It's A New Age of Making Reservations.

**BobLandry** · 04-04-2021, 08:40 AM

We stick with ACOE parks. The NP Pass gets a site for $13 a night and they book up to 6months ahead. We used to do long trips and they were fun, but what it costs for gas for one trip will cover all summer of local camping, plus DW pulls the boat and we can have guests come out for skiing, kneeboarding, and burgers.

**Wicked ace** · 04-04-2021, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by BobLandry

We stick with ACOE parks. The NP Pass gets a site for $13 a night and they book up to 6months ahead. We used to do long trips and they were fun, but what it costs for gas for one trip will cover all summer of local camping, plus DW pulls the boat and we can have guests come out for skiing, kneeboarding, and burgers.

I think I'm going to start thinking that way too. Nothing more than a half day's ride out with 3 - 4 night stay over.

**Captcolour** · 04-04-2021, 10:59 AM

So what does the 2/2/2 travel method mean?

**livinthelife** · 04-04-2021, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Captcolour

So what does the 2/2/2 travel method mean?

drive no more than 200 miles, get into your camp before 2PM and stay 2 days.

**traveldawg** · 04-04-2021, 12:00 PM

A couple of thoughts after reading some of the recent threads....

First, we have reservations for all but may one or two days from now until Aug 28th. Any burp in any one place will likely necessitate trying to extend in one place and dropingp another. We're hoping for no 'burps'.

I find that as much as I dislike having to make reservations, I feel better having a reservation.

Some places were easy to get reservations for, a lot required a less than desirable spot in a campground, and more than I cared for required selecting a different campground in the area where I wanted to say. Still, I think I'll be OK.

The 2/2/2 doesn't work for us. Most of our trip is anything from 1 to 4 hrs between sites, and 3 to 5 (and even 7) days once we get to our destination area(s). When we leave FL it is drive-drive-drive until we get to our destination area; same goes for going back to FL when we are done. Those days it can be up to 400 miles or a bit more unless there is something that attracts our attention along the way.

It's kind of funny - those short travel days are the worst - you have to leave one place by their departure time and not get to the next before their arrival time. And more-and-more places seem to be getting real picky about not leaving late and not arriving early - I just don't get why an hour or 2 either way makes a difference!

**JetTech** · 04-04-2021, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by livinthelife

drive no more than 200 miles, get into your camp before 2PM and stay 2 days.

That’s what we did last season. This year we are doing a hybrid version of that considering our month long trip through Utah, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Oregon. Two night stays seem to short though and we prefer three nighters if reservations are possible

**jlackman** · 04-04-2021, 12:31 PM

I'm not associated and we haven't used it yet, but we're looking at HarvestHosts.com for more flexibility. Camp dry a few days, then hit a full service campground. We do have a friend that uses Harvest Hosts a LOT. It's just a membership site that let's you park at associated wineries, farmers, whoever wants to let people park on their land. You are "encouraged" to spend $20.00 at the host, but it's not mandatory.

If you do pursue this, read up on the reviews; one of the review sites has a 10-20% off code.

**Roll With The Changes** · 04-04-2021, 05:19 PM

Slightly off topic, but it's a new age for everything...

We're currently mooch docking and pulled out last Saturday to dump and go back to where we are. We tried calling ahead, but got transferred to the main Encore number and nobody answered there either. So we just pulled into a large campground to find that the office and store is closed on Saturdays. I'm totally confused. Isn't that the day you need more marshmallows or something?

Everything is weird now and I'm not really liking the new world.

**Wicked ace** · 04-04-2021, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Roll With The Changes

Slightly off topic, but it's a new age for everything...

We're currently mooch docking and pulled out last Saturday to dump and go back to where we are. We tried calling ahead, but got transferred to the main Encore number and nobody answered there either. So we just pulled into a large campground to find that the office and store is closed on Saturdays. I'm totally confused. Isn't that the day you need more marshmallows or something?

Everything is weird now and I'm not really liking the new world.

Maybe not, perhaps they were observing Sabbath?