Quality (0–10)
- Review rating 25%
- Amenities / site quality 20%
- Noise / setting 15%
- Security 15%
- Year-round climate / livability 15%
- Wifi / livability 10%
Nationwide master list · 50-state scan
Where to be, at what price
Market scan of RV parks in every US state — not a thin starter set. Rank by quality vs price, then filter by state, city, season, and airport drive so a cheap summer site in Florida does not beat a $800 Oregon monthly when it is actually time to be northwest.
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When to be where
Weather is the other half of value. Florida in January is a different product from Florida in August. Click a season to re-rank the country.
Short list
Five picks from the current season and ranking — not a booking guarantee.
Map
Pins colored by the active rank. Color in the chart is climate region, not commute rings.
Comparison
| Rank | Park | State | City | Airport | Monthly | Stay cap | Quality | Value | Season | Class C | Trailer |
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No parks match these filters. Clear one constraint and try again.
Quality vs price
X is effective monthly (published, or nightly × 22 if estimated). Y is quality. Dot size is review count. Color is climate region. Upper-left is bang for the buck.
How scores work
Transparent math. Honest gaps. Call before you book a monthly.
Price + value
Lower cost scores higher, calibrated to a national monthly (Rio Grande Valley $400 is a 9; SoCal $1,500 is
mid-pack). Prefers a published monthly. If monthly is unknown, effective monthly =
nightlyFrom × 22 and the row is flagged estimated.
value index = quality / (effectiveMonthly / 1000)
— that is bang for the buck. A 7.0 park at $400/mo outruns an 8.0 park at $2,000.
Season + rank
Composite rank is
0.38×quality + 0.32×price + 0.15×fit + 0.15×season.
Season score is ~9.5 in a park’s best window, ~2.4 in its avoid window. Year-round SoCal still gets a
climate bonus when season is “any.”
Class C is easy almost everywhere; 14–21 night caps still hurt. Trailer + Tesla wants extra vehicle, unhitch room, and a trailer that can sit. Florida in summer is not “interesting weather” — it is heat, humidity, and hurricane season. Be there Nov–Apr.
Public land, United States and Canada
Free and near-free camping where the law actually allows it. Mexico is out. A colored polygon is a manager, not a reservation. The winter belt for a cheap month is Imperial, Blythe, Quartzsite, and Yuma — and the cheap month there is an LTVA permit, not $0.
Winter trailer belt: Quartzsite, Yuma, or Blythe LTVA, or graded BLM. Not Malibu.
Land status is an overlay. Confirm with the field office / LTVA page before you drive.
Land manager map
Basemap is Esri’s dark gray canvas. Overlays are official BLM and PAD-US. Hubs are resupply towns. Featured pins are a curated set, not every acre.
- Free where legal
- Low permit
- LTVA permit
- Cost varies
- Heat or closure month
Click the map
You get a land manager when BLM or PAD-US answers. You do not get permission to camp. If the query fails, the result is unknown.
Featured areas
Frontier Go Wild circuit · plan 2027, not today
Park near a hub. Fly to LA.
Market scan of parks and storage near Frontier airports across the country — not a thin KOA sample. Default horizon is spring 2027, because today’s table ends. Routes die (LAS–BUR after 12 Oct 2026). New flying shows up (daily DTW–LAX from 20 Nov 2026). Uber to the terminal. Never airport parking.
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Domestic Go Wild inventory usually opens the day before (often midnight local at the departure city). Taxes, bags, and seats are extra. Connecting to LA means two independent seat drops — a bad last-minute plan. Prefer nonstops with several weekly banks. LAS–BUR is not the LA plan after 12 Oct 2026. Skip California Frontier airports as bases for flying to LA.
Which schedule are you planning on?
Today’s Frontier table is a snapshot. It will be wrong next month. Default is spring 2027: BUR gone, DTW–LAX treated as last-minute LA if it still files, Colombia daily out of Orlando (not an LA hop). Click a horizon to re-score launching vs live vs ended.
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How long are you actually gone?
Camping with hookups is a monthly. Dry storage is a job hop to LA — days or a week, rarely a month. Click the trip you are taking; the trip-cost column follows that length. Storage lots prorate even when the lot only publishes a monthly quote.
When to be which hub
Weather still wins. A cheap Denver monthly in January does not beat Phoenix if the hoses freeze. Click a season to re-rank.
Frontier presence
DEN is the primary hub. Directs always rank above connects — a Frontier connection is two seat drops, so it is never the last-minute LA plan. Default is LAX nonstop and a 45-minute Uber cap, in 5-minute steps if you want tighter. Click a hub to filter.
Short list
Five picks on the current filters: cheapest to actually camp with hookups, cheapest dry-storage week (job hop), last-minute LA (Frontier nonstop first), closest park that will sit the rig, lowest Uber round-trip.
Map
Pins colored by rank. Diamonds are Frontier airports. Squares on the map are storage lots.
Comparison
| Rank | Park | Hub | Drive | Uber RT | Camp / mo | Store (day / wk) | This trip | Sit | LAX | Quality |
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No parks match these filters. Clear the 45-minute cap or the cheap filter and try again.
Quality vs camp vs store
Circles are occupied hookup monthly (actually camping). Squares are a week of dry storage for a job hop — days and weeks, not a forced month. Y is quality. Size is airport proximity. Directs always rank above connects.
How to actually run this
This is the country-wide Frontier market scan: live-in parks and storage lots near Frontier airports, scored on a forward schedule (default spring 2027). Nationwide weather ranking — every state, Frontier or not — stays at the site root.
The 45-minute rule
Default filter is ≤ 45 minutes to the Frontier airport. Stretch parks (Apache Junction, Colorado Springs, Ocala) stay in the file; clear the drive cap to see them. Last-minute Go Wild is a midnight seat drop plus an Uber, not an hour-twenty drive in the Tesla.
Sit the rig, or store it
If a monthly park will let an empty trailer sit, a 2–4 day LA dash costs the Uber round-trip — the month is already sunk. If they will not, or you are not paying monthly, use a storage lot ($80–$360) and Uber. Airport parking is the expensive wrong answer for a 30-foot trailer.
Frontier rank
Composite is
0.18×quality + 0.16×price + 0.10×fit + 0.12×season + 0.16×airport drive + 0.12×LAX + 0.10×sit + 0.06×hub.
Dash/week trips shift a little more weight onto sit. Uber is an estimate from miles × city multiplier, not a
live quote.
What is still missing
Hundreds of county-fair lots, casino overflow, and classifieds exist. Kent KOA (the old Sea-Tac park) closed in 2021. Confirm every monthly, every storage minimum, and this week’s Frontier–LAX table before you point the rig.
Public land, United States and Canada
Free and near-free camping where the law actually allows it. Mexico is out. A colored polygon is a manager, not a reservation. The winter belt for a cheap month is Imperial, Blythe, Quartzsite, and Yuma — and the cheap month there is an LTVA permit, not $0.
Winter trailer belt: Quartzsite, Yuma, or Blythe LTVA, or graded BLM. Not Malibu.
Land status is an overlay. Confirm with the field office / LTVA page before you drive.
Land manager map
Basemap is Esri’s dark gray canvas. Overlays are official BLM and PAD-US. Hubs are resupply towns. Featured pins are a curated set, not every acre.
- Free where legal
- Low permit
- LTVA permit
- Cost varies
- Heat or closure month
Click the map
You get a land manager when BLM or PAD-US answers. You do not get permission to camp. If the query fails, the result is unknown.
Featured areas
Southern California, priced against the pier
Long-term and monthly first. Distance is road miles to Santa Monica Pier. Class C means you live in the rig. Trailer + Tesla means you drop the trailer, unhitch, and drive the car — so an extra vehicle, an easy unhitch, and a place the trailer can sit matter more than a 21-night beach cap.
Long-term near Santa Monica: Hollywood RV Park, Walnut RV Park, then Silverland RV Park.
Short beach week: Dockweiler (airport noise, 21-night cap) or Malibu Beach RV Park (the monthly is the expensive one).
Map
Rings are miles from Santa Monica Pier. Pin color is the ring, not a rating.
Comparison
| Rank | Park | Ring | To pier | Monthly | Stay | Quality | Price | Fit |
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Nothing matches. Clear a filter.
Quality vs price
Horizontal is the monthly the rank uses: a year-round blend, a winter midpoint, the midpoint of a published range, or nightly × 30. Upper-left is the better deal. Click a dot.
How the rank is built
Quality, 0–10
Price
Price uses the monthly the rank is allowed to use, then multiplies by the stay cap. A real monthly needs 28 nights or month-to-month. A range uses its midpoint. Winter and summer use a 50/50 blend of the two season midpoints, not the cheapest floor. The Rates control switches that to the winter midpoint. No monthly, or a cap under 28 nights, becomes nightly × 30 and is marked ESTIMATE. Caps of 14 nights or less multiply price by 0.25, 15–21 by 0.45, 22–27 by 0.70. Seasons that disagree use the stricter cap. No monthly is invented.
Fit, distance, and rank
Class C fit cares about hookups, length, and a stay of at least 28 nights. Trailer + Tesla is a separate score: extra vehicle, easy unhitch or pull-through, staffed or gated, and a real monthly help. No extra vehicle, a tight back-in, weak security, a stay under 28 nights, and a $200-plus nightly resort used as trailer storage hurt it.
Proximity is road miles to the Pier: full score through 20 miles, then small, medium, and heavy, and 140 miles or more scores 0 and sorts to the bottom with a FAR badge.
rank = 0.40×quality + 0.30×price + 0.15×fit + 0.15×proximity
Public land, United States and Canada
Free and near-free camping where the law actually allows it. Mexico is out. A colored polygon is a manager, not a reservation. The winter belt for a cheap month is Imperial, Blythe, Quartzsite, and Yuma — and the cheap month there is an LTVA permit, not $0.
Winter trailer belt: Quartzsite, Yuma, or Blythe LTVA, or graded BLM. Not Malibu.
Land status is an overlay. Confirm with the field office / LTVA page before you drive.
Land manager map
Basemap is Esri’s dark gray canvas. Overlays are official BLM and PAD-US. Hubs are resupply towns. Featured pins are a curated set, not every acre.
- Free where legal
- Low permit
- LTVA permit
- Cost varies
- Heat or closure month
Click the map
You get a land manager when BLM or PAD-US answers. You do not get permission to camp. If the query fails, the result is unknown.