Fall is here (in Indiana)

We are enjoying the cool days and beginning of fall colors while we're here at Indian Lakes RV Campground near Batesville, Indiana:

Some of the trees are starting to change...

This is in the KOA part of the campground.

 

A few of the Thousand Trails campgrounds are co-located with KOA campgrounds. It is kind of an odd pairing - KOA customers generally expect to have a lot of services / things to do; my impression is that they are more targeted to RVers with children. Full time RVers often negatively refer to KOA as standing for "Keep on Adding" as everything you might want to do is an additional charge (the conversation might go like this: "Oh, you have children, that's an additional $10 per child." "Pets? Add on $15" "Golf cart, $10/day"), while Thousand Trails campgrounds are largely occupied by "members" or seasonal renters. Quite a few fulltime RVers have Thousand Trails memberships. When Thousand Trails campgrounds were originally being built and opening (80s and 90s), they were characterized as "RV resorts" and "Preserves". The "resort" concept probably aligns with the KOA character, but Thousand Trails has really not maintained their parks well enough to deserve that designation today. Anyway, this is one of the Thousand Trails that is co-located with a KOA. The KOA tends to be pretty empty during the week and totally full on the weekend. Thousand Trails has some of that characteristic, but not quite as much as members tend to come and stay for a while.