Every March we head to Greenville, SC for a home school convention and camp in Paris Mountain State Park. Every year we make reservations in December or January. This year it slipped my mind and I didn't get a chance to make reservations until February. Most of the campground was full for the dates we needed. I ended up reserving 2 different sites for the 4 nights we needed. I checked a few days before we left to see if anything opened up so I can change our reservation and no RV site were available.
We had a really mild winter and the week leading up to our reservation was in the 70s. Then the temps dropped and a few nights were in the 30s. When we arrived at the park, it was empty. Maybe 6 of the 40 sites were occupied. We were able to switch our reservations to 1 site thankfully. Through the weekend, the campground was never full. Perhaps the cold caused a lot of cancellations, I don't know.
We've had that happen at Fort Wilderness before as well. We had our reservation in the 1400 loop and when we went to check in, we didn't like the site they gave us and asked them what else was open in the loop. The cast member told us there were only a handful open and gave us the site numbers. One we liked was open, so we took it. When we got to the 1400 loop it was maybe half full and stayed that way for the week we were there.
-Michael
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