Rv parking only while traveling

[Srmva]

We are planning a big trip from Tx to the North East. One of our stops in Pa area will be with family and staying with them. What do you do if you just want to park the RV somewhere for a few days? Storage? Camp ground?
I know a lot of Rv Resorts don’t like you leaving your rig unattended.
Thanks

 

[ducksface]

Have never met a park with such a restriction.
Is this an
East coast thing?
When you called the parks where you're going, what did they say?

 

[16ACE27]

1 - We've never stayed in a family/friend's house if there was an RV park withing an hour's drive.
2 - How would a RV park know you're not in the RV? You paid for the site - they don't care. Many people (including us) use RV parks for a parking space during the day being gone elsewhere from early morning to late night using the RV for bath and bed only.

 

[EA37TS]

We are planning a big trip from Tx to the North East. One of our stops in Pa area will be with family and staying with them. What do you do if you just want to park the RV somewhere for a few days? Storage? Camp ground?
I know a lot of Rv Resorts don’t like you leaving your rig unattended.
Thanks

Best to call ahead if there is an RV park of interest. We’ve been to quite a few in the mid-west and east that don’t like folks leaving an RV unattended overnight.

 

[ducksface]

Best to call ahead if there is an RV park of interest. We’ve been to quite a few in the mid-west and east that don’t like folks leaving an RV unattended overnight.

What penalty could they possibly enforce¿

Guidelines are not dictates.
My very educated guess says it's a
'We are not responsible for thefts'
Illogical Buttcovering.

 

[ghnl]

Some campgrounds also have storage areas where an RV can be 'parked'. A phone call would sort that issue out.

 

[MJC68]

I wouldn't think if you are paying rent for a space the park would care if you didn't overnight in your rig. That said and I am dating myself, used to be an old Bell telephone commercial phone first.

 

[dkoldman]

What I would NOT do, is put my RV in storage to be unattended for 2 plus days while on the road. I don't consider a RV campsite as storage.

You say a few days, but that is loosely defined. I can't imagine staying with family a few days in their house? I would go nuts. Overnight maybe, but I would stay in a hotel, or the RV. Isn't that why you bought an RV?

Next weekend, my daughter needs to go a Conference, it will be Friday through Sunday. We will take the RV drive 6 hours one way to her Hotel. The wife and I will stay in the RV, we will drive around and do things. Never had a hotel question us for parking on the lot as we are out of the way, and have some some tie to the hotel. In this case, my daughter will have a room.

When we go visit our son in Denver, we get a campsite at a State Park that is about 30 minutes from where he lives. We leave the RV at the campsite for overnight.

There are many ways to accomplish your objective, but a true storage facility even within a RV Park would be non starter for me.

 

[Lt Keefer]

I have been to a lot of RV parks that have rules against leaving campers unattended overnight. One time I asked why they cared, and the owner told me it was a waste of electricity. People come in, set up, turn on the A/C and then leave for a couple of days visiting. But I'm with Ace, I always stay in my RV when visiting family. I have my ways, they have theirs. This way we just get to visit and can come and go without interfering.

 

[Beau388]

Fortunately, I don't visit any relatives where I can't mooch-camp. Most of my closest friends that are not in the Village with me are RV's also, so the make a place for my coach. In the Village where I live, we have RV parking and guest rooms when the relatives with RVs come for a visit.

 

[ducksface]

We used to, pre rv, keep furnished rooms at various relatives houses.
We keep only one now and we use it half the time and the rv half the time.
The rv is easier but it hurts some feelings sometimes.

We keep two bedrooms here and two full rv spots.
We have Much more bedroom use than rv spaces use.

 

[dkoldman]

I have been to a lot of RV parks that have rules against leaving campers unattended overnight. One time I asked why they cared, and the owner told me it was a waste of electricity. People come in, set up, turn on the A/C and then leave for a couple of days visiting. But I'm with Ace, I always stay in my RV when visiting family. I have my ways, they have theirs. This way we just get to visit and can come and go without interfering.

They probably turn the A/C on leave because of the rule against leaving RV unattended. Maybe they wish to make it look like it is being used. Some campsites have too many rules. On one end they they complain if you pay for site but don't show up, and the other end if you show up and pay for the site they take issue with using what you paid for but not personally there. Do they have a rule on how may hours you can leave site unattended? I mean is it ok, to leave it unattended all day and run the AC during the heat as long as you are back to the campsite by their midnight curfew. Those RV Parks or not for me, I want my Freedom

 

[dkoldman]

Fortunately, I don't visit any relatives where I can't mooch-camp. Most of my closest friends that are not in the Village with me are RV's also, so the make a place for my coach. In the Village where I live, we have RV parking and guest rooms when the relatives with RVs come for a visit.

This is what I do, when my brother comes over our house, I have a 30amp receptacle for him. When I mooch camp at some relatives, I connect a power meter and track actual KW usage. In most all cases when I show them how much I actually used and offer to pay to double their actual rate, they pass. It mainly because they are just glad we are there visiting, and in part because it is always a lot cheaper than what one make think.

I have a brother/sister in law that has a deal on a vacation condo in Orlando and they want us to come and spend a weekend. I have to think that through. That is a long drive in RV, and if I am gonna fly somewhere for vacation, it will NOT be Orlando. I already did my one qualifying trip with kids to Walt Disney World. Truth be told we enjoyed Sea World in San Antonio better. My son was mesmerized with the Alamo, wife love the hotel ( Pre RV) on the Riverwalk, my daughter was fascinated with Shamu and his tricks, and I spent most of my time at the Anheuser Busch pavilion where they were brewing beer with fresh hops & barley serving free drinks. It was odd because if I recall they were charging $10 at the time for bottle water, but you could get beer for free