Hi, we're Mike and Jennifer Wendland and welcome to episode 350 of the RV podcast. This week we

talk about the camping crisis of 2021. Welcome fellow travelers. It's time for another episode of the

RV podcast. Answering your questions, sharing tips, suggesting great trips and off the beaten path

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

with great interviews and inside industry information here's your host award-winning

journalists Mike and Jennifer Wendland we'll be looking at one of the overlooked reasons why it's so hard to get a camping spot.

Yeah, it's a mess out there, as we're going to share in this podcast.

We're also going to expose a little known secret that is literally sweeping the camping industry, which is going to mean higher prices

for campsites.

And I don't know what else to say, except that it's because of the greed of the corporations

that are now taking over many of our campgrounds.

So we've got a lot to talk about this weekend.

Most of it related to what we're calling the camping crisis of 2021. The easy explanation for it is that this year they're expecting

anywhere from 63 million to 62 million campers. They've never had numbers that high ever.

And that's why it is so crowded.

But we've reported on that before.

We want to talk about a couple of other issues.

One has to do with campers who have reservations,

and then they just don't show up.

They don't cancel.

They don't call the campground.

They don't go online and pull their reservation.

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