Free overnight parking sites are listed with red, yellow, brown, gray, green or dark green bands.
Red indicates that no overnight parking is allowed.
Yellow indicates locations where overnight parking is officially not allowed, but may not enforced.
Brown indicates locations where overnight parking is seasonally permitted.
Gray unknown overnight parking status.
Green indicates that free overnight parking is permitted.
Dark Green - locations where overnight parking is permitted, for a fee.
Etiquette requires users to ask permission to park.
Each listing includes information on the parking site, nearby businesses, access to free WIFI etc. Jim relies on the database users to update information on free overnight parking sites and to add information on new sites that have granted permission to park overnight.
Eric and I have been using this database since September 2012. When we found changes, we reported them. We've found new free overnight parking sites and reported these to be added to the database.
Jim does a great job of keeping the database current and acknowledges the information we send his way.
**If you decide to sign up for Overnight RV Parking.com, mention our names - Ginny and Eric LaJuene and you will receive one free month of access to the database.**
Thanks Jim for helping us enjoy our time on the road, safely.
Ginny, thank you for your compliments!
ReplyDeleteI also want to be sure to give credit to the www.OvernightRVParking.com Webmaster & CTO, Melanie Dumas, who wrote all the computer code to make our website work so well.
And since you wrote this blog entry in 2013, we've added another color to our list of color codes. We're in the process of adding all of the Elks Lodges in the USA to our database. If an Elks Lodge has RV facilities for Elks Members only, the color code will be PURPLE. If their RV facilities are open to the public (and there are a handful of these), it will be DARK GREEN, as they're not free. And there are many older Elks Lodges that are located in downtown areas with no room for RV Parking; since they can't accommodate RVs, they're RED in the database.
Our database keeps growing. Two years ago, when Ginny took the screen shot above, we had 10,375 locations in our database, now, almost two years later, that number is 12,126. It will change again within a few days, as I have a number of places (most of them reported to us by our subscribers) to add.
Jim O'Briant
CEO & Administrator
www.OvernightRVParking.com
Thanks for the update on OvernightRVParking.com. The Elks Lodges RV sites is a great addition to the database.
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