J Starsky
Super Active Member
Booze bans are so the authority can bounce the dumb dumbs quickly. Nobody is inspecting my Yeti cup, or my cigar, no matter what while camping.
Campground Rules? Or really just suggestions to be ignored?
- Thread starter Jimbow
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Booze bans are so the authority can bounce the dumb dumbs quickly. Nobody is inspecting my Yeti cup, or my cigar, no matter what while camping.
Canoe2fish
Active Member
There are a few parks I know that are under permanent bans for safety reasons (deep gorge, semi-fast water for tubing and sinkholes where people can get seriously injured or worse)
J Starsky
Super Active Member
And you can have a beer there too, if you're a human being. IF you're an animal, that's what the booze ban is fixing.
So you are rules driven unless you think the rule is not horrible to break. Me too.
tfischer
A bad day camping beats a good day at the office
Haha, that's just like most of us: We follow them all, except the ones we don't like and don't feel affect others.
Some would say that if I leave my dog crated in the camper and leave for a couple hours, knowing he will stay quiet and sleep the whole time, that that's just horrible because "all dogs bark" and "I can't be guaranteed he won't" and "it's a rule, and I'm not above the rules".
I could say the same thing about people drinking with an alcohol ban, that "everyone gets drunk" and "You can't be guaranteed that you might not drink too much and cause problems" and "it's a rule, and you're not above the rules" and it would make just as much sense lol.
Canoe2fish
Active Member
Great point and that’s it exactly. I know having a beer or maybe 2 won’t affect my behaviours and thus affect others. And exactly why I would choose to ignore it. But you are right. There may be others who feel the same way, not pay attention to their consumption and end up getting hurt or causing more noise etc
To add to that, I am a Medical Marijuana Card holder and it has benefited me greatly. Regardless of camp rules, I will consume in a few mostly discrete ways around the fire at night before bed and nobody is the wiser. We just don't light up blunts that can be smelled for hours and a 1/4 mile away.
I had a couple camping a few sites away from me this fall…. I didn’t check, but guessing they must’ve been card carrying members also! ![[LOL]](/smileys/smile_lol.gif "Laugh Out Loud [LOL]")
J Starsky
Super Active Member
dey be smoking that LOUD weed....? Good for them - Drunks are so 1994I had a couple camping a few sites away from me this fall…. I didn’t check, but guessing they must’ve been card carrying members also!
That makes sense… Class of ‘94 here loldey be smoking that LOUD weed....? Good for them - Drunks are so 1994
J Starsky
Super Active Member
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Classy guy, Mike~! Class of 1995 here. Good Times indeed
tfischer
A bad day camping beats a good day at the office
Class of '88 here. Get off my lawn!
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tzmartin
Not here for a long time but here for a good time!
“The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
– Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean
I just remembered a rule we occasionally break, and the only time it was ever a problem. - When we began pop up camping, we would take our grandkids along. Our first older pop up was very old and it took us about 90 minutes to setup so we would go the campground and setup early as the kids were small and had no patience while we setup. When we camped within an hour of their house, we would have their mom drop them off after we were setup. For a very short time in this mode, we might have two cars on our site while Mom dropped the kids off with and unloaded their stuff. She would rarely hang around more than a few minutes.
I don't remember seeing anything in the forum about mentioning specific campgrounds, but Berkshire Lakes in Sunbury Ohio, you can find yelp and google reviews that talk about the crazy owner. We stayed their a few times. Only once did I encounter the crazy over the top owner and it was the first time I decided I don't care if I get thrown out and I let her have it. Our daughter drove about 40 minutes to bring her kids to us and she parked in the empty site next to us. She had driven a ways and as we unloaded she walked up to the bath house to use the bathroom. Sure enough the owner was driving around checking everyone out. It was Friday at 5pm and lots of people coming in, so I'm sure she could be helpful. She asked about the car in the next spot and I told her it was my daughter and she would be leaving in a moment. She told me in a nasty tone, "IT NEEDS TO BE MOVED NOW!" I reinforced that it was my daughter's car and she was about 400 yards away and I wasn't going into the ladies room to get her keys. She reinforced, it has to be moved now or I will throw you out!, We have people arriving!. Her threat to throw us out, put me over the edge and I told her it will be moved when it gets moved and if you want to throw me out, call the cops!. I then told her, I didn't have to admit I knew who even owned that car and by the time she finished her tirade it would be gone and she stormed off.
My daughter got back 10 minutes later and went home. Nobody ever showed up at that site the whole weekend. Had someone showed up for that site, I would have had my wife go to the ladies room and retrieve the keys, but this lady/owner went directly into tirade mode. They took over the ownership of this long time campground a couple of years ago and I see it starting to go down hill. Its the only one near me that still has pay showers. The coin units are from the 60's or 70's and don't work well, so we don't plan on going back. I saw them at the recent RV show and told them we won't be back till they lose the pay showers.
I don't remember seeing anything in the forum about mentioning specific campgrounds, but Berkshire Lakes in Sunbury Ohio, you can find yelp and google reviews that talk about the crazy owner. We stayed their a few times. Only once did I encounter the crazy over the top owner and it was the first time I decided I don't care if I get thrown out and I let her have it. Our daughter drove about 40 minutes to bring her kids to us and she parked in the empty site next to us. She had driven a ways and as we unloaded she walked up to the bath house to use the bathroom. Sure enough the owner was driving around checking everyone out. It was Friday at 5pm and lots of people coming in, so I'm sure she could be helpful. She asked about the car in the next spot and I told her it was my daughter and she would be leaving in a moment. She told me in a nasty tone, "IT NEEDS TO BE MOVED NOW!" I reinforced that it was my daughter's car and she was about 400 yards away and I wasn't going into the ladies room to get her keys. She reinforced, it has to be moved now or I will throw you out!, We have people arriving!. Her threat to throw us out, put me over the edge and I told her it will be moved when it gets moved and if you want to throw me out, call the cops!. I then told her, I didn't have to admit I knew who even owned that car and by the time she finished her tirade it would be gone and she stormed off.
My daughter got back 10 minutes later and went home. Nobody ever showed up at that site the whole weekend. Had someone showed up for that site, I would have had my wife go to the ladies room and retrieve the keys, but this lady/owner went directly into tirade mode. They took over the ownership of this long time campground a couple of years ago and I see it starting to go down hill. Its the only one near me that still has pay showers. The coin units are from the 60's or 70's and don't work well, so we don't plan on going back. I saw them at the recent RV show and told them we won't be back till they lose the pay showers.
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tfischer
A bad day camping beats a good day at the office
We camped at Itasca State park (Minnesota) this weekend. All and all it was a wonderful time. Too many mosquitoes was the main complaint... I didn't expect them to be this thick this early, especially that far north.
My other complaint is that I just don't get morning people. Each night, the campground felt dead at 8:30pm and by 10pm we felt like we were the only people up. Not so much at 6AM, when everyone let their kids out to start screaming and their kids car doors slamming and running. By 7am a toddler across the way started whacking on a log with a hatchet. Or maybe it was a heavy hammer, but it made a lot of noise. And he did it 2 out of the 3 mornings. And he couldn't have been older than 3 or 4.
This morning, I watched a camper pull out at 7am sharp and a couple others were gone by 7:30.
Official quiet hours are from 10pm-8am, and we had hoped to sleep in until 7:30 or 8.
This is less of a noise complaint and more of a wow, I just don't get people that want to be up early enough to LEAVE the campground for good at 7AM on a holiday
My other complaint is that I just don't get morning people. Each night, the campground felt dead at 8:30pm and by 10pm we felt like we were the only people up. Not so much at 6AM, when everyone let their kids out to start screaming and their kids car doors slamming and running. By 7am a toddler across the way started whacking on a log with a hatchet. Or maybe it was a heavy hammer, but it made a lot of noise. And he did it 2 out of the 3 mornings. And he couldn't have been older than 3 or 4.
This morning, I watched a camper pull out at 7am sharp and a couple others were gone by 7:30.
Official quiet hours are from 10pm-8am, and we had hoped to sleep in until 7:30 or 8.
This is less of a noise complaint and more of a wow, I just don't get people that want to be up early enough to LEAVE the campground for good at 7AM on a holiday
I don’t care if people get up early, but it drives me nuts that people feel the need to be HEARD at all times they’re up! To me, the best part of the morning, hell, the whole reason to get up early, is to sit and enjoy some peace & quiet!
I couldn't agree more. I really enjoy sitting back with a cup of coffee and watching and listening to nature wake up.
Young kids wake up early. Even an old man like me has trouble sleeping when the sun is up. When one of my sons was very young ,we tent camped , he would wake up as soon as the sun rose. It was difficult trying to be quiet. seems like everything you do makes noise. Even opening the cooler.
Brian Clancy
Member
- Aug 23, 2021
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neighbormike writes that he "...doesn't care if people get up early..." and posts it at 4:48 AM. Uh huh. It's all good. Some campers HAVE to pack up early in order to make their next site with time to set up before dark--you can lay in bed and dream about where they're headed. Two weeks ago we were down near Nogales, Mexico at White Rock NFS Campground. All in the sparsely populated campground were quiet by around 10 pm and it was a pitch black night. At 11 PM a caravan of ATVs equipped with bright LED panel lights with one sporting an amplifier (set on 11) playing Rancho music invaded the area along the access road (50 ft from my tent trailer). At 1 AM they returned, but this time they announced they were stopping so everyone could use the campground bathrooms...with the vehicles running and the music on full blast. You heard the squeak of scissor jacks receding? Count your blessings and go back to sleep.
