How do I park my RV?

There are just two ways to park an RV when it is used for traveling or camping:

I. RV campground

RV campground is not a simple parking lot, not just can provide water and electricity and other energy supplements, that is not and general parking lot is not very different? Professional RV campgrounds for different customer groups have different camping methods, in addition to a full range of supporting facilities, but also can provide learning, entertainment, taking into account the second-hand RV trading, RV remodeling and maintenance, and so on, a comprehensive place.

Many people say that the caravan parked in the campground price is expensive, in fact, it is more than ordinary parking lot has more additional services, and the opening of the caravan campground is a business enterprise, to support its survival can only be the profit, who can not do money-losing business, naturally feel more expensive, this is the same as when you go to the CLUB MED resorts the same reason, in fact, the CLUB MED resorts are not selling the guest rooms, but its In fact, CLUB MED resorts sell not the rooms, but its activities and services, professional RV campgrounds are naturally the same reason, regular campgrounds will carry out different types of activities, such as concerts, exhibitions, car enthusiasts exchanges, sports meetings and so on.

II. Non-caravanning campgrounds

In addition to the travel camping, the caravan parked to the professional caravan campgrounds, I sheep collectively referred to this type of parking for non-caravan campgrounds, some of these places are charged, and some places are charged very little; in the energy supplement, some of the provision of water and electricity, and even sewerage, and some of them are only to provide a separate one or a few items.

In the foreign caravanning industry, there is a professional term for this kind of caravanning trip: Boondocking.

Boondocking

Some car enthusiasts may have heard of this word, some of them are relatively unfamiliar with it, although the Americans are also the same in the caravan users within a group of black sheep, resulting in today’s Boondocking in fact, their play is also subject to local parking restrictions, but after all, there have been more than a hundred years of caravanning history, some things, or we need to learn from, and avoid some of the problems that may arise in the development of our own. The term Boondock is derived from the word “Boondock”, which means “caravan”.

The word “Boondock” comes from “bundok” in Tagalog (the official language of the Philippines), which means “mountain”. Later, when the Philippines became a colony of the United States, the Americans used Boondock to describe the “remote wilderness” of the Philippines. “the bottom of a remote wilderness”. During the Vietnam War in 1964, Americans replaced the word Boondocks with the more colloquial Boonies to refer to the rural areas of Vietnam other than Saigon at the time.

If you think Boondocking is wilderness camping, that’s not entirely accurate, because here are a few things about RV docking that count as Boondocking:

I. Wild Camping

As the name suggests, it is camping in the remote place, this kind of camping naturally will not have water and electricity supply, all need the self-sustainability of the caravan itself to support your camping life, when there is no supply, that is, you need to move out of the deadline. The advantage of this kind of parking campground is that you can be far away from the crowd, and even some places may not even have a phone signal, closer to nature.

II. Moochdocking.

Usually refers to you need to camp on the land belonging to others, may be your friends, comrades in arms, or distant relatives, this kind of parking camping is not a sneaky camping, but need to get the permission of others, as for how long can be parked, whether it can be replenished energy, all need to communicate with the land user.

For the domestic, such as parked in the yard of people’s bed and breakfast, or near the fruit and vegetable garden, basically belongs to this kind of camping.

III. Public parking lot overnight (Lotdocking)

In fact, this is a kind of caravan parking method that we generally use, in various public parking lots in China, museums or scenic spots around the parking lot, or hotel parking lot. However, this kind of parking should not be considered as camping, but just overnight, and naturally should not be parked continuously.

Camping and overnight is different, overnight, then your caravan activity area should be limited to the car, a car accounted for more than one, open the awning, outside the car pot cooking, set up tables and chairs, night singing karaoke forever OK, this kind of camping behavior, it should be in the professional caravan campgrounds, should not appear in the public parking lot, that is, because of a variety of these problems, leading to the public parking lot for caravan parking land now Restrictions, give you the power, but you put the free land not to cherish, and then blame the sky, blame the ground, is not to blame themselves!

IV. Dispersed Camping

Dispersed camping is a form of RV camping in the United States, generally on public lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service, in national forests, and in places other than the designated campgrounds (with energy supplies and restrooms), but you can’t park your RV anywhere, although there are some areas where you can park your RV and camp.

There is a difference between this type of camping and Wild Camping, which is true wilderness camping, and dispersed camping, which actually has some traces of previous camping, such as simply leveled land and outdoor picnic areas. At the same time, campers have to abide by the rules of the local national parks, such as not disturbing the wildlife, not picking, taking away all the garbage and so on.

V. Dry Camping

For caravanning old players should have heard of this type of camping, in fact, dry camping and its counterpart is wet camping, the difference between the two is that wet camping can provide a more complete energy supplement and sewage discharge campgrounds, it can be said that professional caravanning campgrounds is a kind of wet camping, there are many professional caravanning campgrounds in fact, there are a part of the site as a dry camping site, because of the relative facilities and services less means that owners don’t have to spend too much.

Dry camping can actually be regarded as another way of saying Boondocking, but this kind of camping is still a little different from the above, for example, compared with wild camping, many dry camping sites are professional campgrounds, just without the arrangement of energy replenishment and sewage discharge; and different from public parking lots for overnight stays, dry camping is allowed to carry out camping activities, which allows you to open awnings and cook outdoors. cooking, etc;

How should we use our RVs in the future?

If we still want to be able to have free public parking lots where we can park our RVs, and in order to make our RVing journey wider in the future, then as RV travelers it is important to start paying attention at least from now on:

ONE. Do not camp in public parking lots! Do not camp in public parking lots! Do not camp in public parking lots!

TWO. Do not impede the right of other vehicles to park in public parking lots; do not occupy fire lanes, even if the lot is full;

iii. Comply with local parking management arrangements and do not engage in conflict;

iv. Don’t throw your garbage anywhere; it is possible to throw your garbage directly to the dumpster; throwing it all in the parking lot dumpster will increase the workload of the parking lot managers;

v. To use the parking lot bathroom to replenish water and electricity, you need to communicate with the parking lot management personnel first, do not always occupy the bathroom door position, preventing other people from normal use of the bathroom;

vi. Black water tank sewage, do not make the bathroom too dirty, if their own reasons, they should take the initiative to help clean up;

vii. If there is a side business in the parking lot, such as supermarkets and so on, more or less care about people’s business;

Eight. Car with pets, do not let your pet affect other people;

Nine. Generator, external music, all the noise from you and do not affect other people, especially when others are resting time;