Highways, the Good Sam magazine, recently had an article about campground etiquette. Have you experienced behavior in campgrounds that does not take into consideration courtesy and common sense? Here are guidelines to keep neighbors happy and have a more enjoyable experience:
Privacy
- Use roads and walkways rather than cut through another camper’s site.
Noise
- Pay attention to the noise level of music and televisions, particularly if windows are open or the source is located outside in one of the storage bays.
- Quiet dogs after one bark. Leave toys to play with and music or the television on low volume when away to muffle outside noises. If your dog barks continually when gone, take it with you.
- Respect quiet hours – usually 10 p.m. to 7 or 8 a.m.
- Minimize the time you run a generator. If you need to run one for health reasons, park away from other campers.
- Face portable generators away from other campers; skip the industrial generators – they are way too loud.
- Heat up the water then turn off the water heater. Especially turn off at night. They are noisy if located right outside someone’s bedroom window.
Keep pets quiet.
Pets and kids
- Keep control of children in the campsite and at the pool.
- Keep all pets on a leash and remember that some people don’t like, have allergies or are afraid of dogs and cats.
- Pick up after your pet even if it is tiny. Do not allow them to go onto another site to do their business nor urinate on the tires of another camper’s vehicle or RV.
Campfires
- Pay attention to the quantity and direction of smoke. Put the fire out at night before going to bed.
Keep children under control
Other
- Use the picnic table on your site and don’t take someone else’s without permission.
- Make sure your vehicles and RV do not block the road or prevent someone from swinging in or out of their site.
- Minimize the time you run an engine – particularly diesel – before leaving.
- Leave something in your site that indicates it is taken if you leave and are planning to leave and then come back.
- Minimize your time in the showers if it is a busy campground. Save some hot water for others!
How do you handle it when a neighbor disturbs your camping experience? Do you say something directly or do you go to the office or to the campground host? Or do you keep quiet but allow your camping experience to be ruined?
Can you think of others? What are your pet peeves? How have you handled these situations? Add your comment. Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
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Maybe it’s just the older RVs, but some hot water heaters are loud! We too ran ours just long enough to heat the water, then turned it off. For small amounts of water I sometimes heated it in the tea kettle instead. And, yes, turning it off does save on propane.
Jaimie
Kathie Maxwell
I certainly agree that propane operated water heaters should be turned off at night. We have been next door to some that sound like a 7/47 jet taking off. Ours is just as loud and we are sometimes embarrassed when we turn it on in an otherwise quiet setting. We always have hot water within 5-10 minutes of turning it on. Saving on the cost of propane is a bonus.
Roger Thode
We are in a Thousand Trails park near Bend OR. This is a first for us, we are set up for boondocking and never use parks or camp grounds. I will say we are pleasantly surprised. Been here for 5 days and I have saw or heard nothing to complain about. Maybe we just got lucky?
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
I agree courtesy should work both ways. Perhaps, though, those seniors were kept awake way into the night by noisy campers, loud music or cars coming in late with lights shining and doors banging. It may be difficult for an early riser to have sympathy when they too missed their sleep because of inconsideration at the other end. Where are those ear plugs?!!
Jaimie
David
Some of us other familys that enjoy local attractions can exhaust even the hardiest 10year old, I would wish the mostly senior early risers who want to beat the traffic, might stop and think 5:30am isn’t a good time to be banging stuck awnings. Some good folks would even gladly help if asked, but not in their PJ’s.
Cosideration has come in all age groups. I’m sure must of us grin and bare.
As mention in another blog, it comes with camping.
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
Denise, your point is well taken. I guess that’s one reason why my late husband and I boondocked when we weren’t Workamping. And, that’s why they are called “pet peeves.” What bothers one person, doesn’t bother another.
There is absolutely no reason someone needs to run their water heater 24/7. Heat it up in the morning, before a shower, and maybe at night. But why run it continuously? If that water heater is going off and on right near your bedroom window and you are parked close, you hear it every time it comes on. Just like people are usually not bothered by their own squalling baby or barking dog, they probably tune out their water heater. But the close-by neighbor does hear it. The older water heater units did not have electric units- only propane.
I do agree that if you don’t like close proximity to kids and noise, find an adult campground or a remote one. Isn’t it great we have a choice and can vote with our dollars?
Jaimie
Lug_Nut
I fully agree with the points listed, with one exception. Water heater? A water heater does not make noise or bother anyone. If you are referring to an “Aqua-Hot like heater, first, most people do not have them. Secondly, if you have one, you might want to know how to operate it. You do not have to leave the diesel/gas/propane function on. That’s why you have an 1800 watt electric element in it.
In summary, your points are good. The hot water thing is not a valid point and actually takes away from the post’s credibility.
Denise in Ark
Hmmmm….
Hmmm…maybe we’d better all just quit camping and then no other campers will have the chance to peeve us.
While some of these are just plain common sense, there seems to be some overkill here. Turn off your water heater at night? If I was bothered with the noise of my neighbor’s water heater, or their springs squeaking when they roll over in the bed, or the baby waking up in the night, I’d think the etiquette required of me should be to bring and use earplugs.
How about an article about how to live and let live? If light bothers you, wear a mask. If noise bothers you, wear earplugs. Don’t want to do that? Don’t go camping; one of the few downsides to camping, unless we boondock alone, is that we have to figure out how to get along while living in close quarters. (My opinion is that is an upside, too. I like to be social and camping throws people together in a way that promotes interaction.) Don’t want to be social or to accept some of the things that happen when people are in close quarters? Camp at a BLM or other place where you can enjoy your solitude. You’re just not going to get it in a busy campground.
When we’re talking about treating others the way we’d want to be treated, well, the first thing I should do is grant some grace rather than expect people to be more concerned about bothering me than they are about having fun.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that some things need to be addressed. Speeders put everyone at risk. Leaving doggie dookey around, letting your sewer drop stink…you know, not everything is obvious to every one. Not once here did I see a suggestion to walk to the next campsite and say, “You probably don’t realize it, but your music is loud enough that I can’t hear the music in my campsite. Would you mind please turning it down and then we can both listen to what we want?”
It doesn’t hurt to be reminded with a list of things that cause issues that we might be aware of, but the mark has been missed when we encourage a gripe fest. Some of the complaints here sound like they are coming from people you’d never be able to please anyway. We can approach this thing by putting a lot of energy into trying to figure out how *not* to tick off people. Or….. we could spend our energy thinking of ways to encourage community. When you have made an acquaintance with people and put energy into valuing them as human beings, it often results in automatically being more sensitive to their needs.
Denise in Ark
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
Wow! To have your pet hit when you have them leased is terrible. I have seen people drive way too fast through campgrounds. Some parks put an odd speed limit like 7 1/2 mph to catch campers’ attention.
Smoke coming in through windows, especially when you are trying to sleep, is very unpleasant.
Jaimie
Don Eyre
My pet peeve is those people who light a fire and then just let it smolder causing huge amounts of smoke. Some even leave it that way after going to bed. When the wind is blowing it in your direction it is almost unbearable if you or your partner has allergies. This usually only happens in national, state or provincial parks which are otherwise a great place to stay. The only choices that one has is to shut all of the windows and turn on the AC which in these parks usually means starting the generator then contributing to another problem. Noise. I am not against having a fire, just burn it properly and put it out when you are done using it.
Fritz McDowell
My biggest gripe is people who speed thru the campgrounds, tow vehicles, motorhomes, etc. Friends of ours had their dog run over while on a leash and collar. Yes, she was walking the dog when it happened. It’s not always the young people that do this. Fritz
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
You are welcome! Thanks to everyone for joining in, too. It is good to have reminders about what behavior is annoying. I hadn’t thought about leaving outside lights on, yet can see how that could be disturbing. Little things make a difference!
Jaimie
Ed
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this article & feedback.
While as a kid my parents & my brother camped frequently in our Winnibago on the weekends back in the day (70’s) I guess things have changed a bit when it comes to respecting others. Now years later as an adult (getting ready to buy his own RV) I think it’s refreshing to hear these stories & how you’ve handled certain situations today. Thanks again for posting your thoughts.
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
If all campers would read these, we’d all be happier! You’ve added several I had not thought of but I certainly agree. I guess a lot of people don’t stop to think about the Golden Rule- and what it would be like if someone did the same thing to them.
Jaimie
Bluebird Bob
Dan Johnson sounds like one of those campers that knows it all and you can’t tell him what to do.
Don’t think I would like to be camping next to him.
Most campers are fairly well mannered, but the few give bad names to the rest of us.
williewood
I agree wiith all the above and would like to add a couple:
1. Fire pits are not for the burnig of trash of any kind. It’s not fun when your fire pit is full of bottle, cans, aluminum foil, etc.
2. General rule, leave your campsite the way you would like to find it (even better). It’s no fun having to get out and put tables of other objects out of the way when you are trying to park.
Have fun camping but not at the expense of other campers.
Fred Campbell
I have two pet peeves!
1. The RV renter that has never camped before and is on vacation with his six kids. They don’t know about etiquette, let their kids run wild, make noise until all hours of the night. leave their outside lights on all night, then complain about you to the campground staff because you woke them up at 7:00AM as you were leaving for the day! They will never camp there again and could care less about people around them.
2. The wealthy “newbies” that buy a high-end motorhome or 35′ top line 5th wheel and pretend they know what they are doing. We endured a couple like this last summer. They left their outside setup lights on all night, had their dog running all over, and stuck their sewer hose in the dump hole without a properly sealed fitting and it stunk the whole time we were there. We were upwind, they couldn’t smell the foul odor. We left first thin in the morning!
Not all folks are like this. We appreciate the neighborly camper that stops by and asks if you need anything at the store or stops by for a chat and gives you a tip or new idea about how to do something that you never thought about. My wife and I camp to get away from irritations and hassles. Ive been camping for near 40 years and had to deal with both the beauties and the beasts of camping. Too bad there aren’t more beauties.
Joseph Kleinsmith
ADD:
Do not cut or cross thru another’s camp site/area.without first asking/.
Require your children to play within your own camp site or in the established playground. Not in front of other campsites.
Bill Ridgley
Most problems are due to a lack of consideration. It seems that there has been a steady increase of self absorption with folks these days, which squeezes out consideration for others. I am reminded of the occasional character in the cartoon strip “Non Sequiter”: “Obliviousman”.
My personal pet peeve is for dog owners who have substitute “children” in the form of canines. The same people who would say “My Johnny would NEVER do that!” have the same attitude toward their pets who, consequently, behave accordingly because they have not been taught any better.