Michigan Campground is Saving Family Summer Vacations with Innovative RV Storage and YouTube

A family operated campground is saving summer vacations and is turning to YouTube to spread word of their "gas saving" one dollar per day RV storage program. Having launched a Channel on YouTube earlier this spring, the camp has produced a show explaining how RV campers can save hundreds of dollars on fuel costs. Frank Rogala, one of the brothers operating Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping, proposes other campgrounds; state and community agencies sponsor similar vacation area RV storage programs so that the summer vacation season can be salvaged for American families who are suffering record high fuel costs.

Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping located in Mackinaw City, Michigan, is offering one dollar per day RV storage. This allows RV and motorhome owners to leave their gas guzzling vehicles or travel trailers parked in one of the nations most popular vacation hotspots - Mackinac. RV owners can then travel to and from the waterfront campground resort whenever they want without having to drive and/or tow anything with them.

Frank Rogala, one of the brothers operating Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping, is calling for other businesses, communities and state agencies to make similar arrangements for RV owners. Rogala wants them to arrange for the safe storage of large RV's near vacation areas. "This needs to be done now, so that family vacations can be salvaged, before summer is over. I see this as urgent. Vacations are as American as apple pie," explained Rogala. Read more...

Class C Motorhomes

Most Class C motorhomes are built on cutaway chassis with a manufactured cab that has driver and passenger doors. A subgroup in this category consists of an RV body built on a cab-and-chassis pickup truck (without the truck bed). Such vehicles are usually equipped with four-wheel drive. For both types of vehicles, nearly all the automotive parts are standard and available at dealers across the country.

To most drivers, a Class C feels more carlike than a Class A the first time it is driven because the full width of the coach is behind them. In the past, the permanent bed over the cab section in a Class C, in large measure, accounted for the reduction in size and, to some degree, price compared to Class A models. A certain amount of agility is required to get in and out of this bed, and as a consequence some people don't care for the arrangement.

With the introduction of higher-rated chassis, Class C motorhomes have grown to lengths in excess of 30 feet, offering floorplans more akin to those of Class A motorhomes, featuring full-size beds in addition to the cabover bed.