How far do you drive to camp?

[WinnieView]

We try and drive no more than an hour per night, usually. If we drive 3 hours we spend three nights.

[carlamacewan]

Two of our four trips planned for this year are only hour drives away (same park two different times of the year) and we are staying for 3 nights there each time.

For our two larger trips, one location is about 5 hours away and we are staying for 7 nights; the other is about 7 hours away and we are staying for 5 nights.

[Midnightmoon]

Our big trip this summer is 950 miles each way to Florida. We will be spending 16 nights total. We have one more to Upstate NY. 360 miles each way for 4 nights. We hit our regular boondocking spot every weekend when we can but that is only a few minutes from home.

[jkaras7]

Late last fall we went about 2500 miles on a whirlwind trip. Shortly we will be doing about a 12,000 mile round trip to Alaska. Can't wait to get started!

[Flyrotor]

Typically 2-3 hours, but at least once a year it will exceed 6 hours or more

[bdreinv]

We mostly drive in the mountains 3 to 4 hours is about all we can stand lol! Thanks

[KCSA75]

We have about a 65-mile drive to where we store the camper then another 8-10 miles to one of two nearby lakes where we do probably 80-90 percent of our camping.

[jimp]

We drive an hour 1 way and spend 3-6 nights 3-5x's a year. Can't get the DW to go anywhere else except for the 8 hr drive to FL LOL.

[North of 49°]

How far we go depends on how much time we'll be camping. If it's just a regular 2-night, Friday to Sunday weekend, we'll usually stay withing an hour to an hour and a half from home. One of our favorite campgrounds is literally half an hour from our driveway to the campsite. But if we're going for a long weekend, then we extend it to two or three hours from home. If it's longer, like a week's holidays, then we go farther afield, four to five hours from home. I'm trying to talk DW into an 8 hour trip to northern Manitoba. Maybe one of these years....

[michael.g]

We rarely camp just the weekend and we rarely camp close to home. We usually camp 3 to 5 hours away and our season site is about 800 miles from home.

With some of the 5 hour trips, we might leave after dinner, drive a few hours then stop at a Walmart for the night. Then we'd get to the campground early and get a full day in. We usually stayed in state parks and always found our site unoccupied even though we arrived early.

For our 800 mile trip, when we had the motorhome, we'd leave home sometime between breakfast and lunch, drive about 700 miles, stop at a Walmart for the night. Get out before rush hour the next morning and get to our seasonal site around 8 am.

This year with the trailer already at our site, we left around 4am, got here around 5pm. Hooked up power and water and had dinner on the table by 6:30.

-Michael

[Mark S]

This summer is a short one for us. Going to Angel Fire NM, so only about 1,750 miles from south Florida. It we will take a couple of weeks to get there.

[RoyBraddy]

My camping is mostly OFF-GRID within a couple of hours for us here in Northern Neck Virginia. We like to go up behind Harrisonburg VA along the wooded State line between VA and WVA. This is in the George Washington Natl Forest area with some Forest Service roads through. Actually close to a spot called FLAGPOLE KNOB...

Westmoreland State Park is our home campground just 25 milesaway from us...

This is all camping off the Electric Grid.... Westmoreland has Electric sites but we like the ones without electric...

Then we like Camp inside the Shenandoah Natl Park with LOFT MTN being our favorite spot. At US 64 this all turns into the Blue Ridge Parkway and we like to go down it to a couple of nearest campgrounds. Otter Creek being one... These are usually situated every 50 miles along the parkway...

Another great spot is just south of the start of the Blue Ridge parkway on Exit 96 off I64 is Sherando Lake Campground. Great campground here...

This satisfies our local camping all with a couple of hours or so for us...

Then we make a couple of runs down to Myrtle beach for mini family reunion in the SEP/OCT time frame... This is where one of my sister's lives...

We also like to make it Gatlinburg TN Smoky Mtns with our favorite camp site inside the the park being ELKMONT Camp... These are two longer drives for us a couple times through the year...

We also like to go to the Cloudland Canyon at the Trenton GA exit on I59. This is really a nice camp ground. We try to get here once a year when making a trip to Texas to visit the wife's family in North Texas.

This is about all of our Camping runs out of Northern Neck Virginia country...

Roy Ken

[koko]

Whatever it takes to get where we want to go. When we have a specific destination, we'll drive about 375 miles (we calculate the distance from our home to where our son lives in Arvada, CO and feel that's about a manageable distance to go in a day). We may do this for three days in a row; but then we need a day or two BREAK, especially when we're traveling through heavy-traffic cities!! When we're on a road trip, we like to go between 150 and 200 miles in a day, depending on where we are. When we're home, we only have to travel 1 1/2 hours to get to our favorite mountain spot!

[jloco]

I live in central MA. My seasonal site is 130 miles (2 hours - traffic?) from home on Cape Cod. We make the trek every weekend from May 15th to Columbus weekend.
Starts next week!!! Finally!

[Jbardellini]

Usually try to keep it between 20 miles to 1-2 hours max for a weekend trip . We have 1/2 dozen places we enjoy close to home.

[edowsfamily]

As long as it takes to get out of Connecticut

[Roux 'b Doux]

This year I plan to head out of Texas to Michigan to pick up a friend I haven't seen in at least 25 years. Then head maybe to the Smokies, if not there, the upper peninsula near one of the lakes. I've never really seen either Michigan or Superior and want to. But the smokies, and well... I'll plan to drive about 4 hrs a day, however far that takes me until I reach a destination, then stay for as long as I want. I'll head somewhere else then. This summer I want to be gone until Texas starts to pretend to cool off.

[Mark S]

That’s our plan. We leave south Florida in July and come back sometime in October in seach of cooler, more tolerable weather.

[Each]

Originally Posted by 2008Seneca

We try and drive no more than an hour per night, usually. If we drive 3 hours we spend three nights.

I like that formula. We unknowingly do something similar. Maybe 1.5 hours per night as a maximum but one hour per night average. We live on the East Coast so it’s about 3 hours to the mountains so we don’t often do less.

[clutch]

It is around 12 miles to our river lot and about 1300 miles to our Jayco in Az.