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Escapees Parks
Yahoo Message Number: 88846
Sharon, I'm with you and hate to see natural landscaping destroyed only to be replaced with something designed by man.
I'm an Escapees member too, and the Escapees parks I've been to all leave a lot to be desired. Some are located far from any shopping or restaurants, they must have a rule against plants and flowers at the sites whether owned or rented. They are just not attractive at all.
The one in Deming NM for instance is a big ugly gravel parking lot.
The one in Casa Grande I don't care for the location, and the sites were almost barren of any vegetation. The prominent feature of each lot was an ugly storage shed. The one in Pecos TX I was going to stay at once till I saw it, then kept going, (that was a number of yrs ago so maybe it's better now?) I guess it's a matter of money, and that's the same reason for what happened at Rainbow's End.
Mari
Re: Escapees Parks
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Yahoo Message Number: 88857
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Some are located far from any shopping or restaurants,

 You've got to remember that buying land is expensive, and the farther out the piece of land is, the less expensive it is.  That's why *most* of the Escapees parks are farther away from attractions than you may like.

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they must have a rule against plants and flowers at the sites whether owned or rented.

 You apparently haven't been to all the Escapees parks, particularly the Co-ops.  I'm thinking of the SKP park in Coarsegold, CA in particular, although the ones in Sutherlin, OR and Chimicum, WA are very nice with lots of trees and flowers.

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The one in Deming NM for instance is a big ugly gravel parking lot.
The one in Casa Grande I don't care for the location, and the sites were almost barren of any vegetation. The one in Pecos TX I was going to stay at once till I saw it, then kept going,

 The parks in Deming and Pecos are both Rainbow Parks and are really only RV parks, mostly meant for short-term stays, although Deming does have some ERPU sites.
 I agree about the Casa Grande park.  It's a Co-op park, but it is, after all, in the desert, so you're not going to find lush vegetation there.  The Casa Grande park is one of the first Escapees Co-op parks, the lots are small, and they don't seem to have had a committee set up to approve additions, so you've got ugly sheds on the lot and sometimes more than one.

Linda Hylton http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/
Linda Hylton
Re: Escapees Parks
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 88898
"We have a beautiful SKP Saguaro (Escapee) Co-op here in Benson, AZ."

Yes, the Benson co-op is the nicest SKP park I have yet seen. :-)

hugs, Andy
Andy Baird
2021 Ford Ranger towing 2019 Airstream 19CB
Previously: 1985 LD Twin/King "Gertie"; 2003 LD Midbath "Skylark"
Re: Escapees Parks
Reply #4 –
Yahoo Message Number: 88917
I'll have to apologize for my comments on Escapees Parks as I haven't seen all of them. It sounds like the Saguaro is a nice one.
Yes, I do realize that the cheaper land is out farther, but some nice plants and flowers can improve the ambience of any place.
Mari (currently in FL at St Andrews State Park, Panama City with lots of trees and parked at waterfront.)

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We have a beautiful SKP Saguaro (Escapee) Co-op here in Benson, AZ.
We have
 
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lots of cacti and plants all over the park.  It is a very friendly
park and