Savage Creek RV Park - Dry Branch, GA (Near Perry/Warner Robins)

[ctechbob]

https://savagecreekrvpark.com/

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XiG7ZykrrqTe1uCr8

Stay Dates - January 24-26, 2025
Site#: 8 and 19
Site Type: Pull Through / Back In
Full Hookups: Yes
Wi-Fi: Yes - 5mbs-ish
Cable TV: No
Would Stay Again?: Yes*
Total Sites on Campground - 46
AT&T Service - Good solid 4G at our campsite.

Additional Services - Propane refill available at the campground

Where to begin. I guess with my feelings.

This is an almost brand new park, everything is in excellent working order, it is clean, the owners are fantastic to deal with, absolutely no complaints in that department. Actually, no complaints at all, it was a great stay full stop. There was some highway noise for us in site 19, so if you are sensitive to that, you won't want to stay on that front row. Our friends at site 8 didn't hear it.

Our site was very level left/right but front/back was a different story. I could have parked a little better and it would likely have been different, so I'm not blaming it all on the site. It was cold, I was tired and I just wanted to be set up and done with it.

Here's the problem.

They are marketing it as primarily a long-term stay park. They have a ton of rules for the long-termers, but it is sortof already developing that 'long term' look. I don't begrudge them for that, the area the park is in isn't the world's greatest tourist area at all, so I understand. I just question what it will be like in a handful of years. It may not matter, if they focus on long termers, then their income will be there and they don't have to rent to short stay people at all.

Either way, in early 2025 it was an excellent weekend stay.

 

[MSCH]

there are different levels of " long term" RV parks just like there are different levels of Mobile Home Parks
which range from being really nice to being a nice place to buy crystal meth.
hopefully it doesn't go that route.
worth pointing out housing has become so unaffordable
people are starting to live in RV's because even Mobile Homes are too expensive.

 

[ctechbob]

there are different levels of " long term" RV parks just like there are different levels of Mobile Home Parks
which range from being really nice to being a nice place to buy crystal meth.
hopefully it doesn't go that route.
worth pointing out housing has become so unaffordable
people are starting to live in RV's because even Mobile Homes are too expensive.

True enough. I think most of them start out nice and then slide. How far they slide is up to the owners.

I didn't ask, but I'm 99% certain that the brand new barndominium style house you can see just off the backside of the park is owned by the owners of the park. Hopefully that will keep them on their toes as far as keeping the quality higher.

 

[MSCH]

True enough. I think most of them start out nice and then slide. How far they slide is up to the owners.

I didn't ask, but I'm 99% certain that the brand new barndominium style house you can see just off the backside of the park is owned by the owners of the park. Hopefully that will keep them on their toes as far as keeping the quality higher.

Since we repeatedly go to Hendersonville NC.. there are 2 separate RV parks we frequent.
one of the parks ( Blue Ridge RV park on US 64) the owner lives there and he mostly keeps up on the renters
but the other one, as many times I have stayed there have never met the owner
and that place is far more run down but the difference is it will cost 350 bucks to stay for a week at the nice place
and 170 dollars a week at the other.. and the cheap place is alot easier to get too..

 

[Azjeff]

When we did our trans-continental trip in 2022 every private campground we stayed at was on the way to being mostly long term renters. I had no idea things were like that as we mostly stay in some sort of public campground. Didn't matter since they were just overnight stops and we were looking for easy in and out. People everywhere can't afford rent or house payments. We saw everything from new parks with newer trailers to old gone to seed parks with old small trailers that had obviously not moved for years with porches and skirting and fences etc.

 

[Wayne]

When we did our trans-continental trip in 2002 every private campground we stayed at was on the way to being mostly long term renters. I had no idea things were like that as we mostly stay in some sort of public campground. Didn't matter since they were just overnight stops and we were looking for easy in and out. People everywhere can't afford rent or house payments. We saw everything from new parks with newer trailers to old gone to seed parks with old small trailers that had obviously not moved for years with porches and skirting and fences etc.

The KOA in Fort Collins (the one close to town) is now 2/3 full with long term renters, even over the winter. Some leave in May because the prices goes up to $120/site/nite, but some stay. There won't be an empty site all summer.

 

[MSCH]

When we did our trans-continental trip in 2002 every private campground we stayed at was on the way to being mostly long term renters. I had no idea things were like that as we mostly stay in some sort of public campground. Didn't matter since they were just overnight stops and we were looking for easy in and out. People everywhere can't afford rent or house payments. We saw everything from new parks with newer trailers to old gone to seed parks with old small trailers that had obviously not moved for years with porches and skirting and fences etc.

yep exactly the truth.
We spent a year living in the fifth wheel back in 2010 in Everglades Holiday Park on the very eastern edge of the Everglades..
it was 600 bucks a month, electric and water included. a crap apartment would have been double that
so the park itself was a mix of transients in junk trailers that had one place left to go and some pretty nice
RV's as well as people passing thru.. if parks were smart they'd wall off the permanent junkers from the rest.

Everglades Holiday Park one claim to fame was where Gator Boys lived and some of it was filmed there..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2141011/