My guess would be that it has to do with foreclosures and folks finding themselves homeless and sleeping in their cars. I remember reading sometime ago where campgrounds were having trouble with  (homeless) folks trying to stay past the limit.     Jeff 

----- "Dave Mcneely" <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote: 
> Yes, I'd like to know what state, too.  And for goodness sake, what is 
> wrong with someone sleeping in a car, if that's what (s)he wants to do? 
> I've done it many times, even in a  Toyota Corolla.  Who did it harm, 
> other than my spinal column and hips, which straightened out eventually? 
> David Mc 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Gary Bawden wrote: 
> > Jim, what state are we talking about here? Inquiring minds who camp in 
> > non-Westies want to know! 
> > 
> > Gary 
> > 
> > 
> >> Date:    Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:05:40 -0600 
> >> From:    Jim Felder Subject: Is it a car or a camper? 
> >> 
> >> I didn't want to totally hijack a related "campmobile" thread but I 
> >> just have to mention this: 
> >> 
> >> I recently stayed in a state park where the young guy at the gate 
> >> asked if I had a cloth tent pitch on the site to "get around the new 
> >> rules." 
> >> 
> >> I asked what the new rules were and was told that you can't sleep in 
> >> your car! The new rules say that you have to pitch a tent to sleep in 
> >> if you are not in a camper. I told the guy that my camper was every 
> >> bit as much a camper as the big rigs down on the other end, that my 
> >> camper came from the factory with the express purpose of being a 
> >> camper. He said that "things had gotten kinda crazy around there in 
> >> order to keep people from sleeping in their cars." 
> >> 
> >> I didn't get bothered about it, but the park director (who I had a 
> >> meeting with the next day) asked if I was the person who had slept in 
> >> his car last night. I replied that I slept in my camper, which was 
> >> equipped for camping, and she dropped it. 
> >> 
> >> Jim 
> >>