Customer Reviews

2007 Trailer Life RV Parks, Campgrounds and Services Directory (Trailer Life Directory: Campgrounds, RV Parks, & Services)

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I was surprised to find how many places in Wisconsin that I've camped at are not listed in this book. It is huge but still far from exhaustive. The emphasis by far is on commercial RV parks over national, state, and regional campgrounds. My view of Woodall's is similar. Between the two of them, they cover enough RV-friendly places in Wisconsin to be useful, but even combined are woefully far from complete.

It's true this telephone-book sized guide has many listings. However, it has nearly as many ads for it's apparent sponsor, the Good Sam Club. We found it extremely annoying to plow through pages of ads looking for the actual campground listings. We also had to tear out a bunch of ad inserts that if left in, made the book fall open to where they were inserted. Finally, none of the campgrounds we've used and enjoyed in Northern and Central California were listed in the book. Could it be because they're not part of the Good Sam network? All in all, barely 3 stars for us. We take Tom Stienstra's book over this one any time.

I've been buying these books since I started RVing back in the 1980's. The rating system for campgrounds is great. Lots of information about each campground and easy to follow directions to find the campground. I never stay at a campground until I look up the rating in the book. If they don't get a high cleanliness rating I look for another campground. I've never found them to be off the mark on the ratings. This is my campground bible when traveling! Highly recommended! A++++++++++

This directory is thorough, well designed, and easy to use despite its size. We noticed some of the 'crummier' local campgrounds were absent and suspect that is intentional, thankfully.

Actually, I don't own the 2007 Trailer Life directory. I own the 2006 and 2008 editions (the latter has been out about two months). For 2007, I purchased Woodall's Directory instead. My wife and I spend a few months camping each year--often without prior reservations. We are primarily tourers rather than destination campers, covering a large section of the US or Canada each year and not staying in one place more than a few days at a time. Thus, some of the campground amenities like recreation programs are unimportant to us. We do care about issues like price and cleanliness, and both publications do on-site ratings of many of the listed campgrounds each year. We both preferred Trailer Life over Woodall's because it gives more information we do want to know, like if a facility has showers. Neither Trailer Life nor Woodall's lists anywhere near all the campgrounds, but both are comprehensive enough to be useful. However, the information becomes dated pretty quickly, and the most current edition is always a year behind in terms of ratings and prices (e.g. the 2007 edition would show 2006 ratings and prices). Although I'm sure the 2007 edition is as good as the 2006 & 2008 editions, I wouldn't recommend it now because its information is now essentially two years old. I would instead purchase the 2008 edition from the publisher or from Amazon.com when they have it available. If I was rating the most current edition I would give it 4 stars.

I don't know why anyone would order this old edition when several newer ones have been published since. It's true that this directory focuces on commercial campgrounds. Anyone who likes to stay in state parks, national forests, national parks or Bureau of Land Management campgrounds, will not benefit from buying this directory. If you are a member of AAA, stop by your local office and get their free Camp Books. They miss a lot of places, but the price is right.

I have used this directory for years and each year it improves. I use it for planning future trips and when on the road to find needed services.

I have used Trailer Life Directories before but this one is even better.
I really appreciate the charts that show trailering laws and etc. for each state. The campground descriptions are very complete and accurate. It is worth the money.

I think this is a great book containing a lot of good info. Though it doesn't contain all. But it's a good starting anchor point for beginners' RV trips.

We recently went on a vacation that we planned to be non-structured. We did not make reservations anywhere. Just drove until we felt the need to stop. This directory made our trip and finding a campground a memorable experience. We relaxed and had such a wonderful time!! We didn't want to come home!