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Pick the PERFECT Camp Spot!
May 22, 2024
The perfect spot can make your trip! Simon shares decades of experience picking the perfect camping spot. There's a priority list to run through to narrow down your choices and book the perfect spot for your next camping adventure. In this video: 0:00 - A Good Camp Spot Can Make Your Trip! 0:21 - Amenities At The Spot 1:32 - Size Of The Camp Spot 1:56 - Proximity Of The Spot 3:14 - Terrain Of The Spot 3:58 - Wildlife 4:46 - Group Camping
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What's up everybody, it's Simon from LakeUP. We're out here camping and I'm gonna talk
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about the perfect camp spot. How to pick them, what to look for, depends on what
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kind of camping you're doing, who you're doing it with, what kind of gear you're bringing, right? I'm gonna go through my order of priority and things that I look
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for in the perfect camp spot and we're gonna help you pick the perfect spot for
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your next camp trip. So the very first thing you want to look at is going to be the amenities at the campsite itself. Do you need a pull
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through spot? Do you need a long level spot? Do you need asphalt for some reason
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Maybe, you know, maybe it's been super muddy lately or something like that and
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you're afraid of bogging down and getting stuck. Do you need hookups? Here
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we've got we've got 30 amp and 50 amp in one spot. A lot of times it's gonna be
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one or the other and a small camper is gonna be 30 amp and a big rig is gonna
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be 50. We also have water on the site which, you know, maybe you do, maybe you
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don't at a lot of sites and there's no sewer at this particular spot which is
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that's actually not uncommon. So full hookups will be water, sewer and electric
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and then partial hookups is often gonna be water and electric only, no sewer. So
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I could tell you the power comes in handy. Obviously water comes in handy but
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sometimes if there's if there's not water at every spot it'll be every, you
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know, maybe every third spot or something like that and you just have to kind of
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truck it over which is kind of annoying but it's not a deal-breaker. The next
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thing to consider is the size of the spot. If you've got a huge rig then you
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might need a big pull-through spot just like this and if you've got a small
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camper, if you got a little pop-up or you're tent camping then you can pretty
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much camp anywhere so it doesn't really matter. You just might not want, you know, a big asphalt strip or a big concrete strip like this if you're tent camping
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You're really not gonna use it. It's just gonna be a parking lot for you. Another
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thing to consider is the proximity of your spot. So what amenities are there
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around you like a restroom, right? When my kids were real little they gave us maybe
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a 20-second warning for potty so we needed to be within a 20-second sprint
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of a restroom, right? So that was like the number one feature. We had to be near the
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restroom. Now we can we can stretch that out a little bit, right? We can
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extend our range a little more around the restrooms. The other thing is the
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waterfront. We're camping out at the lake, man. Let's get on the water. But again
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when my kids were little I was always worried about them running off into the water without me, you know, catching them. Like just, you know, if there's like a
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five-second window where I'm not paying attention there that's gonna be the five seconds that they're gonna run into the lake. So now they're a little bit older
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they can all swim, and they know the rules and I and I trust that they're
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gonna obey the rules, right? And so now we can camp waterfront and we love it. If
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you've got a boat then that's totally awesome if you can get a spot with a beach, right? That's like, that's awesome. So playgrounds, hiking trails, biking
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trails, all the stuff that you like to do. Pick your proximity according
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to all the things that you like. Another thing to consider is the terrain. So this
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spot that I'm sitting in right now is wooded, it's private, it's got, look at that
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it's got privacy almost all the way around. It's up on a little hilltop
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There's just not a lot of room, that's the only downside. So I would say the perfect spot has room to play, room for, you know, kids or dogs to play or
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whatever. A little room to spread out, right? Along with, you know, some privacy
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some shade, you know, and a little bit of variety. That's like the perfect spot
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Those are hard to find. So usually you have to compromise one way or the other
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If you want a little more room, maybe have a little less shade, you know, or
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vice versa. One of the great things about camping is that you get to experience
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wildlife in a really unique way because within campgrounds a lot of times, you
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know, hunting and things like that are gonna be restricted. Pursuit of game is
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gonna be restricted or even outright prohibited. And so, you know, the wildlife
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tends to be a lot more docile than they are in other environments. And right
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behind me, right over here, I'm standing in a camp spot right here, okay? Right
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there, I heard a deer right behind like this scrubby brush right here. This is
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like broad daylight, middle of the afternoon, and they didn't think anything
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of me. They were just hanging out, which is really cool. So as far as terrain goes
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you know, that the more, you know, kind of wild and woody it is, then the more you're
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gonna get to experience things like that too. So when it comes to group camping, camping with, you know, friends or family, you don't always need to go to like a
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group camping area. You can pick spots that are really close together with an
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open middle. This is a great group camping spot. There's one that I'm
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standing in right here. There's one right here and then one right behind it
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And if you've got kids or whatever and they can all play together in this
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middle area, you can have big picnics and stuff. So group camping can really be
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what you make it. So that is how you pick the perfect camp spot. I hope that helps
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you next trip. Don't miss out on my essential gear for camping video. Talk to
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you soon
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