Originally Posted by
indyfabz
The one instance that sticks out in my mind was in the infamous Jeffrey City, WY. There was a Dutch trio camping in the American Legion park. They weee heading west. I was heading east the next day to Rawlins and was planning to stay at the KOA. They had stayed there the night before and told me it was not nice. No shade and bordered by I-80. I checked it out when I arrived in Rawlins. Took one look and went to the center of town to score a room.
Last summer I went to a KOA, I was going to make a short day of it and quit early after two ferry crossings that day. The KOA wanted over $80 for a RV site, they had no tent sites. I decided to keep going.
Your no shade site reminded me of a site I had last summer at a provincial park. Zero shade and of course not a cloud in the sky. Being a weekend when all campgrounds would be full, they only had one site available for two nights, all the other campgrounds nearby were already booked for the entire weekend. So, I took the last site they had for two nights.
I was glad to get a site, but I could see why it was the last site available.
It gave me a chance to catch up on sink laundry with fast drying in the sun.