Your National Parks RV Camping Getaway Plan

Above, The Beast at Manzanita Lake Campground at Lassen Volcanic National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Finding an open campsite in our national parks is getting harder and harder, especially when one made no reservations. 

Taking a spontaneous trip to camp in a national park is likely a thing of the past.

Five years ago, during my Great American Eclipse trip, I got lucky and got a campsite at Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California without a reservation. 

National Parks Traveler has an article on RV national parks getaway planning.

They begin it with:

More people are leaping into the RV lifestyle every year. They’re exploring national parks in comfort, but all that extra traffic makes spontaneous road trips to the parks largely a thing of the past, at least during the busy summer season. With more rigs on the road than campsites to accommodate them, RVers like me are constantly competing for a scant number of RV-friendly campsites. I learned this lesson the hard way when I arrived at Yellowstone without reservations.

To read more, go here.