Book and Book Early!

So we have been planning and booking our summer trips for this year and SURPRISE! a lot of parks are booked!   Maybe they are not 100% full but for our 10 day trip to Michigan one park at the end of July does not have the Sunday we need available, and a Memorial day finding parks with openings was hard.  I have been thinking we were doing real well since its only January and have almost the whole summer planned but I guess we need to plan earlier.  Since we are a family camping I hate to go somewhere with no reservations.  When you do not have a reservation there is always that chance you will get turned away and with kids that means big disappointment.  Kids do not handle the whole Walmart boondocking that well and to be honest my wife does not like that idea to much either.  I still believe we have a couple days open on our calendar that we plan on flying by the seat of our pants but that will not be the norm.  In Pennsylvania at least there are many state parks that do not fill up nearly as fast because they do not have power.  I will take my time and convince my wife we can do these parks with close to the same comfort as any other camp ground (although we may avoid them in the heat of summer).  So I guess the moral of the story is you can never plan to far in advance and camping is becoming more popular!  Check out my pages with my camping schedule and after we visit a camp ground a full review of the campground and surrounding areas.