RV Trips, Camping Seen As Not Risky

Above, camping at the Cortez, Colorado KOA Kampground last summer. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Last year, the governor of New Mexico closed down all state park campgrounds when the pandemic struck. 

Along with that, national forest campgrounds in the state were also closed.

It is ironic that she did all that when people, who were under "house arrest", feel that RV trips and camping is the safest option for a summer vacation.

According TravelPulse:

RVezy, a peer-to-peer RV rental marketplace, has found that Americans still consider outdoor vacations to be the safest during the COVID-19 pandemic, and traveling by RV leads the way in preferred vacations this summer.

A majority of Americans consider the activity not risky, according to an RVezy survey conducted by Abacus Data.

Despite the increase in vaccine rollouts, the survey also highlighted that 94 percent of Americans mentioned "doing something safe" as a top priority for their vacation plans.  

"Our survey results show that Americans consider RVing and camping almost twice as safe as other types of accommodations such as staying in a hotel. We are also seeing that 66 percent of Americans consider camping in an RV of little to no risk compared with 38 percent who feel the same way about flying on a plane to a destination," said David Coletto, CEO of polling firm Abacus Data.

There's no argument here on that!

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