Boxed up our stuff, hitched Charlotte to the Barbarian Invader and departed Pride RV Park for the Green Mountain Park Resort (a TT campground that we use free or almost free) in Lenoir, NC. This park, for some reason, has a surcharge for Thousand Trails Elite members like us which is strange because no other TT sites we have used this year have an additional charge. I’m not too sure why this park has an additional charge because it is not any better really than any other TT park. The roads are just fair, the spots are pretty close to each other and there are no amenities that we don’t find in other TT properties available here. It is crowded, however, so somebody must like the place. It is also quite scenic, which may explain their reasoning when attempting to justify the egregious practice.
Quite a few of the spaces seem to be inhabited by folks that appear to be living here permanently, which seems to drag any of the parks we have seen downwards. I am a bit surprised TT allows this kind of arrangement – I suppose some new CEO has decided that the organization can make some money by selling some of the camping spots to permanent residents although it does diminish the number of spaces available to paying members. Maybe some day I will write a nasty letter to them to whimper about this practice although I am certain they have no need for nor want my input on this issue. I just wish that the sites they sold to permanent residents were not the really nice and/or big spots which affects bozos like me with big 5th wheel RVs.