Strangest campground neighbors

[jawilson]

NEVER go camping in a State Park on 4th of July weekend!  

Or Memorial Day. Campground we went to was more like spring break then anything. We wouldn't even let the kids go to the bathroom without an escort. Last time we have every camped on a holiday weekend.

[tlhdoc]

Boy it is hard to pick the strangest campers we have met.  

A.  Eagles Peak campground PA-There were a bunch of people wearing black tee shirts that said "I popped up at Eagles Peak".

B.  The RJ Ranch campground VA_There was a group wearing grey tee shirts that said something about a rally. :p

[barbjeff]

My son and I were doing a bicycle tour from Toronto to Connecticut and had stopped for the night in Lowville N.Y. in a small campground.
 As it turns out we were the only people in the sites reserved for 'short term stays'. This of course generated alot of interest among the kids in the seasonal area and they all came around to check us out. After talking to my son for a while he found out that for of the guys were named 'Jim Bob', he didn't believe them but they produced some sort of I.D., all Jim Bob's with different last names....we heard the faint stirrings of Duelling Banjos!
But the topper, the thing that brought Duelling Banjos to full volume was when we were walking to the showers there was a couple sitting at thier picnic table and she was, with an electric razor, shaving his back!! :eek:

[Miller Tyme]

Not really strange, but unusual-

1. Had a family pull in next to us on a Saturday. Dodge Caravan w/mom, 2 daughters and son, followed by mid-60's Chevy pick-up pulling an older Starcraft driven by dad. Got the trailer leveled, then cranked up the camper-sort of. Had to prop one side up with 2 2x4's. Then they realized they had no firewood. Did we know where to get some? Sure, down the road.  So dad takes truck, comes back with more logs than I'd burn in 3 trips. Then on Sunday morning, they had already run out of food. We gave them most of what we had, because we were packing up.
 
2. Two young couples tenting next to us Labor Day weekend. One guy opens his pick-up box, and there sits a TV, VCR, camcorder, and satellite dish. The wives and kids go off to enjoy the activities, and these two guys sit there watching Brewer games, ESPN, the Playboy channel(when the wives weren't around), and on Monday morning, just sat there watching themselves.:rolleyes:

[julecav]

We had the rowdys on Memorial Day bowling with their empty beer cans for pins but they were amusing and very respectful of the kids so it wasn't too bad.  The oddest was the big fancy TT that was across from us.  We never saw movement for the 3 days they were there.  Finally they emerged one afternoon with him in a tuxedo and her in a ball gown.  Then we see him loading a cello in their car.  As Jay and I stood there in our jeans and flannels staring.  The next day Jay talked to him apparently they were in an orchestra that was playing in a nearby resort and there wasn't room for their trailer there.

[slowpez]

Between Christmas and New Years, we camped at Jeckyll Island, Ga.  When we pulled in, there was a trailer next to us.  The huge kind that usually has a race car inside.  The couple who owned it, has a full sized queen bed from their house inside.  They also had about 7 propane tanks of various sizes.  They were setting up a chain link fence provided by the campground because one of their three dogs evidently bit a child so they were moved to the site next to us and had to keep their dogs inside the fence.  The stuff these people had was just not to be believed.  There were ladders, broken chairs, lots of unidentifiable junk.  He had it spread all over his site.  They took off for dinner and came back squiffed (don't you love that expression).  About 1 AM, he decided to rearrange all his stuff with loud verbal assists from his wife.  At 2 AM, the guy next to us went to get the campground host who came and had a chat with them.  They continued with their tirade for another hour.  In the morning, we went to complain and met another couple doing the same thing.  A ranger came by and told them they had to leave.  After much yelling and screaming, at each other, and campers in general we took off because we weren't sure somewhere in all that stuff there wasn't a gun.  They were gone when we returned.  The funny thing was, they kept yelling that they told the campground they had 3 dogs.  They just didn't get that it wasn't the dogs that caused the problem, it was the people.

[Tim5055]

Does it count that I camped next to Dave once?  Talk about strange neighbors :J

[Poconohound]

It was our second time out in our new p/u. Fri. nite after work, we hooked up the camper and went to a local c/g. Arrive; ck in, get site. Back in-only slight struggle; pop up, no major disasters...pickup truck w/bed camper and old bomber car pull in across street. 2 guys who seem intoxicated grab fishing poles; jump in bomber..never return all wkend..We go out 2 dinner, reeturn start campfire,pop cold ones-bond w/family-ahh,the camping life. Sat.: son has baseball game (why we stayed local) plays-return 2 cg. Wife takes boy 2 pool-dad naps w/dog-ahhh, the camping life! Grilled steaks 4 dinner...and then the Mongul hordes arrived! At about 7 p.m. appprox. 30-40 people (early 20'ish) set up camp on a near-by loop...Heavy eastern europeean accents filled the air, as the group sets up on various sites-then meet up on 1 site for Bulgarian Woodstock in Pa....A folk guitar plays as hoarse (and obviously drunk) Bulgarian(?) folk songs split the nite...Have 2 have a campfire 2 camp, right? They start this Lord-of-the-Flies bonfire...At some point campowner and friend go over 2 talk 2 them about noise; explaining they can't all be on 1 site-some scurry 2 their own sites, only 2 re-group later. Owner apologizes, explaining they don't speak english. 11:00 quiet time they actually do-4 about 45 mins; just long enuff 4 the owners allergy medicine 2 knock her out! We finally fall asleep about 1:30 only 2 be awakened about an hour later by the metallic clang of tent poles coming down-some poor schlub not w/the group was actually trying 2 tent camp in their midst! Next morning they looked sheepish, hung-over...but were actually pleasant (good mornink!...) Still can't talk the wife into going back...

[wiininkwe]

NightOwl and I camped next to Dave once, too. But he probably thinks we were the strange neighbors, as we giggled like teenagers late into the night. (and without benefit of alcoholic fortification, I might add).
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[deniski]

4th of July last year we popped up in a site across from some other PU friends in a nearby FS campground.  We expected to have some noise given the holiday, but weren't prepared for very drunk boys (late teens) who really let it rip about 1 am.  Won't go into great detail, but ended up with the sheriff's dept and local FS enforcement officers at the campground running spotlights all night long, and talking over loudspeakers trying to round up all the kids.  Especially the one really drunk kid who was shouting nasty racial slurs and profanity at the top of his lungs while taunting law enforement guys to find him.  Country around the campground is pretty rugged and he was moving around on the slopes above the campground in the trees.  Still hadn't found him by morning....

AND at the campsite next to ours that same trip, we watched a family arrive with a large pickup full of lodgepole poles set up a full sized TeePee, complete with floor canvas.  They were real nice but we were amazed that they went camping that way... a LOT more work than our little popup!!

[wynot]

I just knew that someone would say the Wynots...

Boy it is hard to pick the strangest campers we have met.

 
A. Eagles Peak campground PA-There were a bunch of people wearing black tee shirts that said "I popped up at Eagles Peak".
 
B. The RJ Ranch campground VA_There was a group wearing grey tee shirts that said something about a rally. :p

[tlhdoc]

I just knew that someone would say the Wynots...

I didn't use your names.

[wynot]

I didn't use your names.

Oh,
 
Ok...