I'm curious to know what others consider their campsite and how to separate them if they aren't clearly marked? We would expect that the pad for the camper and utility area would be ours, along with the fire ring and picnic table placement area. So is the area around it divided equally with your neighbors? Do you get 5' behind your camper and everything in front up to 5' to your next site?
I usually try to visualize where the middle "should" be between the sites. If there isn't an obvious marker i will show our kids the boundaries which I think is the neutral zones. I also have some small orange cones that I always carry with us. I have put them out several times and told our kids to not go passed them unless they are with me or the DW. I'm not trying to keep other people out but if it works it works ;).
I would say MY campsite is the worn area on the curbside of my camper. Usually in the State Parks I have visited there is enough space and you can just tell what is mine and what is your area. It is the private campgrounds that get kinda iffy.
One private campground it seemed the campsite pads were at all different angles so it was very odd. Another one the sites were all gravel with lines painted.....yes lines. I could hear my neighbor sneeze in his popup and hear the neighbor on the otherside of me say "God Bless You". Yet another campground I was at had good sized sites but there was no clear place to park and trees were all over. I parked the camper one way and then parked a different way.
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
The vast majority of our camping is in state or national parks. There is almost always a treed section between campsites. On the rare occasion that we camp in a private campground, I try to envision where the half way point is and consider that the line. These trips are always traveling to some specific place, so the camper is used mainly for cooking and sleeping. We don't spend a lot of time relaxing there.
A good question.
In most state and national parks, the sites are fairly well defined (though, for example, in some parts of Hickory Run State Park in PA, the areas are like Little Suburbia: the sites are small and crammed together; think "tenement". We don't camp in places like that.) In Tuckahoe State Park, in MD, the sites are well-defined, so it's not a problem.
In privately-owned parks, it can be a problem. We "camped" in a cabin in a KOA park. It was next to the lake, which made the area popular. There was a series of rail fences, one for each site, bordering the lake. We took it to mean that the area between the fences and the lake was the common walkway area, while the area between the cabins and the fences belonged to the sites. I admonished some kids for walking back and forth through "our" site, and got no flak for it (they soon took the hint and stayed outboard of the fences).
It SHOULD be a matter of common sense. (What I now call UNcommon sense, since there seems to be so little of it, anymore.) It boils down to that and the Territorial Imperative, I guess. Neighbors (the bright, courteous ones, anyway) "agree" on boundaries.
We believe that "trespassing" should be dealt with sooner, rather than later, by talking with the offenders courteously. If that doesn't work, enlist the aid of the Staff.
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