Rev up the RV, pack your camper, and get ready for fun. Whether you’re a van lifer or a part-time RV adventurer, a camping trip is the perfect way to unwind and explore the beautiful world around you. While there are tons of top-notch campgrounds in the United States, people traveling in an RV or camper will need to find campsites that cater to them. Hunting down the right spot isn’t always easy. Lucky for you, it’s about to get much simpler.
Make your next RV camping trip a breeze with these travel resources and guides. Uncover incredible campgrounds, learn all about boondocking, find ways to bring your pets along for the ride, and so much more.
How to find awesome campgrounds
If you need campground suggestions, you’ve come to the right place. This list of stunning spots for an RV camping trip will have you itching to hit the road. Plus, you can find the best national parks for RV campers here.
Looking for details on unique campsites? Check out this feature on the inviting world of Spacious Skies Campgrounds. For an extra sporty RV camping excursion, you’ll also want to check out the options available at SkyPark at Santa’s Village. This mountain biking park will treat RV campers to some marvelous views. If you’re searching for a wilder camping experience, you can also find RV campsites within the stunning Stanislaus National Forest.
Learn all about boondocking
See if boondocking is right for you (and learn exactly what boondocking is) with this guide. As this resource explains, “For the van life and RV communities, boondocking means camping in an area without hookups. This kind of camping is also described as off-grid or dry camping, as the campers don’t use and/or have access to public utilities like water or electricity.”
If this kind of RV adventure sounds like something you would enjoy, you can learn more about boondocking on public land with the Bureau of Land Management’s tips for dispersed camping.
Make RVing with your pets stress-free
There’s no need to keep your furry friends at home while you go camping. Discover practical ways to bring your dog or cat along for the ride with this guide to RVing and traveling with pets.
Other RV camping tips and resources
Hungry for even more RV camping resources? We’ve got you covered. For a stress-free trip, check out these five tools that make trip planning easy.
If only every vacation could be as simple as packing a bag and hitting the road. While part of an RV’s appeal is easy mobility, some trips require special planning before you can get started. The next time you’re prepping for an adventure, make the process easier with these RV trip planning resources.
Get ready to cross all your travel concerns off the to-do list. Book the best campsites, chart the most scenic routes, and kit out your RV with top-tier equipment. Do all of it stress-free with five of the top RV trip planning resources around. The guide below has you covered for anything you might need.
“I would still be driving anyway, so I might as well tow a trailer.”
If Rob Rennell has one regret, it’s that he didn’t buy a fifth wheel sooner. Rennell estimates that traveling the junior golf circuit by trailer with daughter Riley would’ve cut the family’s expenses in half. Rob and Riley have been practicing in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the past three months while their 42-foot trailer is parked at Eagle View RV Resort at Fort McDowell.
“It’s almost like an apartment,” said Riley of the setup, which includes two bedrooms and two bathrooms. RV life allows Riley to bring her dog Alex and kitten Frankie on tour.
The Rennells also have a 40-acre farm in Columbia, Tennessee, which supplies hay for the cattle ranches that surround. Kendra Rennell, who was back home overseeing roof repairs at the farm, recently made her way out west to watch Riley make her LPGA debut this week at the Drive On Championship at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club in Gold Canyon, Arizona.
While Jordan Spieth made some headlines earlier this year talking about his new rig, the women who haul trailers around the country aren’t having quite the same experience as the luxury motor homes that Jason Day, John Daly, Jimmy Walker and others have used for years.
“We’re the trailer girls,” said Dorsey Addicks, who lived 280 days in her Airstream the first year she bought it. Addicks’s father, Rich, a retired photojournalist, has an Airstream, too.
Epson Tour player Dorsey Addicks poses in her Airstream travel trailer. (photo courtesy of Rich Addicks)
After the pandemic hit, the family decided to look into seeing if it made sense financially for Dorsey, who now hails from Big Sky, Montana, to get her own home on wheels. She lives in her 20-foot Airstream when she’s wintering in Georgia and on the east coast of the Epson Tour. When on the west coast, they use dad’s trailer.
“I would still be driving anyway,” said Addicks of tour life, “so I might as well tow a trailer.”
Addicks tows her Airstream with a Chevy Silverado 1500 and documents her travels on the Instagram account, @dagolfstream. A couple of season ago, she met a man in an RV park who walked his goats every night.
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Addicks’ good friend Lindsey McCurdy also pulls a 19-foot trailer on the Epson Tour. She enjoys the freedom of being able to cook what she wants. McCurdy’s RV has a full-size bed and a twin bunk. That McCurdy managed to navigate life on the road while unknowingly battling ulcerative colitis is all the more impressive to Addicks, who sometimes parked next to McCurdy for the week.
“In our little off time, we would talk RVs,” said Riley of the trailer crew. “How is this going for you? Are you still working on fixing that window? How’s the wheel holding up? I know you had a flat a week ago.”
Rob said RVs are often a series of little things going wrong, but worth the effort.
As Addicks pulled out of Arizona after last week’s Epson Tour event in Mesa, Rennell geared up for the start of an LPGA west coast stretch on wheels.
Dorsey Addicks works out next to her Airstream while competing on the Epson Tour. (photo courtesy Rich Addicks)
The Rennells pull their trailer with a Dodge Ram 3500 and figure they’ve put close to 100,000 miles on it the past couple years on the Epson Tour. Their longest ride stretched from Indiana to Idaho, with a week to get there and a week off on the back end. Along the way they saw Mount Rushmore and Bighorn National Forest, back when diesel was more affordable.
“It was a hard pull,” said Riley, “but it was amazing.”
The Rennells are a close-knit bunch, which is basically mandatory when living in close proximity. As Rob said, there are no secrets.
Riley Rennell hits balls near the upper barn on the family’s 40-acre farm. (courtesy photo)
Riley had a club in her hand the day she was born. Rob, a PGA teaching professional, was part-owner of a nine-hole lighted golf course and driving range, and he liked to carry Riley around in a backpack while he gave lessons.
Golf wasn’t Riley’s only interest. She became a fourth-degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and an orange belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. She also rode a beloved horse named Summer in local competitions. Along the way, Riley rose through the ranks of junior golf, eventually giving a verbal commitment to the University of Georgia before deciding to forgo college for the professional ranks.
When Riley was 4 years old, the nine-hole course and range were sold and Rob took all that golf equipment to the 40-acre farm the family had purchased. Rob would give lessons in the barn and watch students hit the more than 30,000 range balls they’d inherited into a field. In the summer, they’d hit balls until it was time to now and then have a pick-a-thon.
With the family now on the road living out 24-year-old Riley’s dreams, they don’t use the farm range as much anymore, but Rob still pays a high school kid in the area to keep it bush-hogged.
The family made a pledge this year that they’d take time to enjoy the journey during this LPGA rookie year.
Golf is Riley’s job, but she keeps her mind occupied with plenty of road hobbies. She enjoys painting with watercolors and acrylics and is teaching herself to read and speak Japanese.
There are times in the RV when there’s no TV and the wifi is less than spotty.
One of her favorite places to park last year on the Epson Tour was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where they paid $20 to sleep 20 yards from the sound of crashing waves.
Everything in Riley’s life right now feels like an adventure.
“I love this game because it’s imperfect,” she said.
“The creativity – it’s very similar, I think, to painting and to life. It’s never going to be the same every day. I think that’s really beautiful and cool.”
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Justin Rose treats his body like a temple.
The 42-year-old Rose has battled nagging back injuries in recent years, including having to pull out of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. It has led him to take extreme measures to keep his body healthy enough to perform at the highest level.
But Rose isn’t just eating a salad instead of a burger and fries. He purchased his own traveling gym that travels from tournament to tournament and allows him to work out and recover. It’s no stretch to say that it played an integral role in his victory two weeks ago at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, his 11th career PGA Tour victory and 23rd title worldwide. It also snapped a winless drought that had stretched back to the 2019 Farmers Insurance Open
“It’s made a massive difference, I think,” Rose said. “It’s a stripped-down RV with hot and cold plunges, steamed shower and infrared sauna and all those other modalities. It’s a place for me to go. It has a coffee machine and all the creature comforts.”
Rose has returned to living full-time in London with his family and his kids are attending schools there. But this isn’t a RV that he lives in on the road as other players such as Jason Day and more recently Jordan Spieth do. Rose believes he’s the only player on Tour with his own gym on wheels, something he invested in and began using on Tour in June 2021.
“I realize there are certain things I’ve done in my life that don’t make my professional career easier so how do I combat that?” he said. “Those are steps I’ve taken to continue to fight the curve. The RV has everything to do with health and wellness. I’m not getting any younger.”
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Cold, blustery conditions forced the Pebble Beach tournament into a Monday finish. When play was suspended, Rose retreated to his personal gym.
“The ice bath after a 50-degree day is less appealing,” he said. “There are days when I feel a little banged up.”
In addition to monitoring his health and wellness on the road, Rose has benefited from the wisdom of swing instructor Mark Blackburn. They started working together in November when Rose became fed up with a run of middling performances far below his standards.
“I figured there had to be something I’m missing,” said Rose, who worked with Sean Foley for the bulk of his career, including when he won the 2013 U.S. Open, 2016 Olympic gold medal and won the 2018 FedEx Cup as World No. 1. “I was very aware that I didn’t want to be a player that goes from coach to coach to coach. The most important thing is he’s given me clear boundaries in which to operate. … My brain likes to know the whys and the hows and he does that through metrics and through some technology and makes it very believable for me. He hasn’t tried to change my pattern so much as re-introduce some things that have worked well for me in the past.”
“All I’ve done is given him a pattern that works based on his body designed to protect his back,” Blackburn said. “He was just a little lost and I’ve given him some clarity. Here’s what you’re doing, here’s what you need to do to fix it and holding him to task.”
As for Rose’s one-of-a-kind gym, Blackburn said, “He’s taking care of himself, his body and where it needs to be. That’s huge.”
For lovers of travel and adventure, owning a RV or motorhome can be an amazing experience. Whether you’re a parent looking to spruce up your family vacations, or someone who needs to constantly be on the road for work, or you’re simply a fan of long …
For lovers of travel and adventure, owning a RV or motorhome can be an amazing experience. Whether you’re a parent looking to spruce up your family vacations, or someone who needs to constantly be on the road for work, or you’re simply a fan of long road trips, investing in an RV could be a wise decision both practically and financially. Being able to take trips without giving up the comfort of your home is a privilege that most travelers miss out on. However, this measure of convenience is elevated even more when purchasing a luxury RV.
With a luxury RV, you are essentially bringing your home with you on the road. When paying for a premier RV like this, you can expect an attention to detail, both artistically and functionally, that just isn’t present in traditional RVs. For example, there is just no comparison between some $35,000 generic RV from 2011 and a $250,000 RV from 2020 crafted by one of the top RV companies in the world. Simply put, these are two different types of vehicles. You can expect a smoother and safer ride, better gas mileage, and most notably, unrivaled comfort. Still not convinced? Here are eight of the top reasons why you should invest in a luxury RV.
