especially when there is a special event. We are at Camp Turkeyville in MI. Full this weekend. Empty during the week.
Many of the sites are seasonal campers parked here that are locals. Come on weekends from homes in the area.
Heading to VT in a couple of weeks for some leaf peeping.
Hopefully the snowbirds leave some room for us on the way back to FL.

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

We are camping in Conway, NH, at Green Meadows Campground, located in the White Mountains. This park is typical of the parks in the area, and is, I guess, 60% seasonal campers. This weekend, the row we are in which has 10 sites, had 4 sites occupied. Three of those left on Sunday, and the fourth left yesterday. We are now the only camper in our row. 90% of the seasonal campers left. We did a road trip to Stowe yesterday, passing several parks, and most were sparsely occupied. It's not just RV parks; the motels and hotel parking lots are practically empty.

We drove through two National Forest campgrounds yesterday, and once again, out of 75-100 sites, they had maybe 10 campers. We talked to one host, and he said they are about 75% full on the weekends.

As a side note, the last park we stayed in, according to their online reservations, they only had 4 sites available, and this was a park with over 200 sites. We reserved one site, arriving on Thursday and leaving on Sunday. The park must have had 100 unoccupied sites the whole time we were there. My thought was that the software programs are playing some games, causing us to believe we'd better grab a site when we can.

 

[AbdRahim]

We are camping in Conway, NH, at Green Meadows Campground, located in the White Mountains. This park is typical of the parks in the area, and is, I guess, 60% seasonal campers. This weekend, the row we are in which has 10 sites, had 4 sites occupied. Three of those left on Sunday, and the fourth left yesterday. We are now the only camper in our row. 90% of the seasonal campers left. We did a road trip to Stowe yesterday, passing several parks, and most were sparsely occupied. It's not just RV parks; the motels and hotel parking lots are practically empty.

We drove through two National Forest campgrounds yesterday, and once again, out of 75-100 sites, they had maybe 10 campers. We talked to one host, and he said they are about 75% full on the weekends.

As a side note, the last park we stayed in, according to their online reservations, they only had 4 sites available, and this was a park with over 200 sites. We reserved one site, arriving on Thursday and leaving on Sunday. The park must have had 100 unoccupied sites the whole time we were there. My thought was that the software programs are playing some games, causing us to believe we'd better grab a site when we can.

Not surprisedfor the northeast.Locals are getting their last horah. Many snowbird are are already heading south. My wife always used to tell me, if I wanted toavoid snow, I need to be gone by Oct 1.

 

[team bradfield]

Not surprisedfor the northeast.Locals are getting their last horah. Many snowbird are are already heading south. My wife always used to tell me, if I wanted toavoid snow, I need to be gone by Oct 1.

I wish to leave that early, but wife needs xmas with grandkids, typically we leave NYE from northern Illinois and hit light traffic NYD in Nashville on the way to Florida