Do You Mind Campground Noise?

YES!!!!!! If you want to listen to music, GO HOME and do it! Don’t intrude on the peace and quiet of MY camping experience. You respect my space, and I’ll respect yours.

My son and I camped at Yellowstone last June. Our first night there we were rudely awakened at 3 am by an emergency vehicle siren on the road next to Yellowastone Lake which was very close to our campground. I assume it was an ambulance or a park ranger. I just never understood why it was necessary to use the siren at that time of morning. A ranger told me later that it was probably to keep wildlife from running out onto the road in front of the vehicle.

Some campgrounds have workcampers and staff that start grounds keeping at 8 am everyday. (KOA Townsand, TN.)I don’t want to hear lawnmowers and leaf blowers that early. To them it’s just another day at work. To me it’s another quiet morning lost.

Worse than music are those who run their generators without stopping the entire day. If electricity is so important and the campground does not have hookups, STAY HOME!!!

If you listen to music, it should be no louder than what you can hear within the boundaries of your campsite.

Generators should have time zones that they can be used. Not for watching soaps all day long. Dogs are just as bad if they are the small YAPPY ones. We have a quiet dog and don’t own a generator.

I would rather listen to music than the air conditioners and generators. What really bugs me is when that stuff is left on when people aren’t even there. No wonder the rates keep going up!!

It all depends on the timing. If it’s at noon, okay. If it’s hockey time, I don’t blame anyone for cheering out loud when their favorite team scores, but if I’m trying to sleep and a bunch of Harleys run through the campsite, or someone starts a party, well, that’s annoying. If someone is venting their personal problems or keeps their kids crying or let them be disruptive, that’s a different story.

I go camping for peace of mind, meditating, and to get away from noise and enjoy the beauty of GOD’S ceation so if you want to listen to music you don’t even need to be there. Have respect for other’s and leave the noise where you came from. The only time you really seem to hear it anyway is when there are a bunch of disrespecful drunk redneck’s around! STAY HOME!!!!

I don’t care if anyone is listening to music as long as it is of respectful levels. We all have had people around us who have had it turned up so loud that you could hear it over the entire campground. And we have all had people being respectful and you couldn’t hear beyond there site. Do As you please just be respectful of everyone else.

Trouble with the people that crank their music is that if you just play one genre, like bluegrass for example, it all starts to sound alike. Use an ipod with ear plugs!

If you are unable to procure a spot that you can enjoy the wonders of nature in without “neighbors” you may as well be home.

I have no problem with music being played as long as they are respectful about it. Whats camping without a little music really!!! We do a lot of dry camping and generators are run all the time. It’s just part of “dry” camping. If people can’t be respectful each way, then yeah, stay home….

i don’t mind the music. i find it very relaxing. i know some people don’t like it.

I come to camp to experience what I can’t at home, mother nature. I am a TV addict but I never turn it on camping. I don’t understand people who come camping and you never see them out, so guess what? T,he generator has to run for whatever it is they are doing inside the camper, stay home! Where we camp most of the time has electric so the generators aren’t a problem, but I don’t like the music playing, why are you camping if you just have to have the music? Listen to nature the tume is always much better and never goes out of style and what if I don’t care for the style of music they are playing? Why should I be forced to listen to something I’m not into? I don’t mind the kids or the people laughing or talking, I’m glad they are having a good time. I don’t like the stupid motor scooters that are louder than a lawn mower that someone brings for all the kiddies to ride around the campground. I go to the woods so I don’t have to hear the traffic and have you noticed they always send the kids away from their site to ride it so they aren’t bothered by it. I have 2 small dogs and they aren’t yappy. They were trained to be good campers when they were puppies. I actually hear more big dogs that are a problem. For some reason they leave them outside all night and Fido isn’t happy. I love dogs and mine are my children, so I have no problem with them at the campground but teach them to be quiet. A squirt bottle with plain water usually teaches them very quickly that barking is not appropriate. Our camping group has a new puppy in the mix and it only took three squirts for her to get the message and now she is a respectful camper.

Depends what they are playing…we can tolerate oldies, REAL country (Johnny, Buck, George, Tammy, etc), or Dean Martin type stuff at a decent level and not during quiet time…rap crap and heavy metal doesn’t blend in with the peace and quiet theory any time, anyplace, or at any level…it’s not like the deer and the antelope will be playing for all to view during the active part of the day anyway!

I live in a diverse cultural region of north west Indiana. We have about as many different cultures as you can possibly cram into an area. But when I go camping about fifty miles south of here, then I go for the peace and quiet of solace of a summer’s night time. I love sitting by the fire, sipping on a fresh brewed cup of coffee, stargazing as I free my mind from all of the encumbrances of today’s society. Listening to the sounds that emanate from the woods and nearby water as I watch the Milkyway turned up on end during the late summer is about as good as it gets.
Maybe true freedom is really an illusion as we spend minute ticks of our lives, gazing @ the heavens above, but somehow it seems to justify what we have all strived for on our excursion into life’s journey.

I think that campers need to realize that each campground has its own personality, and respect that. Campgrounds without electric are usually in natural settings. Some campgrounds love the noise. I’ve been in others which have an unspoken code of conduct. As a camphost, I’ve been asked to tell campers that their music shouldn’t be heard in the next campsite. I usually don’t want to hear the neighbors’ choice of music.
Camping etiquette sounds corny, but it’s amazing the number of people who think that being in the wild means they can be wild.

Nothing bothers me more than generators running and music playing. I don’t care how loud or what kind of music it is. I don’t want to hear it. If you want to watch TV, play on the laptop and listen to music stay home please. I usually try to stay in the primitive camping areas where they don’t have electricity but this doesn’t always work. Lsst time we stayed in a primitive area we had to listen to someones generator for several hours every day. I wish more campgrounds had tent only sites that ban generators and radios.

Very much so! As well as operating a small camping France guide. We also go camping ourselves as a family, and there is nothing worse than (loud) music coming from just a few yards away when all you want to do is relax and eat your meal.

Most of the time I’m not too bothered by noise when we’re out camping as most people are considerate. Yes, they might have some music going in their campsite, or maybe children are outside playing, but in general most folks are pretty well behaved. I think the exception comes when people are inconsiderate about their behavior – playing loud music very late at night, or watching movies with the volume turned up all day long. The worst that my wife and I have encountered was this past weekend when a group of young boys and their fathers came to camp. The children ran wild all weekend long yelling and screaming while their father’s sat around at the campfire (it was 80 degrees outside, why do you need a campfire?). We asked the fathers a couple of times if they would not mind reigning in the boys a bit, but they could not be bothered…now that’s the kind of inconsiderate behavior that annoys us.

After 10 pm I want to sleep and I want the campground to ENFORCE the quiet time! This is my biggest complaint with campgrounds in general. If you want to party or talk loudly do it during the day not after 10!