An average entry in Woodall's looked something like this:
'Stop here! Campsite'
Directions - North on I10, exit 4, 4 miles east, entrance on left.
Facilities: 200 sites; 100 full hookup (which meant water, electricity and
drains.... plus also modem connection sometimes); 50 water & electric; 50 no
hookup. Dump station. Laundry. Propane. Hideously expensive food store.
Semi-private restrooms.
One thing that we quickly discovered through choosing our campsites was
that a fancy advert did not always mean a fancy campsite - or even a clean
campsite. In fact, some of the nicest campsites we stayed at had the briefest
adverts in Woodall's – proving without a doubt that size doesn’t matter!
Anybody can open an RV site, as long as they have room for the rigs, and we
certainly encountered a wide variety of camps. Those we visited can be
grouped into three, based on who they were managed by. First, the most
heavily advertised sites are Kampgrounds of America (KOA). We found out
about KOA while we were still in England and used their Kampground
directory to help plan our route, and our budget. They are part of a national
chain, and so KOA sites are very consistent in terms of quality - even though
the Camps are managed individually. We stayed in about half a dozen KOAs
across three different states and they were all clean, with extensive facilities
and friendly staff. Unfortunately, they were also fairly expensive, charging
about fifty percent more than most of the other sites we used.