This week on the RV Podcast:









* We share our no-holds-barred predictions on 2025 RV Camping and Travel. We’ll tell you what to expect and identify 10 trends that will impact your RV Lifestyle in 2025.







* Plus the Social Media Buzz, RV News of the Week and your questions coming up in Episode #527 of the RV Podcast









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RV Conversation of the Week - 2025 RV Camping and Travel















This is the time of year when we look ahead to the next RV and Camping Season, and we give our predictions of the top trends that we think will characterize the new year for RVers.









* Camping Fees will keep rising - Inflation has really hit the campground industry. Its not that unusual to find nightly full hookup fees in many private campgrounds to be i  the $70 range. Even state parks are upping their rates. And for weekends and holidays, dynamic pricing, which raises prices to meet demand takes the fees to budget-busting levels,







* Road and infrastructure repairs and construction will cause more traffic jams - Our nation's roads are in worse shape than last year. We know major repairs will disrupt stretches virtually every major north-south and east-west route in the country… way too many for us to list here. Some, like the emergency repairs to I-40 in North Carolina and Tennesee from damage caused by Hurricane Helene, will result in a major closure expected to last until September. But many of the major interstate repairs are multi-year projects with resulting lane closures and massive traffic jams.







* The sad fact is that bad roads will get worse before they get better. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that through 2025, the United States has funded only about 56 percent of its needed infrastructure spending. That means 44% of the roads needing repairs in 2025 won’t get fixed next year. So it becomes even more important for RVers to carefully plan their routes and ways to Detroit around the bottlenecks.







* Many State and National Parks will be shut down or have limited space because of repairs and upgrades. There is so much work to be done there. Most state parks are in dire need of repairs. And 2025 is going to see more disruption than ever before.







* The very controversial and complicated California Clean Air regulations that have threatened to disrupt the sales of new large motorhomes in five states there will continue to be controversial but the public outcry has been so overwhelming that several states have backed adjusted their timetables or are considering exemptions for big RV motorhomes. The bottom line is that we expect that in the end, not much will change for the sale of these big RVs in 2025, though we’re going to continue hearing a lot of conceding information about it until the bureaucrats and the RV industry reach some sort of compromise - which we’re sure they will.







* The RV Industry itself, will have a a bit better year than 2024. Not great, but not as stagnant as 2024 has been. That's if bank interest rates keep falling or don't start rising again. For consumers, 2025 is shaping up to be more competitive, with manufacturers and dealers more willing to deal. 2025 should be a bit more of a buyer’s market.