Military Camp Grounds pushing out tents

maddog wrote:

The Air Force as a whole is more accomodating to its clients and facilities I have seen are A-1.

Of course that's only IF thry allow you on base. If you open your home to foreign exchange students, don't bother using AF facilities. They will tell you come on down, then, turn you away at the gate! (re: Patrick AFB)

I also agree that many facilities are pushing away tent campers. Great Lakes used to have many spaces. Now it has been re-done with concrete aprons (hard sinking stakes there!) Same story at Camp LeJune, NC..... re-do after hurricane damage= concrete aprons instead of the natural pull-ins.

America is getting softer, what can you say..... if it aint a "tin-teepee" with cable and a shower, it ain't camping anymore!! :dry:

I am not sure about your comment about Camp Lejeune. We have a very nice tent camping area and it is not on concrete. We even provide cable tv to the tents sites along with water and electricity. Free wifi is provided also throughout the entire recreation area including in the sand on the beach.

I am one of the camp hosts here and have been coming here prior to working here for at least six years and we have always had the tent sites that I mentioned above. We did have another campground years ago but it was replaced with the fine facility that we have now with great rv and tent sites, cabanas, lodges and very modern 3 bedroom modulars.

All of our sites are within a 200 yards of either ocean or the intercoastal water way. Our ocean beach (Onslow Beach) is three miles of prime real estate devoted to our authorized guests.

Curt

No tent sites here at Midway RV Park, TN (hence the term RV Park). I don't know why a tenter would want to stay at this location anyway - it's behind the Commissary.

However, only a few miles away is plenty of tent sites away from the base activity located near a lake at Navy Lake Campground (hence the term CAMPING).

When I'm in the RV, I'm not camping - it's just a different location for my "Condo on Wheels", or the "Wheel Estate" that I own. With electricity, bathroom, shower, microwave, heaters, TV, Internet, Computers, Satellite, bed with electric blanket, etc, it's hard to call this camping. When we go camping, we take the Jeep away from everything and stay in a tent and sleep on the ground in sleeping bags. To some, this is even a luxury type of camping. :side: But that's as much "roughing it" as Connie will do.

Tents are family recreation as well and the new tents they make now are like moble cabins, and with the stnad up AC units this has brought the tents to a new level of camping and therefore they should not be excluded from campgrounds.

Not all MCG exclude tents ... we're been to plenty that have one section for tents.

Can't remember all, but MacDill, and Hanscom come to mind, and Air Force Academy (Colorado), and Westover ANG. Blanding ANG... Monks Corners ?, Ft Benning (I think) a quite few others as well.

Don't know why a MCG primarily with RV pads (concrete) and no grass and camping sites would be desired by a tent camper. But, I certainly would never advocate excluding anyone that wanted to tent camp. We RV'ers need to remember these MCGs are for vacations and recreation, and tents sure fit in that category.

Like Larry and Connie, we always take a tent and the truck when we want a 'true camping experience'. Now, with the Truck Camper on our 4x4, that gives us the best of both worlds.

And we carry a tent as an emergency home if we need to put truck or TC in the repair shop ... we still have a 'roof'.

We like the back-country areas more than the settled parks, and each time we look at the more modern and up-fitted rigs, we insist we look all we want, but then never 'put deposit' until we think about it at least a week. Well, we're still trucking around with the 4x4 and TC after eleven years.