Originally Posted by
carkmouch
Not to hijack this thread, but has anyone had experience using free campground showers while not staying/paying for the campground? It seems like a good idea to me, just ride into a state-owned park/campground in the middle of the day to ride around, stop and use their shower facility, then continue riding and camp somewhere else for the day?
I know it seems a tad sketchy, but I think it'd be easy to pull off without people noticing or getting too ticked off.
Many campgrounds I've been to have locked toilet blocks. They give a key or a card-key to people who have paid for the sites. And they lock them because someone has thought it would be a good idea to ride into a campground in the middle of the day and stop to use the showers.
If you really want a shower, go to a truck stop or if you don't mind showering outside, go to a beach at a lake or the ocean and use the showers they put there for rinsing the sand off. You can also stop at swimming pools and for the price of a swim, you can shower in the pool showers.