Welcome to the Good Sam tenting information highlight, the place we cowl a few of the month’s notable developments, occasions, information tales, and knowledge useful to campers and RVers. In the primary month of 2023, we’re making observe of gas value projections for the yr, latest winter tenting reputation, RV and outside exhibits in January, tenting predictions for 2023, and extra.
Winter Camping
This yr noticed extra RVers and campers having fun with the outside this winter. Recent ballot numbers point out winter tenting has been extra in style in 2022 and 2023 than a yr in the past. Over 8.2 million households mentioned they deliberate or plan to camp this winter, and 15.3 million deliberate to journey in RVs between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
Winter tenting means a number of various things relying on which a part of the nation you go to. While sunbelt states like Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona provide heat temperatures for snowbirds seeking to escape the chilly, extra reasonable climates like these within the Pacific Northwest provide extra conventional winter climate tenting whereas avoiding many journey hazards brought on by snow and excessive temperatures.
Ultimate RV Show
January kicks off the 2023 Ultimate RV Show with January occasions in Denver, Syracuse, and Nampa, and a February occasion in Minneapolis, MN. These occasions showcase new and used RVs on the market of assorted sorts, sizes, and lessons, with many exhibits that includes outside distributors displaying numerous merchandise and equipment. Unique to those occasions are the particular present pricing on each new and used RVs unavailable anyplace else.
Special VIP appointments can be found at every occasion and embrace such perks as:
- Complimentary present bag and lanyard
- Good Sam VIP lounge entry with refreshments
- Special VIP retail reductions
- Enter to win a New RV
Each present options lots of of recent and used RVs and extra RV-related experiences akin to a full on-site retail retailer, free RV seminars, Nepallo boats, and Happier Camper stock. All Ultimate RV Shows are dropped at you completely by Camping World and Good Sam Enterprises.
Looking Ahead at Camping in 2023
Camping reputation in 2023 is anticipated to proceed to develop, in line with latest experiences, with 41% of campers hoping to take extra journeys this yr. Following a record-setting 2022 season, campgrounds are anticipated to face equally excessive numbers together with the challenges of consecutively booked campsites and full reservations.
History has additionally proven that when financial misery happens, Americans are extra more likely to go tenting. For instance, reservations at campgrounds elevated throughout economically troublesome occasions within the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. So if tenting numbers development as they’ve throughout pandemic years — buoyed solely extra by a possible recession — 2023 is about to be one other epic yr for tenting, campgrounds, and RVers.
Continue to tune in to the Good Sam tenting information highlight to remain present on all RV- and camping-related highlights every month.
Gas Prices Costs Dropping?
Among some rumblings of financial shifts, there’s probably excellent news for campers. Gas costs are projected to proceed to enhance for customers into 2023, following a few of the highest gas costs seen in a decade in 2022.
Estimates for the common value on the pump for a gallon of fuel vary between $3.20 and $3.49 this yr. This is a markedly improved projection than the $5-a-gallon zenith we noticed in 2022.
Lower gas prices will probably be particularly impactful for RVers and people touring lengthy distances to their subsequent tenting spots this season. Our recommendation? Keep a watch on how gas costs have an effect on campground reservations this season. In the previous, rising gas costs have triggered many RVers to vary their plans, together with discovering nearer places which generally permits for some last-minute openings.
Stay tuned for extra information and updates associated to tenting, RVing, and the outside.