View Poll Results: What do like like better Dry camping or full hookups
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Full Hookups
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231 |
69.37% |
Dry Camping
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10.21% |
Both
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68 |
20.42% |
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03-24-2010, 11:38 AM
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#21
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Long Island (Nassau County), NY
Posts: 4,352
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I prefer full hookups since I am usually accompanied by my children and grand children.
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09-07-2010, 06:01 PM
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#22
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 25
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Boondocking first (out off on a little road, not in a campground) first; dry camping second; full hookups third and RV parks/KOA absolutely dead last.
Nice to have hookups but not at the price at being nose-to-nose with other campers.
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09-07-2010, 06:12 PM
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#23
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Southern Alberta
Posts: 459
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The question was about hookups - but most of the answers are more about the kind of campground where the hookups are located - with full hookups often come neighbors close by.
I'm wondering whether folks go to a campground (not dry camping at wallyworld) and don't use / pay for the hook ups even if they are available. Does it make a difference whether you are just stopping for the night or staying more than a day or two?
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02-08-2011, 11:17 PM
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#24
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Phoenix AZ
Posts: 926
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02-09-2011, 08:49 AM
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#25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 533
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We prefer full hookup's, but do camp a couple times a year boondocking. We have friends that wont go unless they have full hookup.
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02-09-2011, 10:27 AM
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#26
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
Posts: 988
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the state parks we go to usually have electric only- if they offer full hook ups we go for it
Glenn- where are you camping in the photos.
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02-09-2011, 11:23 AM
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#27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 202
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It depends on where and when. I prefer full hook-ups on the first outing of the season, so I can check everything out, and for the last outing of the season, when I can flush everything in preparation for the long winter. For most of the year, electric-only is nice, although I do a few dry camps a year. Lately, though, beetle kills have ruined some of the best dry camping areas in the state, and significantly reduced the amount of shade available on a hot mid-summer day.
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02-09-2011, 12:39 PM
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#28
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Canada
Posts: 662
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As long as we have electricity to run the 32" telly, I'm good.
Other than that, more remote locations for privacy is prefered....which means "dry" i guess....would do it all the time if only we could watch dvd's/TV....
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02-09-2011, 12:46 PM
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#29
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Posts: 3,369
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[QUOTE=Glenn5995;82011]Boondocking
Glenn, Nice! Where are the pics from?
Bob
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02-09-2011, 01:38 PM
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#30
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Wanna Be Camper
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Posts: 2,420
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We will do either but prefer full hookups. Our Honda EU3000is keeps us powered up nice and quietly when we have to dry camp and we can run up to 20hrs on a tank of fuel. One provincial park we dry camped at last year a guy and his wife walked by and comented that our generator was so quiet it would put them to sleep. We keep it in the truck box as it helps with noise.
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02-09-2011, 05:37 PM
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#31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 184
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We do both, full hookups are nice,just depends on where we are at. We also have a 3000 watt generator, so when we do dry camp we can charge the camper batteries and our camera batteries.
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02-09-2011, 07:46 PM
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#32
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 375
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If I am in the mountains or desire to go to a national park or national forest...then boondocking...I just love this term (lol). If I am in Florida and not at the above....electric sites at a state park is my choice.
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02-09-2011, 10:10 PM
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#33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Phoenix AZ
Posts: 926
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tentcamper1
...Glenn- where are you camping in the photos.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by acadianbob
Glenn, Nice! Where are the pics from?
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The two photos where the awning is extended are both spots in the White Mountains of Arizona in Apache National Forest, near Big Lake. The two photos where the awning is retracted are two locations on the Mogollon Rim of Arizona in Sitgreaves National Forest, near Woods Canyon Lake.
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