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Coronavirus has folks in heavily populated areas getting outta Dodge … believing they’ll be much safer away from people, isolating in homes on wheels.
It seems RV parks and campsites are the new safe haven for motor home owners fleeing COVID-19. Campground owners and managers in inland states — like Nevada, Idaho and Wisconsin — tell us they’ve seen an influx of folks from pandemic hot zones.
The owner of Devils River Campground in Manitowoc County, WI says they’re closed — the ground is frozen, there’s no running water and power has been switched off — but that hasn’t stopped diehards from trying to set up camp there anyway. As they say … any port in a storm.
The owner tells us one couple from L.A. appeared in the middle of the night last week offering $40 just to hunker down for a night in the parking lot. A Chicago family had the same idea, and even told the owner they picked Manitowoc County because it had no reported coronavirus cases.
Anderson Camp in Eden, Idaho is also filling its RV spaces with folks from “areas that have been hit hard” … according to the owner.
The same is true at the Canyon Trail RV Park in Boulder City, Nevada. Owner and operator Mike Wells says residents from California and Washington — 2 of the hardest-hit states — have accounted for 50 percent of patrons trying to crash on his 13 acres.
Mike says, “It’s been so busy and so many calls are coming in — it’s like a call center here.”
Everybody’s got a new normal these days.