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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / August 2005Parking in Nova Scotia Banned
OK so here is my question to all. I have a 3 acre piece of land right on the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia. In order to use it for dry camping, I would need to bring in gravel and a dozer to improve the ground for the weight of rigs, plus define a road in and out, say,,,,,,, $8,000.00 worth. Now I have a piece of land, worth ? ocean view, on the Cabot Trail ? plus 8k of improvements. Since CGs charge approx $25 Cdn in this area, and there are no WalMarts, but if there were, they would be free (provided the Mounties don't move you along),,, How much would YOU be willing to pay, per night, for dry camping on my piece of land? > OK so here is my question to all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > How much would YOU be willing to pay, per night, for dry camping on my > piece of land? Not much because I don't plan on coming to Nova Scotia. IF I come to NS, maybe 4 bucks (CDN$). > OK so here is my question to all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > How much would YOU be willing to pay, per night, for dry camping on my > piece of land? Nothing, rather be in a campground. no offense, just my rathers. >How much would YOU be willing to pay, per night, for dry camping on my >piece of land? Nothing! If want to "camp" in my motorhome, I go to a campground. If I want to "park" in my motorhome, then I go to a parking lot. And regardless of which I want to do, it won't be in Nova Scotia. We've been going to Nova Scotia on pretty much an annual basis; and have always used private commercial campgrounds. As long as the RV ban remains in Nova Scotia, we won't be back. And even if the ban is lifted, we will NEVER again use the services of private commercial campground in that Provice. > OK so here is my question to all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > How much would YOU be willing to pay, per night, for dry camping on my > piece of land? The last time we went there we stayed in Baddock and drove around the Cabot Trail. That road is not RV friendly on the eastern shore. In the Saturn it was a nice days drive, but pretty lonely at that. Also, putting gravel on some of that unique landscape would be a shame. So... I don't think I would pay much for your campground with no services, mostly because I wouldn't take my big RV there at all in the first place. Baddock was a destination for us to explore the area and for that we pay the daily campground fees. When passing through and in a hurry, we may boondock ocassionaly, but not often because Mrs doesn't like it. Last time we boondocked, we parked by ourselves in a Wal*Mart parking lot with permission. During the night several large trucks also parked in the lot while the drivers slept. Their moters were running and they parked right beside us. Of course, my generator was running, too, for the air conditioning that Mrs demands... Cabot Trail is unique and beautiful but kind of hard to get to. John Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee >> OK so here is my question to all. >> [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > John Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee He's not saying it's a campground. It's a stopover or overnight stop. No services just like Walmart. MoM >>>OK so here is my question to all. >>> [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > MoM Yeah, but... My point was that I would not go onto that road with the RV in the first place because of the steep and winding road on the east coast. More to the point is the thought that the value of a quickie stopover place for an RV is its access to the route to somewhere else. The Cabot Trail is somewhere, not somewhere else. It is a destination on its own. Where the stopovers have value is along the interstates or US highways used by RVs going to a destination. Examples abound, but not on the isolated and remote roads like the Cabot Trail. Recently on our trip to California we stayed at several stopover campground where there were services that we needed like laundry and quick access and fuel and pull-through sites. We paid fees like $20 for the night. We got a flat spot on which to park, a little electricity and water, a place to dump on the way out and a chance to do the dirty laundry. We didn't get trees or pools or any lawns at all. Suited us just fine for that night. Take away the water and electricity and the dump station, take away the laundry, take the pull through flat site and it isn't worth very much at all. Say $0.00, just like Wal*Mart (which is worse if there are truck engines running beside you. John Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee > OK so here is my question to all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > How much would YOU be willing to pay, per night, for dry camping on my > piece of land? $5
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