Comments on: Camping Mishaps: Noisy Neighbors

By: WV-Mike

WV-Mike — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:49:11 +0000

You can scout all you want but this will not keep some asshole from showing with a generator and destroying the peace and quiet.

Why don’ these people just stay home if they want all the comforts of home?
WV-Mike

By: Kathrynn

Kathrynn — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:59:00 +0000

Well, it’s 5:41am and the drunken college students are finally passed out. Being a church secretary & only 26yrs old, I’m not someone they would be intimidated by or have respect for, so confronting them then-and-there is not an option. What’s your advice for dealing with these type of noisy neighbors (drunk, group mentality, camp host gone after 10:30pm…)? Is it appropriate to ask them to at least pay for our camp site for the ruined night of sleep? Thank you!!

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:18:03 +0000

Steve – there is some work being done on something like this (an Internet community-based campground information site) and from what I have seen, it looks pretty close to being released. I will be covering it here, as soon as they launch it.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:35:59 +0000

Good points Roy, I suppose I’m thinking about a google street view for campsites. If we could somehow get those tricked out photo vans that drive through our neighborhoods pasting the store and house fronts, to drive through the campsites. That Santa Clara site (http://tinyurl.com/b444zp) is pretty cool, definitely on the right track.

Any ideas on setting up a database for campers to upload photos of their favorite sites? Just a quick upload, comment section, and then a rating function that allows other users to add comments and rank the site (5 marshmallows) they could then be sorted by number of marshmallows to you could get to the best ones faster. Obviously this only works if a bunch of users do it, and the more who do the bigger it gets.

Does this already exist? Is camping ready for this?

-Steve

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:15:50 +0000

It’s a real challenge, Steve. The real benefit of something like Google Maps is being able to see the spatial relationship of the campground to other features around it; i.e. railroad tracks, busy roads, etc. (rifle ranges – yikes!). Used in conjunction with the crude campground maps offered by the reservation sites, it can also be helpful in picking an individual campsite that meets certain criteria. I often use this combination to pick a campsite with direct beach access, for example.

More to your point of being able to see the individual campsites themselves, Santa Clara County offers Quicktime “virtual tours” of campsites (http://tinyurl.com/b444zp). It is a nice feature, but not the panacea that you might think. The virtual tours do not give you a feel for the overall size of the campsite and you can end-up squeezed-in pretty close to a neighbor if you are not careful.