Memorial Day Camping To Top 2021 Numbers

Above, the main street of Columbia, California in the Mother Lode country in the 1980s. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Back in the "old days", I would take the family up to the Mother Lode gold rush area of California for a Memorial Day weekend of camping in Columbia. We would stay each year at the Marble Quarry RV Park.

That was before the crowds got bigger and traffic worse on the highways and I was much younger as well.

Since then, I have chosen to stay at home and leave the driving to others. 

It looks like, despite high fuel costs, more people will be hitting the road this year for Memorial Day weekend camping.

According to RV Travel:

Kampgrounds of America’s North American Camping Report for April is predicting there will be 22.2 million households camping over Memorial Day weekend (May 28-30) and the recently completed Canadian Victoria Day weekend (May 21-23) combined. That’s a 5.4% increase over the same holiday weekends in 2021.

In addition to more campers (40% versus 39% in 2021) saying they plan to camp for the long weekend, many suggest they will add additional days to their camping plans. Three-in-10 say they will stay an additional day or two before or after the long weekend, a slight increase from 2021 (6%). The numbers in the monthly report include all campers, not just campers at KOA parks.

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