Why is This Allowed?

Frank A. wrote: You know what they say. If you agree with crap like this, it means you do crap like this.

Guilty as charged. I'd probably let the office know it would be empty, secure the LP, turn off the water and hot water heater and maybe even leave a key. I always try to be a courteous camper but I must be missing something if this is poor form. This summer we'll be visiting our daughter out west and staying in a military campground near her home. If for some reason we decide to stay the night at her home, I'd do it without a second thought. If the campground had a rule against it that would be a different story.

You all are talking bout two different things ... Frank disapproves when a RV sits in a site for a couple weeks with no one in it -- instead of parking in storage and allowing others to camp in it. When it keeps another camper from using the site in a crowded area that's hard to get in ...

FloridaKamper is talking about spending a night or two away, but using the site as it should be used.

That's two different issues.

Really there may be more to this than indicated. No one said it was a high usage rec area, nor that there was any 'violation' of policy for the user. Some of these places are needing the $$ to stay open, particularly with the current political stuff going on.

Dont know how the original guy reserved the spaces, but maybe he was just thinking ahead. He puts his rig in storage comes back and wants to stay and can't get a site to stay in thus the move to rent a site for however long he needed it.

Conversely there are many homesteaders that keep some folks out because they never leave! Saw this at a couple of places so the reverse is just as true as the temporary rental to go on a cruise.

Another thing that generated this may be that someones 'friends' didn't reserve early, came in late and the story begins. I dont know and really no one else may know either.

If there were no violations of policy, no foul, no harm done, just ruffled feathers for someone. Commercial campgrounds have no issues that I am aware of and only if a very small one (mom/pop) would there be an issue, but I have gone to commercial places that were full also. I do not reserve because of the way we travel. Dont like to be held to a schedule to get someplace because I 'reserved' a site, but that is just us.

As long as what each person is doing is following the campground rules and if you ask what the rules are before you make a reservation then it is not an issue. We stay at some of the most popular military campgrounds that are a few hours away from our house and according to the rules we can vacate the site for X number of nights so we drive home in our car and then return to the campground as required. Have known some military campgrounds that will allow folks to stay away longer than the written rule and see nothing wrong with that either as verbal authorization was given by management.

They paid for the site, whether they stay in RV or not doesn't matter. You should have a bigger issue with the homesteading that goes on at a lot of the Famcamps. That keeps more of us out of the parks than a two week cruise. How about the favoritism played by some hosts. Follow the regs, no homesteading.

So I guess you find it ok to stay for years as long as you stay in the RV. Me says BS. It has become all about staying full and some don't care how they do that, who is that hurting, us the users of the system.

I have no problem with long terms, per se, but they should all have to keep 50% of the sites available for overnighters, if it is a busy area, then no homesteading period. Agave Gulch has the best plan that I have seen so far. More should follow their lead. That's my 2 cents.

dpicard wrote: They paid for the site, whether they stay in RV or not doesn't matter. You should have a bigger issue with the homesteading that goes on at a lot of the Famcamps. That keeps more of us out of the parks than a two week cruise. How about the favoritism played by some hosts. Follow the regs, no homesteading.

I agree. Just seems like common sense to me. Too bad MWR Directors, Base CO's, and hosts don't buy into this logic.