Discussion in 'General Camping Discussion Forum' started by JHOP, Jun 11, 2018.
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We are camped next to the most obnoxious family this week. The little girl screams all the time. The father yells at the kids all the time. It's 11pm and the little kid still yells at the top of her lungs. I just feel like there's a respect thing at campgrounds that yelling all the dang time is rude?
Don't get me wrong. I have kids. I love the sound of kids playing and shrieking while playing. I do not like screaming for no reason.
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2 weeks ago I was next to a TT that ran a big contractor style generator for hours at a time. The most irritating part about it was that he would wait until 8 or 9pm to run the genny to charge his batteries (he wasn't running an AC). Why not charge them earlier in the day Mr. Poopypants? Ugh.
We've generally had good luck with CG neighbors, but our experience last year at Yosemite left us shaking our heads.
So, shortly after we get set up, I hear my dog barking like there was someone close to our camper. Wellll...the guy was walking close enough to our camper that he could have reached out and touched the bunk as he walked by. Me (being me) went over and stood between the two trees next to our camper, where he had walked through, forcing him to go around on his way back to his campsite.
After this happened, my partner and I decided to tie a rope between the two trees (maybe about 4 feet apart from each other), which would force anyone walking by to give about 7 or 8 feet of berth to our camper. And, because we are not total meanies, we put a large towel over it so it would be very visible.
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We just spent the weekend in the Payette Nat'l forest, at a developed campground, no electric or water at the sites, but water was available at a central location, as well as a vault toilet. Of course, this is a paid site, but there are dispersed campsites all over the area. There was a family reunion that came up & camped literally across the road, with 14 kids in total. there were more people in this group than there were camped in the campground. They came in, & monopolized the toilet & water, with their kids running up & down the campground shrieking. The camp host did go out & put a stop to the kids running rampant thru the campground, but it still offended my sensibilities that these people would come in & essentially overrun what was obviously a paid site, when there was a very nice group area in the campground they could have rented, or many other unoccupied free camp areas with toilet facilities nearby.
So many of these tales strike me as bad campground planning/rules as much as rude people. Campgrounds should have marked paths to restroom facilities, not just be placed behind campsites and epect people to stay far away from other campers. Campsites should have restrictions on the number of day guests per paid site. Etc.
Not sticking up for the offenders... just saying you can't control the fact that people have bad manners, but you CAN make rules and provisions to reduce it, if you run a campground.
@JHOP , I belive you are the first to air a grievance out on the interwebs lol. I'm thinking this thread will go untill 2056!
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Loud people - groups are the worst, especially when they yell to each other between sites.
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OMG, I forgot about this one. On our most recent trip we had a neighbor that pulled in around 3:00 am, made all kind of racket for a few hours getting set up. THEN, at 6:00 am he commenced to chopping wood for the entire morning. That evening, wood chopping for many more hours. Finally went over and told him cut the crap. At least he did.
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Gee folks, we bring an axle along, buy usually revert to a saw. Would that be OK??
We recently camped at campgrounds that had 2 communal electric BBQ's side by side for campers to use, the normal etiquette is cook your food, clean up and take it back to your site to eat. Apparently the 4 people camping next to us missed that memo, they took over the both BBQ's and proceeded to spend an hour or more cooking and eating their breakfast and then when they were finished left both BBQ's in a disgraceful state.
We tent camped at Sleepy Creek, WV years ago. A co worker and I had been fishing all day, got to the campground at near dark.
Set up, start fire, cook dinner and turn in after a beer or two.
One other group near us, not close, 75 ft or so away.
As dark sets in their car stereos get cranked up, the party begins.
LOUD music, shouting, fireworks, and so on.
Sometime around 3 am (I think) the truck with the loudest stereo ran dead.
It got quiet and when they tried to start it they were rewarded with the dead battery click. Then we heard "oh crap"
We had to get moving about 7 am to wander back west to run another river trip, so we're up early.
My co worker digs in his car and comes up with a handheld air horn.
We packed up quietly, loaded up and idled over by their campground. I emptied the air horn towards them and we went on our way.
Many people in my area just figure a campground as a place to party, and camping to them means getting blackout drunk.
My local campground (Horseshoe) used to have as it's host a retired Marine.
Quiet time meant quiet time, and if he had to tell you more than once you were packing up and leaving.
I've seen him run people out of there, and I've seen the police "help" folks leave.
I don't know how some people can have so little consideration for those around them.
But their normal could be our outrageous. Or they just might be stupid.
I do not usually have any problems, sometimes loud TV's and radios, but i ignore it or go and ask them if the would mind turning the noise up, they usually turn it down after a sarcastic request.
I remember a family camping outing, we went to bed about 1. Group of teenagers decided to have a loud party behind my uncle's tt in a congested campground. At 7 am just after quiet time is over he stood in between his and their site and played the bagpipes. They apologized and were quiet the rest of the weekend.
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My biggest and main pet peeve is drunks. Never a good thing when there is more than 2 together. Also unsupervised children running through people's campsite and parents not doing a dang thing about it. I usually camp at state parks because I have far fewer problems. I stay away from the playground and keep a good distance away from the bath house. My dogs also do well about keeping the few strays away. I do avoid camping during the holidays because that's when I see the rude pleople come out.
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Boondocking has a whole different set of rules. If nobody can hear you, go for it.
his and their site and played the bagpipes.
I actually enjoy the bagpipes. HOWEVER, in their proper place and time. I have ran into early morning beach goers, more than once playing them. It's almost soul moving at the right time and place.
Thumping music at any hour (We should not have to hear booooo-b-b-booooom-thhhhunk).
Campers who never leave their campsite, and who are either loud all the time, or nosy.
Vehicles idling for a long time.
We're really lucky with our MN state parks. First of all alcohol isn't allowed. I don't bring any but I'm told if you don't flaunt it and don't abuse it they don't really care one way or the other... but it keeps the drunk parties out. In many cases, such as this past weekend, the campground is all but silent by 10:30pm and we're one of the last groups up, usually hanging out by the fire and/or playing a card game.