Well, I was at a campground once and the next door guy had a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I told my wife, get ready for a rude awakening morning with our neighbor. I was up early next morning and this guys was pushing his motorcycle away from campers just so he can start his motorcycle and not disturb his neighbors... there are still good campers out there that have consideration for others. Sad you guys had to deal with crap like that.
Yes, another site I follow for campers a guy asked if it would annoy people if he took his motorcycle to his campsite. Most people said and agreed that they didn't care as long as he wasn't one of those constantly revving it up, riding past quite hours at night or early in the morning. A few said they didn't want you hear it at all and a few said they didn't care when he road it. So not everyone can be pleased. I was in with the first group.
Today 6-4-21 another great camper … pulls out of his spot, comes out of his truck with a trash bag and goes around picking up trash and cleaning his fire pit. Kudos brother!!!!
I had a guy at site kick my truck once . Funny thing was my dash cam proved I was going 11mph in a 13mph zone. He recieved a free all accommodation over night for criminal damage to property. The dent repair plus paint was over 2k
I think you missed the silver lining! The best part of having an RV is that you can move; you don't have to put up with it night after night! Try owning a house and having neighbors like your described.
me and my.wife camp at mitry lake.our neighbor.rv told us if we didn't move our crap out of our camp he said he would move it for us.yes grandpa.out of his skoall.
Just this weekend we were at campground and our neighbors allowed their two little yippie dogs run around off leash. One of the dogs came over to our site on pooped right right beside our picnic table. I very nicely asked the owners if they could come and pick up the poop. "Sure!" Four hours later, one of their kids finally came over and half-way picked it up so I picked up the rest. Next day, same deal, dog came over and pooped in almost the same spot. I promptly scooped it up on a piece of cardboard and walked it to their site and place it at the bottom of their stairs.
I was looking out my window, saw this guy walking his yorkie, stops at the edge of the property and the dog was about to do his business. I ran out to confront him, he finally saw me and snatched his dog and started walking away. If that dog has pooped there, I was going to follow him and poop on his property. Real talk.😬
I don't speed in campsites but I can tell you the roads in campsites can be very narrow and sometimes with full size one tons with oversized mirrors, you cant avoid getting close to people walking, that said damaging someone personal property by kicking it isn't the way to handle it. I can guarantee you'll do that to the wrong person one day.
He's right you know. Kicking someones car will either get your a$$ kicked or a visit from the police 🚔 be smart. And i know your a carry permit holder you really need to be smarter than to be the aggressor in any situation when your carrying. I am a fellow carry permit holder and agree with much of what you said but you wrong on kicking cars. A better tip in my opinion would be to be aware of your surroundings and create distance from vehicles when walking and you see them coming. I agree they should not speed or get close to you but your response will cause you trouble.
I would expect the vehicle to stop if he see's he will be coming up close to someone walking. Especially if with a child who could jump out in front of them. @@Mikeywatches
We were camping at Silvercreek Plunge in Idaho. We observed a large group of people camping in RV’s. One of the campers had their black tank hose stretched out into a bush. There are no dump hookups at this campground. I notified the campground employee but by the time the employee got to the site, the people had put the hose away. Gross!!! Some kid or pet is going to get into that and at best, get covered in sh**!!! So disgusting 🤢
we had a neighbor that allowed their dog to poop on "our" site. If we didn't pick it up right away we were the ones "in trouble" with the park, blaming our dog. 1 morning I was waiting at the window and as the dog came over, I took a picture while it was in mid poop, took it up to the office. He was asked to leave that afternoon.
Please don't judge me. We live near an apartment complex. People continue to walk their pets by my house. Happens when we don't see the dirty deed being done. On the advice of my neighbor, if you save the grease from frying bacon, dribble some of it across the poop. The next time a dog uses the yard as a toilet, poof its gone. And no, we pick up our dogs mess. Just not others.
I like all kinds of music. Well almost all kinds. I don't understand Rap can't keep up. But do they not know there is a volume control so the whole park does not hear their crappie choice of music. I don't mind them playing it just not so loud
Putting external speakers on the side of campers was probably the worst idea ever. I guess you are expected to like other peoples music. I have always believed people on the site next to me should not be able to hear what I am listening to. Unfortunately I have been camping and heard music from a couple rows away. Unfortunately most parks don't care unless its quiet time.
Loved it. We were trailer camping in Smoky Mtns and returned from morning walk. Next to us was another trailer with TWO Huskies, both moaning and clawing at the curtains. It last about 2 hours, then again near dark. Yep, owners come back after 9pm and started screaming at dogs for peeing and destroying furniture. Campground Mgr came and told them they had 2 hours to leave! QUIETLY, she said. 😊 Good
I was full-timing at a park where my neighbor would get up at 6 am and fire up his diesel-powered dually and let it warm up for 15 minutes while the exhaust fumes filled my bedroom. The noise didn't bother me as much as having stinky toxins pumped directly into my RV, choking me and my dog. With less than 10 feet between campers, that space where he was parking filled up with fumes in no time flat. I finally stormed out one morning and somehow managed to calm myself enough explain to him what the problem was. To his credit, he started parking in a different spot that allowed him to idle that thing without being directly beneath my windows. I was so glad to see the last of them when they got evicted a few weeks later.
I don't think the rude RVers even watch videos such as yours. Self entitled folks think the whole world revolves around their needs and they certainly don't teach their children any better.
It is cheaper to stay at a Hilton five star resort with included meals after you do all the computing of the cost of storage, camping, gas, insurance, repairs after you use the tin can once etc etc etc. Plus you get to stay with nice people instead of slobs. No cooking, no dishes, no cleaning..That is what vacations are supposed to be about, not keeping track of the child bike gangs that start screaming and throwing rocks against your tin can house at about eight in the morning as they race around the park.
Boondocking doesn't always save you from the jerks, though. Sometimes they show up wherever you are anyway, especially if you're doing dispersed forest service camping or dispersed desert camping. By far, the desert campers are the worst because most of them have several ATVs with them. I am NOT dissing ATVers because most are nice but it's the bad apples that run through your camp with their ATV or stay up all night screaming and yelling and drinking that spoil it for the rest of them (and us).
My wife and I are newbies and so much appreciate your knowledge, wisdom and humor. I hope we'll never be or become subjects of someones "rudest campers ever" list. You guys are great, keep up the awesome work.
Years ago, when our kids were little, we took a tent camping trip. After getting to bed the first night, the people in the next camp site kept talking and laughing loudly, well after quiet hours. We finally put an end to it, when I started singing Tom Lehrer's "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)." As I recall, they were quiet that next night. In our pop-up trailer a few years ago, we ended up next to a couple of German men who were RV'ing around the US. Apparently, at some point, they'd been stopped by law enforcement and told to wear their seatbelts, as for most of the night, they kept repeating loudly, "BUCKLE UP! IT'S THE LAW!" and laughing about it. They were nice enough guys, but that got pretty old rather quickly. It didn't help, either, that they were smoking some rather nasty smelling cigarettes (the legal kind), and the smell kept wafting over to our site. It probably bears mentioning as well, that not only can others hear when a couple is fighting in their RV, but if they're a bit too vocal during more amorous interactions, those will be heard as well. While it's nice to know someone is having a good time, I think most of us prefer not getting the sound track the entire time.
@@kellyanne7225 I figured that would keep the comment "family friendly." So far, we haven't heard any of that in any campgrounds, but we have heard other couples through the walls in hotels. I'm sure it's just a matter of time, though. My wife read about some festival that listed accommodations as "Giggle Camping," which meant tents close enough together that you would hear other couples in nearby tents.
OMG We where camping at our favorite state park. Half way around the loop a family of (I'm not kidding we counted them) 30 people 4 couples and 22 children all under the age of 10. And they made the camp grounds their play ground . They would run though your site would come and ask for some of what you where eating. Jump into the back of my pick up ,want to use our bathroom. I'm not kidding. Where are the parents. I went to the park off to complain. That lasted about 10 min kids went right back to doing what they were doing . And not just to us the whole camp grounds. When I had enough I went to their site and as nicely as I could explained that if they did not control their kids I would be back with the police and a Ambulance. Because I would beat the crap out of them for ruining my weekend with their kids. Oh and I forgot that there were 4 other campers with me to back me up. Because they where having the same done to them. NOW This all happened in one day. The next day the park had the state police remove them and banned them from coming back. When 36 camp sites report this and the parents did nothing to stop their kids. So yes I'm a bad guy for saying something to them. I'll get over it
The worst to me is when a large group takes over an area and proceeds to party hearty until past midnight, loud music, drunken yelling, littering, etc., and there's never a campground attendant present to shut them down.
I can’t believe (but sadly, really can) that all of these things aren’t no brainers! A couple years ago, my daughter arranged a group camping trip for friends and family. We ended up paying quite a bit extra for a group site because the number in our group was somewhat large, and we wanted to stay together. The site came with its own portable potties, and parking area. We spent the entire trip fighting with day campers parking in our lot, and literally tramping right through our site to get to the water, as well as using the potties designated for our site. I mean, they literally were hauling equipment, easy-ups, coolers, chairs, etc. back and forth, every day, RIGHT THROUGH our spot. It was so annoying and disappointing when we spent so much for that site. We complained, to no avail.
After 20 years in the Navy, I've learned to NEVER, EVER trust a stranger to do things 'the right way'. I couldn't agree more about sanitizing everything. I have been up to 30 minutes late leaving check-out (the wife and I work late/graveyard shifts and we sleep IN!!). One time, on a Tuesday, we had someone pull into the waiting area and they were staring daggers at us from 40 feet away as we were packing out - 10 minutes BEFORE check out and 70 minutes before check in! This older couple (say late 70's) were very upset that they couldn't get into their spot immediately. They had in-state tags, and their rig was from a local dealership and was over ten years old, so they likely lived within an hour of the park. So, if you get there BEFORE check in, please don't be a jerk to folks who are packing out before your turn to get into it.
We had someone come up to us - an hour before our checkout as we were breaking down camp and asked us if we were going to be long because her husband wanted to set up to watch the game! I told her we would be as long as it took and then had a coffee.
I have told a few people that my checkout was a certain time and gave them a Starbucks card. F them. I don't hump camper legs, I don't want mine humped either.
We reserved two premium water access camp sites (following campground rules, no more that 8 people per site).There was a clearly marked trail to the water, on the outer perimeter of each site. Instead of using the trail, people were walking through our sites with canoes, kayaks and little raft boats. I finally said something (nicely the first few time). I thought about walking through there site. Instead, I went to the camp host, they in return went to all the other sites and told people to stop walking through our site. Of course the rest of the weekend, we were hated by other campers…who cares, we paid big buck for those sites and we were going to enjoy them! Love your stories and all your camping advice.
We glamped for 5 years as seasonal campers near Horicon, Wi. The worst campers were a group of 20 - something guys who drank and talked loudly until 1 or 2 AM, when quiet time started at 10 PM. The campground owner was oblivious to it UNTIL they started shooting off fireworks the 2nd night of a 4 day holiday weekend. That got them kicked out immediately - they were gone within 30 minutes, due to the owner telling them that he would call the police if they did not leave within that time. They were only 2 spaces away from us. Total lack of common sense and decency - guess they left their brains and manners at home.
We're retired and often arrive early at campgrounds. If the site is still occupied, we try to find a spot out of everyone's way to unhook our towed vehicle and maybe have a sandwich. Usually, the folks leaving the site are out by checkout time. My pet peeve is leaving bright lights on, gas lanterns are the worst. Some porch lights are too bright.
At Yellowstone a family, at least three generations of them, had taken over the inside of a restroom and were using it as a kitchen and cooking their evening meal. This was wrong on so many levels, it defied any/all sensibilities.
That has got to be one of the most disgusting things I have heard of in a very long time. It's right up there with the woman that had her 2 little kids with her in the handicap stall at Walmart, where she had a baby on the floor and changing its diaper. Oh, the 2 other kids were crawling around on the floor while she did that. I had to wait until she was all done because I was recovering from hip surgery and had a walker so I was waiting my 'turn' to use the handicap stall. As she walked by me and said 'I bet she doesn't even wash her hands.' And, damned if she didn't!!!
Last year while camping at a state park a lady drives in with her motorhome, she starts backing into the site across from us, she wasn't happy where she was so she pulls way forward, the front of her rig Comes within inches of our camper, which is about 6 feet in from the road, yikes, then starts backing up again. One neighbor is trying to tell her that she's going to hit a tree on her side, but she just waves to him and floors it smashing into three small trees then hitting a larger tree. She then gives up and pulls into another site that had less trees. Come to find out she was drunk and didn't even have a reservation in the park at all. The cops were called and she was taken in in her RV towed away
I reserved a specific spot at a campground because it was secluded, and the manager allowed specific reservations. I showed up, and another RV had parked in my spot and was totally set-up. I very politely explained that he would have to move. You would have thought that I kicked his dog or something. He couldn’t believe that I would make him pack up and move out of my spot! I had a great time after that, but for some reason he gave me a lot of dirty looks that weekend.
Have no guilt. It's his fault for being a jerk and not having enough intelligence to understand what a reservation is. Any normal person would apologize for their mistake and willingly move.
On our second RV trip we went to a big Trade Days/Flea Market event where there is a large campground attached to the event facility. The last night we were there we, and the whole camp ground was woken up at 4:30 am when the chickens they had bought the day before began crowing.
One of our rudest neighbor experiences was someone’s kid shining a super bright light at our bedroom window when we were trying to sleep. They were all around the campfire late at night being somewhat loud, but the worst part was that light in the hands of a kid playing with it. So rude of the parents.
@@etonly2277 really? Wow.. I've always wanted a camper after many years of tent camping but I'm reconsidering... Do you stay at hotels with your RV or you just dropped the RV?
Also about the not shaking hands… our site this weekend the grounds had a padlock for everyone to use, and the thought crossed my mind I wonder how many people didn’t wash their hands after handling the septic 😅
Your comments are so true. Campground etiquette has gone down the drain. I'm 73 and have dealt with the same issues as you have, and even more. Too many newbees camping nowadays with speeding, loud music, leaving trash (firewood ok), loud late night talking, running generators past the legal times, people walking through your campsite, pets off their leash, and on and on. It is not like it was 10 years ago.
I was at a KOA last year in Texas. This particular weekend a family was having a hillbilly family reunion close to us. Every stinking night the clan would come togather, start drinking, arguing and screaming all hours of the night. Hate crap like that!
A young couple in a tent (multiple tents on the one site) LITERALLY under our pop out bed, on our “property”, making loud whoopie throughout the night. This was a special event weekend so we initially tolerated the cramped tent set up, but after that first night being re-woken several times we made them move their tent that morning!.
LOL, its funny how your views at 20 change when you're 25 with small kids. At 20 you're like bunnies like the rest of folks, at 25 you're like "geesh does it ever stop" ..... been in the exact situation. Thought it was just me that was wokeup by the couple next door in the middle of the night. Then my little 3 year old says "Dad I think they have a monkey in their tent"? LOL, hmm maybe sweetheart go back to sleep.
Lmao! I had a couple like that camp in a tent a lot over from where I was camped in a tent. They only got loud for about 5 minutes. I'm assuming it took longer and at least they were only noisy during "peak times." Either that or she was one disappointed lady... 🤣
I worked as a camp host at a campground in the Allegheny National forest . Believe me I know what you went through with rude people. People can be so unbelievably ignorant. Your right most campers have a kindred spirit with nature. But then you get the worst hell raisers.
I agree about going slow in the campground, but parents need to control their kids .. too many times I see parents paying zero attention to their kids and what there doing ..I can't tell the number of times a kid on a bicycle wondering or wobbling into my path and almost getting struck
YOU GOT IT! This ain't the 1970's - where is you were out and misbehaved, mrs. smith could take you by the ear and drag you home..which was, infintely worse.
We have alway told our kids, when a vehicle is coming down the roadway to get off the road and stop, don't move until that vehicle passes. We have done this since the kids were all small and when we were walking with them would do the same. It's not the driver that needs to pay attention you your kids. The parents need to pay attention to their own children in a campground or anyplace else.
@@MrBubbahunt9 Exactly! Yet, nowadays some people consider honking the horn as rude. So, who is the “jerk” now? The horn-honker, or the campers in the road?
Late check outs are my pet peeve. Twice we've had to sit & wait because the previous campers didn't check out on time. The second time (different campground than the first) - we told management & they just said 'not to worry about it & just wait for them' - we waited for hours. We were super mad & I should have asked for a partial refund since we couldn't use our site for several hours. THEN it was too late in the day for me to get out kayaking so it really torqued me. Needless to say we won't go back to that campground because management doesn't manage properly.
Another thing you might mention is decorative lights. We love to camp so that we can be outdoors and enjoy an evening campfire and see the stars. Some people have their campsites so lit up, it affects everyone around them. We were camping once and a lady was stringing her lights around the end of her camper, which was very close to our fire pit. We were sitting by the campfire and she didn’t seem to notice us, so I mentioned that we enjoy it darker so we can see the night sky. She was kind enough to pull her lights back around to the front of their camper.
I’ve been camping in everything from a bedroll in the dirt to various RV’s, and everything from Forest Service wilderness to high end RV park. I’ve noticed over the past ten years or so that the conduct of a lot of campers leaves a lot to be desired. I’ve seen a lot of what was described in the video and more. We were camped in a Forest Service semi developed camp site often referred to as a yellow post site. The site was at the end of a long “driveway” and camping is only allowed in the area at designated yellow post sites. 8 am in rolls Cousin Eddy and his tenement on wheels and he sets up blocking our only way in and out and starts a campfire in the middle of the “driveway”. I approached Cousin Eddy and politely asked him to extinguish the fire as we were in red flag fire danger and move his rig to the empty yellow post site 1/4 mile away and unblock the “driveway” so that we could get in and out as we needed especially if a fire broke out. I was met with a series of f’bombs and told if I didn’t like it “I should have kept my flat land @$$ at home. Thankfully, I had a friend that worked for the Forest Service that came out to see us and found Cousin Eddy and his band of misfits and he went to jail for several warrants and the tenement on wheels got towed. I’ve had adjoining campers on several occasions send their raggamuffin children to ask for food when I’ve been grilling, people decide I didn’t need that much campsite and set up their equipment in my clearly marked site without asking and when confronted called a litany of expletives, purposely take their dog into my campsite at the fire ring to deficate and when asked to pick up after their dog laugh about it walk off and drop a bunch of derogatory expletives, people enter my site sit at my picnic bench and blaze up weed and more. Note: none of the locations where this has happened is inner city. It’s all been in what are typically nice state or federal campgrounds. The last incident occurred at Asseteague State Park along with a host of other nonsense like a truck parking in the middle of the night in our space blocking us in. I left until the morning and when I asked them to please, leave and was completely ignored. The only thing that got them to leave was getting the Conservation Police involved. What this comes to is that their is a large minority of people that SUCK. They think they can relocate their back yard to campgrounds and public lands and conduct themselves the same as if they were in their own backyard. It’s time to start calling these people out. If you have video don’t cover their face or their license plate and let everyone see who these folks are.
Society has really gone done hill............a large majority are in the mode of its all about ME. So many of these new RV'er have done nothing to find out about camping etiquette.
I've seen that too. We are in a class A waiting to fuel up but there was this car just sitting there at the pump - no-one in it, no-one putting fuel in it - they were all inside having lunch.
To DrinkinSlim, did you have the urge to push him out of the way? Or call a tow truck (hell, I'd even pay for the tow just to see the look on their faces as they watch their car being lifted and moved).!! Tell the tow operator to drop it off 2 miles down the road so they at least have to walk-off their lunch, even if they didn't get the message.
@@havocproltd Yes, but that is not a crime, since firewood is not "litter", since it can be used by the next person who camps in your spot, to save on those tiny super-costly bundles of dry timber that the campground sells. My "frugal Fanny" friend Kim showed me the clever trick of scavenging for unused wood from surrounding unoccupied campsites; often, this leftover wood --- especially when combined with dead branches from the surrounding forest --- may often be enough for an adequate campfire during your stay. As I recall, she and I never had to actually purchase bundled wood during any of the times we went camping. :D
On your last point about walking on the camp road and vehicles being 'too close' to you. I'd strongly suggest that the road is the only place the vehicle can be, while walkers can be on the road and/or on the grass. Please be considerate and yield the road to vehicles when they are present.
I find that most management don’t do anything about their own rules. They need to drive around to make sure people are following the very rules they give them. Almost Every park we have gone too have rules about dogs being chained up outside without owner outside. But we see dogs all the time outside and owners stay inside their RV. I’m not talking about running inside to get something I’m talking about a long time inside. Also making sure people are checked out when they are suppose too. Why have rules if you are not going to enforce them?!?
Quiet hours are my biggest pet peeve, followed by the fast drivers. And the people who encroach on your campsite. And... well, all the other stuff you mentioned.
I’ve had people drive through my site while my dog was on his chain and my truck was parked on my site. I complained to the owner and was told that he never does that. I said that he did today and I could drop stop sticks in the way so the proof will be there.
We arrived at a local state park at 5pm on Friday night and the previous camper was still in the spot we'd reserved, with all of their belongings strewn about. They seemed to be living in their RV with 4 young kids, so it was a lot of belongings. I went over to ask them to move and the woman who came out said her husband had to run into town and she didn't have keys, but they would move as soon as he got back (at this time it was 4 hours after checkout). I walked over to let the ranger know what was going on, and walking back, got a glimpse of them continuing to play outside, making no attempt to pack up. The ranger stopped by about half an hour later and then followed up, letting me know that they expected to be out of the site soon. We had squeezed our 30' motorhome in our friends slot next door and they had cooked us dinner, as we all stewed at the gall and kept watch on "our" site. Just before dark, a guy emerges from the trailer (turns out he had been there the whole time) and the kids all come inside, they turn off all of their lights. Another trip to the ranger, but they are closed for the night and we are furious. But I keep thinking about the young kids and don't really want to make a scene when the whole campground is settling in for the night. So we sleep awkwardly on an incline in front of our neighbors spot. About 1am, the hooligan interlopers wake us up with their lights shining right in our windows and their diesel pusher coming to life and they take off. It was a a terrible start to a weekend.
My wife and I were tent camping once and about 10 pm a bunch of boy scouts showed up and made so much noise till about midnight. The adults were worse than the kids with yelling back and forth.
My pet peeve... people who book two waterfront sites, one for their RV and one for their boat trailer. Come on Dude, at least book the site across the road (non-lakefront) for your boat trailer
It's also frustrating for people in cars when we're driving through parking lots or campgrounds and people are walking down the middle of the driveway and they know there's somebody behind them and they just don't care and just keep walking slow and like to piss people off that are behind them waiting for them to get out of the middle of the roadway. I know the two of you would not do that but I've seen that quite often.
Doing that is a real jerk move but be aware that it's also a dominance or power move by the people doing the walking. They *know* they're in the road and holding up traffic. They do it to exert power over those behind them. It's flat-out a dominance game humans play. It also happens to be a first-class jerk move.
this was my thought,, it's a ROAD and much easier for the walkers to move out of the way than a freaking vehicle!,,, The roads are typically narrow to begin with,, so yes,, she is way off expecting cars to MOVE in order to get around her...facepalm
Story number two wins the contest for me. The Campers, who stayed too late and dumped their black tank all over. Unbelievable! I tend to be overly considerate. It irritates my husband that I pay more attention to be considerate than I do to enjoying our time at the campgrounds, I’m a bit of a people pleaser, but this is a great video that helps spread the word❤
I have literally never been camping in an r.v., but I love your videos. You guys have the best personalities. This one gave me a bit of anxiety, as I have some rude neighbors, but at least they're not snuggled right up next my house. Thanks for making these entertaining videos!
Debi, you hold the power. 1st time is a warning, 2nd is a stern talking to, 3rd is PYS, pack your stuff, and exit the property, please....thank you and have good day.
@@kellybaker5712 I travel for a living, I just wanted to stop the merry-go-round and relax. If people have a issue with something they get to deal with it. If I was a camp host I would assess the problem and deal with it and use the resources given to me. With 20 plus people with a different view than me, its better to take a seat rather than create more issues. 20 years from now, it doesn't matter. People do as people do. God bless and Semper fi.
I’m a solo, 59 y/o female camper. I backed into my spot and got out to plug in my Surge Guard to check the pedestal. A man came over with his hands dramatically wrapped around his head saying, “Are you by yourself?! Boy, I’m glad you didn’t hit my Class A!!!” I looked at him trying to decide if he was joking or not and he said, “Women drivers aren’t good in a car, let alone pulling a trailer.” I wasn’t very nice and when I got done, he just turned around and walked away. His wife left their site and started walking towards him and I said, “I feel sorry for you. There’s no way I could put up with that man.” That was it. I think I shut him down. Haha! They avoided me for the next 3 days until they left.
I have two annoying experiences: 1 is those annoying generators that campers like to have on all day long into the late evening hours. I remember on 1 occasion my husband and I camped at a dry campground and someone right next to us decided to use their loud big commercial type of generator all day into the night. There was no camp host to complain to, so we left very early the next morning. 2 again at a dry campground a middle-aged couple decided to blair their 60's music from big amplifying speakers that the whole campground could hear. Finally with complaints the host did drive over and told them to tone it down. That was not only irritating but surprising because this couple were not even teenagers, they were full grown adults. We call him the music man and we still talk about him today.
I get the "pet peeve" with pets. Our now former neighbors, since we moved last year. They have small dogs that every morning as they did not keep them on leashes 90% of the time. Would come over and pee on the tires of my van. Here's the issue I have with that. Urine causes rust to happen to bearings and brakes etc. If you allow this or just ignore it to be polite, it is setting yourself and your passengers up for not only future vehicle repairs but possibly endangering yourself plus them due to breakdown on the road or outright accident.
Dog's off leash, take a wide path around my property. I have slingshots and air rifles. On low power, it stings them. I'm a good enough shot to hit a Chihuahua on the back end. The neighbor on my right had a huge old fat Labrador that would cross my back yard every day to get to my neighbor's house on my left. That neighbor had piles of junk and trash in his back yard. The lab would go over there and grab something random like a frying pan. As he was dragging it across my yard on his way home, he would stop to take a massive dump. Then he would lose interest in that day's garbage selection and leave it in my yard. This was a daily occurrence. When I decided to remedy the problem, it only took me two days to convince that dog to cross the street and hide in the ditch on his way back and forth.
@@tangoindiamike9189 oh my gosh that is hilarious!! Sorry for the frustration, but you are a comedian! I could see this happening as you described it. LOL
My husband wants to do the RV thing , but after watching this I am thinking no way...Thanks for making these vids so people can make a better decision . Cheers
Me my wife and 15 year old daughter spent 6 weeks going from NC to NV and back almost 6000 miles.. staying at all different RV sites... thousand trails parks.. boondocking beside pikes peak and Moab Utah..to staying at small RV parks in the middle of nowhere..I would do it again in a heartbeat...the good far outweighs the bad.. memories are the best!!
Oh no, Jina, do start RVing. The rude people are out there, yes, but the vast majority of RVers I've met and camped with have been good, honest, sensible people. I love taking my RV trailer places. We've gone from Seattle to Maine, to Georgia, and then back by way of Colorado and the southwest. It was a heck of a trip but SO much fun. We carried along our own rest area, restaurant, hotel room, and entertainment complex hitched to the back of our Suburban. Good times!
My very first trip ever, We went to Gettysburg, I check in to the campground, and drive to our site, the road to our site was blocked by 3 custom motorcycles parked in the road. AND, the owners left the campground! The campground manager could not contact them and would not move the bikes. No other sites available, Long story short, they found us a site at another camp ground! The next trip, our neighbors were pulling out early, he fired up his diesel truck at 6 am and left it idling until they left at 10! We couldn't sleep. Needless to say, we doubted camping!
We pulled into our campsite and discovered the firepit filled with someone's macaroni and cheese!! They must have just dumped their leftovers in the firepit instead of the trash!!!! It was disgusting!!
Pet etiquette is huge! I was mauled in 2014 so I freak out about dogs OFF LEASH. I was camping and I have a German shepherd husky mix. The neighbor had 2 German shepherds off leash. I wasn't aware he let them out by themselves and when I walked by it rushed up on me. He came out his RV and whistled. Then as we were talking his dog rushed my dog who was on his lead. I told him I was mauled and am freaking out about his dog off leash and he claimed his dog was just a big baby. I DON'T GAF, I have panic attacks when a dog rushes me. I stayed inside my van the rest of the day and left the next day.
Thank you for raising awareness about speeding in campgrounds. I live at a riding stables in the UK and we have loads of 5mph sizes and of course we have horses, pedestrians and elderly people around. Some motorists just don't care. I do need some ideas of how to slow these maniacs down but they gaslight you and it is very diffcult
Hey Folks, really good common sensical information but I fear as others have mentioned that “those rude campers” don’t care enough to watch videos like this. After full timing for one year we have seen/experienced all of the things you mentioned here. Our worst experience was a group of campers that refused to not cut through our site to get to theirs behind us. They literally would drive a golf cart through our site, just missing our canopy and picnic table. It took a face to face with the campers to get them to understand the rules. Thanks for posting.
That's when you decide that putting up a clothesline to dry your towels, other long, hanging laundry is a good thing. Do not leave just the clothesline there - they may not see it and you don't want to be liable for them hurting themselves. However, a clothesline full of towels, etc and perhaps even a double clothesline is a good thing. Lol.
My biggest complaint is people NOT picking up their dogs poop! I see that so many times and I make a mental note not to walk in that area. Be considered and pick it up and some people think just because their dog/dogs are small, they don’t have to pick the poop up. 🤨😠
Thank you for sharing. I avoid close proximity to other people to prevent my own reaction. Unfortunately our social contracts have broken down due to years of no consequence behavior.
Pet etiquette is by far my pet peeve (Pun intended). Just last week I was next to an elderly couple that had a HUGE Doberman. They had it tied up on the side of their RV with about a 15 foot leash - just short enough to where it couldn't physically reach the driver's side of my truck but about a foot away. So, when I pull in and get out, I have this dog in full attack mode about 3 inches from my legs barking, growling and lunging at me. Scared the bejezus out of me the first time I pulled in. Then the owner sticks his head out the door and says, "Oh, his bark is worse than his bite." I may have said something smart-a$$ back, I don't remember exactly. Bottom line, it is just like you said. Be considerate - not everyone loves Rover like you do.
You guys are spot on! So far this year we have run into several 'newbys' and a couple arrogant people in the campgrounds. Frustrations are running higher than in the past but that's no excuse for being total jerks. I have printed out a list of "campground etiquette" and have NO PROBLEM placing that list, with certain violations highlighted, on the the offenders windshield. Safety is priority, courtesy is everything else.
My pet peeve - campgrounds with 5-10 mph speed limits where the golf cart drivers treat it as an Indy qualifier. Amazing how the same people who respect the campground speed limit will either rip through it themselves on a cart, or (worse) let their clueless kids speed on a cart.
We had checked into a site just outside of Yellowstone with our sweet vintage 80s-era Born Free camper. Relaxing by the fire having a cocktail. In rolled a huge (and lovely!) RV pulling a trailer with lots of ATVs and assorted toys. We were truly the underdog in this fight. The guy leaned out his window of his (probably) $400,000 camper and said the campground had made a mistake and they were supposed to have our site. The manager had simply made an error and assigned them our site. Didn't realize it. There were many other sites available, but this guy said, "We were REALLY looking forward to having your site. For the view." We just sat there and showed them our campsite thingy you put in your window. He stared at us hard and we sat back down. Really dude? they got the site across the lane from us and as they were setting up their dog started barking at our dog and our dog started barking at their dog. The guy said, "Is this going to be a problem?" I stood up, leaned into him, and said, "I don't know. IS IT?" They moved across the campground. Amazing privileged thinking! We still laugh about it today!
The rudest neighbours me and my husband encountered was they were drunk loud and using a fire pit letting their smoke filling our RV and not putting it out. And I think people should respect the lots we pay for and never invade your privacy.
Down at the beach, when you wanna breathe in that cool ocean air, all those ppl who just gotta have a fire with driftwood or what ever is available and the smoke fills up your trailer or camper or whatever you have. Up in Northern CA last time we visited, the fires were raging inland and people were on the coast trying to stay cool and breathe fresh air. A group from Texas had a campfire going all day all night the whole time and refused to put it out EVER. It ain't camping if you can't have a fire, one guy explained. They even went down on the beach and left it going unattended. Truly ignorant. Once they left, both myself and another camper doused that damn fire with buckets of water until it quit smoking.
As I read some comments I WAS reminded of a new trend in camping that IS disturbing. That would be tent campers with no restroom camping in a dry camp area. It seems that poop freeks who are scared of their own poop do not have the decency to bury their poop with a shovel or a boot to keep the place sanitary. I like to camp in a area where I can let my dogs run around without a leash and one day one of my dogs came back with human shit all over her and it was really bad. Thank God I have an outside shower! I did use gloves in this case while giving the dog a bath. After the clean up I went to inspect where it came from and found human crap and toilet paper EVERYWHERE! There were at least 20 dump sites on the surface with paper included. I spent and hour cleaning it up so I didn't get another dog in it. I have ran across this on more than one occasion! Please people, bury your crap!
We've all encountered situations where we would like to "teach" the other guy a lesson, but I doubt rolling a distraction in font or or kicking their vehicle does anything other than raise the desire to further the confrontation. Getting a photo of the license and reporting to the park officials might go farther in the long run. Some time we just have to bite our tongue, so to speak. Otherwise, I enjoy sharing you adventures through your channel.
The greatest impact on my driving when I was young was when a neighbour knocked on my front door and confronted me for driving 40 in a residential area.
Michael, I agree. In face that ball hitting their car might be the thing that triggers that driver to SHOOT you. Every day I read about ridiculous shootings. I learned my lesson many years ago. If someone hit my car with anything, I would STOP and have a word with him and TEACH him how to handle that.
I agree with Michael. Rolling a ball or kicking a car is an aggressive move. Write down the license plate and report it to management. Being concerned for your child is quite understandable, but she does not need to see you get in a confrontation with somebody. Also make sure she knows to pay attention and get out of the road whenever a car comes. I really do enjoy your channel and thank you for teaching camping etiquette. :)
Guys! You rock! We’re new to this. We are used to a huge yard and the freedoms that come with it. We’re in process of selling house, buying RV, finding RV camp to then transition to unrestricted land. Finally, start building a cabin. Thanks to your videos we’ll put our best foot forward and not be Cousin Eddy campers!!!
Finally! You too have witnessed all the new crowd coming out in droves to go camping. But common courtesy has gone out the window! It's a damn shame! Thanks for posting this.
My hubby and I bought our first motor home 2.5 months ago, a class a Tiffin! You two are my favorite you tubers and we’ve learned so much from you guys! On our first trip we stayed a night at a harvest host. The place was amazing! We stayed in the parking lot and it was pretty hot outside. We pulled in fairly early and went to grab a bite to eat....when we got back someone in their fifth wheel pulled up right next to us, they were so close I was worried about our slides hitting them! There was an entire parking lot for them to park in yet they parked directly next to us! Since we were staying the night in the parking lot we were running the generator because it was way too hot.....which is allowed, these people in the fifth wheel came knocking on our door at 11 pm and asked us to turn it off! Obviously we were not too happy with this but we did turn it off.....but they were totally in the wrong, they shouldn’t have parked RIGHT next to us! Since this was a harvest host location and there were no hook ups and it was in the fairly large parking lot, using the generator was perfectly acceptable. What’s even worse is, even though we can’t prove this, we believe they removed the safety pin from our master tow! We didn’t discover this until we were already on the road and had made a gas stop! Someone could have been killed! These people were horrible!
Good point Mercedes, regarding people that don't show up! We're in the southwest portion of Canada, and campsite reservations are nearly impossible to get, but then there are those that get them, and don't show up! Recently there was a campsite, one under two hours from the city, so very popular, and someone found that there was at least 30 sites being unused, yet all sites where reserved! So, no one could get any of those unused sites, as someone had reserved them, and decided to go elsewhere, and just loose the reservation fee. No idea how to rectify this, as it's happened at many other locations as well, but it's turning into quite an ordeal, where many are having to just stay home, yet wanting to go camping, as there is literally NO sites left when they try to reserve!
It may be a good idea for Campsite Management to give reservations a time limit to be fulfilled ... for instance, institute a 4-hour check-in window. If Mgmt hasn't heard from them, reservations are forfeited. As well, if people stay 2 hours past check-out, they'd be charged hourly late fees.
The man next door complained about my dogs pooping where he had to see it while he was sitting at his table inside. Poop is ALWAYS picked up right afterwards. We live in this RV camp and it's like living in a fish bowl. EVERYONE WATCHING YOU !
Well I wouldn't want to see dog poop shooting out a dog's ass while I'm trying to eat or drink my coffee in the morning. Is there no where else like a poop park your dogs could be brought to do their business? I do not think the man's request was terribly wrong. Unless he was a bunk hole about it.
It isn’t possible to always know when your dog is going to poop. As long as the dog is on the owner’s site, and they pick it up, no one else really has a right to complain. If it bothers you just close your blind for two or three minutes.
Young folks have the strength and agility, old people have experience, guile, and a don't-give-a-crap-anymore mindset! But yeah, dude needs to control his dog and respect the neighbors. My two furbabies would probably get me on the "camper sh*t list" cos they're a couple of small dogs that need to tell ME about everyone that visits... down the block... all hours of the day.... I am aware of this. They WILL be confined to my lap until they meet everyone and don't freak out anymore.
We camped in our pop up trailer next to another couple with a pop up also. They came back from a night of dinner and drinks and proceeded to argue into the wee hours of the night. Since our "walls" were plastic we had to listen to the whole thing! When we got up the next morning, the woman wasn't there (too embarrassed I'm sure) and the husband was just sitting there nonchalantly reading a newspaper. We left as soon as we could but that was one of the rudest experiences we have had.
On our maiden voyage, 2 weeks ago, we pull into campground and see the fill up station. We're not there 10 minutes and a woman was behind us yelling at us that we were taking too long! We just ignored her. Really aggravated though.
Listening to neighbors having a good fight can be a source of entertainment but we have no kids camping with us!! Those campgrounds that have 6 feet between rigs - no way.
Common decency dictates marital and family disagreements among other things be kept private, having said that decency is not as common as it was. Almost it seems some people want to star in their own circus with a captive audience? seems indecent me...
During a 7 day camping trip at the Oregon coast with my wife and grandchildren. A rather large group 15 plus plp, took up a double site across from us. Showed up late (after 10pm) set up 2 rvs and 3 tents. Once completed camp, decided to start drinking and watching outdoor TV. Mind you that the site didn't have power. So the cheapest and loudest generator began to run. Not to mention that the bond fire was rather large. Thankfully no emergency happened, all the grass and the road was taken by the vehicles parked by our neighbors. At 330am everyone was drunk and passed out. Mind you this park is county ran and the grounds are managed by a couple that lives offsite. Too tired to call the sheriff decided to talk to the camp host the next morning. Before we got to talk to them 2 large 4x4 pulling sand rails and flying a confederate flag, pulls into the sight next to our favorite neighbors. On goes a fight with a hungover, loudmouth lady and husband. Yelling at them and telling them its against the law to fly that that flag. Didn't take long for the sheriff and deputies to show up. No I didn't call them. The camp host did. The host told them "sorry no refunds and to please vacate the camp grounds" so for the next few hours the 4x4 party and us watched them gather and throw all of their belongings & supplies into the vehicles. What a vacation.
It's against the law to fly a Confederate flag? Oh my god, the Karen's have won! What about a gay pride flag? That offends me. Just because I'm offended doesn't mean that it should be outlawed. I am sick and tired of super thin skin liberal pukes who try and rewrite history, and get rid of anything they don't agree with. Sooner or later these same clowns we'll try and outlaw the American flag. And that's when we the people might have been pushed too far. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙄🙄🙄
Very true. I wish everyone would follow these rules. I camped a lot with my family when I was a kid, and my dad always insisted we left places better than we found them. It's a good rule for life, too.
We had a squatter on our site one time that wouldn't leave. Finally about 6 hours after we arrived, we got to set up after park management finally called the police and made the guy leave. It was way past dark at this point and had taken up our entire first day of our vacation.
@@andic1586 😢 let it marinate, it’s like the TP shortage, eventually people find something else to get nutty about and this time next year there will be lots of RV’s selling cheap. In the mean time the parks will normalize. My husband works in the financials industry and has been reiterating the fact that we are heading into a recession, so people will be selling off their toys and short lived hobby objects, and the economy will level off, so all of the nomads that stick with it will be safe and things will be a little less hostile. I don’t think I will be buying any 2020-2021 year model RV’s as I’ve heard on various channels that the workmanship has been less than stellar, simply trying to keep up with the demand. Please if the owner wasn’t fully vested and just wanted to run off towards fun without knowing their rig, yeah I don’t want their hand me downs.
We were staying at a campsite with a view of the lake. The park rules say 2 vehicles per campsite and have additional parking for the boat trailers and extra vehicles a very short walking distance from the campsites. We frequently have camp neighbors that have lots of "company" and park their MANY cars right in our site line of the lake where our only view is their vehicles.
My wife, kids, and I camped for years..from tenting to truck camper to 3 class C's, to 5th wheel, and finally to class full timing. We quit fulltiming, bought a home in country (no close neighbors) and now quit rving. All your complaints are ones we encountered. Our biggest complaint was "Barking Dogs". At a time long ago pets were not permitted in campgrounds...(we have no pets) We always had dogs at home but never took them camping/RVing..... Reservations finally put the icing on the cake, and we quit RVing.
hi from RR dc. animals that make noise should not be allowed, imho. but its no diff a thing than having children or motors that make noise. any noises other than wildlife, and water - that's what used to be the impolite scenario that was avoided by way of mutual respect for others. not so anymore. kids playing? great. kids screaming or loud noises above x decibel? shut it down. just imho
We spent a night at a pretty nice private campground up by Traverse City. There were a bunch of drunk imbeciles that decided they were going to play football at around 1:00 - 2:00 in the morning. They were out there screaming and yelling "Touchdown"! And you could occasionally hear the football bouncing off the sides and roof of RV's. I was so glad we weren't over by them, but felt so bad for the people that were!
Unfortunately, the ones that need to hear this don’t watch the RV RU-vid channels. We had a weekend ruined because the campers next door left their two dogs alone in their camper all day and into the evening past the quiet hours. They barked non-stop. The park manager said they couldn’t do anything until they returned. The couple and their dogs were kicked out of the park the next morning. Our plan to sit in our chairs and enjoy the beautiful spot we reserved in advance for the peaceful spot on the edge of a preserve, were ruined. When they left they must have been mad. They hit a light pole and scraped their beautiful Lance trailer down the whole side on the way out. BTW, we were not the only people that complained about the dogs. It was the talk of the campground. If you have dogs, don’t leave them alone all day. Not only is it rude and breaks most campground rules, it is cruel to your dogs.
Dump station issues are the main reason I hate to stay in a campground without full hookups. You never know kind of idiots you're going to encounter. And it's not always other RVers. One time we pulled up in line for a station behind one other RV. There was a family in a minivan who had decided the center of the station was a nice place to park for their picnic since there was a table nearby. The guy ahead of me informed them they shouldn't park there. It's a rather large park/campground area with plenty of parking elsewhere. They moved for a few minutes until we both finished dumping. Then moved right back to the same spot, blocking the next trailer pulling in!
I about had a heart attack when I saw this idiot giving his dog water from the dump station fresh water hose. Mind you it was before the built in holding tank flush systems it was an old garden hose with no end on it. That would be in every holding tank that passed through the campground. When I mentioned it to him he told me that the dog has a strong enough stomach and it wouldn’t hurt him. 🤢🤮
You guys are entertaining, I enjoy watching John's excitement/pissed expression and Mercedes patience and understanding expression. Can only imagine her having to hold him back at times... LOL Love you guys!