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Vernie Goza
6/11/2018 04:34:02 pm
Everything roughly east of the Mississippi River is about 75% more expensive than west of the river. The eastern parks are more crowded and the sites are closer together. Corps of Engineer parks are cheaper, wider separation between sites and better laid out. Although they do have more right-side back in sites than they should. I'm waiting to have a visit with some of their layout engineers, if I can find them. Have fun, be safe.
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Tom
6/11/2018 05:25:41 pm
Yeah I was afraid of that, crowded, close together, and expensive does not sound like a happy time to me.
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Barney Ward
6/11/2018 04:49:12 pm
Yep high priced all over this area of Alabama and Tennessee. Point Mallard in Decatur Al is fairly nice at $548.80 a month and they sometimes have a pull through if you reserved it far enough in advance. Be cautious because a lot of the parks are left overs of when a 26 foot travel trailer was a huge unit.
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Tom
6/11/2018 05:32:22 pm
Yeah $550 a month is not bad, and that would be about my limit that I would want to pay. I'm hoping that since I'm considering going to the South in the winter the RV parks will be less crowded and less expensive. I know that doesn't apply to South Florida, I've spent enough time there to know that winter is when you DON'T want to go there.
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Darrell Goza
6/11/2018 05:52:07 pm
There are enough COE campgrounds in the east to where you could go from one to another every 14 days. At $10.00 to $15.00 per night with the Old Timers Pass, that works out to be $300.00 to $450.00 per month. Well within your budget. Just a thought. Don't worry about backing up, you have 14 days before you have to give up and leave.
Tom
6/11/2018 10:31:25 pm
I like the idea of Corps of Engineers campgrounds, there usually in pretty locations, after all the Corps of Engineers created the location, but I don't have much experience with the COE because they're not as prevalent out West, probably because we don't have as many rivers to dam up. But now that you've mentioned it I'll look into it a little further.
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Thomas
6/12/2018 09:47:08 am
Look on RVparkreviews.com at the listings around Fairhope and Foley, Alabama...I think you will find something you will like for less than $450 per month. Good luck.
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Tom
6/12/2018 02:44:28 pm
Thank you for that suggestion Thomas, I looked in that Fairhope area and there is a whole lot of RV parks right there. I'm a little familiar with the mobile area because my aunt lived there so I've made many trips through the Bankhead tunnel and stopped and seen the battleship many times. So that would be an area I would have some interest in staying.
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Tim
6/12/2018 02:22:06 pm
I checked around where my Dad lives (in the south, but not Florida) and the rates are high and you need to book well in advance if you want a site. This winter we drove through a few and it looked like every site was taken. We talked with a friend that knows the owner of one and they said most people stay there all winter. I've pretty much decided that when I visit him, I'll store the RV at the Escapee's Club in Livingstone (I think it's like $1 a day) and just drive over and stay with him for a week or two.
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Tom
6/12/2018 05:33:40 pm
Yeah I knew Florida would be a tough state to find a place to stay in the wintertime, for a lot of Easterners Florida, especially South Florida, is the go to place in the winter.
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Barney Ward
6/12/2018 03:25:09 pm
The Escapees park at Summerdale Al is also available but I do not know about pull throughs. They do have a boondocking section.
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Tom
6/12/2018 06:49:03 pm
My experience has been that the escapees parks that I've stayed at very seldom have pull-through's, and if they do it's in the overflow dry camping areas. Except that one in Deming that's almost all pull-through's.
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Tim
6/12/2018 06:30:43 pm
Sorry - I probably wrote that weird. He doesn't live in Florida, but in another southern state.
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Tom
6/12/2018 07:04:04 pm
I think that's another way to keep from getting into a rut. Getting away from the RV for a while is like taking a vacation away from your house. It breaks up the every day things you do in your normal life and lets you do something different. That's what a vacation is all about.
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Barney Ward
6/12/2018 07:43:35 pm
Way back in 2007 to 2009 most of my travels were of the cloverleaf type. I would set up and travel a clover leaf pattern of up to 100 mile radius just looking around. Occasional nights in motels were part of the style. Later I figured out that cutting the radius to about an hour distance and moving the Castle more often was more economical.
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Tom
6/13/2018 09:30:24 am
I can see why that would be the case especially staying at motels every once in a while. And since traveling by RV in the West is easy and more economical than some other places it's probably better to have your home with you wherever you go than to think of it as a base camp on a regular basis.
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Tim
6/13/2018 02:51:22 pm
Last time I was in the Smokey Mountains the traffic was a nightmare - and wasn't even pulling an RV. Can't imagine how stressful it would be pulling the 27-5L there.
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Tom
6/13/2018 04:48:04 pm
I think Smokey Mountain national Park is the most visited park in the country mostly because of its proximity to large concentrations of people. And it is a beautiful place. Although being from Colorado I'm not sure I would call them actual "mountains".
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