Want some 2022 camping reservation tips? The first is you better try to snag it right now. Actually, for the best chance, you should have started a couple of months ago.

But it will never be easier than today.

In Episode 373 of the RV Podcast, we hear from Mark Koep, of CampgroundViews.com, an online campground site that lets you see the site you're interested in, instantly know if it's available and then book it with just a click of the button.

There's no need to phone the campground or go to another site.

Mark has lots of 2022 camping reservation tips, whether for just an overnight stay or for an extended vacation.

Also on this week's podcast, we have audience tips, questions, RV News, and much more.

You can listen to the entire episode on your favorite podcast app or through the player below.

To watch a video version of the podcast on our RV Lifestyle YouTube Channel, click the player below.

https://youtu.be/rRT03kHIFwA

2022 Camping Reservation Tips from an expert

Mark Koep of CampgroundViews.com gives us 2022 camping reservation tips

Here's an edited transcript of the interview with Mark:

[MIKE WENDLAND]: We want to talk about why it's so important to make a 2022 campground reservation early. More important than perhaps it has been in a long time.

[Mark Koep]: If you remember, I'm always an advocate of not making reservations, you know, avoiding it, but that's really changed over the last year and a half, and it's an important topic to definitely discuss.

Camping Demand is at an all time high

What's different these days?

[MIKE WENDLAND]:  What's different about camping these days in terms of the competition out there?

[Mark Koep]: It's sheer volume. Record RV sales over the last year. Every month has beaten the previous trends in the previous months. They're selling more RVs. And what's different about that in comparison to years past, because if you look way back in time before 2008, 2009, we had record RV sales too.

And then the financial collapse hit. But even then when people were buying RVs back then, they maybe used them once or twice and didn't go out that much.

The difference now is people are able to work from the road, they're able to work from the road, and they're buying these RVs, and they're heading out on the road.

So a lot of the RV sites are getting filled up by these folks who are obviously enjoying the lifestyle many of us have enjoyed over these years. And it's just making it so there's more demand on the limited resources that that are available.

Technology has made the campground reservation system easier

CampgroundViews.com offers virtual tours of campsites

[MIKE WENDLAND]: It used to be pretty complicated. Let's face it, you had to look up a site, find the number get of somebody on the phone.

Technology has gradually come into it and improved it year after year.

Now you guys at campgroundviews.com have made it even easier.

Talk about how early people should book and the diff...