Campers, Be Polite!

Here are the guidelines for courteous camping, which results in wonderful camping.
When your neighbors are happy, everyone is happy. Part of the reason that some people do not like or enjoy camping is because they have the wrong idea about camping. They think that camping is supposed to be just like home so they get upset at the minor inconveniences of camping such as a temporary rainstorm or bugs, insects or little animals running around some campsites. When you realize that camping is just a vacation , not something that you will live with your whole life, then you can handle a few bugs and a few inconveniences for the season. That is how camping works. Camping is a temporary vacation with a few setbacks here and there. And you will have the very best and most enjoyable camping trips if you will just prepare ahead of time, for everything that might happen.
If we think things over, we will realize that most people go camping for the very same reasons.
Number one at the top of the list is that campers use state parks and campgrounds as a means to get away from the bustling city and harsh city noises. Knowing this and remembering this will aid you when it comes to figuring out just what a courteous camper is.
First: Contain all unnatural noises and technical noises to your very own campsite. If you must have a radio or television on, walk over to near the next campsite and see if you can hear your radio or television from that campsite. If you can hear your techno noises, news, or the radio or television from a nearby campsite then your noise level is way too high. And, most likely you are breaking the park's or campground's regulations. There is no need for anyone to blast music or news or any kind of show , in a natural setting.
Next, when you are speaking with your family or friends who are camping out with you, remember to whisper or talk very low. Use the same guidelines as you use for radio and television. If you can be heard outside of your own campsite, then you are speaking too loud and making too much noise.
Once your noises, whether they be music, television show, radio show or pet noises from your dogs and cats, reach the level where they can be heard from someone else's campsite, you are obviously breaking the campgrounds' or parks' regulations. Besides breaking the regulations, you are making your neighbors very unhappy.
Second: The second inconvenience and inconsideration is that of litter, garbage, trash and flying plastic bags and other assortments of things being plopped onto our clean campsites. Be considerate. If you accidentally litter, please pick it all up. That will save you time later on at the end of your vacation. Be considerate and if you have time, pick up litter that was left there before you came there. That will be an act of kindness that will be repaid to you.
Updated May 22, 2008.
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