From the main highway:
- turn left on the country road just past Camping World
- take a right at the Southern Baptist church
- then make your first left after the peanut factory
Those are the unofficial directions to get to our RV park here in southern Alabama, and one of the main reasons we chose this place. It's pretty much out in the boonies.
Our immediate surroundings include peanut crops, cotton fields, Alabama forest and small acreages with cows, roosters and baa-ing sheep; yet we're only 11 miles from Walmart, 15 miles to the Outlet stores and a half hour away from the Gulf Coast.
Location matters and we didn't want to be parked in a city.
Everyone has different requirements for the RV resort they choose, especially for longer stays. We need:
- large, treed sites that offer privacy
- max monthly pad fee of $650 (water/power/sewer)
- quiet neighbours, preferably 55+
- solid internet connection
- grass for the mutts to play on or a good walking path nearby
Other things we'd like but don't really need:
- concrete pad
- cheap, clean laundry facilities
- 50 amp service, but we're totally happy with 30 amp
- recycling on site
- tennis or basketball court nearby
- free cable
- no permanent residents with messy yards
We got lucky last winter, finding Justin's Diamond J RV park just outside Tucson, Arizona. And this year we're equally happy to have stumbled across Peanut Park (we've nicknamed it that since the park is surrounded by peanut crops).
There are lots of shade trees here at Peanut Park and tons of space between each RV site.
And the price is right: $430/month, including tax. Actually, the charge went thru on my credit card on an up day for the loonie, so the price ended up being only $418 for the month.
We've been here less than a week, but so far so good.
Interesting observation: Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi don't see a lot of Canadian tourists. The other RV-ers we've run into are mostly Americans from northern parts of the US. The Canadian snowbirds seem to prefer Florida, Texas, California, Arizona and of course, Mexico.
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