Here’s the completed list of RV parks in Canada that have now been inserted to the RV Park Directory. We will be adding fresh content and gathering more information from the park owners. The owners have been very cooperative in getting fresh up-to-date information on the site just in time for camping season :
Archive for March, 2009
More campgrounds / Motorhome parks for your camping pleasure
Thursday, March 19th, 2009We’ve been posting a whole lot more rv parks and will be finishing up Canada and the US in the next 6 – 8 weeks. The volume of information is amazing :
Anyways, here’s what we have in the past few days :
Phew. . That’s around 1200 rv parks and campgrounds. We were able to identify around 980 in California alone. There are so many, we decided to divide California into 3 sections.
More sooooooooooon.
Time to Dewinterize your RV or motorhome
Monday, March 16th, 2009If you’re cheap like me, you like to winterize and de-winterize your motorhome yourself. An RV dealership can charge a lot of money for this service and I like to know what’s been done and how. SO : here’s some tips to get you through this process :
Water System :
- Open the water heater bypass or replace the drain plug.
- Fill fresh water tank with 10 gallons of water only. Make sure your gray water tank is empty.
- Get the fresh water pump operational if it has been disconnected in any way, then turn it on, prime if necessary and pressure up.
- Flush the anti-freeze out of your plumbing though all (hot and cold) faucets including the shower / tub and toilet.
- Keep flushing your system until your fresh water tank is empty.
- Hook up your city water, turn off the fresh water pump
- Again, flush all faucets hot and cold.
- Once the anti-freeze has been flushed out of the system, you can sterilize your tank.
- If your motorhome has other water appliances such as a washer/dryer, ice machine or dish drawer, these will also need to be run to purge all of the antfreeze out of these appliances.
Sterilizing your fresh water tank (optional):
- Mix a cup of household bleach with a gallon of water and pour it into your fresh water tank with a funnel. Next, fill the fresh water tank with potable water.
- Turn the pump back on and start flushing each faucet and toilet until you can smell bleach. Shut the faucets off.
- Let it site for at least 4 hours. Flush the entire fresh tank by turning on all faucets or drain the tank manually.
- WATCH YOUR GRAY TANK LEVELS if you flush more than your capacity.
- Refill with clean water and flush until the bleach smell is gone.
Road Worthiness
- Check and top up tire pressure
- Top up fluids or change fluids depending on your mainenance schedule
- Re-install your batteries if they were removed.
- Check your license plate tags – don’t go away without your tags renewed
- Inspect the tires for damage or rot and replace if necessary.
- Check the tire lugs to make sure they are tight.
- Inspect propane system for cracks / rust.
Other Stuff:
- Test the appliances to make sure there are no repairs needed.
- Test your awnings / TV’s and everything else that you will use when you go on your first camping trip of the season.
Go CAMPING ! Come back in the fall and I’ll have some great tips for winterizing your motorhome.
So many BC Campgrounds and RV Parks
Monday, March 16th, 2009Wow .. BC looks like a great place to go camping with your motorhome or RV. Camping is extremely popular in western Canada and there are tons of campgrounds and RV parks that offer full hookups. The term “Beautiful British Columbia” is coined on their license plates and there is a good reason for it. BC offers coastline, rocky mountains and beautiful lakes throughout the interior. I would personally call this the camping capital of Canada and I’m planning a trip there in the summer of 2009. During the trip, we will be snapping tons of photos and providing some footage of the trip to share on this site.
We have a lot of work to do still but we’ve compiled a list of nearly 500 campgrounds and rv parks to help BC travelers find RV park and campground contact information :
