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| Above, The Beast at the Jackson Hole/Snake River KOA. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Incredible as it may seem, given that the baby boomer generation is in retirement age and buying RVs in record numbers, a KOA Kampground in Maine is opening with no RV spaces.
The only KOA Kampground I've been to with the lowest number of RV sites was the Jackson Hole/Snake River KOA. They had about 22 sites for RVs. The rest were mainly cabins and tent sites.
RV Travel posted an editorial by Chuck Woodbury that begins with:
Jumping on the new, hot trend of “glamping,” a new KOA park in Maine will open in June without a single RV site for rent. The entire park will be composed of luxury canvas tents on wood platforms, each with hot and cold water, bathrooms and other luxurious amenities. They’re gorgeous!
Before its new life as a “glampground” it had up to 130 spaces for RVs, tents and some cabins. It was first opened in 1970.
Now, the same land is dubbed Terramor Outdoor Resort. It offers a “luxury experience in the woods,” which those of us with RVs would likely say we already have. The difference is, I suspect, that most RVers won’t pay $218 to $315 a night, which is what you’ll pay at Terramor for your experience with nature. So leave your RV at home, even though since 1962 KOA has been a welcoming stop for RVers and tenters for a night or a week (or longer).
With more people in RVs these days, hopefully this is not going to be a trend where RV campsites are lost to the current fad of glamping.
To read more, go here.
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