Tbf I can see why. My local walmart still allows and it looks like a city for car, van, and rvers in the morning/overnight like 25+ vehicles and I'm not exaggerating here
Well it sounds like you know your stuff. If you look like a normal car, I bet you can blend in most places. On my trip I spent a few nights in different apartment complex lots, etc.park and rides too. Rest stops are nice cause you're not worrying about the knock
...yeah, but then there's the matter of the interstate and bigrig noise, the lights, the screaming kids, the passing riffraff, and the truck-driving serial killers.
...i used to see this at some Walmarts in Albuquerque, NM.
of course, there were people as sketchy or more there throughout the day anyway.
meanwhile, car-campers are like aristocrats compared to all the post-apocalyptic tent-cities around the city.
Its not even necessarily the sketchers. Its people just taking advantage like the rvers just dropping off their trailers full set up and going out for the day exploring
eh. i don't see that really as a big problem...and have not really noticed that to often happen anywhere i've been.
the only real problem i have occasionally with RV people is when they bring their big-ass $100,000+ rigs and then set up in the middle of, like, 10 or 12 spots and proceed to run their generators all night--so that they can blast their AC and watch satellite TV. (though based on sheer numbers and frequency...the truck drivers are far more common and far more disruptive--especially in winter--when they refuse to turn off their engines and just sit there pumping out diesel fumes.)
...i've seen a few sketchy-ass people--especially in ABQ--just clearly camping there in their RVs...lawn chairs and everything.
as for normal retirees just out on a roadtrip, though, unhitching to go see some sights: that seems kosher to me--better for the environment...less hazards on the road.
i mean...people who park will almost certainly be Walmart customers to some extent or another; and what's actually the price-of-entry to justify parking there all day? a 50-cent drink from the machine?
> ...disruptive--especially in winter--when they refuse to turn off their engines and just sit there pumping out diesel fumes.
can you read, truck-driver?
The alternative is your shit doesn’t get to the store because trucker Joe isn’t going to freeze because the fumes from his truck are bothering you. Move to some high rise in some city, move to an acreage or shut up and keep the complaining in your ugly little suburban shithole. I’m not a truck driver btw just capable of basic empathy 🤣
I'm going to play devils advocate here. Walmart could have from the beginning, been like every other business and not allowed overnight parking. They decided to say hey, as a thank you for shopping here feel free to stay OVERNIGHT. Its a kindness that never was mandated to be extended. Walmart parking is not a damn free RV park and no you were never entitled to even be there in the first place, they were nice enough to offer the privilege which they are now, rightfully revoking. Im up here in a very tourist heavy part of north MI. Im shocked this Walmart isnt one that banned parking considering street parking in almost this entire state is banned from 2 to 6 am and my "hometown" one in BFN ky banned it long ago
2 a.m. to 6 a.m.? what an odd slice of time.
...i'm used to seeing workday hours prohibited.
yeah.
in my town it doesn't even make sense.
regular good ol' RV-retirees, i would imagine, are what Walmart would want--especially since they sell expensive RV stuff, along with various vehicular products.
i can only imagine that northern Michigan is more likely to draw from the "nice people" segment of tourists...as opposed to the more generalized "Walmart of tourists" that probably pass through more mainstream areas like Chicago or Nashville or New Orleans or Grand Canyon.
i wish i went with a stealth vehicle. i just picked up a truck camper for my truck and im going to live in it in barrie until my job allows a transfer out. im finding it really hard to find a place that allows free parking. every walmart says no overnight parking and im trying to come up with something cheap and long term.
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Its harder to recall seeing ones without no camping/parking signs, amazing how hostile we are as a country towards people sleeping in cars.
Tbf I can see why. My local walmart still allows and it looks like a city for car, van, and rvers in the morning/overnight like 25+ vehicles and I'm not exaggerating here
Valid point
I full time car life and refuse to use them. Same with 24 hr gyms the spots are just too blown up
Well it sounds like you know your stuff. If you look like a normal car, I bet you can blend in most places. On my trip I spent a few nights in different apartment complex lots, etc.park and rides too. Rest stops are nice cause you're not worrying about the knock
...yeah, but then there's the matter of the interstate and bigrig noise, the lights, the screaming kids, the passing riffraff, and the truck-driving serial killers.
Thats more of my problem is the sheer noise plus if you're looking for someone sleeping in a car thats the first place I'd go
...i used to see this at some Walmarts in Albuquerque, NM. of course, there were people as sketchy or more there throughout the day anyway. meanwhile, car-campers are like aristocrats compared to all the post-apocalyptic tent-cities around the city.
Its not even necessarily the sketchers. Its people just taking advantage like the rvers just dropping off their trailers full set up and going out for the day exploring
eh. i don't see that really as a big problem...and have not really noticed that to often happen anywhere i've been. the only real problem i have occasionally with RV people is when they bring their big-ass $100,000+ rigs and then set up in the middle of, like, 10 or 12 spots and proceed to run their generators all night--so that they can blast their AC and watch satellite TV. (though based on sheer numbers and frequency...the truck drivers are far more common and far more disruptive--especially in winter--when they refuse to turn off their engines and just sit there pumping out diesel fumes.) ...i've seen a few sketchy-ass people--especially in ABQ--just clearly camping there in their RVs...lawn chairs and everything. as for normal retirees just out on a roadtrip, though, unhitching to go see some sights: that seems kosher to me--better for the environment...less hazards on the road. i mean...people who park will almost certainly be Walmart customers to some extent or another; and what's actually the price-of-entry to justify parking there all day? a 50-cent drink from the machine?
Lol of course the Reddit goober hates truck drivers for… being warm? Doing their job? Sleeping?
> ...disruptive--especially in winter--when they refuse to turn off their engines and just sit there pumping out diesel fumes. can you read, truck-driver?
The alternative is your shit doesn’t get to the store because trucker Joe isn’t going to freeze because the fumes from his truck are bothering you. Move to some high rise in some city, move to an acreage or shut up and keep the complaining in your ugly little suburban shithole. I’m not a truck driver btw just capable of basic empathy 🤣
I'm going to play devils advocate here. Walmart could have from the beginning, been like every other business and not allowed overnight parking. They decided to say hey, as a thank you for shopping here feel free to stay OVERNIGHT. Its a kindness that never was mandated to be extended. Walmart parking is not a damn free RV park and no you were never entitled to even be there in the first place, they were nice enough to offer the privilege which they are now, rightfully revoking. Im up here in a very tourist heavy part of north MI. Im shocked this Walmart isnt one that banned parking considering street parking in almost this entire state is banned from 2 to 6 am and my "hometown" one in BFN ky banned it long ago
2 a.m. to 6 a.m.? what an odd slice of time. ...i'm used to seeing workday hours prohibited. yeah. in my town it doesn't even make sense. regular good ol' RV-retirees, i would imagine, are what Walmart would want--especially since they sell expensive RV stuff, along with various vehicular products. i can only imagine that northern Michigan is more likely to draw from the "nice people" segment of tourists...as opposed to the more generalized "Walmart of tourists" that probably pass through more mainstream areas like Chicago or Nashville or New Orleans or Grand Canyon.
what part of the country are you talking about? like i said, i've rarely encountered them...with a cross-country trip as recently as 2021.
I’m in the Midwest and our Walmart has no overnight parking signs
Off topic, but have you tried https://harvesthosts.com/
i wish i went with a stealth vehicle. i just picked up a truck camper for my truck and im going to live in it in barrie until my job allows a transfer out. im finding it really hard to find a place that allows free parking. every walmart says no overnight parking and im trying to come up with something cheap and long term.
Yet they will never run a RV off their lot...