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RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

The Rise of the Campground Alternative

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Camping experts predict the campground overcrowding will continue for the foreseeable future. And with millions of marketing money being invested now in the booming RV rental market, campgrounds are overwhelmed. The fact is, at many campgrounds, there just are no open spots to be found this summer. That's where a whole new aspect of the RV industry has developed - the campground alternative.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The continuing problem of booked up and overcrowded campgrounds is causing many RVers to search for alternates to campgrounds.

0:09.2

And we'll explain in this episode of the RV podcast how we can have more opportunities to camp in unusual places in episode 352.

0:21.0

Welcome, fellow travelers.

0:22.9

It's time for another episode of the RV podcast.

0:25.9

Answering your questions, sharing tips, suggesting great trips and off the beaten

0:30.5

path adventures, and always staying on top of the RV lifestyle news you need to know about

0:36.0

with great interviews and inside industry

0:38.4

information here's your host award-winning journalists mike and Jennifer windland

0:43.1

one thing about RVers they're resourceful and problem solvers and in this episode we are going

0:51.7

to dig into this movement of campground alternatives,

0:56.7

places where you can find the spot tonight or this weekend or next week.

1:02.1

Now, we're not talking about Walmart parking lots, although they do come in handy.

1:07.3

We're talking about real boondocking spots.

1:10.0

Boondocking spots in oftentimes very stunning locations that you can get into and you'll be amazed to find that there are no crowds.

1:20.6

Boondocking and dispersed camping sites on state and federal lands has becoming extremely popular.

1:26.6

And thanks to solar panels and lithium batteries,

1:30.1

we have more independence now. And it's so much easier to go out there and to find off the

1:36.4

grid spots where you really don't need the hookups because of technology. That's what we want to

1:42.0

talk a little bit about in this episode of the podcast.

1:45.7

Now we've talked before about different alternates to traditional campgrounds, places like

1:51.5

faithful parking, which lets you park for a small fee in church parking lots around the country.

1:57.8

And we've also recently chronicled the whole movement

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