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With everything costing much more and inflation galloping onward, it’s no wonder people are reassessing their vacation plans. For folks seeking vacation fun without breaking the bank, recreational vehicle trips have never looked so inviting. However, even the RV lifestyle can’t escape the increased costs of nearly everything. So how do campers combat RV inflationary headwinds?

Get Back to Nature

So often, we think that to have a fantastic vacation, we must travel to far distant commercialized destinations like theme parks or fancy resort areas. These destination vacations can cost a fortune; fuel costs, RV park fees, activities, entrance fees and other costs pile up with alarming speed. But if you look back at the best summer vacations, they most often are the times you spent with your family doing simple things. Get inspiration from the vacations spent in national forest campgrounds, swimming and fishing in the lake or river, hiking and exploring the surrounding area, sitting by the campfire roasting marshmallows, savoring the potatoes that were roasted in the fire for dinner and having great fun with the family. Get back to basics and back to nature.

Cool’ n’ Cook

Eating at restaurants for all your meals becomes very costly over the course of your vacation. But spending excessive time cooking isn’t most campers’ idea of a great vacation. To save money and time, we make cookies, desserts and homemade freezer meals ahead of time to use while we’re traveling. Casseroles like shepherd’s pie can be frozen in individual- or family-sized aluminum pans. Soups can be frozen in correct portion sizes in freezer bags and laid flat to save space in the freezer. These freezer meals save time and effort; just heat and serve. Also, making use of a crockpot is not only economical but convenient. Throw in the ingredients in the morning, turn on the pot and dinner is ready any time you are!

Fuel Concerns

OK, so you’ve picked your destination and reserved a spot. Even though you’ve selected a campground that is relatively close to home, the trip still is going to make a dent in fuel expenses. Increasing the miles per gallon can help reduce the trip’s overall expenses. Let’s take a look at some of the many ways you can travel further on a gallon of fuel.

An old adage says, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” Like your clothing choice, tent selection is critical to your comfort when the weather isn’t perfect. 

With the right tent and camping gear, your season can easily extend into the winter months, and you can enjoy the outdoors when the weather isn’t always fair. Aside from choosing a four-season camping tent, you’ll benefit from knowing how to insulate a tent for winter camping. 

Start by Selecting The Right Tent for Winter Camping

Winter camping in cold temperatures requires a true, four-season camping tent. These tents are designed to handle the winter elements, meaning they’re less likely to break in high winds, collapse under heavy snow, and let cold air inside than regular tents. 

When selecting the right camping tent, smaller is better for winter camping. That’s because there will be less interior space to retain heat. Some of the best brands for four-season tents include Mountain Hardwear, NEMO, The North Face, and Hilleberg.

How to Insulate a Tent for Winter Camping

With the right camping tent in hand, here are a few tent insulation tips: 

These fantastic toy hauler travel trailers with outdoor kitchens are the best way to get your family out to the campground! We’ll show you six of our favorite deals ongoing now so that you can take home the best combination of features for your family. Learn more about these RVs with spacious garages and outdoor kitchens below.

Your family of six will love traveling together in this Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf 27RR toy hauler travel trailer. There’s an 11′ separated garage to give you plenty of room for all your outdoor toys and equipment. Additionally, this space doubles as a second bedroom for the kids or your guests.

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Take home this couple’s coach with a ramp door and plenty of space for outdoor toys. Additionally, you’ll love that the roof tent gives you plenty of storage and sleeping space. There’s an outdoor kitchen with a refrigerator and all the appliances you need to make meals around the campfire.

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Hot water is a luxury that RVers should never take for granted. From showering to truly cleaning your dishes, it’s essential to your overall RV hygiene. When considering an upgrade to a tankless RV water heater, you must know the advantages and disadvantages of this water heater type.

What is a Tankless Water Heater (and How Does it Work?)

Traditional water heaters boast a storage tank that fills with water from your fresh water tank or when you’re connected to city water. That water is then heated using a propane burner or an electric heating element, which can sometimes take as long as 30 minutes before you can enjoy a hot shower. Tankless water heaters work a little differently.

Tankless RV water heaters, also known as on-demand water heaters, heat your water instantaneously, eliminating the need for a storage tank. When you open a hot water fixture in your kitchen sink or RV shower, cold water runs through a heat exchanger powered by propane gas. This design allows them to deliver constant hot water without you waiting for water to be heated in a tank. 

Benefits of Tankless RV Water Heaters

Here are a few of the advantages of tankless RV water heaters: 

Disadvantages of Tankless RV Water Heaters

While they’re a great option for some, some RVers still swear by their standard water heater because tankless RV hot water heaters can:

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1. RV hookups are on the driver’s side of your RV. 

When you get to your campsite, you’ll want to try to align the left side of your RV with the hookups for power, city water, and sewer. This will make hooking up an RV a lot easier than it would be with all the connections on the wrong side.

Located along the Alaskan peninsula, Katmai National Park is a vast and untamed wilderness of volcanic peaks, dense forests, and windswept coastlines. The park’s sprawling landscapes cover more than 4 million acres, making it larger than the state of Connecticut.

Here, visitors will find a setting that is breathtakingly beautiful and awe-inspiringly vast. A place where the forces of nature remain fully in charge and mankind remains a visitor, even after 9,000 years of habitation. For outdoor enthusiasts, adventure travelers, and animal lovers, Katmai is a place unlike any other.

But you’ll have to leave your RV behind on this journey. There are no roads within the park, and the only way in or out is by boat or float plane. Those who make the trip are rarely disappointed, however. As this is a place that stays with you long after you’ve gone home.

Why Visit Katmai National Park?

Remote, wild, and indescribably beautiful, Katmai National Park is a destination that humbles visitors with its size and scope. The Alaskan landscape is one of the last true wildernesses on the planet, barely touched by man. That alone is a reason to visit, as there are few places on the planet where we can still witness nature in its purest form.

Katmai is also a destination where the Earth’s awesome volcanic forces are fully displayed. The park sits along the Pacific Rim’s fabled Ring of Fire and is among the most active volcanic regions on the planet. At least 14 volcanoes inside the park show signs of activity, including Mount Katmai itself.

We've had lots of people ask if we know of any RV Land for Sale out West and we can now say we do - in Arizona at a new development called Greenwood Ranches. We've been covering RV land ownership for some time now but most of the places we have found are east of the Mississippi. Large, multi-acre parcels aimed at Rvers are hard to find. Especially out west. So when we heard about this one, we decided to devote a podcast to it. Located in an elevated valley not far from Kingman, AZ, and the fabled Route 66, this development is offering five-acre RV parcels starting at $39,900 in an area close to National Parks, Las Vegas, Lake Havasu, and many other attractions. In this Episode #420 of the RV Podcast, we share the details in an in-depth interview with a representative of Western Land and Ranches.

Continue reading RV Land for Sale Out West – In Arizona at RV Lifestyle.

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RVing at Grayton Beach State Park is one of Florida’s best campground experiences. This is a pretty small RV park, but it puts you in a great location for outdoor activities. 

Grayton Beach is one of Florida’s most beautiful beaches, and this campground also puts you in close proximity to Western Lake. No matter what type of activity you prefer, you can find a good place to do it in Grayton Beach State Park. 

The campground/RV park here isn’t too special by itself, but the location is everything. Below, we’ll explore some campground details, the provided amenities, and some ways you can spend your time in this area. If you’re tired of touristy Florida and want to connect to the natural parts of the state, this could be a good place to set up camp.

If someone had told me that one day, I’d be traveling with my kid, our two dogs, and two horses – I wouldn’t believe them! And, I would have so many questions.

Why? How? Where did all the animals come from? Where are they all kept? What’s next?

I was not raised with horses and I barely knew how to ride a horse. Now, I own two horses that join us on our camping travels.

Today, while our ponies are parked at their home barn, I’m here to answer the most common questions about how we camp with horses and so much more.

How Our Horse Camping Journey Started

During the pandemic, we hunkered down in Texas and learned a great deal about horsemanship. Our family volunteered at barns for months and learned an extensive amount of information about the anatomy of horses, grooming, diet, exercises, body language, and more. Being around horses during a time when the world was forced to experience so much isolation helped us cope tremendously. There was so much to learn and it felt like we had been fully immersed in a hands-on course. For almost 9 months, day and night we worked with horses until we adopted our first one, and then another horse six months later.

As the holiday season ramps up, New England remains a prime destination for touring. It’s worth the low temperatures to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal in Massachusetts or sip a cup of hot cider in New Hampshire.

Late fall along the Maine coast means clear air and few crowds. Take a drive to Ocean Point, at the tip of a peninsula director south of Damariscotta. See Lighthouses in the distance on the water and enjoy the brisk air. Afterward, head back to Damariscotta for a warm bowl of chowder and a tall brew. Motorists can also motor north to Acadia National Park and drive the Loop Road, which remains open through November. 

Hunt for Seaglass on the Coast

To the south along the coast, Old Orchard Beach hosts the annual Celebration by the Sea: Holiday Scavenger Hunt. Participants record where they found holiday treasure and turn it in for prizes. For more treasure, bundle up and walk the beaches of Kennebunkport to the south for seashells and sea glass, which wash up on shore during this month. Also, in Kennebunkport, visitors can take an early winter walk in Wells Reserve at Laudholm, with seven miles of trails that lead through compelling forests and marshes.

With five national parks, Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park may see fewer visitors than its more popular siblings, Zion, Arches, and Bryce, but it’s still one of the more awe-inspiring parks in the state. RVing Capitol Reef National Park is one of the best ways to see the park, either as a grand tour of Utah’s ‘Mighty Five’ or as a standalone trip.

Located in the south-central desert of Utah, Capitol Reef National Park is fairly isolated from any big cities. The nearby towns of Torrey and Hanksville are small, and getting here may be a bit of a trek. However, it’s definitely worth the journey.

Why Visit Capitol Reef National Park in an RV?

RVing Capitol Reef National Park is a great experience, especially when touring other parts of the Utah desert. Capitol Reef has spectacular scenery that leaves visitors feeling like they’ve wandered into another world. It is a remote and rugged landscape, which gives a new appreciation for the desert.

There are some amazing hiking and off-roading trails in the park. Capitol Reef shines for RVers who travel in rigs around or under 27 feet or those towing a four-wheel drive-capable vehicle to access remote areas in the park. Visitors in longer RVs may find themselves limited in what they can do in the lesser traveled areas of the park, though there are sites that are still accessible along the main corridors.

When to Visit Capitol Reef National Park

Capitol Reef is open year-round – 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. The visitor center hours change depending on the season, and parts of the park may close due to inclement weather like snow or floods.

A little more than a year ago I won a 2021 Thor Freedom Elite 22HEC from an Instagram giveaway hosted by @UsTheRemingtons on Instagram. The giveaway was sponsored by GoodSam and, as my old 1979 Coachmen had just blown its engine, the new RV could not have come at a better time.

When Camping World reached out to me to ask me to review life in a Freedom Elite, I was stoked. As someone who’s experienced both extremes of RV dwelling– from a very old vintage RV fixer-upper to a brand new model – I feel confident and qualified to review this experience. I hope my review helps you determine if a Thor Freedom Elite is right for you!

Learn more about the Thor Freedom Elite here.

What I Love About the Thor Freedom Elite

First, let’s start with the good. There is, after all, a LOT of good with this RV.

Fuel Efficiency

It’s relatively inexpensive on gas which was an absolute delight as gas prices surged over the summer. Sure, it’s no Prius, but when compared to diesel vehicles or Class A RVs with lower mpg ratings, driving the Freedom Elite is a relatively economical way to see more of the country without leaving the comforts of home behind.

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Want the perfect snowbird getaway in Northern Arizona? Book a stay at Sedona View RV Resort. In the town of Cottonwood, guests can enjoy brisk but comfortably cool temperatures year-round.

The Prescott National Forest borders this resort. Guests enjoy easy access to Sedona and the ghost town of Jerome too.

This location alone provides plenty of fun things for RVers to do in Northern Arizona. Inside the park, there is a lot to experience as well.

Amenities at Sedona View RV Resort

Sedona View RV Resort offers over 190 RV sites, as well as full hookups and a variety of amenities.  

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Spot cleaning techniques

Before we get into the specifics of treating different spills, let’s go over some best practices for dealing with carpet stains. If you attack the stain in the right way, you’ll be able to remove it effectively and avoid damaging your carpet.

Act immediately

First of all, tackle the stain as soon as possible. The less time it has to sit, the easier it will be to remove. Liquids will come free much more easily if they’re still wet, and other substances will be simple to pick up if they don’t have time to sink in.